APOOO News Break Amazon.com Set to Defy Slump–Everyone else’s sales might be tanking but amazon.com is predicting a profitable Christmas season. Barnes & Noble Expects the Worst–On the other hand, Barnes & Noble is singing a different tune. They expect this year to be their worst year yet. Christmas Will Not Be Cancelled–At least not in [...]
During my blog travels, I came across the following article: Signing Off the Weird World of Book Signing–If I had to sign 65,000 books, I guess I would want to hire a ghost signer also. Crime Writer James Ellroy signed all 65,000 first-edition copies of his 1996 memoir My Dark Places. Although that was not the case [...]
APOOO News…. Harlequin Launches Non-Fiction Imprint Sex and the City author, Carrie Bradshaw, to write books which will appeal to teens….what teen wouldn’t want to read something like the following…can we say BANNED BOOKS list…LOL. In it, Carrie describes how in the 11th grade, she shared “half a joint” with a boy called Seth Bateman [...]
Some things APOOO found while surfing the ‘net. Feel free to leave comments on any article that strikes your fancy. Michael Rosen: ‘Give children books, not SATs’ Why Book Publishing Is Dead (Part One) by Richard Laermer By all means develop a relationship with a Penguin – but please return it to the library, says [...]
