Southern Review posted - We rank 17 books on self-publishing

For anyone interested, the December 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>. 
 
Of particular interest to authors and publishers will likely be our article about books on self-publishing. The lead article is about the election-year decline in bookstore customer civility.
 
Stories in the issue include:
 
  1. Rude readers: Bookstore owners deplore decline in customer civility 
  2. Looking for a book on how to self-publish your book? We rank 17 of them!
  3. Breaking news from the book barons
  4. AAP reports that book sales declined two percent in September
  5. News about bookstores, publishing, marketing and promotion 
  6. Hyperion to publish two non-fiction books by Dean Koontz
  7. Update journalism: Latest skinny on past Southern Review stories
  8. Siblings ordered to turn over Martin Luther King's love letters
  9. Tony Rose details role of promoter in rise of 'New Kids on the Block'
10. We get letters - John Culleton, Shel Horowitz comment
11. Sarah Palin biography sells only six copies in UK
12. Monitoring the ebook, graphic novel and etailing markets
13. Convenience, selection more important than price to online shoppers
14. Oprah endorses Kindle on show featuring Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
15. Coelho discusses making ebooks available free at Frankfurt Book Fair
16. OverDrive, others discuss eBook distribution at Frankfurt Book Fair
17. Useful information and free services for writers
18. News about how marketing, pseudo-events and publicity sell books
19. 'Bookselling This Week' recommends remainders in tough times
20. Minding the store: 158 billion marketing emails will be sent in U.S. this year 
21. Milestones: Records and news of note in book publishing
22. How Barack Obama's books (and his agent) made him his first million
23. Seven Charlaine Harris books simultaneously on NYT best-seller list 
24. Jan Mitford, with more than 30 million books in print, starts new series
25. News of chicanery, dishonesty and tort-feasing in the book business
26. eBay buyer sued for libel after leaving negative feedback on seller
27. Google to pay $125 million to settle lawsuit with authors, publishers
28. Chuckles: Finding humor amid the stacks and shelves
29. More than 140 authors to participate in Christian Book Expo. 
30. Frankfurt Book Fair draws 299,112 attendees, setting record
31. 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

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