http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/20/publisher-wont-do-if-i-did-it/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:37:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/20/publisher-wont-do-if-i-did-it/comment-page-1/#comment-12864 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Regan Sacked! Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:37:17 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/20/publisher-wont-do-if-i-did-it/#comment-12864 [...] Judith Regan, she of the O. J. Simpson book imbroglio, has been sacked, allegedly for making anti-Semitic remarks. People who scrutinize the industry much more closely than I do have all sorts of theories about this. (And, as usual, you should read Galleycat. And also this interesting opinion in The New York Sun.) They examine the “real” reasons, factor in the personalities of the players involved, and so on. [...] [...] Judith Regan, she of the O. J. Simpson book imbroglio, has been sacked, allegedly for making anti-Semitic remarks. People who scrutinize the industry much more closely than I do have all sorts of theories about this. (And, as usual, you should read Galleycat. And also this interesting opinion in The New York Sun.) They examine the “real” reasons, factor in the personalities of the players involved, and so on. [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/20/publisher-wont-do-if-i-did-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1494 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Somebody Did It Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:39:34 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/20/publisher-wont-do-if-i-did-it/#comment-1494 [...] Galleycat reports that, surprise, surprise, some copies of O. J. Simpson’s If I Did It slipped through the dragnet: When the publication of OJ Simpson’s now beyond-infamous “confession” IF I DID IT was canceled late last month, HarperCollins spokeswoman Erin Crum told the Associated Press that “some copies had already been shipped to stores but would be recalled, and all copies would be destroyed.” Looks like the definition of “all” is somewhat fuzzy because according to Nielsen Bookscan numbers released earlier today, 100 copies of IF I DID IT sold across the country in the week ending December 3. As one tipster put it, “not only are copies leaking out, but some bookstores are actually selling them.” [...] [...] Galleycat reports that, surprise, surprise, some copies of O. J. Simpson’s If I Did It slipped through the dragnet: When the publication of OJ Simpson’s now beyond-infamous “confession” IF I DID IT was canceled late last month, HarperCollins spokeswoman Erin Crum told the Associated Press that “some copies had already been shipped to stores but would be recalled, and all copies would be destroyed.” Looks like the definition of “all” is somewhat fuzzy because according to Nielsen Bookscan numbers released earlier today, 100 copies of IF I DID IT sold across the country in the week ending December 3. As one tipster put it, “not only are copies leaking out, but some bookstores are actually selling them.” [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/20/publisher-wont-do-if-i-did-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1307 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Who Did It? Pablo Fenjves Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:00:56 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/11/20/publisher-wont-do-if-i-did-it/#comment-1307 [...] In “If They Did It“–boy, we’re really wearing that out, aren’t we?–Rebecca Dana offers more postmortem on O. J. Simpson’s now canceled book and interview. Among the many details (some of them interesting, some of them arguable, such as Dana’s assertion that Barbara Walters is a “journalist”): Ms. Regan arranged a phone call between Ms. Walters and the book’s ghostwriter, Pablo Fenjves, a former co-worker of Ms. Regan’s at The National Enquirer who was also a witness for the prosecution in Mr. Simpson’s criminal trial—it was he who recalled the “plaintive wail” of what might have been Nicole Brown Simpson’s Akita on the day of her murder. [...] [...] In “If They Did It“–boy, we’re really wearing that out, aren’t we?–Rebecca Dana offers more postmortem on O. J. Simpson’s now canceled book and interview. Among the many details (some of them interesting, some of them arguable, such as Dana’s assertion that Barbara Walters is a “journalist”): Ms. Regan arranged a phone call between Ms. Walters and the book’s ghostwriter, Pablo Fenjves, a former co-worker of Ms. Regan’s at The National Enquirer who was also a witness for the prosecution in Mr. Simpson’s criminal trial—it was he who recalled the “plaintive wail” of what might have been Nicole Brown Simpson’s Akita on the day of her murder. [...]

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