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Indie News
Source: www.npr.org Date: Nov 13, 2009 Topping the list this week: Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna, Kathryn Stockett's The Help and Dan Brown's Lost Symbol. And making their list debut: John Grisham's Ford Coutnty and Kurt Vonnegut's Look at the Birdie. More Source: www.prweb.com Date: Nov 12, 2009 PR: Black Christian News: www.BCNN1.com / Black Christian Book Company: www.BlackCBC.com (Based upon Amazon.com rankings, BarnesandNoble.com rankings, and BlackCBC.com rankings.) Dallas, TX (PRWEB) November 12, 2009 -- How Black Christian News/Black Christian Book Co More Source: www.jsonline.com Date: Nov 9, 2009 For the past seven months, two former Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops managers have been living out their dreams of running their own independent bookstores. But now, a third former co-worker is opening a store right between them - and, they contend, the new store isn't exactly playing fair. More Source: www.conversationalreading.com Date: Nov 6, 2009 Chad fleshes out a bunch of the details surrounding the French approach to flat book prices: Although it was never really stated this way, the fixed book price law has prevented France’s noble book culture from devolving into the quasi-cesspool that we have here in the States, where celebrity More Date: Oct 30, 2009 Sales representatives, particularly those working for independent publishers, said relationships with store staff had become "highly pressurised", with less time for reps to check stocks levels or pitch new titles. More Source: sdcitybeat.com Date: Oct 28, 2009 The devaluation of work is a brutal injustice to the Kingsolvers and the Grishams and the Pattersons (though, for the record, the latter two aren't exactly wading in the same talent pool as Kingsolver). Even -- and I cannot believe I am going to say this -- even Dan Brown and his formulaic prose More Source: www.post-gazette.com Date: Oct 27, 2009 The way Richard Goldman sees it, his independent Mystery Lovers Bookstore and the big retailers that happen to sell books aren't close to being on the same page. More Source: www.teleread.org Date: Oct 26, 2009 I sympathize with indie bookstores caught in the crossfire of the price wars between Amazon, Target, Walmart, Sears and others, a situation in part reflecting More Source: www.comicbookresources.com Date: Oct 24, 2009 Comic Book Resources - Daily Comic Book News, Reviews, Previews, Commentary and Message Boards More Source: comicsworthreading.com Date: Sep 28, 2009 Graphic novel, manga, and comic book news, recommendations, and reviews with attitude by Johanna Draper Carlson. More Source: www.guardian.co.uk Date: Sep 10, 2009 Pioneering independent is to be wound up, with many back catalogue titles to be licensed to Penguin More Source: news.prnewswire.com Date: Sep 9, 2009 The letter, which was organized by the Open Book Alliance, was delivered to House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. John Conyers and Committee member Rep. Lamar Smith in advance of that committee's hearing on Thursday, September 10 concerning the proposed settlement. More Source: www.bookninja.com Date: Sep 9, 2009 A British survey has found that indy presses can compete, salary-wise, with large conglomerates. So, why are you still pulling levers in the cubicle matrix, chivato? Ah, I see. And what did you get in return for this soul thing of which you speak? Ah, the job. Right. Well, let me know More Date: Sep 9, 2009 Inside the Avid Reader at Broadway and Land Park Drive, Gregg Geeting is in search of a book, but he's not sure which one. More Source: www.bookbusinessmag.com Date: Sep 1, 2009 Published six times a year, Book Business magazine is read by a highly targeted audience of book and multimedia publishers and their key suppliers, including producers of trade, professional, software, directory and educational books. It is a difficult time to be an independent book publisher. More Source: lisnews.org Date: Aug 25, 2009 At a press conference in New York City this morning, Sony announced that it is cooperating with the American Booksellers Association, other retailers, and a variety of traditional and digital publishers to make available a universe More Source: www.powells.com Date: Aug 9, 2009 Kevin Sampsell likes secrets. In the short story collection Beautiful Blemish, Sampsell dives deep into the human psyche to reveal the layers of secret desire, loneliness and hope buried in our hearts. The stories in Beautiful Blemish display an American... More Source: toc.oreilly.com Date: Aug 5, 2009 We've got some raw results from the StartWithXML survey in the UK, and they are very different in some respects from the US survey we did. Some salient points:48.7% of... More Source: www.publetariat.com Date: Aug 5, 2009 As I entered publishing, I started with magazines back in the early 1990s, mostly because it was easier for a struggling writer to launch a magazine on a shoestring than to start a book publishing house, but my real interest was in publishing books. Then, not too long ago. More Source: booksquare.com Date: Aug 4, 2009 If you are a regular reader of Shelf Awareness (and if you're not, you should be!), you know about the steady drumbeat of bookstores closing. You also know More Previous | Next
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