Tough sell for writers at NY literary &quot;speed-dating&quot;
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If you think speed-dating is tough, try selling your book to an editor in three minutes.
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Speed dating singles aim for a brief but close encounter on First Great Western's 125mph "love train".
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_ The New York Times Co. plans to sell its building on West 43rd Street in Manhattan to a partnership led by Tishman Speyer Properties, the companies announced Monday.
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Whenever my editor approaches me, I quickly size up his body language before he has said a word. If he looks genial and relaxed, he probably liked my story. If his face looks set and determined, I know a wrangle over copy is probably ahead.
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Bloggers are scoring rich paydays by   turning their online diaries into books, but some publishers   say the craze could fizzle out with a glut of new titles   destined to yield disappointing sales.
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Suzy Welch, a former editor of the Harvard Business Review and the wife of John F. Welch Jr., the former chief executive of General Electric, has agreed to sell the rights to her book â10-10-10â to Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. A person involved in the negotiations said that Scribner paid Ms. Welch a price in the seven figures for world and audio rights to the book. Based on an article Ms. Welch wrote for O, the Oprah Magazine, in 2006, the book offers strategies for making decisions in which people think about what the consequences of a decision will be in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years. Robert Barnett, a Washington lawyer, negotiated the deal on behalf of Ms. Welch. Nan Graham, editor in chief of Scribner, will edit the book with Samantha Martin. Ms. Welch, who wrote the best-selling âWinningâ with Mr. Welch, said she originally thought there wasnât a book beyond the article. But, she said, âI began to encounter this hunger for people who were using it to play out its nuances.â She said the book would include examples from her own life as well as others she has observed using the â10-10-10â process. Susan Moldow, publisher of Scribner, said that although Ms. Welchâs article might seem sufficient for those who wanted to know about the strategy, Ms. Moldow believed the book would sell well. âThe Scarsdale Diet fit on a Xerox-ed sheet that you could fit on the front of a refrigerator,â Ms. Moldow said. âAnd it sold millions and millions of copies. Itâs often true that when something strikes an immediate âAha!,â you really want to have time to meditate on it and try to get to know more about it.â.
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Reckson Associates Realty Corp.  has asked potential suitor, a partnership of Carl Icahn and Macklowe Associates, to pick up the pace in making a definitive bid for the New York office building owner.
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Even Jane Austen would have trouble finding a publisher today, a struggling author revealed on Thursday.
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The New York Times Co. NYT.N on   Thursday forecast a sharp fall in third-quarter earnings,   joining a growing group of media companies suffering from a   summer slump in advertising.
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By FERGUS SHEPPARD  IN AMERICA it is dubbed "the newspaper killer". Craigslist, a website that offers classified listings mostly for free, is routinely cited as the worst-case example of new media sucking advertising revenues from the world of print.
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My Sept. 18 âHigher Hiringâ column ignited a firestorm in my inbox. A fair number of readers agreed that todayâs IT management is looking primarily for techies with communications expertise, management chops, and business smarts â skills many old-school heads-down programmers lack.
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Jeff Jarvis, whose mind occupies the intersection of mainstream media and the blogging world, perhaps more than any other person, is having a conference in mid-October in NYC to bring together people from both worlds to present constructive ideas for working with each other. Me, my feet are firmly planted in the blogging world, but I've spent a lifetime reading and watching MSM, starting with the NY Times at the kitchen table with my parents and brother, when growing up. Some of my fondest memories as a child were our discussions of the days events, and the Times was our common structure. Everyone in our family read the newspaper, often from cover to cover.  As Jarvis councils us, never mind the mistakes, what can we do to make things work better? And I have a couple of proposals in that direction that I will try to present at the October 11 conference. In all cases, they involve the MSM opening up more to include not only the ideas of blogging, but also the bodies of the bloggers.  1. I've said it many times before, it's worth raising again. Any newspaper or radio or TV station with a good reputation in its community could embrace the fresh ideas of the bloggers in their community by offering free blogs to members of the community, who may be new to blogging. I suggested this to the Times in 2001 -- when a person is quoted in a Times article, a few days after the piece runs, contact them, and ask if they'd like to have a NY Times hosted blog. There would be no control over what appeared on the blog. It would have a nytimes.com domain (something like bullmancuso.nytimes.com). Build an aggregator, something very much like Twitter (which is after all, a river of news, not exactly a new idea, heh) that shows all the new posts from members of the community. Encourage (but don't require) your editorial people to read the blog posts. Let whatever happens happen.  2. Here's a new idea that I haven't proposed before. Open your newsroom to bloggers. Set aside a half-dozen desks for people who blog in your community, people you've gotten to know, and provide them with wifi, a water cooler, your coffee (no matter how bad it is) and chance to work alongside your editorial people and (very important) with each other. It's an incredible thing when bloggers get together in a physical space, the sparks can really fly. Now imagine what could happen if those sparks got flying between the remaining editorial people in a professional news organization and the bloggers. I believe the secret of scaling the news is right there, you just have to open the door and see what comes in.
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A group of high school students in a summer program at Duke University managed to get several letters published in The New York Times &#151; some under false pretenses &#151; at the urging of a professor, an editor for the newspaper said.
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There are authors willing to tell you how to date, break up, eat, diet and get rich. But how many of them have anything genuinely helpful to say?
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Some writers wonder whether the guildâs militant tactics are actually doing more damage than good.
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In the latest Book 2.0 dust-up, a startup helps bloggers self-publish in hardcover. Is it just vanity publishing, or a warning shot for an old-fashioned industry? By Jeff MacIntyre.
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Search giant invented science and the future Comment In a rather desperate bid to attract wealthy technology advertisers, BusinessWeek lowered itself this month by publishing data center erotica.â¦