As a long time fan of Stephen King, I was thrilled to get my hands on a copy of Mr. Mercedes. Being the picky reader I am, I wasn’t sure how I would like this. Would it be another CHRISTINE? Would I compare the two? Would I be bored? You never seem to be bored by Stephen King! And romance in a…
The merger between Random House and Penguin continues to progress. This has been in the works, publicly, since October. The arrangement will be a joint venture and will control about a quarter of the market in the US and UK. Read more here. and here.
In a recent article on Salon.com, Laura Miller discusses the future of book publishing. [quote style=”boxed”]Self-publishing fans and the tech-obsessed keep getting it wrong: Big authors want to be in print — and bookstores. – Laura Miller[/quote] [quote style=”boxed”]If print could talk, it would surely be telling the world, Mark Twain-style, that reports of its…