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Not to alarm you, gentle readers, on this so-far placid Sunday morning, but Disney's marauding editors have hacked the Hundred Acre Wood to cheap, American pulp.  According to the Telegraph, conscientious British readers are horrified at error-strewn, Yankified modern updates of the children's classic in which Pooh and his friends used to play chess or draughts but now play chequers because that's about the most nuanced board game Americans can handle. More »
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Remember how Michele Bachmann was shopping a book proposal? Well, now she's got a deal — her book is scheduled to come out Nov. 21 with Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin. In the press release, Bachmann made this comment, which rivals the Palin oeuvre in its circularity and meaninglessness: More »
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We know publishing and book marketing follow a formula that involves mashing up previously successful books. We know self-help involves bullet points, and that Ladies Love Makeovers. We know paranormal and memoir (novel/memoir even!) remain sought-after genres. The people behind this book know all of these things too, and faced with a buffet of options, chose all of the above. More »
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It may get no respect, but romance remains the unshakable backbone of the publishing industry, has stayed adaptable and current, and is moving confidently into the digital age. Says one analyst, "it's such a huge category with such a loyal following. I'd be very surprised if the category ever dropped out of the top five." More »
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Wonderful website The Rumpus needed a good, brand-new book by a woman writer for its book club, but couldn't find one. So it commissioned a book of essays by some of its women contributors, including Michelle Tea and Michelle Orange. More »
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Mine, Citrus County by John Brandon, did not make the cut :( But the annual release of the year's "100 Notable Books" list remains a beloved Thanksgivingtime tradition. Which have you loved, and which should be avoided? [New York Times] More »
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American Media Inc. filed for bankruptcy yesterday, listing between $500 million and $1 billion in debt. This will not affect the daily operations of the magazines it publishes, including the National Enquirer, Star, Shape, Men's Fitness and Fit Pregnancy. More »
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The Isabella Blow bookfight rumbles on! After recounting the insults traded by Detmar Blow, Tom Sykes, and Lauren Goldstein Crowe over their just-released biographies of the British fashion editor/icon, who died in 2007, we received an irate missive from Crowe. More »
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She boasted that though she's "the Tolstoy of text [messages]," she's also writing a story "that The New Yorker, by the way, does not know is coming...I want to be published. It's time—I'm 46." Editors, you've been warned. More »
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Ousted White House social secretary Desiree Rogers will become the CEO of Johnson Publishing Company, which publishes Ebony and Jet. Hopefully at her new gig she will not be constantly criticized for her wardrobe. More »
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Thirteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson of fashion blog The Style Rookie recently posted a plea: "I, like many, would like another Sassy Magazine," she wrote. Tavi was born in 1997; Sassy ceased publication in 1995. So why does it speak to her? More »
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"It's only been in the last two years or so that it's been a problem...'Beaver' is one of those key words students are denied access to...". That, and, apparently, "oral sex". [NYT] More »
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Mediabistro asked one pair of industry insiders about their publishing predictions for the decade to come. Among them? "95% of all reading will be on screens" and "most authors will be indie authors." [Mediabistro] More »
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Blogger Mark Barrett wonders why, amid all the coverage of Sarah Palin's book, nobody's really talking about the fact that she didn't actually write it. More »
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To those who truly love vampire fiction, I'd imagine the last few years have been a blessing and a curse. While the genre has exploded in popularity, thanks to Twilight, it's exploded in popularity, well, thanks to Twilight, you know? More »
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"Black Lace", the 16-year-old "by women, for women" UK erotica imprint, is closing up shop due to declining sales. Some attribute it to the hoary chestnut that "women don't buy erotica." But does anyone in the internet age? [Guardian] More »
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Working on the principle that more is always better, hemorrhaging Playboy tries to stay current by showcasing not one but two pneumatic centerfolds in its July/August issue. [UPI] More »
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One market that's not suffering: escapism. While other publishers founder, Harlequin is way up, taking full advantage of ebooks and internet advertising and launching a short erotic efiction line called Spice Briefs. [PW] More »
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Perhaps you recall Neil "Style" Strauss as the author as such works as Motley Crue: The Dirt, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, and The Game. Get used to it - he's the future. More »
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Nylon may be safe, but according to a breakdown of ad page performance that mediabistro.com just posted (from WWD), things are scary indeed in the world of fashion magazines. In the third quarter, the industry saw a 10% decline as categories like pharmaceutical and beauty slashed their ad budgets. Some of the hardest hit are Vanity Fair (down 15.3% since last year - approximately 84 ad pages), W, Glamour and Essence, with even stalwarts like Vogue dangerously diminished (9.6%.) Bucking the trend is Elle, which, Stylista notwithstanding, had an increase in ad sales. Fingers and toes crossed for everyone — we may mock the ladymags, but we hate to see people lose jobs. [mediabistro] More »
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It has been suggested that females prefer pink because of an evolutionary preference for reddish things like ripe fruits and healthy faces. We also prefer pink books. Or at least the publishing industry is so convinced of this that to cover their asses they're wantonly packaging any book written by a woman with a chick-litish cover in the desperate hopes that we'll buy it. Says The Guardian's Diane Shipley, "Having cottoned on to the fact that chick lit books sell like cupcakes, publishers are now adding chick lit-style covers to any book written by a woman whether it fits the genre definition or not." More »
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Meet author Katherine Taylor. (Her narrator is called "Kath," too!) She never thought she was pretty, always thought she looked like a boy. (What is up with these pretty girls — ahem, ScarJo — saying they think they look like boys? Anyway, Kath thinks she writes as well as any boy, which is why she is the latest entrant in the massive debate a-raging, mostly among authors and publishers and whoever mills paper dye in the color "Pepto", over the definition of chick lit, namely whether said definition should read something like "total mindless crap, denoted by a pink hue and/or font on book jacket that is NOTHING like what I do" or "a genre that encompasses both total mindless Bergdorf Blonds crap and real richly drawn narrative that underscores truths of the Human Condition like what the pink book writing broads I know write." Writing about this debate has become almost a journalistic genre itself, and today the New York Observer serves up a pretty engaging profile of highly connected bartender-turned-writer KT's personal struggle with the color pink (which she hates, and is very sure would have been the color of Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision had it been written by a girl.) But wait, she doesn't want to dis the color pink — because her book, it turns out, will be pink. More »
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