July 19, 2010

How do you market a book written in a foreign language by an author who’s now dead, that was originally published 60 years ago, and has been overlooked by mainstream… Read more »

Marketing and Publicity

Fake Penguin publicist catfishes bloggers (to get reviews for her own book) — Julia Fleischaker
FSG publishing anonymously authored Silicon Valley satire---all 18 pages of it — Ena Brdjanovic
Minimalist Tokyo bookstore stocks only one book each week — Kait Howard
When reading can transport you ... because there's a subway chip in the cover — Taylor Sperry

Singapore Arrests British Journalist for Death Penalty Book

Valerie Merians

“A veteran British journalist and author promoting his book on the death penalty in Singapore was arrested in the country today for alleged criminal defamation and other offenses. Alan Shadrake’s… Read more »

Secret trove of Kafka papers forcibly opened

Dennis Johnson

“After months of legal wrangling, one of the 10 safe deposit boxes in which documents belonging to the writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924 ) and his close friend Max Brod (1884-1968… Read more »

Orlando Figes settles lawsuit over fake Amazon reviews

Dennis Johnson

Historian Orlando Figes has settled a libel suit brought against him by fellow historians Rachel Polonsky and Robert Service over his writing of pseudonymous negative reviews of their work on… Read more »

NEA slashes budget for popular Big Read program

Dennis Johnson

The National Endowment for the Arts has slashed the budget for the popular Big Read program, according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jane Henderson. She notes… 4 / Read more »

Melville House Books

Anatomy of a marketing campaign, #8: Galleys

Dennis Johnson

Singapore Arrests British Journalist for Death Penalty Book

Valerie Merians

Secret trove of Kafka papers forcibly opened

Dennis Johnson

Orlando Figes settles lawsuit over fake Amazon reviews

Dennis Johnson

NEA slashes budget for popular Big Read program

Dennis Johnson