The Novels of William Styron: From Harmony to History (Southern literary studies)
Maya Reynolds (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
In June, 2008, after ten years at HarperCollins, Jane Friedman announced she would be leaving her job as CEO prior to the end of her contract and prior to the reporting of another year of lowered profits at HC. In June, 2009, Friedman announced she'd raised $3 million for her new start-up company, OpenRoad, devoted to "developing a platform for eBook marketing and publishing." Earlier this...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
There is no way to sustain interest in reading Catch-22 online. But does eBook also refer to handheld readers like the Nook (whick looks to kill the Kindle)? Cuz I dunno but those things might catch on. Anyway, Jane Friedman, who used to be the head of HarperCollins but got retired, just started a company called [...]
communicatrix (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
This blog isn’t the only work of…well, something that had an anniversary lately. Back in 2006, I started writing a column for professional and aspiring-professional actors about the non-acting aspects of the business. Over time, it’s morphed into more of a marketing column, but I still try to slip in little bits of helpful info I [...]
Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online... (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Critically acclaimed and widely renowned for his controversial works, novelist William Styron continually pushed the literary envelope with writings like his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and his fictitious account of a non-Jewish Holocaust survivor in Sophie’s Choice, which was later turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep. Styron began his career [...]
Harriet (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that writers living under rocks are doing unusually well these days. David Foster Wallace’s Pale King, William Styron’s The Suicide Run, Jung’s The Red Book, Kurt Vonnegut’s Look at the Birdie, and several other posthumous publications are appearing in print for the first time—and so [...]
FinePrint Literary Management (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
So, we're starting to get some tantalizing glimpses of the where the publishing industry is likely to be in the next couple of years. First of all, Publishers Marketplace reoprted last week on former HarperCollins boss, Jane Friedman who officially announced her new venture Open Road Integrated Media at Frankfurt, though the unit was first reported on in August when her funding of $3 million was disclosed....
Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
I have read the novel, The Museum of Innocence, in Turkish last year. In strictly literary terms, this is his weakest novel. However, a very different sort of project intended here. An actual museum has been built in Istanbul and will be opened soon. This book is a novel-catalogue that actual museum and a great [...]
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE By Orhan Pamuk Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Friedman to publish Catch-22 e-book 19.10.09 - The Bookseller Joseph Heller's Catch-22 will be published as an e-book for the first time as part of Jane Friedman's new publishing venture, Open Road Integrated Media . Speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week, the former HarperCollins chief executive described Open Road as a "content marketing company", which creates "enhanced"...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
That’s what Jane Friedman’s new publishing company, Open Road Integrated Media, announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The new company will be using “every bit of technology” to market ebooks of past and present authors. Open Road will be selling titles by William Styron, Pat Conroy and Iris Murdoch as well. The [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Sixteen months after stepping down as president and chief executive of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Jane Friedman has formed a new company that will republish old titles by big-name authors including William Styron, Iris Murdoch and Pat Conroy in electronic form.
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Barnes and Noble’s forthcoming rival to the Kindle will feature an E Ink screen as expected. Gizmodo is running all kinds of photos but does not reveal the price of the unit expected to be unveiled officially this month. Intriguing detail: There’ll be “a multitouch display like an iPhone underneath.” What do you think of [...]
Library Stuff (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
NYT – “Sixteen months after stepping down as president and chief executive of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Jane Friedman has formed a new company that will republish old titles by big-name authors including William Styron, Iris Murdoch and Pat Conroy in electronic form”
dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
I'm so very sorry about all the bank balances, and those of you who've written with news of irate managers had better look away now, or look quickly and add it to your Christmas list, but I just had to...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Alexandra Alter in the Wall Street Journal: A new wave of posthumous books by iconic authors is stirring debate over how publishers should handle fragmentary literary remains. Works by Vladimir Nabokov, William Styron, Graham Greene, Carl Jung and Kurt Vonnegut...
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