Category: words

Bonnie Burnard has won the Giller, Canada’s top literary prize with her story of a hardware store owner and his family. – CBC
     ALSO: Jean Echenoz wins France’s top literary prize  – CBC 11/4/99

Turmoil at new magazine has staffers coming and going. Insiders dish the dirt. – Village Voice

Dissecting the thinking behind this year’s Booker Prize for literature. – London Telegraph

– into e-startups. – Publisher’s Weekly

– as publisher withdraws book. “Beanie Babies in hardback,” one Borders manager calls it. – Baltimore Sun
     AND: Editor at St. Martin’s Press who quit after Bush debacle is hired for Talk Magazine. Publisher’s Weekly 11/2/99

Founder of New York Review of Books has a vision of the future – a huge Web-based consortium, open to all publishers – old and new, large and small – that would create an annotated index of all books in print. – Wired

Newspapers have discovered the book club. Several newspapers have started book clubs, and book retailers are rejoicing. – Publishers Weekly

Critic tries to work up a good mad about St. Martin’s Press pulling George W bio last week, but finds he can’t. It’s business as usual in the publishing world. – Washington Post
   AND: How the Bush book incident went down. – New York Observer 11/1/99

Bibliophiles – fear not the electronic book – for its wonders transcend the printed page. – Intellectual Capital