8/31/10 Writing and Publishing News

I’m interviewed here on preventing workplace violence: http://blog.ebosswatch.com/2010/08/how-to-prevent-workplace-violence/



Where the Law and Literature Meet

Wylie deal with Random leaves issue of who owns ebook rights in older books unanswered: http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/random-house-andrew-wylie-backlist-ebook-amazon-kindle-rights-deal/19607446/

Does NYT discriminate in its reviews?Jodi Picoult weighs in: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/20/jodi-picoult-white-male-literary-darlings

95% of political books reviewed in NYT are by white authors and 87% male: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129324346&ft=1&f=1008

How publishing really works, and the realities of ebook publishing: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/08/23/seth-godin-and-print-publishing/#



More writing and publishing links

Why vampires aren’t fading as the latest rage: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=11476109

Dick and Jane and Vampires: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/book_jackets/dick_and_jane_and_vampires_behind_the_scenes_172133.asp  (I predicted the mashup trend would head to children’s books a year ago)

Are the Disney princesses turning girls into narcissists?: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Princess+culture+turning+girls+into+overspending+narcissists/3403856/story.html

Will ads soon appear in iBooks?: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20014626-233.html

Why do we need publishers?: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/who-needs-publishers-we-a_b_689763.html

Book’s FB page with almost 700,000 fans doesn’t increase sales: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/a-book-attracts-loads-of-facebook-fans-but-why/

Print dictionaries go the way of the dinosaurs: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7970391/Oxford-English-Dictionary-will-not-be-printed-again.html

6/22/10 Writing and Publishing News

How can you protect your ideas before submitting? Should you sign a one-book or multi-book deal? How did Amazon almost put an indie publisher out of business? Are the British courts trying to fix libel law? When will the Google decision issue? Does age matter in Hollywood? These and other stories are in this week’s Write Report.


Where the law and literature meet:

Amazon nearly causes indie bookstore to shut down after it cuts off online store over customer satisfaction levels: http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2072859_amazon_cutoff_left_bookshop_out_of_pocket

Amazon to give fewer services to distributors and publishers who pay less: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/43488-new-amazon-program-spurs-complaints.html

Court gives no indication of when Google settlement decision will issue: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20008346-265.html

Tales from the Shakespeare book thief trial: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7844716/Librarians-heart-sank-on-seeing-damaged-Shakespeare-first-edition.html

British court raises standard for bringing libel claims in landmark ruling: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=45595&c=1

12 most bizarre comedian lawsuits: http://comedy.com/2010/06/21/12-most-bizarre-comedian-lawsuits/

Writers Guild asks IMDB to remove ages from listings because, surprise, Hollywood discriminates based on age: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/06/writers-guild-pressures-imdb-to-remove-age-info.html

Attorney answers how you can protect your ideas before submitting: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/publishing/ask_a_lawyer_how_do_i_keep_them_from_stealing_my_idea_164032.asp

Hong Kong publisher halts Tiananmen Square book over copyright concerns: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTDwszLhsGMN1NQAicjbOwjm5qCgD9GEP7J80

Agent talks about advantages of one book vs. multi-book contracts: http://pubrants.blogspot.com/2010/06/one-book-or-two-maybe-three.html



More headlines:

Very silly things heard at bookshops: http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=57303

Ebooks: Royalties vs. respect: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/21/ebooks-self-publishing-luminato.html

Geoffrey Hill wins Oxford Professor of Poetry slot in a landslide: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/18/oxford-professor-poetry-geoffrey-hill

How gadgets are affecting your brain: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?scp=1&sq=brain%20computer&st=cse

Here’s a poll on which craze will be the new vampires in YA lit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/22/the-new-vampires-9-possib_n_620202.html