The PW Morning Report, August 5, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 8/5/2008 5:45:00 AM
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
A daily
round-up of the latest publishing news: Solzhenitsyn’s Gone—And Already Forgotten?; German Competitor for Kindle; Frey-ed Again; S&S Workers Murdered; Playmore Bankruptcy; Billie Jean King’s Tome; Miki Falls to Paramount; New G.P. Taylor Series; and Pierre Berès Dead
Solzhenitsyn’s Gone—And Already Forgotten?
New York Times checks out what people in modern Russia think about Solzhenitsyn—and it may be less than you’d suspect
German Competition for the Kindle, reports The Bookseller
Der Spiegel reports that Deutsche Telekom is developing a portable e-reader to go head-to-head with Amazon’s Kindle. Will one of them be this generation’s Betamax?
New York Observer Quotes James Frey: "There isn’t a great deal of difference between fact and fiction, it’s just how you choose to tell a story"
Oprah! Time for round two of a literary spanking!
Two Workers Murdered at S&S Warehouse, reports Trentonian.com
Robert Diamond, 32, a former employee at the Bristol, PA, warehouse, was arrested for the murders
Playmore Files for Bankruptcy, reports NJ.com
The publisher of low-priced children’s books reported assets of $6.8 million and liabilities of $5.2 million
Cindy Adams on Billie Jean King’s New Tome
New York Post columnist tells us all about Pressure Is a Privilege: Lessons I’ve Learned From Life and the Battle of the Sexes (LifeTime Media)
Paramount Acquires Miki Falls, reports Variety
The four-volume manga series was created by Mark Crilley and published by HarperTeen
New Book Series by G.P. Taylor to Debut, reports buddyhollywood.com
The Dopple Ganger Chronicles will be published by Tyndale in September
Pierre Berès, French Book Collector, Dead at 95, reports New York Times
"The king of French booksellers," was friend to Picasso and Éluard, and publisher of Barthes and Aragon
