Posted on August 25, 2006 by Meg

If you print out this coupon and bring it to Borders or WaldenBooks, you’ll get 10% off your total. (PS am I the only person who didn’t know Borders and Waldenbooks were affiliated?) Even better, 10% of your purchase will go to First Books.

Posted on August 23, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

The five largest US publishers (aka the “Big Five” — Random House, HarperCollins, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster and Time Warner Trade Books) raked in $4.8 billion in revenue in 2004.
Random House, of course, was the country’s largest publisher last year, with U.S. sales of about $1.33 billion, roughly flat with 2003. HarperCollins and [...]

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Marsha James

Starbucks will start offering reading material along with their beverages. One of the first to be added will be For One More Day by author Mitch Albom. The large coffee seller has been offering music and movies for a time and would like to branch out into novels very soon.
The coffee chain Starbucks has been [...]

Posted on August 09, 2006 by Nancy Callahan

So now it’s a waiting game. My agent is currently submitting my proposal and clips to the major publishing houses I would never have dreamed of approaching on my own (…as nearly all of them refuse to touch unagented submissions). She’s promised to send all of their responses directly to me as soon as she [...]