The PW Morning Report, November 18, 2008
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 11/18/2008 5:29:00 AM
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
A dail
y round-up of the latest publishing news: Is Palin the $7-Million "Saviour" of the Publishing Industry?; Mike Huckabee Gets Even; Queen Sofía of Spain Steps in It; Obama’s "First 100 Days" Mystery; Judge OKs Google Deal; and Ted Turner’s Ghost
Is Sarah Palin the $7-Million "Saviour" of the Publishing Industry?
So says the Huffington Post, proving that things may be worse than we realize. Apparently, the hockey mom with the Neiman Marcus tastes might be staring at a $7-million publishing deal. Betcha!
Mike Huckabee Gets Even in New Book, reports Time
Apparently GOP wannabe president Huckabee was making like Santa Claus on the campaign trail—making an enemies list and checking it twice. The result is for all to see in his new book Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America (being published today by Sentinel). He starts with Milt Romney, moves on to Fred Thompson and goes on from there…
Queen Sofía of Spain Steps in It, reports New York Times
There’s something about royals with time on their hands—they say the darnest things (think Prince Philip here). Well Queen Sofía of Spain has said some things in a book (The Queen Up Close by Pilar Urbano) that only the late and not very lamented Generalissimo Franco would applaud in this day and age. She particularly doesn’t like gays: "That they get up on floats and parade in the streets? If all of us who are not gay were to parade in the streets, we’d halt the traffic in every city," she says. Gee, I guess she won’t be invited to NYC’s Gay Pride Parade next June
Obama’s "First 100 Days" Mystery
New York Times finds that the President-elect sent pundits and publishers scrambling when he mentioned on 60 Minutes Sunday that he had been reading several books on FDR’s first 100 days. And the winners are….
New York Judge OKs Google Deal, reports AP
A judge has tentatively approved a settlement of lawsuits between Google and book authors and publishers that may put millions of out-of-print texts online
Ted Turner’s Ghost
Bill Burke is Turner’s ghostwriter for Call Me Ted (Grand Central). New York Times has an interesting profile of this very atypical collaborator
