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Random House Stands Alone With Amazon?
TechDoggy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Random House has weighed in on the eBook price wars, and it looks like Macmillan, Hachette and Harper Collins won’t be sending them a fruit basket next Christmas. At the American Bookseller’s Association Winter Institute meeting, Random House made it clear they aren’t interested in pursuing the same “agency model” as their three colleagues.From the Mobileread forums: 3...
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Random House Stands Alone With Amazon?
Gear Diary (Free subscription) | 08/02/2010
Random House has weighed in on the eBook price wars, and it looks like Macmillan, Hachette and Harper Collins won’t be sending them a fruit basket next Christmas. At the American Bookseller’s Association Winter Institute meeting, Random House made it clear they aren’t interested in pursuing the same “agency model” as their three colleagues. From the [...] Related posts:...
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Israel Matzav: Blockade?
Rick's Café American (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Blockade? Here are some statistics pertaining to Israel's 'blockade' of Gaza. In the classic novel "1984," author George Orwell gives this famous example of how language is manipulated:. "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength." What then would Orwell call "blockade"? A generally accepted definition of a blockade might be "the isolating of a place....
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'The Privileges,' by Jonathan Dee
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Privileges By Jonathan Dee (Random House; 258 pages; $25) In his 2002 novel, "Palladio," Jonathan Dee showed a budding obsession with time. The book follows two plotlines, separated by place and decade. In the first, we see a girl named Molly grow up in...
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Books in the Mail (W/E 02/06/2010)
Rob's Blog o' Stuff (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
All the March Releases from the Penguin Imprints arrived on Monday and a big box of Random House’s SF/UF/F releases for 2/23/2010 arrived on Thursday, with Black Library ’s 2/23 releases dropping on Friday, leaving me adrift in a sea of books, a few of which I’ve received in ARC form in the past: Cat’s Claw (Book 2 of Calliope Reaper-Jones ) by Amber Benson ( Ace Paperback 03/02/2010)...
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Campbell’s Crocodile Tears
Jess The Dog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
Lachrymose displays on television seem to be the order of the day at the moment and it can be no coincidence that Alastair Campbell has also succumbed to a brief and unconvincing sob in a pathetic attempt to avoid Marr’s unusually probing question on Blair misleading Parliament. An attempt so pathetic that it was hilarious. We all know Blair and Campbell repeatedly misled the British people and...
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SF Tidbits for 2/7/10
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
News Neil Gaiman Confirms That He's Written An Upcoming Episode Of Doctor Who . Amazon, Macmillan throw elbows over e-book prices . Story update: Random House to publish final Gormenghast book : " Titus Awakes , written by Mervyn Peake's widow based on notes left by the author to complete the sequence, set for publication in 2011". Articles Rich Horton's Summary: Futurismic, 2009 . Shaun...
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Random House blurb for Fate of the Jedi: Allies
Club Jade (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
NJOE was the first to notice that Random House has posted the summary for Christie Golden’s Allies, the sixth Fate of the Jedi novel. Check it out below the cut. What began as a quest for truth has become a struggle for survival for Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben. They have used the [...]
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Libel tourists will love the tales of Lord Hoffmann | Nick Cohen
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
If you want to see hypocrisy in action, look at England's libel courts I warned during the rage against Blair and Bush that liberals were playing into the hands of reactionaries. Unintentionally or not, their depiction of a desire to democratise the Middle East as a neocon swindle provided every apologist for tyranny and censorship with the argument that liberty was a merely a plot by a cabal bent...
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Random House to publish final Gormenghast book
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/02/2010
Titus Awakes, written by Mervyn Peake's widow based on notes left by the author to complete the sequence, set for publication in 2011 Three weeks after it emerged that Mervyn Peake's wife had written a fourth book in her husband's acclaimed Gormenghast trilogy , Random House has seen off stiff competition from other publishers to acquire rights in the novel. Peake died from Parkinson's in 1968, leaving...
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Discussing Ideas to Help Stores Survive Both...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
Discussing Ideas to Help Stores Survive Both formally and informally, booksellers at the ABA's Winter Institute were talking about, and listening to, ideas for how stores can preserve their essential role during the digital transition and drive revenue from more than sales of printed books. On Wednesday Dan Clancy from Google tried to open the door to brainstorming how Google can help retailers sell...
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Redefining "Net" under an Agency Model
all that's new(s) from A to Z (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
If you've been following book-industry news, you know that both Macmillan and now Hachette Book Group have announced they are moving to an agency model for selling eBooks. This, of course, raises questions on how authors will be paid royalties. Today, I emailed David Young, CEO of HBG two questions: 1. What will Hachette’s “commission” to “agents” selling eBooks be? Macmillan’s...
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Simplicity is the key to successful living
On Influence and Automation (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
Artist and illustrator Nick Dewar passed away this week. He worked for many different companies from The Atlantic Monthly to Random House, providing insightful illustrations to the interesting words in an article or book. My favorite Nick Dewar work illustrates both my professional and personal philosophy: Simplicity is the key to successful living. This is a more [...] Thanks for subscribing! download...
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Hachette on the Rise
India Uncut (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
Just back from the Galle Lit Fest , rested, and all set to resume blogging. Let me begin with the good news that my publisher, Hachette India, just a year old in this country, has already become the second-biggest publisher in India, ahead of Harper Collins and Random House, and behind Penguin. Here’s the full story : I’m most pleased that My Friend Sancho has been described as one of...