ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stalags were pocket books whose stories revealed lusty female SS officers sexually abusing camp prisoners. During the 1960s, parallel to the Eichmann trial, sales of this pornographic literature broke all records in Israeland hundreds of thousands of copies were sold at kiosks.
Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Pocket Books has a lot of Summer Trek reading for you lined up with five books coming out between June and August. TrekMovie.com has a full rundown on these, including some exclusive covers. Plus William Shatner’s new autobiography comes out in a week and we have info on his upcoming book signings and promo appearances. [...]
A Book Blogger's Diary (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
SPONSOR - Pocket Books Eligibility - Open Worldwide (International winners must agree to provide their phone number along with their address) Rules Number of copies being given away - 5 SEX AND THE... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Hardcover edition nearly sold out, paperback edition available in the fall ROSWELL, Ga., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The hardcover edition of "Parish the Thought, An Inspirational Memoir of Growing Up Catholic in the 1960s," has nearly sold out and Pocket Books, an imprint Simon & Schuster, has acquired the rights to publish the paperback edition, Roswell Press announced today. The official launch...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Fiction - paperback; Pocket Books; 432 pages; 2006. (Translated from the Swedish by Ingrid Eng-Rundlow.) One of my pet hates is the trite "sells" or subtitles that endorse book covers for no other reason than someone in a marketing department thinks they might hook a potential reader. Prime Time by Liza Marklund is a good case in point. In my opinion, adding the words "Thirteen people. One Murder....
(EMP) E-Marketing Performance (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
The task for this episode of The Apprentice finally offered a true business related task that didn't let the candidates rely on star power or the pocket books of their rich friends. This was a true marketing oriented task. I really wish they would do more of these. On with the lessons… Business Lesson One: Your [...]
trucks world news (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
A recent survey of American for-hire fleets shows that a majority plan to buy power equipment this year, but it will be later in the year and in many cases will be less than usual Columbus,OH,USA - Today's Trucking -25 Feb 2008: -- As part of its Q4 2007 Fleet Sentiment inquiry , CK Commercial Vehicle Research received responses from 59 for-hire, private and government fleet managers. While the majority...
Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
Ever since Star Trek Enterprise brought back the Mirror Universe with the popular “In a Mirror, Darkly” in 2005 the alternative place with the beards has been all the rage. Pocket Books has released a couple Mirror Universe books with more on the way and IDW recently announced a Mirror comic, and now Diamond Select [...]
The New York Observer's MondoWeiss (Free subscription) | 12/21/2007
After weeks of speculation, it's finally official: Karl Rove's memoirs will be published by Threshold Editions, the conservative-minded imprint of Simon & Schuster's Pocket Books overseen by GOP strategist Mary Matalin. Earlier this week, Mr. Rove and his representative in the deal, DC lawyer Robert Barnett, were deciding between Threshold and Free Press, another imprint of Simon & Schuster....
zidouta.com (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
Advertising inserted into a 1972 science-fiction paperback by A. E. Van Vogt. Paul Collins, Smoke This Book: “The story of paperback advertising started innocently enough: with babies, in fact. In 1958, the Madison Avenue adman Roy Benjamin founded the Quality Book Group, a consortium of the paperback industry heavyweights Bantam Books, Pocket Books and the New American [...]
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 12/01/2007
... on the way people are perceived, Reiman writes in her first book "The Power of Body Language" (Pocket Books, $25). The book offers advice on how to become aware of those messages and use them in the boardroom as well as the bar."Most people are completely unaware of what their bodies are telling others, and how it ends up influencing their careers and love lives," Reiman told Reuters in...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 12/01/2007
From The New York Times: The story of paperback advertising started innocently enough: with babies, in fact. In 1958, the Madison Avenue adman Roy Benjamin founded the Quality Book Group, a consortium of the paperback industry heavyweights Bantam Books, Pocket Books and the New American Library. Despite the lofty name, the group’s real purpose was to sell advertisements in paperbacks, and its...
Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 11/13/2007
... pics will get a free STAR TREK SHIPS OF THE LINE 2008 WALL CALENDAR, courtesy of TrekMovie.com and Pocket Books.
Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
... pics will get a free STAR TREK SHIPS OF THE LINE 2008 WALL CALENDAR, courtesy of TrekMovie.com and Pocket Books.
Animal Crazy (Free subscription) | 11/06/2007
Radio talk show host story Rescuing Sprite - A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish (Pocket Books, $22) is less reflective than Quindlen's book, but just as touching. It is the story of how the Levin family adopted a spaniel mix from the pound as a companion for their dog Pepsi. Sprite, it turned out was much older than originally thought, crippled with arthritis and within weeks is being rushed...
