Archive for category: Publisher accountability

Documenting the responses from and misdeeds of book publishers

The crisis in book design (for once, averted)    (2010.12.03)

I have the scoop on the design of the Giller-winning Sentimentalists. Also: Family Compact publishers, could you go fuck yourselves?

Who’s worse: Dundurn or John Lorinc?    (2010.06.09)

What’s worse: A publisher that fucks over authors or a journo who quotes an off-the-record source?

Why Bob Miller left HarperStudio    (2010.05.12)

Because, according to his own accounting, he failed on most of the “innovations” on which this publishing imprint was founded

Update for Liz Spiers    (2009.12.29)

Elizabeth Spiers makes another mistake

Correcting the lower orders    (2009.12.08)

Correcting half a dozen Tumblr users on what they got wrong with publisher accountability

Publisher accountability (1)    (2009.12.07)

First in a series of posts documenting responses from, and misdeeds by, book publishers