• The Authors Guild has launched its to improve the terms of author-publisher contracts. We on the Street have seen some of the boilerplates in question, and are cheering the crusade on.
• A novel rejected 44 times has won the for Historical Fiction.
• Amazon and Penguin Random House have signed a long-term , closing the final chapter on Big Five resistance. No details were given.
• Nelson Doubleday Jr. . He was the last president of Doubleday & Company before it was sold to Bertelsmann, however, he’s best known as a former co-owner of the New York Mets.
• Could this be the ?
Almost half of all women over the age of 55 don’t use cookbooks anymore as websites such as AllRecipes and the Food Network continue to grow.
• Letters by Harper Lee, expected to fetch as much as $250,000 at auction, when the bids pooped out at $90,000.
• The illustrator of The Phantom Tollbooth is with his work. He may be alone in this regard.
• Is Amazon being by introducing a new Kindle Unlimited royalties model? We think Amazon is one of the best friends an author can have. These things will work themselves out. More on the .
• While on the subject of whether Amazon is our friend, according to a recent survey, it’s considered the .
• Oh, and people seem to be with the new Paperwhite.
• A new E.L. James “Grey” book (18 June). She’s calling it Grey. It went to #1 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble . If you want a taste of it, there’s no shortage of .
• Tess Gerritsen provides on her suit against Warner Brothers. If you aspire to Hollywood, the implications of the judgment against Tess are serious. The background is .
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