Today’s links of interest:
- Publisher teeters
Houghton Mifflin struggles under the weight of its enormous debt burden. Backlist is valuable, but when a newspaper report includes deceased authors as among your top sellers, it raises questions. - Gabriel Garcia Márquez Offers ?5 Ebook: Publishing Strategy
It is not that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is being epublished in Spanish, it is that his agent went indie rather than big house. We’ll be seeing a lot more of this as authors weight the costs and benefits of various publishing options. - E-book revolution favors the agile
And, as you read this article, you’ll note that the ebook revolution also favors the smart and forward-looking. It’s not about one or the other, it’s about choice and context. - Nutter decides no libraries will close before July
Good news for the people of Philadelphia. Closing libraries in this economy would be bad news for the citizens. - Diane Keaton Memoir Making Rounds
As much as we like Diane Keaton (and we do!), man, million in this market for a memoir? That’s money better spent elsewhere. - Amazon Has Big Year, Though Media Growth Slowed
Right now, Amazon is the Sears, Roebuck of the world. And this good news is welcome because it touches so many sectors. - News Corp: Rupert Murdoch is Having a Hard Time
Gee, who woulda thunk? Signals from Fox about shedding some staff and HarperCollins offering early retirement were the first clues. - A Chickens in the Road Sampler Platter
Suzanne McMinn is up for a Bloggie. Check out her site, read this linked post, scroll to the bottom and vote! You love to vote, right? - A bestselling author proposes the most improbable bailout yet
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