Comments on: Black Wednesday

By: requiem « books in the works

requiem « books in the works — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:55:45 +0000

[...] Insiders left standing soldier on. [...]

By: caitlin

caitlin — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:52:46 +0000

This is scary. Where’s the bailout for the publishing industry? I don’t drive, but I inhale books. Very sad especially since I am a bookseller.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:24:55 +0000

This is just scary.

By: Electric Landlady

Electric Landlady — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:22:51 +0000

It’s very upsetting and my sympathies go out to everyone involved. I did have to giggle a bit at this line (from your second link), though:

“Mr. Mehta’s empire will expand to include the Doubleday and Nan A. Talese imprints, merging authors like Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Lethem with Knopf’s writers, like John Updike and Toni Morrison.”

Margaret Morrison? Jonathan Updikem?