The PW Morning Report, February 26, 2009
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 2/26/2009 5:57:00 AM
Thursday, February 26, 2009
A daily ro
und-up of the latest publishing news: Netherland Wins PEN/Faulkner Award; Hollywood’s A Different Light Bookstore to Close; Roy Blount Jr.: Kindle 2.0 Unfair to Authors; Europa Editions A Translating Success; 2009 Orwell Prize Longlist; and WSJ Goes Ga-Ga Over Kindle 2.0
Netherland Wins PEN/Faulkner Award, reports Washington Post
Joseph O’Neill’s 9/11 novel wins prize of $15,000
A Different Light Bookstore to Close in Hollywood, reports Los Angeles Times
After 30 years LA’s preeminent gay, lesbian and transgendered bookstore will close. Owner Bill Barker says the San Francisco store will remain open
Roy Blount Jr.: Kindle 2.0 Unfair to Authors
In an op-ed piece in the New York Times Author Guild president Roy Blount Jr. argues that the Kindle’s 2.0 can read books aloud—without the messy distraction of paying authors royalties
Europa Editions A Translating Success, reports New York Times
Translating the works of European authors has proved successful for the five-year-old indie New York publisher
2009 Orwell Prize Longlist Announced, reports The Bookseller
Eighteen books make up the longlist and the winner will be announced on April 22
Goodbye, Columbus Is 50 and Philip Roth Is Still Churning ’Em Out, reports AP
The 76-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning Roth will have Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publish The Humbling (about an aging stage performer ) this year and Nemesis (set during a polio epidemic in 1944) in 2010
Wall Street Journal Goes Ga-Ga Over Kindle 2.0
WSJ: "Amazon.com has fixed the worst design flaws in the Kindle, its popular electronic-book reader, while maintaining the excellent book-buying experience that made the first Kindle model tolerable despite those problems"
