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Barnes & Noble Promotes Jaime Carey to Chief Merchandising Officer

New York, New York - May 12, 2008 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced that Jaime Carey, who has served as Vice President of its Newsstand business, has been promoted to the newly created role of Chief Merchandising Officer. In his new More

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HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS TO LAUNCH ONLINE SALES CATALOG

First Interactive Catalog For Booksellers and Librarians NEW YORK, NY (May12, 2008) – HarperCollins Publishers today announced the development of an interactive, electronic sales catalog, the most advanced catalog available from a major publisher. The catalog will offer booksellers an up-to-the minute online tool enabling them to order books. More

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Quamut.com Now Features Video Tutorials and Widget Functions

New York, NY (May 7, 2008) - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced today that Quamut.com (www.quamut.com), its new how-to website, now offers free video content that brings the site’s collection of expert-driven, how-to guides known as “Quamuts” to life in an entertaining and interactive More

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Quamut.com Launches the Quamut How-To Dream Sweepstakes

National Sweepstakes Offers a Chance to Achieve Your “How-To” Dream New York, NY (May 15, 2008) - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced today that its how-to website Quamut.com (www.quamut.com) is launching the Quamut How-To Dream Sweepstakes, a national sweepstakes that will offer one lucky More

    Nobody Knows Anything

    Posted 11 weeks ago

    An interesting article in the Boston Globe (by way of Publishers Lunch) on the unlikely success of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin ... [Link]

    Writers Say the Darndest Things (II)

    Posted 12 weeks ago

    They do it here, too. Last week, I reported on how two of Britain’s most renowned novelists got into some trouble for saying something stupid: Doris Lessing for expounding on ... [Link]

    Writers Say the Darndest Things

    Posted 13 weeks ago

    I’m always surprised by how talented people can say the most ill-considered things. Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, for one, has shot from the hip again. According to London’s Daily ... [Link]

    Springtime for Himmler

    Posted 3 months ago

    Talk about poetic justice. Last November, the Wall Street Journal reported on the strange case of one Katrin Himmler. Ms. Himmler, you see, is the grand niece of Heinrich Himmler, ... [Link]

    Best One-Click Countries

    Posted 3 months ago

    The Guardian and BBC reported on a global survey of 26,000 people in 48 countries conducted by Nielsen Online that shows books are the most popular item purchased on the ... [Link]

    Gastronomic Regression

    Posted 3 months ago

    Much has been written about the nasty legal spat between Jessica Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld’s wife) and Missy Chase Lapine. Lapine has accused Seinfeld of stealing the idea for her cookbook. ... [Link]

    Oops!…They Did It Again

    Posted 4 months ago

    There have been so many accusations and allegations in recent weeks that they have become a blur —– It has been reported that Cassie Edwards allegedly lifted passages from others ... [Link]

    Is it Publishing or Slurping?

    Posted 4 months ago

    A recent announcement by the self-publishing site Blurb.com that they produced 80,000 new titles last year received wide coverage and elicited heady proclamations about the democratization of publishing. Typical was ... [Link]

    Lost in the Sauce

    Posted 4 months ago

    I can’t believe this stuff still happens. The New York Times reports that Raymond Sokolov, the restaurant critic for the Wall Street Journal, is up in arms because another publisher ... [Link]

    Books and the Housing Crisis

    Posted 4 months ago

    Interesting bit by Denise Winterman in the BBC News Magazine on the place of books in modern Britain. Asking the rhetorical question, “Do you need to read books to be ... [Link]

    Bestseller Ideas

    In this week’s interview, Dean Rotbart and Michael Drew discuss the likelihood of a book idea becoming a publishing success. In their discussion, they reveal how to identify whether your idea is bestseller material. Do you really have a sure-fire idea for a bestseller? Hear what they have to say . . . .

    The Lessons of Harry Potter: A Beneath the Cover Podcast

    Michael R. Drew discusses what all authors - even those writing non-fiction - can learn from the phenomenal success of the Harry Potter Series. More

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