Southern Review posted - Lulu tops BookSurge on Amazon.com

For anyone interested, the July 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. Bowker reports 2007 explosion in publishing of POD titles
   2. Indie Press 101: Lulu leads list of subsidy publishers listing on Amazon
   3. Zogby profiles characteristics of U.S. book buyers
   4. Breaking news from the book barons
   5. Atlanta author Hollis Gillespie shows how to tour a new title
   6. Algonquin recruits indie booksellers in South to hand-sell new novel
   7. News about bookstores, publishing, marketing and promotion 
   8. Tonya Harding says in new memoir that ex-husband, others raped her 
   9. Book Industry Study Group expects flat book sales through 2011
 10. Update journalism: Latest skinny on past Southern Review stories
 11. Oprah's audience in decline, but she still has big influence on book biz
 12. Attendance at BookExpo drops; librarians, Europeans in short supply
 13. Articles worth reading: Bookstore blogger takes on Barbara Walters
 14. Taibbi book tells how Pastor Hagee exorcized demons into vomit bags
 15. Graphic novels popular discussion topic at BookExpo America
 16. Microsoft shuts down Live Search Books/Academic Scan operations
 17. McClellan's book criticizing Bush gets major media attention
 18. Amazon.com's Bezos says Kindle can suspend us just as a p-book does 
 19. ABA unveils IndieBound, rebranding of Book Sense, in Los Angeles 
 20. News about how marketing and publicity sells books
 21. Christian Coalition's Rex Reed publishes thriller he outlined 30 years ago
 22. Milestones: Records and news of note in book publishing
 23. Rose Tremain wins £30,000 Orange Prize for tale of immigrant
 24. News of chicanery, dishonesty and tort-feasing in the book business
 25. HarperCollins sues mob chief John Gotti's daughter over book
 26. Chuckles: Finding humor amid the stacks and shelves
 27. BEA news: Magic Johnson receives top award at African American Pavilion
 28. Top five authors at vanity press share $75,000 in Q1 royalties 
 29. 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 
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