Some Happenings in the Book World

Here's a look at some of the stories that interested me this week:

An Entire Stephen King Thriller Will Be in July Issue of Magazine

Esquire will be publishing an entire novella written by Stephen King in their July issue. It is in an attempt "to breathe life back into magazine fiction."

To read a full article about it [Click Here]


E-Books for Children --Two Top Publishers

Disney and Scholastic are launching an e-book website for children. If children become used to reading books digital, it'll be interesting to see how publishing looks ten, fifteen years out.

To read a full article [Click Here] or [Here]


Harry Potter and the Lost Revenue

About two weeks back, I talked about our small independent store combating Harry Potter Discount fever. Here's an article from CNN Money along those lines. [Click Here]


Publishers are Catching on to Video Marketing

I believe we in the middle of a great shift in the way books are marketing and read. Here's one of many articles you'll find this week online about Simon & Schuster's unveiling of their video site. [Click Here]

Stephen Hawkins is Write a Novel for Middle-School Age Group

This one I just found interesting, so I'm sharing [Click Here]

Do you guys have any news that you found interesting?