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THE
SKINNY ON DAVID BRADLEY: New owner of The Atlantic Monthly is
a budding magazine mogul - a guy who says all the right things.
New York Observer 9/30/99
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GUNTER
GRASS WINS LITERATURE NOBEL: He found out as he was going
to the dentist - he missed the appointment. CBC
9/30/99
ALSO: More
on Gunter NPR Morning
Edition 9/30/99 [Real
Audio clip]
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ATLANTIC
CURRENTS: David Bradley visited his
newly-acquired Atlantic Monthly magazine Tuesday with a message
for the staff: "Stay the course. I'm not planning big changes." Boston
Globe 9/29/99
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THINK
YOU CAN SELL THAT FIRST NOVEL? At the risk of being inundated,
a London publisher reveals the do's and don't's of getting published.
He says it's the best time ever for first-time authors to get
into print. The
London Telegraph 9/28/99
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BOOKS
ON DEMAND: Netbooks offers downloadable books online - readers
can pick their own typefaces and search text with a click.
Publisher's Weekly 9/28/99
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ATLANTIC
CROSSING: Mort Zuckerman surprised the magazine world yesterday
when he sold The Atlantic, one of his prized publications, to
the publisher of the National Journal. New owner plans to replace
William Whitworth, the Atlantic's longtime editor, with Michael
Kelly. Washington Post
9/28/99
- THE
WRITE STUFF: After publishers turned her down, she self-published
on the internet. Now she's got a major book contract. Cleveland
Plain Dealer 9/26/99
- BETTER
ALTERNATIVES? Stern publishing puts its chain of alternative
weeklies up for sale (Village Voice, Seattle Weekly among them)
but the price is so high, observers predict it'll be gobbled up
by a media giant. If so, what will be so alternative about them?
Chicago Tribune 9/24/99
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WORDS
FOR HIRE: Hollywood is so desperate for scripts, writers
with even a tiny buzz are getting contracts.
Variety 9/23/99
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BOOK
OF LISTS: Barnes and Noble decides to start its own list
of bestsellers. It's not just a simple switch of lists, says
one publisher: "A lot of us will have to rethink what a
[New York] Times bestseller' means." Publisher's
Weekly 9/22/99
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With more than 100 books
about Diana on the market, what makes Sally Bedell Smith's new
biography different? Source notes, she says. The Diana industry
rolls on. Toronto Globe
and Mail 9/22/99
- Booker finalists: no Rushdie
or Doyle... this year's edition of the prestigious book award
sets off with the usual cargo of controversies. Toronto
Globe and Mail 9/22/99
PLUS: A
first time novelist is among the finalists.
BBC 9/22/99
- WHAT,
ME WORRY? Concerns about e-commerce and national chains have
waned, and the bargain-book business is flourishing. Publisher's
Weekly 9/21/99
- IF
LA'S POETS ALL WENT AWAY, would anyone
notice? Brendan Bernhard ponders the low stature of poetry in
our society at the end of the millennium. LA
Weekly 9/23/99
- Why Johnny can't read?
The Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley says that modern school
reading lists are largely devoid of literary merit. Washington
Post 9/15/99
- BOOKS
IN PRINT: A computerized analysis of the 18 million books
in the Library of Congress (the world's largest library) shows
there are nearly twice as many books about Christ (17,239) as
about his nearest challenger, William Shakespeare, and four times
as many as about Lenin, who occupies third place on the list,
with 4,492. Sydney Morning
Herald 9/15/99
- THE
US IS ALREADY THE FIFTH LARGEST SPANISH-SPEAKING COUNTRY IN THE
WORLD But the market for Spanish books is as diverse as the
Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Central Americans and other Latinos
within it. Publisher's
Weekly 9/13/99
- Chapter Too: Giant Canadian
book retailer Chapters is reportedly telling Canadian book publishers
they won't be getting some of the chain's fall orders until they
agree to give higher discounts to Pegasus, the retailer's wholesale
subsidiary. Toronto Globe
and Mail 9/14/99
PLUS:
SANTA
CRUZ FIGHTS THE ARRIVAL OF BORDERS
Publisher's Weekly 9/13/99
- The New York Times Bestseller
list: Amazon, the online retailer, recently marshaled its attorneys
for the right to use the list in its marketing. Now book superstore
Barnes & Noble has announced it doesn't want to use the list
at all. What's the fuss about? New
York Times 9/13/99
- Writing with substance:
Is it really true that "the question is no longer what the
writer has written but rather who the writer is?" Jonathan
Yardley writes about the pressures of writing literate. Washington
Post 9/13/99
- AGENT?
PUBLISHER? BOOK SELLER? The internet is changing the roles
of those who help get authors' work to print. Publisher's
Weekly 9/6/99
- SURE
YOU CAN TAKE IT TO THE BATHROOM, but this ultimate test of
two electronic books still isn't enough to impress technology
critic Sven Birkerts.
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