Category Archives: Publishing

All the news that fits. And solves.

By Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett | Published: June 27, 2010
I’ve only read some of the stories and ads in three sections in Sunday’s New York Times (Book Review, Business and Week in Review) and here’s what I’ve already learned: Most new fiction is deeply flawed. A five-line letter from Ronald Reagan to his old actress friend Kitty Carlisle Hart is worth $6,100. Whales and [...]
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Vote YES for BookTithe

By Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett | Published: March 10, 2010
I can’t be the only lover contemplating sneaking out on my beloved. Some of you other book-lovers share my guilty fantasizing about getting a Kindle. Right? Like you, I’m sold on the technology, which I could get either as the Kindle proper or as an iPhone ap. What could be cooler than deciding I want [...]
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Reviewing the reviewer.

By Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett | Published: March 2, 2010
Michiko Kakutani is a powerful book reviewer, whose work in The New York Times can kill book sales or torpedo an author’s career in a few column inches. I’ve been reading Kakutani’s reviews more closely these days, considering the pieces’ success as essays rather than endorsements or rejections of new books. I now picture Kakutani [...]
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e-ponderings

By Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett | Published: December 17, 2009
David Pogue, possibly the only person on the planet who can write about using the shift key on your iMac and make it sound fun, raises provocative stuff in a recent blog post. Pogue of course is the genius behind the books, blogs, articles and podcasts on Apple products and other goods in the computer [...]
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Watch your hat and coat. And your book.

By Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett | Published: July 18, 2009
I was just about ready to admit that maybe the Kindle wasn’t so bad. As much as I love real, honest-to-God paper pages and covers, the idea of being able to get a zillion books on a portable electronic tablet was seeming more appealing. Now, though, as our New York relatives like to say: forgetaboutit. [...]
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