shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 04 2008 | books, book publishing, news
It ain't easy being an editor...
Quoted: Late yesterday evening, Margaret B. Jones admitted to the New York Times that Love and Consequences , her critically acclaimed memoir about growing up in a foster home in gang-ridden South Central Los Angeles, was almost entirely fabricated.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - May 05 2008 | books, book publishing, news
Whoa, big news in book publishing. I feel like this encourages publishers to become Judith Reagan type figures, though, sadly...
Quoted: Peter W. Olson, one of the top figures in American publishing, has been under pressure over lower profits.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 06 2008 | human rights, books, book publishing, news
Oh, I really want to hope this memoir isn't fraudulent... It was so powerful.
Quoted: On Jan. 19, the Australian, Rupert Murdoch's Aussie broadsheet, published a 4,600-word investigation challenging the credibility of the child-soldier memoir A Long Way Gone. Author Ishmael Beah's heart-wrenching account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the two years he spent as a cocaine-addicted teenage killer achieved instant literary acclaim.
ShareViewed: 21 Times - shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - May 15 2006 | book publishing, books
Fascinating and important, but I'm still not convinced that the digital book will fully replace the printed one...
Quoted: Despite the opposition of publishers and their lawyers, the world's texts are being electronically copied, digitized, searched and linked.
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