Talk:Publishers Weekly/Archive 1

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Anyone subscribed to Publisher's Weekly?
Hey, I was working on getting Halo: Contact Harvest up to FA-class, and the only thing its really missing is reviews. I've been scouring the web, not finding much, but I think Publisher's Weekly has one archived on their site; the issue is, I can't read it. Does someone subscribe to the magazine who can fetch the review? Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 21:47, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

How biased are the reviews?
I see lots of PW reviews on dustjackets and am wondering if they write only positive reviews. Imagine Reason (talk) 14:56, 2 July 2011 (UTC)


 * PW in the past (I haven't seen a copy for years) wouldn't do killer reviews, but if they were unenthusiastic about a book it showed. A bad review from them was tepid rather than acerbic. Dorothy Parker's famous putdown of Winnie the Pooh ("Tonstant Weader fwowed up") would never have been printed in PW (quite apart from the fact that it was simply wrong. Constant Reader threw up a lot because Constant Reader was usually drunk.)

108.1.117.46 (talk) 20:17, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Some of this article is taken directly from Publishersweekly.com
I do not know about the rest of the article, but the paragraph beginning "Sybil Steinberg, whose star rose ...." is directly copied from the Publisher's Weekly site's "About Us" section. This sections needs to be either put into quotations and properly quoted or removed immediately. Paraphrasing is fine on Wikipedia, but direct quotes without citations is plagiarism. 2ReinreB2 (talk) 23:13, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Proposal for Major Edits to This Page
First, disclosure: I have been hired by Publishers Weekly, which is now my client. As part of my responsibilities handling publicity, they have asked me to edit the Publishers Weekly article on their behalf.

I initially added the Book Reviews section a few years ago, in 2013, having paraphrased the material based on the Publishers Weekly "About Us." It seems that the Wikipedia article then changed some more, with direct copypaste happening. See Talk note from 2ReinreB2. The entire section was then removed.

There are some inaccuracies that might be easy to fix, such as the editorial director Michael Coffey retired. Publishers Weekly also has a new logo; judging from the homepage, this appears to be an old one.

I propose some major edits based on the information in the Publishers Weekly "About Us" article, which has been updated, and in order to bring the article up to snuff within WikiProject Magazines. The first major edit I propose would be to revise the Book Reviews section according to Wikipedia guidelines and standards and then reinstate it. Christi212Cassidy (talk) 23:30, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Revised Book Reviews Section Added
I revised the Book Reviews section and added it back in. Christi212Cassidy (talk) 00:40, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
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Name change?
When did the The Publishers' Weekly (with an apostrophe) change its name to Publishers Weekly (without an apostrophe)? The fourth paragraph of the lead switches between the two. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:05, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, I come here to ask the same question - and to note that in that 4th paragraph of the lead it's also called "Publisher's Weekly"! Pam  D  07:44, 11 December 2021 (UTC)