News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Mary Shelley letters discovered in Essex archive”: A collection of 13 previously unpublished letters… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: A first edition of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was recently discovered in the Cleveland… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Man Booker 2013 shortlist titles The Man Booker 2013 shortlist was announced on Sept…. Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: vs. “Overstock Goes After Amazon”, then “Extends Pricing War”, making this a good time… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images It’s been hard to miss the biggest (indeed, almost the… Read more »
The initial ebook release of J. K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy (released 9/27) was “literally unreadable” according to Laura Hazard Owen of Paid Content — and any number of angry and dismayed Kindle and Nook customers. Hatchette has since fixed the problem, but it’s a major blunder, especially since the… Read more »
OK, I’m cheating slightly here, since a few of these appeared toward the end of last week. But here are a number of articles I found interesting this week: Want to create your own ebook using MS Word? PC World tells you how.. It’s caveat emptor at Amazon, where copycat… Read more »
The Pottermore Insider announced that Pottermore is finally open to everyone. Queue nicely, one at a time, please! The announcement generated great excitement on the Harry Potter Lovers forum over at Ravelry, the knitting and crocheting community I belong to. There were also some complaints about the sign-up process, but… Read more »
© Wall to Wall Media Ltd. Photographer: Andrew Montgomery. Sept. 27, 2012, has been set as the publication date for J. K. Rowling’s long-anticipated new book. Entitled The Casual Vacancy, the book is Rowling’s first since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the wildly popular series. … Read more »
