9/20/10 Writing and Publishing Headlines

My guest blog post at the New England Job Show about age discrimination is up: http://nejs.org/2010/09/20/state-of-the-market-age-discrimination-and-harassment/




Where the Law and Literature Meet

Plagiarism plagues Chinese science: http://newhumanist.org.uk/2365/lies-damn-lies-and-chinese-science

Embargoed book lands briefly on Google Books: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2010/09/embargoed_carter_book_lands_on.html

DRM keeps library books off Kindle: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/50260537-80/kindle-books-library-libraries.html.csp

Book burning stunt costs pastor $150,000+: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1313420/Preacher-Terry-Jones-vowed-burn-Koran-9-11-hit-100k-security-bill.html

More Amazon price wars: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/128694-amazon-using-price-for-e-book-land-grab.html



Other Headlines

Is Twilight altering young minds?: http://www.livescience.com/culture/twilight-books-altering-teen-brains-100903.html

Want buzz? Appeal to librarians: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/11/1817511/a-sly-comment-on-modern-times.html

12 people who are changing publishing: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-pinter/12-game-changers-in-publi_b_718198.html

Some ways to instant rejection by an agent (for god’s sake, get the name right): http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/2010/09/09/addressing-me

Vietnam publisher struggles to issue Western classics: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hyF5VdwSMJSUIqN0BSDU74NXCTOg

Why Kindle books aren’t up to snuff: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-problem-with-kindle-app-ebooks/9678

Why Stephen King deserves the Nobel Prize: http://www.journal-news.net/page/blogs.detail/display/368/Stephen-King-Deserves-a-Nobel-Prize.html

Glenn Beck books jacket quotes Jon Stewart negative comment: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/glenn-beck-book-stewart-time_n_720159.html

BFF, bromance, hockey mom and LMAO are new dictionary entries: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/editors/new_oxford_american_dictionary_adds_bff_bromance_hockey_mom_lmao_entries_173768.asp

iBooks more popular than Facebook (on the iPad): http://www.thebookseller.com/news/128673-ibooks-more-popular-than-facebook-and-twitter.html

9 apps for word junkies: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/18/apps-for-word-junkies_n_718527.html

7 words you probably screw up: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/14/mangled-words-american-heritage_n_715170.html

9/13/10 Writing and Publishing Headlines

Where the Law and Literature Meet


Lawyers demand author remove details of prime minister’s affairs from novel (it’s fiction, guys!): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7996634/Lawyers-step-in-over-Kay-Burleys-account-of-prime-ministers-affairs.html

Pentagon’s attempt to buy out all copies of counterterrorism book to destroy it turns it into a bestseller: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/counterterrorism-memoir-ebay_b_714999.html  and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090907747.html 

6-year-old’s book deal is a hoax: http://publishingperspectives.com/2010/09/a-book-deal-that-was-too-good-to-be-true/

Iranian woman faces deportation, stoning for distributing banned book: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/13/iran-deportation-woman-stoning-mp



Other Headlines

Teen lit festival cancelled after post-censorship author boycott: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/07/authors-boycott-cancels-teen-lit-fest?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Just in case you thought you were too old to write your debut novel: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-susan-meyers/41-over-40-novelists-debuting_b_706576.html#s135678

Is Google Book Search so full of errors that it’s useless for research?: http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2010/09/09/google_books/index.html?

Behind the scenes with the Espresso Book Machine: http://www.bookbusinessmag.com/article/coo-tom-allen-on-demand-books-espresso-book-machine/2

How to handle (and not to handle) a holy book: http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-09-08/story/handling-holy-books-such-quran-or-bible-touchy-subject

Protester thwarts Quran burning by stealing the book: http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2010-09-12/protester-steals-quran-thwarts-burning?cmon-this-is-a-totally-awesome-story!

Atheist smokes Bible and Quran pages on YouTube. Nobody protests: http://www.news.com.au/national/lawyer-alex-stewart-smokes-pages-from-the-koran-and-bible-and-says-we-should-get-over-book-burning/story-e6frfkvr-1225919970728

Will publishers start picking their midlist from the ranks of the successful self-published?: http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/09/08/if-self-published-authors-owned-the-midlist/?

Why bestsellers are choosing to self-publish: http://gizmodo.com/5629812/5-reasons-why-best+selling-authors-are-going-direct

Do present-tense novels suck?: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7994914/Philip-Pullman-and-Philip-Hensher-criticise-Booker-Prize-for-including-present-tense-novels.html

This is your brain on Google: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7999081/Google-damages-users-brains-author-claims.html

WSJ starts book review section: http://gawker.com/5633760/wall-street-journal-starting-a-book-review-section

9/5/10 Writing and Publishing Headlines

Where the Law and Literature Meet


Did Simon & Schuster violate campaign finance laws against in-kind contributions with book promo video? http://tinyurl.com/29ltks9

Writer sued by publisher over missed deadline (you all have my permission to throw rotten tomatoes at anyone who had their chance and blew it this badly): http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/09/yahoo-writer-sued-by-publisher-over-failure-to-meet-deadline-on-valvano-biography/1

BBC loses court battle over driver’s secret identity: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11151777


What do you do when someone gives you your own comic book? Threaten to sue, of course: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2010/08/bluewater_comics_justin_bieber.html

Scribd charges for free books, uses subscription to get around copyright: http://pbackwriter.blogspot.com/2010/08/scribdcom-gets-greedy.html

Why the bankruptcy clause in your contract is useless: http://pubrants.blogspot.com/2010/09/sometimes-it-pays-to-pay.html

Stranded children’s authors form collective, go it alone vs. traditional publishing: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/127604-stranded-childrens-authors-go-it-alone.html


Other Headlines

Which book did the Discovery Channel gunman want them to make into a movie? The author’s reaction to really horrid publicity: "There is no disagreement between us," he said, "but his expression of the idea is very different from mine." http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7184520.html

Battle of the media – print vs. pixel?: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/technology/02couples.html?_r=1&src=busln

13 books nobody’s read but say they have (maybe they own the free Kindle versions): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/03/lying-about-books_n_703762.html I’ve read 4 of them, but 2 were because I was forced to in school. How many have you read?

Want a bestseller? Say God didn’t create the universe: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/127578-hawkings-controversial-comments-see-sales-surge.html

The best books on writing: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-winokur/advice-to-writers-books_b_700945.html  (Hey! Where is The Writer’s Guide to the Courtroom: Let’s Quill All the Lawyers?)

The art of co-authoring: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexander-humez/coauthoring-all-for-one-a_b_703916.html