Jen Doll examined the logrolling world of book blurbs today. One of our commenters finds that blurbs by critics are fine, but blurbs from authors are warning signs.
Today in books and publishing: Jacob Silverman thinks there's an epidemic of niceness in book world; Nabokov rhapsodizes about boxing; a start-up that datamines books; teen Rookie editor gets a book deal.
Revisiting Barnes & Noble's decision not to carry Amazon Publishing titles in stores, new Debbie Reynolds memoir will correct the previous Debbie Reynolds memoir, and McGraw-Hill's textbook business may be up for sale.
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