http://bookinfo.net Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:24:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well the news is in. Last night Beaufort Books revealed itself as the publisher who has agreed to print O.J. Simpson's controversial If I Did It. In hopes of avoiding a fate similar to the ReganBooks catastrophe of last year, the small, NY-based company is trying to spin ... http://bookinfo.net/2007/08/15/beaufort-books-is-the-winnerof-the-sleaziest-publishing-deal-ever/ After Monday's announcement that O.J. Simpson's tasteful memoir If I Did It has found yet another publisher, it's hard not to smile. I mean, someone should be giving the publishing industry a dozen gold stars. What effort and determination! Not only did they encourage Simpson to write ... http://bookinfo.net/2007/08/14/raise-your-hand-if-you-want-to-know-why-oj-did-it/ With the internet and the publishing industry unapologetically intertwined these days, it's no wonder that the Fake Steve Jobs is releasing his very own book come October. For those of you unaware of the blog entitled "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," it began to create a stir within ... http://bookinfo.net/2007/08/07/fake-steve-jobs-wrote-a-book-and-i-plan-on-reading-it-i-dont-think-im-the-only-one-either/ Let's be honest. As Americans, we allow nudity to scare us. It's an inevitable truth; it's hard to even debate. All you have to do to confirm it is visit a European country and turn on a television there. If you dare to risk it, you ... http://bookinfo.net/2007/07/17/us-publisher-wages-war-against-cartoon-nudity/ Harry Potter is known for a lot of things. His lightning-shaped scar, his quidditch skills, his mysterious connection to Lord Voldemort, but being environmentally friendly? That's a new one. Maybe we should thank J.K. Rowling instead, or better yet, how about Scholastic publishing? Either way, Muggles ... http://bookinfo.net/2007/07/16/harry-potter-adds-a-little-spark-to-the-green-movement/ A newly released report from Book Industry Study Group claims that book sales increased 3.2% in 2006, to $35.69 billion. The Association of American Publishers reported last month that book sales fell 0.3% in 2006. http://bookinfo.net/2007/06/04/book-industry-stuy-group-says-book-sales-were-up-32-in-2006/ 2,000 exhibits. 1,200 publishers. 500 authors. An endless sea of books. For those involved in the publishing industry, or for those who simply love to read, BookExpo America resembles a modern-day Utopia. Or so one would think. This year's BEA took place over the weekend in ... http://bookinfo.net/2007/06/04/bookexpo-america-a-playground-for-vicious-lions-starving-hyenas-or-both/ Last week I linked to a New York Times article on the difficulty of knowing which books become best sellers and which books become dust-covered duds, and compared the book industry's challenge to that of the movie industry's. Kim has a great post today on last week's verdict in ... http://bookinfo.net/2007/05/24/book-publishers-v-movie-makers-revisited/ The legal proceedings between famed author Clive Cussler and Phillip Anschutz's Crusader Entertainment over the 2005 box office flop Sahara ended last week with the jury divided. The Los Angeles Superior Court ordered the adventure author to pay Crusader $5 million in damages because of a breach in contract. ... http://bookinfo.net/2007/05/24/legal-dispute-over-sahara-comes-to-an-end/ Dickens, Tolstoy, Austen, Descartes. We aren't accustomed to seeing these names in our inboxes. But one innovative website that officially launched this month wants to change all that. Hoping to cash in on an area of publishing that hasn't yet been explored, www.dailylit.com offers to send its ... http://bookinfo.net/2007/05/23/classic-authors-invading-inboxes-near-you/