Southern Review posted - How embattled Georgia book publisher failed

The May 2010 issue of  the Southern Review of Books has been posted and may be accessed at Southern_Review <http://anvilpub.net/southern_review_of_books.htm>.
 
 Stories in the new issue include:
   1. Cemetery Dance publishing Stephen King baseball novella
   2. Breaking news from the book barons
   3. Novel about Vietnam war, 30 years in making, has 75,000-copy first run
   4. Slowik buys ‘Publishers Weekly’ from Reed Business Information 
   5. Turner Publishing buys Ancestry.com's books division
   6. Harper folding Harper Studio after Miller leaves
   7. News about bookstores, publishing, marketing and promotion 
   8. Chicago kid-lit author wins Cheerios contest, gets 2.2 million press run 
   9. Books to Movies Department
 10. Book to movie 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' opened March 19
 11. How bad is it – and what is the book business doing to cope?
 12. Demise of embattled Georgia book publisher detailed
 13. Book sales down 1.8 percent in 2009; eBook sales up 176.6 percent 
 14. Successful published authors offer top 10 tips for wannabe writers
 15. The publishing revolution: News of e-books and other new media 
 16. BISG, EDitEUR set Agency Model standard for e-books
 17. Publishers strike deals with Amazon as Agency Model kicks in
 18. Smashwords offers self-publishers back-channel to Apple iPad store
 19. China expects sales of three million e-book readers in 2010
 20. Founder reports results for ‘Read an E-Book Week 2010’
 21. Graphic novels and comics news
 22. Marketing books: what works and what doesn’t
 23. Vendors report solid sales at Spring Book Show 2010 
 24. Milestones: Records and news of note in book publishing
 25. Independent booksellers name Indie Choice winners
 26. Harold W. McGraw Jr., of McGraw-Hill dead at 92
 27. Photographers sue Google over scanning books containing their work
 28. News from trade shows, book fairs and book festivals
 29. Major upcoming trade shows, book fairs and book festivals


Visit our Web site at www.anvilpub.net for the latest information on books, manuscripts and publishing properties we're brokering.
 
Noel Griese, Editor, Southern Review of Books, Anvil Brokers/Anvil Publishers, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Currently marketing $8.5 million in literary properties and $16.5 million in books 
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