Somewhere It's World Book Day
The UK is celebrating Unesco's World Book Day today, though most other
participating nations observe on April 23. Once again, UK
schoolchildren can select from nine short books published for the
occasion and on sale for just one pound, including Neil Gaiman's Odd
and the Frost Giants and Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants and the Attack
of the Talking Toilets.
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UK's Page: Maybe Online Can Save Him From Mass Market
Faber ceo Stephen Page has a World Book Day essay in the Guardian.
Technology is washing across the Atlantic more slowly than we would
have imagined, but Page does announce that "at Faber in April we are
launching a major initiative with 20th century in-copyright titles
using only digital printing to demand, a project impossible only 18
months ago."
The larger point of his essay is to brush aside e-book fever and focus
on the "the rising dominance of the mass market" as UK publishers work
hard to kill off book-focused chains and stores.
"Market forces are of course at the heart of this shift, so is it
pointless to complain? Well, no. It does not have to be this way.
Alongside a belief in the wilfulness of readers and writers, my hope
for the richness of our future reading culture lies in a cocktail of
new technology and strength of range-holding booksellers."
Guardian
Store Recovers
Chicago's Women & Children First Bookstore,"has turned the page
and is looking forward to a revitalized future," according to a
statement they provided to Shelf Awareness. After facing the
possibility of closing last year, the store reports having had its
first profitable year in a while, and co-owner Ann Christophersen says,
"At this time last year, we were considering exit strategies. Now we're
looking at five-year plans."
It's Good to Have Friends
Every time we start to worry about Judith Regan, who is so shy she
would never talk to the press, we read a story in which one of her many
unnamed friends with detailed knowledge of her thoughts, feelings and
legal strategy defends her.
Speaking today to Page Six, A Friend says the lawsuit brought by her
former new York-based litigators is "a complete fabrication" and that
Regan will countersue. "All they did was draft a complaint - and not
too well at that. [Regan co-counsel] Bert Fields didn't even want his
name on it. Judith fired the Dreier lawyers because they also violated
her strict orders not to play confidential tapes that had been locked
in a safe."
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