Tag: News and Notes

News & Notes – 11/22/14

News & Notes – 11/22/14

  News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The 2014 National Book Awards were won by Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson), Redeployment (Phil Klay), Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and… Read more »

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News & Notes – 10/25/14

News & Notes – 10/25/14

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Economist Paul Krugman says “Amazon’s Monopsony is Not O.K.” (New York Times) For an opposing view, read Matthew Yglesias’s “Amazon is doing the world… Read more »

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News & Notes – 10/11/14

News & Notes – 10/11/14

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Prize for Literature. Read about Modiano and his work at NPR, The Guardian, and The New York Times. Malala Yousafzai… Read more »

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News & Notes – 9/20/14

News & Notes – 9/20/14

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. I had a spectacularly busy week on the non-blogging front, so this week’s News & Notes is a little sparse,… Read more »

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News & Notes – 9/13/14

News & Notes – 9/13/14

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: Crime writer Karin Slaughter takes on the IRS over self-employment vs. royalties taxes. (Forbes) … Read more »

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News & Notes – 9/06/14

News & Notes – 9/06/14

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: Goodreads has added previews to some of its titles using Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader…. Read more »

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News & Notes – 8/30/14

News & Notes – 8/30/14

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. I missed doing a News & Notes post last week due to unavoidable circumstances (i.e., moving our daughter into college!)… Read more »

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News & Notes – 8/16/14

News & Notes – 8/16/14

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. I’m covering two weeks of News & Notes this week, since I missed last week. I’ll try not to make… Read more »

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News & Notes – 8/02/14

News & Notes – 8/02/14

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: News Corp, HarperCollins Complete Purchase of Harlequin. Harlequin will operate as a subsidiary of… Read more »

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News & Notes – 7/26/14

News & Notes – 7/26/14

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: J. K. Rowling plans more than seven Galbraith mysteries, says she enjoys writing an… Read more »

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