>So SLJ is in trouble with some of its readers over their cover photo of some boozin’ bloggers. Honestly, you never know what’s going to bring in complaints–and Letters to the Editor are far more frequently objections than compliments. As Monica Edinger (first reprobate to the left) points out, you might expect objections to the [...]
>Too damned long
November 17, 2009 By 32 Comments
>I see that PW has followed up on Betsy Bird’s thoughts on the Amazon Vine program; their speculation that membership in Vine might be a perk for good customers is intriguing if not substantiated. What seems oddest to me is that this program–for which publishers and other producers pay for the privilege of having their [...]
>Hot air didn’t stop the Nazis, either.
October 6, 2009 By 27 Comments
>From a San Francisco bookstore forum, reported in Shelf Awareness: The idea for the panel, said co-owner Margie Scott Tucker, came from a statement made by Alan Kaufman, novelist, memoirist, influential in the Spoken Word movement and editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Literature: “When I hear the term Kindle, I think not of [...]
>It’s Not How Long You Make It, Is It?
September 2, 2009 By 37 Comments
>A tangential question that came up when we were discussing digital review copies made me pull out my calculator. How much longer are books getting? I compared fiction for ages 12 and up reviewed in the Magazine in the September issues of 2009, 1999, 1989 and 1979 (October issue; we were on a different schedule [...]
>When writers attack!
June 29, 2009 By 23 Comments
>Somebody really didn’t think this through.
March 27, 2009 By 10 Comments
>Amazoning Out
November 8, 2008 By 17 Comments
>JasonB’s post at Galleycat about Thomas Nelson’s new program of supplying free books to bloggers on the condition that they review the book and copy said review to an online vendor such as Amazon.com brings up lots of questions, and don’t miss the link to the Guardian’s essay on the subject, which includes an entertaining, [...]
>James Joyce wins BGHB?
September 27, 2008 By 4 Comments
>You know, I was there and it was nothing like this. [Update--the link was to a German blog titled "Boston Globe Horn Book Awards" filled with English words and sentences strung together in a way that occasionally made sense but more often were simply madly stream-of-consciousness insanity. Apparently now it takes you to another site. [...]
>From the people who brought you . . .
September 17, 2008 By 9 Comments
>I Blame America
March 4, 2008 By 18 Comments
