Nielsen to Close Kirkus Reviews
The publishing world's concerns about declining review space will only become more severe with this morning's news that Nielsen Business Media has "made the decision to cease operations" at Kirkus...
View ArticleSummer Books to Watch
We always enjoy the Wall Street Journal's detailed preview of summer books which runs today. Along the same vein, USA Today ran their summer preview package earlier in the week, and the NYT's Janet...
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Heidi Metcalfe will join It Books as an associate director of publicity next week. Most recently she was a senior publicity manager at Free Press, where she's been since 2006. At the Random House...
View ArticleNBA Nominees: The Reviews So Far
We checked our Reviews database at PM to see what kind of full-length reviews the National Book Award fiction and nominees have received so far. Patti Smith leads the pack with 14 reviews, and Peter...
View ArticlePublicize This: How to Get the WSJ to Break Your Book
The WSJ's recently-launched weekend Review section proved it can put a book on the nation's radar with their attention-getting (and controversially titled) except from Amy Chua's book. (The book is...
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In Italy, former publisher of Mondadori Massimo Turchetta will take over as publisher of the trade book division at RCS Libri (comprising the imprints Rizzoli, BUR, Bompiani, Fabbri, and Etas) on March...
View ArticleUSA Bolsters Online Book Pages
USA Today has soft-launched a revised and expanded books section on the newspaper's web site, complicated with a dedicated sub-domain, books.usatoday.com. Among the features, their bestseller list has...
View ArticleWashington Post Eliminates Book Editor Job, Moves Most Staff to Style Section
A reorganization of the "structure and staffing" of various weekly feature sections at the Washington Post will eliminate the position of Book World Editor entirely. That job is currently held by...
View ArticleNewspaper Book Reviews, Reviewers, and Gender
The latest VIDA statistics assessing gender representation in book reviews continue to draw comment and response. But VIDA's lens, expanded this year to include more publications, still primarily...
View ArticleBriefs: Amazon Holiday Stats, Printers Row Drops Print, and More
Amazon's annual holiday release featured a blizzard of whimsical non-statistics about all of the things they sold during the busiest shopping time of the year. Among the ebook-related bits, "the most...
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