These three books don’t represent the comics community of the Philippines: I know almost nothing about that community and I’m sure of that. Extrapolating from these three stories – from the three comics stories I happen to have – is futile and silly and I’m going to try not to do it. Drawing any conclusions…
And you thought Watchmen warped book sales charts for comics. That’s nothing– according to USA Today, Watchmen came in ninth in sales for the first quarter of 2009. The first four books were the first four books in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. In fact, a whopping 16% of all books sold in America in…
Poor Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod’s humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It’s all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems—with the…
From TechCrunch via Tom Galloway: Last October, Google signed a $125 million settlement with the Author’s Guild to pay authors for copyrighted works it has scanned and made available on the Web through its Google Book Search project. More than 7 million books have been scanned by Google so far, a large portion of them…
We’re getting zombie outbreaks all over the place. First, we have this news footage from Austin, Texas: From Amazon, we have reports of zombie invasions in Netherfield Park: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! And just for completism, we have Zombie Tales, Volume 1 from Boom!…
The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude By Carol Lay Villard, January 2009, $18.00 In the wake of [[[Perseopolis]]] and similar works, graphic novels have become ever more popular for acquisition editors at the major trade publishing houses. But, just as the direct market twists products in the direction of its own obsessions –…
Yes, we know it’s getting ugly out there. If Robot 6 has a daily roundup called Food Or Comics, and we’re covering stuff that they’re missing, it’s just outright brutal. So what to do about it? Kristine Kathryn Rusch, award-winning author and editor, posted the following to an email list regarding the shutdown of Realms…
From Salon: A Wall Street retiree wearing a red latex bodysuit and a black hood is strapped to a table…. Talking to Daniel Bergner in his new book, "The Other Side of Desire," the man compares his masochistic ecstasy to having onion skins stripped off his psyche. "Is this a weird way to deal with…
Many of you probably already know by now that Neil Gaiman picked up the 2009 Newbery Award for The Graveyard Book. If you’ve completely forgotten your unhappy childhood, I’ll remind you that the Newbery Medal is the most prestigious award given out in children’s publishing; all the books your parents’ friends gave you for your…
First, the moment of zen: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Moment of Zen – Coulter Sells More Books? Barack Obama Interview John McCain Interview Sarah Palin Video Funny Election Video So, since her next-to-last book only moved 126,000 units (we don’t have numbers on her new…
I should note that this is mainly regarding prose book publishing. Comics and graphic novels have much more motor oil and livestock. (Hat tip: Cory Doctorow.)
Today’s installment of comic-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest… * New Pooh to view: Here’s a reason to celebrate: "In August, Dutton will publish Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, the first authorized sequel to the Winnie-the-Pooh books in years. The author is David Benedictus,…
