Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. “Why is publishing so white?” What does consolidation mean for book quality? Where is the line between authorship…Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. The Queen’s Gambit has spurred previously-stagnant chess book sales. Was the retirement of BookExpo inevitable? How have Scholastic Book…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, BookExpo, censorship, chess, chess books, coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, Penguin Random House, platform, Scholastic Book Fairs, Simon & Schuster, The Queen's Gambit
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. How can marketing work in an all-remote era? Would any publisher buy Trump’s memoirs? What do Obama’s memoir…Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. What is driving the demand for books about the Japanese supernatural? Do contemporary book reviews focus enough on…Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. What does the border signify in the changing politics of 2020 crime fiction? Will political publishers hit the…Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. How are cultural institutions surviving? Are publishing’s anti-racist changes superficial or structural? Political books are having their best…Continue Reading
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Tagged anti-racism, autofiction, book sales, bookstores, cognition, coronavirus, COVID-19, cultural institutions, diversity, diversity in publishing, genre, genre fiction, pandemic, political books, political nonfiction, political publishing
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Is “climate fiction” a subgenre, or the background of all contemporary writing? When will graphic novels qualify as…Continue Reading
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Tagged #OwnVoices, awards, climate change, climate fiction, contemporary fiction, coronavirus, COVID-19, graphic novels, literature, Native literature, pandemic, POC, POC writers
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Book sales have been up throughout 2020. Can the indies survive without more traffic? What does the “anti-racist…Continue Reading
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Tagged anti-racist, anti-racist book clubs, Black book clubs, book clubs, book sales, coronavirus, COVID-19, events, independent booksellers, independent bookstores, pandemic, travel writing, virtual events
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Why has Hollywood acquired so many book rights during the pandemic? Is it time to break up Amazon?…Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Print sales declined by 5.5% last week. How did the American creative writing workshop change world literature? Why…Continue Reading
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