click to enlargeJust how bad is it in the publishing world? Not only has this week given us Black Wednesday but now we get this piece of marketing madness from Palgrave Macmillan.Their target? Their own authors! Palgrave Macmillian send out the above to their authors offering them a "special discount" on their own books. Yes, act know and buy 25 or more copies of your own book and receive 55% off the list price.Wouldn't all this energy be better spent marketing your authors to world? And the way things are going, for many of the authors, if they wait long...
They’re Alive : Edith Kollath’s Breathing Books
Bre Pettis takes us on a short video tour of Edith Kollath's latest exhibit Property and Evidence: The Whole Story which is currently on view at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery.Beside featuring her amazing breathing books the exhibit also recounts Kollath's experience with the TSA who detained her and confiscated the books when she tried to get through security at Newark airport to return to her home in Germany. She was on the way home to show the books in an exhibit; which she missed.Kollath recounts the experience herePress release for the exhibitThanks to Neatorama for the lead
It’s Official : Amazon’s Acquisiton of AbeBooks is Now Complete
Publisher's Weekly is reporting that Amazon's previously announced acquisition of AbeBooks has been completed.A new era of online bookselling has begun.Previously on Book PatrolAbeAzon. Amazon's Acquisition of AbeBooks : The Day AfterBrendan Sherar, CEO of Biblio.com, Weighs InA Response From Brian Elliott, CEO of AlibrisAn Interview With AbeBooks CEO, Dr. Hannes Blum
Death and the Mass-Markets
The New York Times Book Review's TBR: Inside the List notes this week that they received a number of reader comments relating to their Nov. 9 best seller list for mass-market paperback fiction. Many were wondering why 40% of the list was made up of 'dead" books.The answer: Charlaine Harris7 of the 8 "dead" books come from Harris's southern vampire series featuring Sookie Stackhouse, a "telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures."Here is the list:3. DEAD UNTIL DARK, by Charlaine Harris.7. LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS, by Charlaine Harris10. CLUB DEAD, by Charlaine Harris.12. DEAD...
The Way of the "Nose"
Wu Xubin, 26, a calligraphist, has been practicing the art since he was ten years old. While in college he had an epiphany; why not use my nose to "write." The rest they say is history.Thanks to swissmiss for the lead