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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Journalism
2008 - Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker, The New York Times, for their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials.
2009 - David Barstow, The New York Times, for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.
2010 - Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman, Philadelphia Daily News, for their resourceful reporting that exposed a rogue police narcotics squad, resulting in an FBI probe and the review of hundreds of criminal cases tainted by the scandal.
2011 - Paige St. John, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, for her examination of weaknesses in the murky property-insurance system vital to Florida homeowners, providing handy data to assess insurer reliability and stirring regulatory action.
2012 - Adrien Chen, Gawker, for finding the guy behind @horse_ebooks.
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Now, come to find that my book has been pulled in a dispute between Amazon and my distribotor, IPG, which distributes Joyland eBooks and ECW Press in the U.S.
At last, I am catching Amazon blowback, and — frankly — it serves me right.
I’ve never been an anti-Amazon radical. I usually remain quiet when people discuss the great lengths they go to not to buy from Amazon…
But now what? I don’t want to make any heated edicts or promises I can’t keep, but Amazon seems bent on forcing me to reconsider my agnosticism.
From Jim Hanas’ post: “Chickens, Roosting.
Go read all of Jim Hanas’ take on Amazon’s latest move, this time delisting IPG distributed ebooks. If you’re unfamiliar with the situation, please read the Publishers Lunch piece. Still have questions? Please email me or contact me on Tumblr. This is HUGELY important to digital publishing and you need to understand it.
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Ami is absolutely right. We need to talk about this.
Amazon’s big stick is delisting. When they removed the buy buttons on Macmillan titles,the uproar from fans of Macmillan authors was huge. But in a situation like this, where IPG represents mostly small independent publishers without big name authors, the pushback from readers may be more muted. If you support independent book publishing, you should lend your voice.
What makes this even more galling than the Macmillan debacle a few years back is that on IPG ebook titles, they didn’t just remove the buy buttons - they made it look like the ebook simply doesn’t exist.
If you look at an IPG title like Boardwalk Empire, they have the “Tell the Publisher! I’d like to read this book on Kindle” message. It insinuates that the publisher doesn’t have an ebook file to provide. But they do, and it’s not the author or the publisher’s fault. That “Tell the Publisher!” message shifts the blame to a party that had nothing to do with these negotiations.
If you search “Boardwalk Empire ebook” on Google, your first result is Amazon, but there is no ebook available. You can get the Boardwalk Empire ebook from Nook, but that’s the third result. How many readers will click the first result and never get the titlethey wanted?
Now that publishers compete in an online environment for book discovery, if you can’t be found on search, you just don’t exist. And the person who controls the search to a large part controls the message.
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Are you coming to AWP? Do you live in Chicago? Do you write, blog, or look at funny things on the internet? Please join us for free drinks, Tumblr goodies, and awesome people.
Tumblr Writers Happy Hour
Friday 3/2, 6-8pm
Uncharted Books
2630 N. Milwaukee Ave.
ChicagoUncharted Books is a new bookstore that was funded on Kickstarter and had a Tumblr before it was born. It’s a dream spot for book-web-community nerds and I absolutely can’t wait to see it (and all of you.)
This is going to be awesome for everyone in Chicago. For the rest of us though, go reread some Hemingway.
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serious business with matt at #book2 camp.
Probably my only successful photo bomb of the day.
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The back of my head appears in so many conference photos, it’s not even funny.
Book Camp yesterday was tons of fun. Dan Blank has a photo recap of the whole day. Thanks to Ami Greko and Chris Kubica for throwing the event.
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Come up with a clever variation of “I couldn’t put it down.” Some ideas: “I should have known that you wouldn’t be able to put it down, and neither would your aunt.” “It’s so thrilling, you’ll be afraid to pick it up. And when you do, you won’t be able to put it down.” “Go ahead—try it! Go ahead. I dare you. Try to put it down. Oh, you’re sure you can? You are? Well, let’s see it, then. What’s stopping you? Go ahead. There’s the table, and there’s nothing else on it—plenty of room. No one’s looking. You’re alone. So go ahead, by all means. See? I thought so!
Blurb Rules, by Daniel Menaker.
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Way to miss out on tons of potential behavioral data and ad impression analytics, books.
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Tumblr, I just wanted to let you know, our front table display is Downton books right now.
I might try to duplicate this at the library.
And Wait for Me! by Deborah Mitford, Dutchess of Devonshire is right at the top!
Wodehouse! Wodehouse! Wodehouse!
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Matt Mullin announcing the winners of the 2012 Publishing Innovation Awards.
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I love tumblr’s too! They are so adorable! My sissy’s & I love looking at them in print black & white legal sized format.
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A whole set of charts on LGBT YA books in the US.
Awesome on #YAWednesday.
I feel like this would be more useful if we knew what % of each publishers lists these numbers amounted to?
It might be also interesting to note how this compares to publisher market share of total books sold. If a publisher controls 10% of the marketplace, but publishes 50% of the LGBT YA, I would find that interesting. That would indicate to me that a given publisher has made YA diversity a greater priority than their competitors. Michael Hyatt, former CEO of Thomas Nelson (which is now owned by HarperCollins, but as a Christian publisher whose list is primarily non-fiction probably doesn’t do a great deal of LGBT YA), published this breakdown of market share in 2009:
I have zero knowledge about quantity of YA titles of all sorts published by any of these publishers of course. Either way, it looks like Simon & Schuster is publishing more than their share of the LGBT YA out there. Good job Simon!
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Ah, so it begins. Free e-readers with the purchase of content (in this case, the New York Times at $19.99/month.
Bookternet, is this the first?
As far as I know, yes, this is a first. But it’s not unpredicted. In fact, Kevin Kelly of Wired fame was off in his timing by a little more than two months (and the wrong brand). Last February, he predicted that we’d see a free Kindle by November. Instead, we have a $79 base price for the Special Offers Kindle and Barnes & Noble beat everyone to the free point. Although Barnes & Noble took a pounding last week on the stock market, anybody considering them digital laggards should watch how often they’ve leapfrogged Amazon in the past year. Just look at the Nook Color to touchscreen eInk with the Simple Touch to the $0 device + content partnership we all saw coming.
As for this NY Times partnership, Ami Greko pointed out to me today that she pays around $15 a month for weekend home delivery. This deal gets you the paper delivered to your Nook daily + unlimited NYTimes.com access. That isn’t a bad upgrade to daily (wireless) delivery. In fact, that $20 a month rate is the same as the tablet subscription plan to NY Times Digital Access. When you throw in a free device, that’s a compelling offer. Of course, I’m biased, as I’m a huge fan of my Simple Touch Nook.
On another note, yesterday the back page of the Book Review in the Times was an ad for Nook covers through the NY Times store. It sounds like the Times is in bed with Barnes & Noble for some sort of larger advertising/content partnership, and it speaks very well of the B&N team behind it.
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