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Mag Uses
Wheat Paper
for Green Issue

Canadian publication
is first in N. America to try forest-friendly idea

May 23, 08 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Canadian magazine is printing a special environmental issue on paper made from wheat straw, the CBC reports. Canadian Geographic's "wheat sheets," made from harvest waste, will be a first for a North American magazine. Environmentalists say using wheat-straw pulp could save millions of trees every year and... More »

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environment • Canada • magazine • publishing • wheat • straw

 Book Giant Weighs
Bid for Chief Rival 

Barnes & Noble checks out Borders

May 21, 08 2:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barnes & Noble is mulling a possible bid for its nearest rival, Borders, reports the Wall Street Journal. America's biggest book chain, with 22% of the market, has assembled a team of 30 executives and experts to study a takeover of the second biggest, with 12% of the market. Such... More »

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publishing • Borders • book • Leonard Riggio • Amazon • Barnes & Noble • B. Dalton • BookStop

10 Score Later, America Still Loves Lincoln

As bicentennial nears, an industry springs up around Honest Abe

May 19, 08 4:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Honest Abe may be gone, but an industry of books, debates, and a Spielberg biopic are all alive and well. With Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial coming next year, all three White House hopefuls have invoked his name, and the US Mint is issuing pennies to honor states where he lived. "... More »

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Steven Spielberg • America • publishing • history • Abraham Lincoln • history of democracy

OJ 'Confessed To Me,' Says Souvenir Dealer

Simpson's lawyer slams tell-all book by OJ's former friend

May 10, 08 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - A memorabilia merchant who has sold items for O.J. Simpson says the former football phenom got high on drugs and confessed to killing Nicole Brown Simpson, the AP reports. In his new book, How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder, Mike Gilbert also claims that he helped... More »

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murder • Nicole Brown Simpson • OJ Simpson • publishing • If I Did It • murder trial • Mike Gilbert

Publishers
Bank On a
007 Comeback

Bond franchise hoping new author can leave book sales, fans stirred

May 8, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - This year is the centenary of author Ian Fleming's birth, but while Daniel Craig gave the James Bond movie franchise a much-needed recharge, sales of the 007 books haven't caught up. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports, the Fleming estate has commissioned respected writer Sebastian Faulks to pen a new... More »

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literature • publishing • James Bond • bookstore • Sebastian Faulks • Ian Fleming • Doubleday • Penguin • Barnes & Noble

Random House Closes the
Book on CEO

Peter Olson to step down under pressure from German owners

May 6, 08 2:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Random House chief executive Peter Olson is expected to step down within weeks amid slumping profits and pressure from the company's German owners, the Wall Street Journal reports. Bertelsmann's new boss is dissatisfied with Random House's recent performance and insiders say doubts arose over Olson's strategies and his ability to... More »

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publishing • publisher • book • Random House • Bertelsmann AG

Book Publisher Takes Stab at New Model

HarperCollins imprint won't allow returns
from retailers

Apr 4, 08 2:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - HarperCollins has decided to rock the book-publishing boat, the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s launching a new imprint that won’t allow retailers to return unsold books—a potentially risky departure from tradition—and will offer little or no advance payments to authors. The imprint will focus on online... More »

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online retailers • publishing • HarperCollins • Borders • retail sales • book • Internet sales • Harcourt Brace Jovanovich • author advances

 Amazon Squeezes Publishers 

Print with us or sell elsewhere, company tells on-demand publishers

Mar 28, 08 12:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Publishers who print books on demand will have to use Amazon’s printing service if they want to sell their books on the leading online bookseller's site. Amazon's new policy means print-on-demand publishers will have little choice but to accept Amazon’s prices if they want to sell via the... More »

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online retailers • publishing • publisher • book • Amazon.com • on-demand publishing

'White People' Is Model of Right Time, Right Place

Offensive site points up how blogs can serve as book proposals

Mar 24, 08 9:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The skyrocket success of blog “Stuff White People Like” has shown anew how quickly (and lucratively) a zeitgeist-capturing blog can become a mass-market success story. Only three months young, the site—which skewers the posturing of liberal bourgeois Caucasians—has earned its creator a massive readership and a six-figure... More »

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coffee • publishing • blog • farmers markets • Stuff White People Like

  Bin Laden Threatens Europe 

He says cartoons of Muhammad part of crusade against Islam

Mar 19, 08 8:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden threatened Europe today with "severe" retaliation over the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, the AP reports. The audio recording of bin Laden surfaced on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, though he made no mention of it, and a day before the Muslim... More »

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Islam • European Union • publishing • editorial cartoons • Osama bin Laden • Islamic extremism • freedom of press • religious conflict • Danish Mohammed cartoons • Iraq war

