Today’s links of interest:
- Book publishing, literature, and the economy
Salon takes a stab at the current state of publishing. Not their best effort, considering. - Twitter / littlebrown
Fave bookish thing online this season: the real person who Twitters as Little Brown is offering up great book suggestions to enquiring readers. Got to love, love, love that. - Stop picking on the Newbery Medal, the premier award in children’s literature.
Word. - S&S Publishing ?Fundamentally Strong,? Reidy Asserts
Probably true enough, so here’s hoping Simon and Schuster doesn’t fall victim to parent company woes. Also, anyone else notice the cause/effect thing going on with these results reports? As ebook selection increases, so do sales. - O’Reilly Ebooks: 130 Top Titles Now Available, Plus an iPhone App and Head First PDFs
After all that, additional commentary should be unnecessary. Except the BS husband is now in possession of the iPhone app/book and sharing unknown facts with everyone he meets. - Dudes Don’t Read: The Book Biz’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Chris Goldberg blames the "men don’t read" theory on the lack of, uh, books written by and for men (oh, the irony!). In doing so, he ignores, well, all the books written by and for men. Also, he fails to offer up ideas of what it is, exactly, that publishers aren’t getting right. Finally, note to men: women read books written by male authors and women read subjects that aren’t considered "feminine". Maybe there’s another problem here?