Reprint Publishers Increasingly Important

via www.latimes.com

People whose lives are tied up with books, as writers, critics, booksellers or readers, are always -- always -- looking for something new. But in the last few years, they've been turning to something old. The publishers specializing in reprints have become increasingly important to the people who haunt bookstores searching for the next great read. For some, these reintroduced books are as eagerly awaited as any mainstream house's seasonal list. Full Story

Powell's Books:
New York Review Books
Europa Editions
Hard Case Crime
Persephone Books

Print-on-Demand Service Found Not Liable for Defamation

via www.pbs.org

If print-on-demand services don't exercise any oversight over their books, are they still liable when those books are found to contain defamatory statements? That was the question in a motion recently decided in Sandler v. Calcagni, a defamation action filed in the federal district court in Maine over a book that was printed and distributed by BookSurge, a print-on-demand service that's owned by Amazon.com. Full Story

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Great American Publishers, Their Editors and Authors

via www.nytimes.com
...Al Silverman has come along with an amiable and doggedly researched history, "The Time of Their Lives," in which he makes a strong case for a Golden Age of Publishers and Editors (with writers trailing along behind them), stretching from 1946 into the early 1980s. Full Story

Powell's Books:
The Time of Their Lives

Publisher Says Books Are on the House

via www.towbooks.com
The last time I got something for free (sunglasses), I had to sign up for a credit card with a 25% APR interest rate. At TOW Books, we'd never do such a thing. We're giving away free books, no strings attached. (Okay, very very few strings, or not exactly a string, more like a small and easily fulfilled request.) Full Story

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Mills & Boon Goes Hardcore

via www.independent.co.uk

It's official: romance is dead. After 100 years of feminine ladies kissing manly men on faraway islands, Mills & Boon is launching its first line of explicit erotica... Full Story

Powell's Books:
Erotica - Coming Soon!

British Publisher Touts American Indian Poets

via www.sfgate.com

The most interesting project in American poetry isn't really an American project. Full Story

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Carter Revard
Gerald Vizenor
LeAnne Howe
Heid Erdrich
Janet McAdams
Diane Glancy
Deborah Miranda
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Robert Giroux, Publisher, Dies at 94

via www.nytimes.com

Robert Giroux, an editor who introduced and nurtured some of the major authors of the 20th century and who rose to join one of the nation's most distinguished publishing houses as a partner, making it Farrar, Straus & Giroux, died Friday in Tinton Falls, N.J. Full Story

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The Henry Ford of Literature

via believermag.com

How one nearly forgotten 1920s publisher's "Little Blue Books" created an inexpensive mail-order information superhighway that paved the way for the sexual revolution, influenced the feminist and civil rights movements, and foreshadowed the age of information. Full Story

Powell's Books:
The Militant Agnostic
Haldeman-Julius

Sir Walter Scott's 'Lost' Novels Published

via scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com

They are the Scott monuments that looked set to be kept under wraps forever. But now Sir Walter Scott's "lost" works have controversially been published, almost two hundred years after his death. Full Story

Powell's Books:
The Siege of Malta and Bizarro
Sir Walter Scott

Love and Books in Bohemian New Orleans

via canadianpress.google.com
Slidell, La. — Every morning in this Southern town of big-box stores and Bible readers, the Beat Generation can still be found dissing the system in the form of a 91-year-old woman in a red beret and cowboy boots. Full Story

The Outsiders of New Orleans (Documentary)

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Bohemian New Orleans