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March 20, 2008Author Sebastian Horsley was turned away at the Newark airport for the sin of "moral turpitude." He should have tried flying into New York. They might have elected him governor. Story below. But check out galleycat's personal take.  Comments (1) Leave comment
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Not another false memoir, for a change. But "Great Reservations," a book wherein two former concierges dish dirt about celebs they encountered at Chicago's Four Seasons, has been pulled because the authors had signed an agreement not to dish dirt about celebs they encountered at Chicago's Four Seasons. You'd think a concierge would pay attention to a detail like that. Story below. Comments (0) Leave comment
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| E-mail entryThe entry "Today's publisher scandal: A nondisclosed nondisclosure deal" is tagged: books , Great Reservations, , scandals This is more about business than literature, but it will affect the way a lot of us buy our books: Borders may put itself up for sale soon. (Associated Press report below; Publishers Weekly carries the Borders press release here.) "This will be a challenging year for retailers due to continued uncertainty in the economic environment," Borders CEO George Jones says. "Looking forward to 2008 and beyond, the company determined that additional capital was required." I suppose somewhere, a former book clerk left unemployed a decade ago when her independent store was run out of town by a big chain is smiling that the same pressures are now hitting one of the biggest of the big boxes. But you'll see no schadenfreude here. My own neighborhood was lessened by the departure of a Borders not long ago, and I take no delight in the thought that the eventual effect of this Wall Street maneuver is that other neighborhoods will probably be facing the same. You can argue that we in Dallas would be better-served with a powerhouse locally owned bookstore chain. But that era has passed around here. In the gap, the local Borders operation has helped attract high-quality authors to town for signings. (The local marketing director is a friend of this blog and has helped contribute local best-seller lists for the print edition.) They aren't alone in their efforts, of course. But let's hope that sort of local commitment can continue, whatever turmoil lies ahead.
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