It feels only natural for me to follow-up my previous post with this one. The simple fact is that I know of no “best” place to go for book news. Depending on what you are looking for, it could be almost anywhere, so I figure I’d share a few of my favorite places to go trolling around for book stuff at...
Traditional News Sources:
The New York Times - the gold standard in book reviews? I don’t know if I can really say, but they do pay attention to the many aspects of the publishing industry.
Publisher Weekly - duh, it is their job to cover book news! I really want to subscribe to the actual print magazine - I just find it hard to rationalize the large cost of a weekly rag (that’s a lot of books I could buy with that money)... at some point I will most likely get to where I drop the money - just not this month. Anyone feel like sending me a gift subscription?
The Washington Post - worth a gander from time to time.
Los Angeles Times - they say the newspaper industry is dying, but yet I still visit their websites?
USA Today - lots of fluff, but also some fun too.
Entertainment Weekly - not really the “best” in any sense of the word (still better than CNN though), but worth a visit to check out Stephen King’s column every so often.
Everything Else (blogs, author sites, publishers, news, crazy sites, and more):
Tor.com - a truly great site with all kinds of stuff going on. I visit often and spend much time reading reviews and news here. The official publishing website for Tor can be found here.
Omnivoracious - an amzon.com creation - this one is pretty new to me, but China Mieville was recently guest blogger so now I’ve started checking it out.
Ecstatic Days - Jeff Vandermeer, enough said.
The SF Site - good stuff.
Philip K. Dick Fans - yep, I’m a fan.
Locus Online - a great magazine’s website
Kirkus Reviews - sometimes it feels you see their blurbs on every other book you pick up.
George R.R. Martin - I am a fan the man, his work, and his blog.
Hunter S. Thompson Books - if you are a HST fan, you MUST spend some quality time at this site.
Fantasy Book News & Reviews - a really nice blog with lots of fantasy book news items.
Fantasy Debut - I really like the focus on debut works here. Have found some great books by reading regularly.
SFF World - another nice site for those of us you enjoy Speculative Fiction.
Weird Fiction News - just what it sounds like.
To end, a nice little link dump for you to check out at your leisure (don’t forget to check out my blog roll on the right too). The who owns what of publishing houses is never simple, so I am just throwing out a few, mostly bigger ones, which are worth exploring - S&S, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Penguin, Orbit Books, Del Rey, and Pyr. Here are some social networking type book places - LibraryThing (my favorite place on the internet... it is where my books are cataloged after all), Goodreads, Shelfari, book network, and Wonderlands. Finally (for real this time), here are a bunch of random bookmarks from an incredibly unorganized folder I keep - Futurismic, Book Sale Finder, Comic Book Resources, Newsarama, C.J. Box, Marshall Karp, Neil Gaiman, Carl Hiaasen, Jeff Carlson, Dan Simmons, Heliotrope Magazine, Collected Editions, Books and Chat, Nathan Bransford-Literary Agent, Books on the Nightstand, Interesting Bookstores, A Dribble of Ink, Raging Bibliomania, The Wertzone, Westeros Forum, Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist, Bookslut, Graeme's Fantasy Book Review, Bookninja, The Internet Speculative Fiction Database, bookgasm, Padfoot and Prongs, and, because I really do have to stop somewhere, Confessions of a Book Whore.
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