The PW Morning Report, October 8, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 10/8/2008 5:46:00 AM
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
A daily rou
nd-up of the latest publishing news: Amazon’s U.K. POD; Amy Hempel Wins Rea Award; Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist; Charles Wright Dead; Who Will Write The Making of the President 2008?; DC Comics Wants You to Meet the Candidates; Jerome Corsi "Kicked Out" of Kenya; and Repackaging the Bible
Amazon Introduces POD into U.K., reports The Bookseller
Print-on-demand means that Amazon can rapidly print and ship a book following an order. Publishers participating in the program include Faber, John Wiley & Sons, HarperCollins UK, Cambridge University Press and Allen & Unwin Australia
Amy Hempel Wins Rea Award, reports AP
The award for short stories comes with a $30,000 prize
Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist Announced, reports Reuters
The top prize of C$50,000 will go to the author of the best Canadian novel or short-story collection published in English
Charles Wright, Novelist, Dead at 76, reports New York Times
Wright’s promising literary rise, which centered on autobiographical tales of black street life, was blocked by alcoholism. His books included The Messenger (1963), The Wig (1966) and Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About (1973), all published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Who Will Write The Making of the President 2008?, asks New York Observer
Leon Neyfakh has an interesting piece on who might be the new Teddy White when this election cycle is finally over. It’s at times like these I wish David Halberstam was still with us
DC Comics Wants You to Meet the Candidates, reports Myfoxatlanta.com
Senators McCain and Obama each have their own comic book this election season
Jerome Corsi "Kicked Out" of Kenya, reports AP
Kenya authorities 86ed the author of Obama Nation because he didn’t have a work permit. Does this mean we have to take him back?
Repackaging the Bible
AP reports that the Bible is being repackaged featuring the images of Martin Luther King Jr.—and Angelina Jolie
