The New York Times to Launch eBook Best-seller Lists

Book Publishing News

Tracking the Best-sellers The iconic best-seller lists in the New York Times are about to get a new addition!

Top 20 Worst Nativity Sets

Mark Oestricher Blog

What Were They Thinking? Marshmallows? S’mores? Seriously? Check out the worst of the worst and wonder with us, "What were they thinking?"

Chile Miner Update

Campus Crusade for Christ International

Of Prayer, Food, and MP3s The faith of one of the Chilean miners helped keep everyone’s hopes up. On day 16, the food was gone. He prayed that God would multiply as he did the loaves and fish. Guess what happened on day 17?

Sarah Palin Coins “Word of the Year”

Yahoo! News

The Top Word of 2010 And imagine that. An apparent mistake becomes a new word. The New Oxford American Dictionary declared "refudiate" the top word in 2010—a verb that Palin apparently invented. I certainly won’t attempt to refudiate that.

King James Bible—400th Anniversary Edition

Oxford University Press

Happy Birthday, KJV! With the 400th anniversary of the King James Version upon us in 2011, Oxford has recreated the 1611 version—errors and all. For those of us who make it our business to deliver error-free Bibles, this is a fascinating glimpse into the past.

Why the Book Business May Soon Be the Most Digital of All Media Industries

PaidContent.org

The Coming Tsunami "Not only do publishers need to take digital seriously—they must make it the new default for publishing, preparing for a day in which physical book publishing is an adjunct activity that supports the digital publishing business." The stats bear it out. Change is coming. We would do well to be ready.

Paris’ Seine-side Bookselling Bouquinistes Tout Trinkets, but City Hall Cries “Non”

Publishing Perspectives

Send ME! I Promise to Buy Books! Bet you didn’t know the history of those booksellers along the Seine River in Paris. And bet you didn’t know they were struggling. Looks like we have our travel plans . . .

Dr. Seuss Manuscript Surfaces

Mediabistro.com

Even Dr. Seuss Faced Rejection The story focuses on athletics: "All Sorts of Sports. Shall I play checkers? golf? croquet? There are so many games to play." And it was rejected. I guess that puts many of us in good company! The original manuscript was up for auction in October.

Iconic “Charlotte’s Web” Cover Art Sells for $155K

The History Blog

Was It Your Favorite Book, Too? E.B. White’s book Charlotte’s Web was published in 1952 with Garth Williams’s soon to be iconic cover image. The drawing has remained the cover art throughout the entire 58 years of its publication run. Its endurance makes it the most-printed cover illustration of any book by an American author.

Harvard Book Store Launches Bicycle Delivery Program

Mediabistro.com

Now There’s One Way to Beat Amazon One enterprising bookstore combines the personal touch with service to help build clientele and sales.