2007 Giller Finalists See Average Sales Increase of Almost 400%
The five finalists for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize have seen an average sales increase of 388% in the first week after the shortlist was announced. In the week ending October 14, 2007, A Secret Between Us by saw the highest percent increase at 1200%, followed by Effigy by with 564%. Divisadero by and The Assassin’s Song by , already selling at a robust rate before the shortlist announcement, increased by 83% and 70% respectively, while ’s Late Nights on Air has seen a 22% bump in sales.
Categories: Awards, buzz, Publishing News
The 2007 Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlists were announced Thursday afternoon at news conferences in both Regina and Saskatoon. The list of titles is once again a testament to the great quality and variety of writing produced in the province today.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, Publishing News
Remember the James Frey fiasco?
The Overlawyered website reports the following:
Categories: Publishing NewsFor $800,000, one could buy a nice house, two thousand iPhones, about five days' worth of Alex Rodriguez's contract, or 1,700 hours of class action lawyers producing absolutely nothing of any value to anybody.
In January 2006, The Smoking Gun reported that James Frey's A Million Little Pieces memoir had significant inaccuracies. After a few days of denial, Frey admitted that the book was inaccurate. The publisher, Random House, immediately posted a statement to that effect on its website and offered a refund to anybody who was upset. Approximately 12 seconds later, hordes of trial lawyers copied down the allegations from The Smoking Gun's website and rushed to the courthouse to file "consumer fraud" class action lawsuits against Frey and Random House. They demanded... that Random House post a disclaimer and give refunds to anybody who was upset. In a sane world, those lawyers would have been sanctioned for filing a frivolous lawsuit, and then sanctioned again for wasting everyone's time by asking for a remedy that had already been achieved.
In his continuing quest to bring his creation Harry Dresden to every possible medium, author has signed a deal with Dabel Brothers Productions to create a comic book based on his popular Dresden Files series.
Categories: buzz, SciFi & Fantasy, Publishing NewsCurrent book pricing in Canada is actually a huge good news story for readers.
The exchange rate is raising a lot of hackles, and booksellers are at least as angry as book buyers. Not only are we taking flak from customers because prices are not dropping fast enough, we’re enduring revenue deflation as prices do fall.
And they are falling. Long term, the news on pricing is actually wonderful for Canadian readers and, by extension, for the literate culture we like to think we’re promulgating here in Canada.
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