NUMBER 017

JANUARY - 2001

• Books, Cooks and Marketing Hooks Random House's decision to answer questions from cookbook readers online sounds fully baked. Also: Authors want their name back, and e-publishers get new tools. All in M.J. Rose's notebook.
• Getitbusng a Read on New E-Books New e-book readers are hititbusng stores just in time for the holidays. But will shoppers empty their pocketbooks for these highly anticipated devices? By Kendra Mayfield.
• Novelist Predicts the Net Will Reshape Literature The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Publishing 2000: The King and E Y2K was a breakthrough year for the world of e-books and e-publishing. One name stood out: Stephen King. But there was other news, too. M.J. Rose takes a look at the e-year that was.

• Libraries and bookshops:
  • Azalai (Italy)
  • Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia (Colombia)
  • Biblioteca Nacional de la República Dominicana (República Dominicana)
  • Biblioteca Pedro Grases (Venezuela)
  • Biblioteca Pública de Tarragona (Spain)
  • Biblioteca Pública Digital (Argentina)
  • BL-OPAC97 (United Kingdom)
  • Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec (Canada)
  • Bookstorming dedicated to the presentation and sale of contemporary art publications and artist's books (FRANCE)
  • CCB '97 (Belgium)
  • COPAC (United Kingdom)
  • Dedalus (Brazil)
  • DSV (Switzerland)
  • KBR Bibliothèque Royale (Belgium)
  • University of Utrech (Netherlands)
  • VTLS-Helveticat (Switzerland)
• Publishers:
  • Alfagrama (Argentina)
  • Mina (Mexico)
  • Nitro/Press (Mexico)