The PW Morning Report, August 22, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 8/22/2008 5:13:00 AM
Friday, August 22, 2008
A dail
y round-up of the latest publishing news: "Scruffy" Rushdie Satisfied; Random’s Twit for Twat; and Washington Post Discovers The Jewel of Medina
Book on "Scruffy" Rushdie Revised By Author, reports The Guardian
On Her Majesty’s Service by Ron Evans has been cleaned up of "falsehoods" to Sir Salman pleasure and will be published shortly. "Scruffy" is the nickname Evans claimed that Rushdie’s bodyguards gave the author of The Satanic Verses
Twit for Twat, Random U.K. Changes Word in Children’s Book, reports The Bookseller
Random U.K. decided to change the word "twat" to "twit" after three complaints were made against Jacqueline Wilson’s My Sister Jodie. The book, for children 10-up, has sold over 150,000-copies since its publication in March
Washington Post Finally Gets Around to The Jewel of Medina Controversy
Better late than never, right?
