Archive Dive: The Last Time the Cubs Won the World Series...

Oct. 10, 1908, was the first game of the last World Series the Chicago Cubs won before this one; it was also the pub date of an issue of Publishers Weekly, which opened with this rather sarcastic note on slovenly bookstores:

How to Get a Bookstore Talked About

To get a bookstore talked about is an easy enough matter if one sets about it in the right way. For example, keep the store window dusty and soiled; expose in the way of window display a collection of heterogeneous odds and ends—preferably soiled stationery in broken boxes and gaudy books in faded bindings; keep the store littered up, with everything in the wrong place, and tables arranged so that customers are obliged to squeeze their way around, or stumble over, them to get into and out of the store; surround yourself with untidy and ignorant or indifferent help, and treat your customers as intruders.

From the Newsletters

PW Daily

Evangelical Christian authors weigh in on the election season, and who they are supporting.

Tip Sheet

T.C. Boyle, author of [em]The Terranauts [/em](Ecco), shares five writing tips.

Children’s Bookshelf

Remembering Natalie Babbitt, of Tuck Everlasting fame, who died last week at age 84.

BookLife Report

Announcing the semifinalists for the first BookLife Prize for Fiction.

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Blogs

ShelfTalker

That time a couple of shipping mishaps nearly derailed an English author’s appearance at a Vermont bookstore event.

Podcasts

Week Ahead

PW editorial director Jim Milliot discusses the big changes afoot at BookExpo, formerly known as BookExpo America.

More to Come

The More to Come crew discusses what the possible merger of AT&T and Time Warner means for Warner Bros. and DC Comics, and novelist/comics writer Chelsea Cain’s decision to leave Twitter after she was the target of abuse on the social platform.

PW Radio

Lawrence Levy discusses his new book, To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History (HMH). PW contributing editor Liz Hartman previews the Miami Book Fair.

The most-read review on publishersweekly.com last week was Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona (Beacon).