Read more publisher stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/6651/publisher.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:48:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72684/palins-book-retainer-125m.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHarper Collins paid $1.25 million to Sarah Palin as a retainer for her upcoming memoir. Given the early buzz on pre-orders, she'll likely pull in more once Going Rogue goes on sale next month. Financial disclosure reports from her final 7 months as governor also note that Palin took...http://www.newser.com/story/72684/palins-book-retainer-125m.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Oct 2009 14:49:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70707/new-vooks-sex-up-books-with-video-clips.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPublishers are scrambling to attract readers weaned on video games and social networking by jazzing up a format little-changed since Gutenberg started churning out Bibles in the 15th century. "Vooks" add video segments, either embedded in the text or available online, to electronic books. The hybrids are being created for...http://www.newser.com/story/70707/new-vooks-sex-up-books-with-video-clips.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 01 Oct 2009 6:28:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66761/freed-journo-ling-shops-book-with-sister.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThat was quick: One of the journalists imprisoned in North Korea and freed earlier this month is shopping a book proposal, the Wall Street Journal reports. Laura Ling’s book will be written in collaboration with her sister, Lisa, and proposes to deal not only with Laura's detention but with sisterhood...http://www.newser.com/story/66761/freed-journo-ling-shops-book-with-sister.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 12 Aug 2009 17:00:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63986/how-the-kindle-could-kill-book-publishing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith the Kindle, Amazon's Jeff Bezos may be poised “ to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs did to the music industry,” writes Adam Penenberg in Fast Company : rapidly create a market from nothing and use it to rule over publishers with an iron fist, perhaps even “phasing them out...http://www.newser.com/story/63986/how-the-kindle-could-kill-book-publishing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 09 Jul 2009 19:31:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59871/nashville-becomes-silicon-valley-of-music-business.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNashville really is Music City, Richard Florida writes in the Atlantic . Charting the demographics of the music industry from 1970 to 2004, Florida found that “Nashville was the only city that registered positive growth. In effect, it sucked up all the growth in the music industry.” It’s not just stars...http://www.newser.com/story/59871/nashville-becomes-silicon-valley-of-music-business.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 22 May 2009 15:45:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56730/hard-times-send-books-straight-to-paperback.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith customers watching their wallets, publishers are pinning their hopes this year on trade paperback books—not super-cheap mass-market paperbacks, but not hardcovers either, USA Today reports. And critics and authors who once disdained the format are warming to it. “I realized that I really want as many people to...http://www.newser.com/story/56730/hard-times-send-books-straight-to-paperback.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Apr 2009 10:47:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49246/publishing-vet-james-brady-dead-at-80.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJames Brady, a veteran of numerous publications who rose from business reporting to become the editor of New York and Harper’s Bazaar , has died. He was 80. Brady is credited with founding two long-lived New York gossip standbys, the New York Post ’s Page Six and New York magazine’s Intelligencer....http://www.newser.com/story/49246/publishing-vet-james-brady-dead-at-80.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Jan 2009 13:20:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47366/fake-holocaust-memoir-may-see-light-as-novel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHerman Rosenblat’s Holocaust memoir was exposed as fake, but that doesn’t mean no one can profit off it: A small New York press is considering publishing the work as fiction, Gawker reports. Rosenblat, who even fooled Oprah a la James Frey, spun a touching but debunked story about meeting his...http://www.newser.com/story/47366/fake-holocaust-memoir-may-see-light-as-novel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Jan 2009 13:25:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/46697/publisher-yanks-kid-spinoff-of-holocaust-fake.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPublishers are now pulling a picture book inspired by a Holocaust love story revealed to be a fake, Publishers Weekly reports. Lerner Publishing has announced it will cancel reprints of Angel Girl and offer refunds for returned copies. Herman Rosenblat's memoir Angel on the Fence was canceled by another publisher...http://www.newser.com/story/46697/publisher-yanks-kid-spinoff-of-holocaust-fake.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 31 Dec 2008 5:54:23 CST