New CPSC Head Promises To Make CPSIA a Priority By Karen Raugust - 07/01/2009
Last Friday's Senate confirmation of Inez Tenenbaum as the new head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has given many in the publishing industry hope that some of the issues surrounding the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act may finally be resolved.
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Stay Thirsty Lures Veteran Writers by Edward Nawotka - 06/29/2009
Shamus Award–winning mystery writer David Fulmer first heard about Stay Thirsty Press when a friend sent him an e-mail. “It was a notice from Craigslist that a publisher was looking for original works to publish as e-books,” said Fulmer. “I'd had this book, The Last Time, that had technically been shopped around by my agent, but it was different from all my other work an...
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D&M Preparing BookRiff Launch by Lynn Andriani - 06/29/2009
Independent Canadian publisher D&M is launching an online bookstore that lets users create books, both print and electronic, using their own content or by compiling purchased content from publishers. BookRiff will launch in September, but the company is already entering into deals with publishers to get content for sale on the site.
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Nonfiction Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
Starred reviews for: Toby Lester's The Fourth Part of the World, John Franklin's The Wolf in the Parlor, Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man, and The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh.
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Children's Book Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
Reviewed this week: the latest picture book from the Emberley clan, a picture-book biography of the inventors of Day-Glo paint, new novels from Richard W. Jennings and Elizabeth Scott, as well as a round-up of concept books for younger readers.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
This week, reviews of new novels from James Ellroy, Jeff Lindsay, Philippa Gregory, Richard Russo and Mary B. Morrison. Plus, Dick and Felix Francis deliver another horse caper, Tilly Bagshawe channels Sidney Sheldon, senator Barbara Boxer weighs in with another Beltway thriller.
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