Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publisher of authors including Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer, Günter Grass and J. R. R. Tolkien, has temporarily s...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — The country's largest trade publisher, Random House Inc., has frozen the pensions of its current employees and eliminated them for fu...
Erica Heller | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media
Madness and stupidity are, alas, not limited to the arena of war. The publishing world seems to also have stepped in it, and will now leave us its grimy footprints to follow on the real Bridge to Nowhere.
New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media
Earlier today Media Mob reported that political polling expert Nate Silver, the wunderkind statistician behind the Web site FiveThirtyEight.com, was o...
CJR/Fox News | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media
In a somewhat predictable move, Joe The Plumber, aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, has signed a book deal. Joe told Fox News that he was "broke," but still to...
Hugh McGuire | Posted 11.04.2008 | Media
Reading digital text on a small handheld device is nothing like reading text on a computer (desktop or laptop). A mobile device is much more comfortable, for plenty of reasons.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media
Reading an ebooks is just "another way" to be reading, it's not necessarily a replacement of a hard copy. I prefer to talk to people face-to-face, but I recognize the utility of the telephone.
Advertising Age | Nat Ives | Posted 10.22.2008 | Green
Magazine readers are concerned about the environment and are already taking steps to live more sustainably, according to a survey of Hearst Magazines ...
Alex Geana | Posted 10.16.2008 | Media
One of the oddest things about being a new writer? The publishing industries new requirement. Writers need to have a reader base before a publisher will touch them.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 10.14.2008 | Media
Book publishing is late to the digital party so it can look to all the many mistakes the music business made in the past decade, and decide how to move into the uncertain future.
Michael Sigman | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media
A friend who runs a printing plant told me half his clients are going under and the rest are struggling. But as he put it, "I can't subsidize the publishing business."
Jack Myers | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business
More than 400 magazine publishing and editorial executives gathered earlier this week in San Francisco for the annual American Magazine Conference.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 09.29.2008 | Media
There's going to be a shake-up, no doubt. It'll be ugly for publishing companies that don't adjust.
Carine Fabius | Posted 08.27.2008 | Living
Nothing like being rejected to make you grow. But, I just want to know one thing: How tall do I have to get? I haven't won the Man Booker Prize yet ...
Jennifer Nix | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media
Obama Nation is a pathetic excuse for a book and is just one more example of how the right effectively moves their lies into the national discourse while the left fails to do so with progressive ideas.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 08.19.2008 | Home
In reaction to the torrent of hostile Obama books, my publisher made an early release deal with Amazon, spurring Barnes & Noble to cancel its orders and refuse to stock the book in any of its stores.
Liz Spikol | Posted 08.01.2008 | Media
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Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living
Memoir provides a means for anyone writing to become the hero of his or her own life. That's why we write memoir and that's why we read it.
Lissa Warren | Posted 07.29.2008 | Media
For the most part, blogs about books don't actually review any books. Instead, they cover the business of publishing and the culture surrounding it, and the world of the author.
Aaron Greenspan | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media
It seems like Ben Mezrich has perfect idea for a book. There's only one problem: so far, the book is being billed as a memoir, and I don't recall seeing him at Harvard in 2003, because he wasn't there.
Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment
The function of a memoir is to make a truth about a life lived that resonates in the bones of the writer and sends out shock waves of recognition to readers.
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
As more newspapers cut back or cut out book reviews, I hope this column will be one of many effort to combat these trends. Every month I'll ask three or four people in the news and in the know to share their reading lists.
Mark Oppenheimer | Posted 04.20.2008 | Entertainment
A review of mine that just appeared in The Forward: Atmospheric Disturbances By Rivka Galchen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pages, $24. Having just...
Carol Hoenig | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business
Whereas traditional publishing has become such a difficult industry to break into, self-publishing provides opportunity. Now that opportunity is in jeopardy for many writers.
Toby Barlow | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media
The series of scandals featuring so-called memoir writers who actually made up their "true stories," speaks to the importance of having editors level-headed enough to ask the tough questions.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
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President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
Last night, CNN's Campbell Brown criticized President-elect...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
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Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
New York Times | Motoko Rich | Posted 11.25.2008 | Media