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TODAY'S NEWS

Wiley, Near-Time Build Book-Based Websites
By Calvin Reid
Looking for new ways to digitally repurpose its book content, John Wiley has entered a partnership with Near-Time, a small North Carolina technology developer, to use its wiki-based software to easily turn technical books into revenue-producing, interactive online publishing platforms. Near-Time's software allows a publisher to publish book content in multiple digital formats—from content updates, text corrections and message boards to blogs and video content.

Wiki-based software allows publishers to post interconnected content permitting users multiple levels of access to the text itself, along with other digital functionality. Wiley is using Near-Time's technology to launch a pilot program using titles from its programming imprint, Wrox Press. The first title, Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0, has been posted online and is supported by advertising. Read on »

Wicker Park Goes Regional
By Claire Kirch
Eric Miller, a commission sales rep with Miller Trade Book Marketing, is giving a new direction to Chicago-based Wicker Park Press, the small press he launched in 2002, shifting its focus from publishing primarily satire to specializing in regional titles about Chicago landmarks. Wicker Park's first regional title, Water Tanks of Chicago: A Vanishing Urban Legacy, photographs and paintings by Larry W. Green, has just been released, and Miller has shipped 500 copies of a 3,200-copy print run.

"There's a lot of people out there, who identify with Chicago," Miller explained about his switch in emphasis. "There's a strong market for regional books." His next title, which doesn't have a pub date yet, will be on Chicago's celebrated Maxwell Street Market.

St. Martin's Revives Margaret Mitchell...Again
Margaret Mitchell is back...sort of. Check out our web exclusive review of Rhett Butler's People, Donald McCaig's Gone With the Wind "authorized reimagining," to see why St. Martin's went to press for 1.2 million copies. Read on »

On Sale Next Week: James Patterson
Compiled By Charlotte Abbott
Next week's no-brainer bestseller is James Patterson's new Alex Cross thriller, aimed at its usual #1 position. Read on »

Blogs

Author Chat Tonight...type faster
I often see posts on the internet about author chats and it sounds so cool to be able to "talk" with an author because anyone who lo...
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Recommended Reading: 'Spud"
I've been reading so much lately hat I've simply decided to devote this week to books I've recently loved. I hope that my mini-reviews/reports/what-ha...
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Game of the Name
One day last week, for the first time in maybe fifteen years, I sat down to do a Macmillan order. It was discombobulating, to say the least. Was it my...
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What a Difference a Month Makes
And so the phenomenon o...
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AUTHORS ON THE AIR

Authors on the Air: Peter Jennings, Unwrapped; The Star Wars Vault; The Year of Living Biblically
Both The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Leonard Lopate Show talk with former labor secretary Robert Reich, whose latest is Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Knopf, $25; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $34.99), which PW called a "compelling and important analysis of the triumph of capitalism and the decline of democracy." Read on »

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Strahan at Bookends
Michael Strahan, New York Giants defensive end and author of Inside the Helmet (Gotham Books), gives Gotham publicity director Beth Parker a squeeze during a recent signing at New Jersey's Bookends. Submit your photos here »

JOB OF THE DAY

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