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Why is Nikki Finke Going ‘American Psycho’ on Bret Easton Ellis? (Updated)
Of course Bret Easton Ellis discovering Twitter would turn out to be a wonderful thing. The result of the American Psycho author embracing the platform has him seeing a new phase of glory for his...
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Confessions of an Obsessively Jealous MFA Workshop Colleague of Successful...
Have you ever seen Wonder Boys, the movie based on the book by Michael Chabon? In the first scene, it takes you inside a grad school fiction workshop, where various students undercut each other through...
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Cat Marnell Gives Up Her Vices
Photo credit Twitter In last week’s installment of her Vice column, “Amphetamine Logic,” Wild child blogger Cat Marnell announced that her time at the hipster web mag was coming to an end. “I’m writing...
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Knopf Remembers Longtime Editor Ashbel Green
(photo by Martha Kaplan) Last night, legendary Knopf editor Ashbel Green died while at dinner with his wife, Elizabeth Osha, and friends near their Stonington, Conn., home. He was 84. Mr. Green, who...
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Book ’em, Dunham! Publishing’s New $3.7 M. Woman Needs Tina Fey-Sized Sales
Dunham talks to Emily Nussbaum at the New Yorker festival. The hot ticket of this year’s New Yorker festival was a chat between Girls auteur Lena Dunham and New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum. The...
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Johnny Depp to Launch Harper Imprint
Johnny Depp, at Barnes and Noble Union Square (Getty Images) Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, has announced its partnership with actor Johnny Depp for a new publishing imprint, the predictably...
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Simon & Schuster Reshuffles, Lays Off Editors at Free Press Imprint
Publisher Simon & Schuster announced a major restructuring plan that will bring together all its imprints into four groups. As part of the new plan, Free Press will be folded into the Simon &...
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[Update]: Random House and Penguin Are Talking About Merging
Two of the largest publishing houses could merge. Random House’s parent company Bertelsmann and Penguin’s parent company Pearson have been discussing combing their publishing houses, reports the...
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Penguin and Random House to Merge and Become Penguin Random House
Publishing houses Penguin and Random House will combine forces and become Penguin Random House, Penguin announced this morning. The move comes after rumors of merger talks between Penguin’s parent...
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National Book Awards Cheat Sheet
Ready for the National Book Awards aka just the Oscar’s of the publishing world. Have you read everything? Do you have well formed opinions that you can eloquently defend about what should and...
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Macmillan Settles With the Department of Justice on E-Book Pricing
Macmillan, the last publishing house holdout, announced today that it will settle with the Department of Justice in the e-book pricing case. In the lawsuit, the DOJ accused the major publishers and...
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Deb Futter Will Replace Cary Goldstein As Publisher Of Twelve
Cary Goldstein Twelve’s Cary Goldstein is stepping down after two years as the publisher for Hachette’s literary imprint, Jaime Raab, the president and publisher of Grand Central Publishing, announced...
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Why David Zinczenko Deserves That Multimillion Dollar Book Deal With Random...
David Zinczenko, fitness guru. (Getty Images) David Zinczenko, former Rodale Executive and EIC of Men’s Health, just signed a deal with Random House which the publisher is calling “unprecedented in...
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What Does the Fox Write?
Ka-ching-Ka-ching-Ka-ching-Ka! (Simon & Schuster) Once upon a time, I took a meeting with a book agent who handled some of my favorite comedians. I pitched him a couple of ideas, to the vein of...
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Disrupting How Bestsellers Are Made: Apply Startup-style Growth Hacking To...
In my experience, marketing is best when it proves the product it is supporting. The marketing campaign for The Blair Witch Project or Catfish for example, were deliberately opaque—setting off a...
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Could Amazon Interest You in a Used eBook?
Oh boy, the big six are just going to love this: Geekwire reports that Amazon has secured a patent for a “secondary market
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Simon & Schuster’s New Online Venture Is Sure to Be Another Expensive Failure
It comes as a surprise that Simon & Schuster is launching yet another new books site, called 250 Words. The
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Thought Catalog: Why I Won't Pull My Pieces, Despite the Outrage
So Thought Catalog is facing a revolt. After publishing some offensive articles last week — offensive enough that Gawker called
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Vox Media May Open Their Coveted CMS To the Wider WordPress-Plagued World
Every blogger, writer and reporter has a love/hate relationship with their content management system. If your professional life belongs to WordPress,
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Publishing Professionals 'Insulted' By Amazon Brick-and-Mortar Store
Tech fanatics might be excited about the brick-and-mortar Amazon store opening on Manhattan’s 34th Street, but if the store decides to
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