The PW Morning Report, May 23, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 5/23/2008 5:09:00 AM
Friday, May 23, 2008
A dail
y round-up of the latest publishing news: Hachette U.K. Battles Amazon; 1001 Deadly Reads; The Miserable Misery Memoir Market; and Fareed Zakaria Profile
Hachette U.K. Battles Amazon, reports The Bookseller
Amazon has removed key frontlist and backlist titles from their Website of Hachette, the U.K.’s largest publisher
Time on Your Hands? Here Are 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
William Grimes of the New York Times looks the list over, but do we really have to read The Invention of Curried Sausage before they close the lid on us?
Beware the Misery Memoir Market!
The Bookseller reports that sales are down in the U.K. for the top ten bestselling misery memoirs
India, China In; U.S. Out—But Not to Worry Says Fareed Zakaria
The Los Angeles Times describes him as "this Brahmin of the foreign policy pundit-ocracy," but the author of The Post-American World (Norton) has some startling revelations in his book about the future of the United States of America
Enjoy the Memorial Day Weekend!
