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The Bestseller: A Novel

August 5, 2021

bestseller

The Bestseller had two things going for it when I saw it in my library online catalog. One, it was Available Now so not hold list to wait through and two, the author’s name, Olivia Goldsmith, sounded ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: chick lit, New York City, publishing, vacation reading

War of the Words: Amazon vs. Hachette

June 7, 2014

Once again, Amazon model of e-reader books and higher margins has escalated into Walmart-like bullying against vendors who won’t play their way—namely, continually lowering their prices until said ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature, Reading Tagged: book store, Grand Central Publishing, Hachette, Little Brown and Company, publishing

BookExpo America (BEA 2013)

June 5, 2013

BEA 2013

Once a year, the publishing industry goes all out to promote its upcoming fall books. The conference is in New York City and is called BookExpo America (BEA). For book lovers it is like DisneyLand and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature, Reading Tagged: BEA, books, event, New York City, publishing

Wordstock

October 17, 2012

Wordstock is a weekend long literary festival that brings authors, publishers, readers, and would-be writers together in the book friendly mecca of Portland. I went last year and recorded my thoughts ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature Tagged: authors, books, event, publishing, Wordstock, writing

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