Barnes & Noble War, Pinterest Tips & Facebook Timeline: Top Stories of the Week
For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week, including Barnes & Noble’s “declaration of war” against Amazon, how to rescue Goodreads books and S*** Agents and Editors Say (video embedded above).
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Kristina Holmes Starts New Agency
Kristina Holmes will start her own literary agency, The Holmes Agency.
Holmes plans to take on nonfiction clients exclusively. Her list will be open to several different genres, including health and wellness, business, psychology, spirituality, sex, re...
BEA May Open to the Public
In 2013, book lovers could get a chance to explore BookExpo America (BEA), the major publishing industry trade show that has been traditionally limited to industry professionals.
BEA event director Steven Rosato posted about the potential change on the...
7.5 Million Copies of Hunger Games Sold Since First Movie Trailer Release
The Hollywood Reporter just revealed a Hunger Games cover story this month.
The article reported that 7.5 million Hunger Games books have been sold since the first trailer’s release back in November 2011.
The article included the news that Jenni...
Beacon Press & Other Press Place Super Bowl Bet
Boston-based publisher Beacon Press and New York-based Other Press have a promotional wager riding on the Super Bowl.
Here’s more from the release: “the publisher whose home team loses (Beacon’s New England Patriots or Other’s New Yor...
Rumors Resurface About Amazon Opening Physical Stores
Do you think Amazon would fit in beside the Walmart and Target in your local mall?
Jason Calacanis reported rumors this week that the online giant may launch brick-and-mortar stores. Even the New York Times speculated about the resurfacing rumors:
The...
Letter Writing Mix on Spotify
The act of letter writing has inspired countless songs.
For your letter writing inspiration, we’ve created a special Spotify mix with an hour of inspiring music–plenty of time to write some letters this weekend. Follow this link to listen t...
Billy Ray Cyrus Lands Amazon Book Deal
Country music star Billy Ray Cyrus will publish his memoir with Amazon Publishing in hardcover and eBook edition in spring 2013.
Trident Media CEO Dan Strone negotiated the deal alongside John Ferriter, Lo Bosworth and Stuart Dill from Octagon Entertai...
Poetry Comes To Life in a Poem Forest
Artist Jon Cotner thinks that poetry shouldn’t just be studied, but rather should be looked at as ”a way of life, a mode of knowing.”
With this in mind, the artist created ”Poem Forest,” a work created for the New York ...
Amazon Book Search Results Visualized
If you like clicking on “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” links to find new books, you will love this homemade Amazon books visualization and recommendation site.
Follow this link to see the search results for Haruki Murakami...
Hunger Games Trailer for Super Bowl
Sunday Super Bowl commercials will include a movie trailer for The Hunger Games, a film based on a book about a much more dangerous sport. We’ve embedded the new video above–what do you think?
The new trailer gives a glimpse at more actors...
