The PW Morning Report, April 23, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 4/23/2008 5:19:00 AM
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
A da
ily round-up of the latest publishing news: Wikipedia the Book; E-Book Makes PEN/Ackerley Shortlist; Bambi the Environmentalist; Horny Norman; Good Luck, Bob Miller; Muslim Critic Pens Children’s Book; and Akron Cop Investigated for Writing Book
Random to "Reverse Publish" Wikipedia Book, reports New York Times
Bertelsmann will publish The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia in September.
E-Book Shortlisted for PEN/Ackerley Award, reports The Bookseller
Jane Haynes Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am? was first published as an e-book. The nomination, said Jonathan Heawood, director of English PEN, reflected "the changes in contemporary publishing"
Was Bambi An Environmentalist Icon? asks New York Times
The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation by David Whitley (Ashgate), says that such films as Bambi help direct the ecology movement
Horny Norman Mailer Papers Sold to Harvard, reports Page Six in New York Post
Books, paper, letters were sold to Mailer’s alma mater by actress Carole Mallory, Mailer’s mistress for 19 years. "There’s a 20-page sex scene from an unpublished memoir I wrote called Making Love With Norman," Mallory told Page Six. "It’s very steamy. Norman was a real man and he knew what he was doing" The literary world awaits with bated breath
Bob Miller Is Making the Rounds, reports New York Observer
Leon Neyfakh says that Miller will be visiting the literary agents at ICM to talk up his experimental publishing "studio" at HarperCollins. According to Neyfakh the "initial reaction from the publishing world was essentially ‘good luck with that!’ "
Muslim Critic Pens Children’s Book, reports AP
Ayaan Hirsi Ali—who lives in Washington, D.C. so as to avoid death threats in the Netherlands—will publish Adan & Eva in Dutch on May 29. It will be later translated into other European languages
Akron Cop Investigated for Authoring Crime Book, reports Akron Beacon Journal
Detective Vince Felber is the co-author of Perfect Beauty (St. Martin’s), which looks at the murder of Jeff Zack. In the book he is critical of the workings of the Akron police department. He has been assigned desk duty as internal affairs investigates his "book proceeds." I guess moonlighting as an author is frowned on in Akron, Ohio
