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Search Results by tag: Simon & Schuster
Sundry links from around the Web: Deirdre Baker's tribute to the life and work of fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones Kobo kicks off European expansion: e-book stores set to open in Spain and Germany in ... Read More »
April 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
O: A Presidential Novel, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster, has generated a lot of buzz around the identity of its anonymous author “ perhaps too much buzz as far as the publisher is concerned. According ... Read More »
January 18, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Simon & Schuster unveiled the cover for O: A Presidential Novel, an anonymously authored novel about U.S. president Barack Obama. The cover features a gold "O" bookended by a pair of protruding ears against a ... Read More »
January 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Browse and click! Canadians Rivka Galchen and David Bezmozgis make The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 list New copyright legislation gets tough about breaking digital encryption locks Target to become first brick-and-mortar retailer to sell ... Read More »
June 3, 2010 | Filed under: Book links
News for a quiet Thursday: Tom Clancy's first novel in seven years sounds kinda like The A-Team E-book sales beat audiobook sales in 2009 Simon & Schuster to publish George Carlin's letters in 2011 Yann ... Read More »
April 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
No foolin' here, just the straight dope: Borders escapes death-watch via refinancing Shocker! Amazon goes to agency model with HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster Non-shocker! Wolf Hall among Walter Scott Prize nominees Marcel Theroux, Kim ... Read More »
April 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
One last news round-up before the weekend: Amazon plays hardball with Simon & Schuster, Penguin, HarperCollins, and Hachette Amazon unveils Kindle for Mac. (Meanwhile, cats and dogs form truce, start working together to overthrow humans.) ... Read More »
March 19, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Sundry links from across the Web: Amazon: 1, Print publishers: 0. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has given Amazon exclusive e-book rights to two of his best-selling books The clandestine ... Read More »
December 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Simon & Schuster is taking action against the cut-rate $9.99 pricing of digital bestsellers by delaying the e-book editions of approximately 35 titles coming out in 2010. Hachette Book Group plans to follow suit. According ... Read More »
December 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news