Web Content Breathes Life Into Magazines

New model uses
online submissions
to fill pages

Mar 12, 08 9:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Circulation is down and Web content is taking over: what's a magazine to do? Milk the Internet for all it's worth and gather a plethora of content on the cheap, Newsweek reports. Publisher 8020 fills its travel and photography magazines with content submitted by readers via the web; its JPG... More »

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Internet • online media • magazine • publishing • freelance • magazine industry • 8020 • JPG • Everywhere magazine

Gang Memoir Exposed
as Fiction

Author of Love and Consequences fesses up to fabricating

Mar 4, 08 7:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Margaret Jones' acclaimed memoir of a half-Native American girl growing up in a foster home in South Central LA and running with gangs, Love and Consequences, turns out to be fiction, the New York Times reports. Jones, whose real name is Seltzer, grew up with her birth parents in an... More »

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gangs • Los Angeles • fiction • publishing • memoir • author • book • fabrication • Penguin Group • Margaret Jones • Margaret Seltzer • South Central LA • Riverhead • Love and Consequences

Hollywood's Variety  Goes Up for Sale

Owners put trade paper on block to focus on alternative media

Feb 22, 08 12:39 PM CST
(Newser) - Hollywood trade paper Variety is on the auction block, the Los Angeles Times reports. Anglo-Dutch owner Reed Elsevier is selling a publishing operation that produces the 103-year-old Variety and hundreds of other titles, including Publisher's Weekly. The sale is part of Reed Elsevier's strategy to ditch advertising-dependent publications to focus... More »

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entertainment • media • Hollywood • advertising • publishing • Variety

Survey: Minneapolis the Most Literate US City

Researchers looked at 69 major metropolitan areas

Dec 29, 07 6:25 AM CST
(Newser) - New York may be the US city with the most literary pretensions, but the nation's most literate city it's not, a new survey finds. Minneapolis takes the honors as most literate large metropolitan area in a Central Connecticut State University survey reported in LiveScience. The nine runners-up are, in order:... More »

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Internet • Minneapolis • publishing • literacy • libraries

The Good Book Is Good Biz

New looks, special themes drive $770M Bible industry

Dec 25, 07 9:19 AM CST
(Newser) - In the thriving business of Bible publishing, the lone calligrapher in his scriptorium has been superseded by marketing execs armed with PowerPoint. About 25 million Bibles were sold this year in America, reports the Los Angeles Times—that's 11 million more than the latest Harry Potter installment. But since the... More »

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Christianity • publishing • Bible • HarperCollins • Zondervan

Amazon's E-Book Gamble Gets Big Play

Newsweek looks at changes $399 device could wreak on reading

Nov 19, 07 3:24 AM CST
(Newser) - News that Amazon would debut its new Kindle e-book leaked earlier this week, and a Newsweek cover story has the full hype on what Jeff Bezos and company hope to achieve with it. "This isn't a device, it's a service," Bezos says of of the Kindle, pointing to... More »

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Google • publishing • reading • book • Jeff Bezos • Annie Proulx • John Updike • E Ink • Kindle • Amazon.com

Could Kids' Cookbook Be
a Copycat?

Jessica Seinfeld's take on sneaking veggies into meals isn't the first

Oct 19, 07 4:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Full of clever ways to get kids to eat their veggies, Jessica Seinfeld's new cookbook, Deceptively Delicious, has been endorsed by Oprah and is already topping bestseller lists. But it has at least one detractor: Missy Chase Lapine, whose book The Sneaky Chef, published in April, is full of... More »

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Jerry Seinfeld • vegetables • Oprah Winfrey • publishing • HarperCollins • Jessica Seinfeld • cookbooks

Lit Hits the Fan as UK Publishing Feud Heats up

Spate of literary agent resignations has  industry reeling

Sep 22, 07 2:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - The upper rungs of British publishing are reeling in disrepair, after a handful of high-end agents resigned over the last month. At the center of the storm is Pat Kavanagh, wife of Julian Barnes, who left her post at a revered agency after plans for a major buyout went south.... More »

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England • publishing • English literature

Potter Pages Leaked in Web Hocus Pocus

Scanned book appears on Internet despite $20M security

Jul 18, 07 5:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The world's favorite boy wizard flies onto bookshelves for the final time Saturday, but scanned pages of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—some real, some phony—have already landed on the Internet. Photographs of what seem to be every page of the 784-page tome have been posted on several... More »

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Harry Potter • Scholastic Books • publishing • wizard • Gaia Interactive • magic

Harry Potter Work$ His Magic

Record orders for boy wizard's final book flood publisher

Jun 29, 07 4:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Advance orders for the final book in the Harry Potter series are up 17% over the last installment, British publisher Bloomsbury reports. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will bring down the curtain on one of the biggest money makers in publishing history  on July 21. The latest Potter... More »

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Harry Potter • JK Rowling • literature • Bloomsbury • publishing • book • movies

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