HarperCollins and Wall Street Journal Join Forces: In a move that had been expected since HarperCollins’s parent company bought the Wall Street Journal’s corporate parent Dow Jones, the two companies are entering into a three-year publishing partnership to develop books written by the WSJ’s editors and reporters. [Publishers Weekly]
The Internet vs. books: Peaceful coexistence: The instant knowledge provided by the Web is invaluable, as is the deeper communion provided by books. [Los Angeles Times]
Book Publishers Take Leaps Into Digital: Long after other media joined the digital revolution, book publishers clung to the reassuringly low-tech tools of printing press, paper and ink. But now the world of books is starting to go digital, too. [NYT]
Forgotten authors No. 13: Dodie Smith: I’d like to think that Dodie Smith is not forgotten by new generations of readers, but her curse is to have been eclipsed by Disney, for Ms Smith wrote The Hundred And One Dalmations. It would be a shame if she was remembered only for the films, for there was far more to her career. [Independent]
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