Saturday, August 09, 2014

THE ROUNDUP with PW - Penguin Defends 'Creepy' Book Cover


The Amazon Plot Thickens : Douglas Preston talks to the 'New York Times' about leading the charge against Amazon.

Penguin Defends 'Creepy' Book Cover: The publisher has defended its now controversial decision to use an image of a doll-like young girl on the cover of a new edition of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.'

Disney Preorders Disappear on Amazon: The preorder option for almost every title from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has been removed on Amazon, in an apparent repeat of what Warner Home Video went through earlier this summer.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis Dies at 98: The award-winning mystery author whose fascination with motivation, morality and manners — more than violence — powered the intricate plots of the suspense novels she wrote over a half-century, died on Sunday at her home in Palisades, N.Y.

Rice Novels to Get New Film Series : Film studios Universal and Imagine Entertainment have acquired the movie rights to all of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles books, along with the rights to adapt any future novels in the series.

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