Southern Review posted - Self-pubbed novel sales near 400,000

For anyone interested, the May 2008 issue of the Southern Review of Books newsletter has been posted and may be accessed at Southern_Review <http://www.anvilpub.net/southern_review_of_books.htm>. Stories in the issue include:
 
   1. Self-published novel with $300 ad budget sells almost 400,000 so far
   2. Spring Book Show gets rave reviews despite move forced by tornado
   3. Amazon move to build POD monopoly for BookSurge ignites backlash
   4. 'Lost Girls' explores boundaries between erotica and pornography
   5. Mangled metaphors, stretched similes and garbled grammar award
   6. Breaking news from the book barons
   7. 2008 Pulitzer for fiction goes to Junot Diaz's 'Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'
   8. Movie '21' based on largely untrue book about MIT blackjack team 
   9. We get letters: Jana Oliver says winning ForeWord award was good for her
 10. HarperCollins unit may refuse retailer returns, pay no author advances
 11. Penguin debuts enhanced e-Book classics
 12. There be sharks: Be careful of where you're swimming in the book biz
 13. Eureka! Clintons strike gold in them thar' books
 14. Tony Rose announces plans for African-American Pavilion at BEA 2008
 15. News about bookstores, publishing, marketing and promotion 
 16. Book Sense Book of the Year Awards for 2008 announced 
 17. New York state OKs law requiring Amazon, other retailers to pay sales tax
 18. News about how marketing and publicity sells books
 19. Last lecture book published by Hyperion nets dying professor $6.7 million
 20. Penguin's D-K claims 'green' book record with series of four eco-titles
 21. Milestones: Records and news of note in book publishing
 22. Deadline for 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize entries is April 30
 23. LibreDigital offers book 'mashups' to publishing world
 24. News of chicanery, dishonesty and tort-feasing in the book business
 25. Accused of stealing dog, Nicolas Cage wins libel case in UK 
 26. 'Memoir of Holocaust' publisher files to overturn $33 million judgment
 27. Tsaba House squares off against RWA for calling it 'subsidy house'
 28. Major upcoming trade shows, book fairs and book festivals 
 
Please visit our Web site at www.anvilpub.net for the latest information on books, manuscripts and publishing properties we're brokering.
 
Noel Griese, Anvil Brokers/Anvil Publishers, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Currently marketing $8 million in literary properties and $14 million in books 
custserv-RDlVp+BSfMBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
www.anvilpub.net, www.anvilpub.com

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------
Post a message:   ebook-community [[at]] *
Unsubscribe:      ebook-community-unsubscribe [[at]] *
Switch to digest: ebook-community-digest [[at]] *
Switch to normal: ebook-community-normal [[at]] *
Put mail on hold: ebook-community-nomail [[at]] *
Administrator:    ebook-community-owner [[at]] *

(* == yahoogroups.com)
-------------------------------------------------------Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    mailto:[email protected] 
    mailto:ebook-community-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    ebook-community-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/