The Arkansas Traveler Finally Notices Fratire
The Arkansas Traveler Online Edition website, from the University of Arkansas’s school newspaper, finally notices the trend of fratire. More than 16 months after Warren St. John from The New York Times coined the phrase. The odd thing about the Arkansas article isn’t so much the lateness of their notice. But instead it’s the similarities that…
continue readingThe Chores of Copyeditors
Mark at The Elegant Variation has yet another great post about what happens to a book before it hits the store shelves. This time, he discusses the unbelieveable chores of a copyeditor.
continue readingBat Segundo Interviews Saunders
The great Bat Segundo has posted another round of stellar podcast interviews recently. The most notable of the bunch (although they’re all good) is George Saunders, fresh off his appearance on David Letterman.
continue readingWhy Does it Take So Long for a Book to Hit the Shelves?
Mark at The Elegant Variation has an absolutely fantastic post about all the things that have to happen after a book is accepted for publication. He chronicles some of the things he’s working on and really gives some great insight on how publishing works for that year-and-a-half from book deal to bookstore shelves.
continue readingKrakauer Sues Publishers
There were reports yesterday that bestselling author Jon Krakauer sued his publisher, Houghton Mifflin Co, and a printing company. His suit alleges the companies “made more than 1.2 million ‘unauthorized and impermissible’ reproductions of Into Thin Air‘ in a textbook.” What’s interesting to me about this is that it illustrates all the various mechanisms in which a…
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