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As I said, busy busy busy. Will try to resume normal posting on Monday. Until then, it’s roundup city.
- Will smartphones trump ereaders in the hardware battle?
- Poet Andrew Motion to chair Booker Prize jury
- Harlequin finds only possible way to get even shittier writing into print
- Ever want to dance on a poet’s grave? Here’s your map to happiness
- Gaiman just won a teenage book prize (Ninja Boy and I just read his kids book “Odd and the Frost Gaints” and it was pretty good)
- Warhol’s kids book comes with soup can label, wig fibers, and a few crystals of coke scraped from Basquiat’s nostrils and goes up on the block with other rare ephemera
- Is the bookseller/publisher model the way to go? If you can be as good as Melville House, I say, Yes!
- Perseverance and a Nobel was all it took for Herta to worm her way into our language, and hearts (remember, kids, you can’t spell “heart” without “Herta”—unless it’s in that foreign script with the backward Rs or something, in which case you might need a Q for all I know)
- Dan the Man in Tan helps Random to $23M in ebook sales
- I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry–-Flarf: indistinguishable from most contemporary poetry, but with half the caloric drain on brain cells
- The Beeb thought Blyton was a hack
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November 18th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Poisoned Pen Press was started by the folks at Poisoned Pen Bookstore in 1997 and is going strong. It’s a good model, too bad the article didn’t mention them.