by Cassandra Drudi

"Plagiarists," your days are numbered

In what the New York Times is calling "a literary imbroglio," Ian McEwan's sources and inspirations for his bestselling novel Atonement have come under close media scrutiny. The bloggers are all over this one, and ... Read More »

November 28, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

O.J. did it (wrote a book, that is)

By Cassandra Drudi

Yesterday, the Book Standard pointed out that, according to a National Enquirer news item, O.J. Simpson has been paid $3.5-million for a tell-all book entitled If I Did It. According to the Enquirer, the book ... Read More »

October 20, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Quillblog: The Book

By Cassandra Drudi

Just think -- one day, you could be reading this blog in book form. Wired reports today that "Blurb.com, a self-publishing startup, will invite 600 bloggers this week to test out its new service by ... Read More »

August 30, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Sci-fi groping brouhaha

By Cassandra Drudi

Harlan Ellison brought some much-needed scandale to the Hugos when he groped fellow sci-fi scribe Connie Willis and kissed her for good measure when accepting his Special Committee Award this week. He also put the ... Read More »

August 30, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Gay book yanked from high-school reading list

By Cassandra Drudi

The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported today on the removal of a gay-themed book from a Webster, N.Y. high-school summer reading list and the author's subsequent accusation that the Webster Central School District officials are ... Read More »

August 29, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Grass opts for openness

By Cassandra Drudi

Yahoo! News is carrying a Reuters story today reporting that Günter Grass is getting a pat on the back from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem for his decision "to waive restrictions on his Nazi ... Read More »

August 29, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Snakes on our blog

By Cassandra Drudi

PW Daily has a story about Sterling Publishers' cashing in on the marketing behemoth that is Snakes on a Plane by churning out -- wait for it -- Snakes on a Sudoku. According to the ... Read More »

August 23, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Could a computer write this blog?

By Cassandra Drudi

The Financial Times reported last week that a U.S. news service has designed computer programs to write stories for them. "Thomson Financial, the business information group, has been using computers to generate some stories since ... Read More »

August 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Vietnam adjusts to new book business

By Cassandra Drudi

Literary Saloon links to a VietNamNet Bridge story on the difficulties Vietnamese publishers face. Vietnam has been tightening control over copyrights in the wake of the ratification of the Bern Convention for Literary and Artistic ... Read More »

August 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

HarperCollins gets one up on Google

By Cassandra Drudi

The googlewatch blog is reporting today that "publishers who want to make their books searchable online" now have a non-Google option to turn to. LibreDigital, " a division of Newstand, which provides exact digital duplicates ... Read More »

August 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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"Plagiarists," your days are numbered

O.J. did it (wrote a book, that is)

Quillblog: The Book

Sci-fi groping brouhaha

Gay book yanked from high-school reading list

Grass opts for openness

Snakes on our blog

Could a computer write this blog?

Vietnam adjusts to new book business

HarperCollins gets one up on Google

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