The PW Morning Report, June 24, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 6/24/2008 6:08:00 AM
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A daily ro
und-up of the latest publishing news: Imus Does It Again; Obama Books; The Shack Is Christian Bestseller; Dan Brown Tries to Save Rome Tourism; Paperchase to Johnson?; Explosive Amazon E-Book Sales?; Sean Connery Big Hit at Edinburgh; Maude’s Daughter’s Novel; and Twain Prize to Carlin Posthumously
Don Imus Does It Again—Makes More Racially Charged Comments on His Radio Show, reports New York Times
A little over a year after being suspended for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team a bunch of "nappy-headed hos,’’ Imus is again involved in a racial comment about football player "Pacman" Jones. This morning Imus said he was making a "sarcastic point"
Obama Books Proliferate, reports Politico.com
But you’d know that if you saw last week’s PW cover feature "Want Political Truth? Buy a Book"
Word of Mouth Lives—And The Shack Is the Latest Example, reports New York Times
William P. Young, a former office manager and hotel night clerk in Gresham, Ore., is the author of the surprise Christian bestseller, which is #1 on the New York Times fiction trade list
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Rome—If You’re A Dan Brown Fan
New York Times reports that Rome officials hope the filming of Angels and Demons, the predecessor to The Da Vinci Code, will serve as a magnet to bring American tourists to the Eternal City
Luke Johnson in Offer to Borders to Buy Paperchase in U.K., reports The Bookseller
Johnson, whose Risk Capital Partners owns Borders U.K., is thought to have come up with half the £80 million thought to be sought by Borders U.S. for the division
Amazon E-Book Sales to Top $2.5 Billion by 2012?
That’s what Pacific Crest analyst Steve Weinstein told the Washington Post
Sean Connery Big Hit at Edinburgh International Book Festival, reports The Bookseller
Tickets to Connery event in August sell out immediately
Maude’s Daughter, Adrienne Barbeau, Pens Novel for St. Martin’s, reports Cindy Adams in the New York Post
Vampyres of Hollywood, in collaboration with Michael Scott, is called by Adams "A sexy vampire mystery." She goes on to say, in her own inimitable way, "And what that means, I haven’t the foggiest. I, myself, have personally never seen vampires Doing It"
George Carlin to Become the First Posthumous Recipient of Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, reports Reuters
Prize will be awarded in November at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
