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 did a memoir of the Holocaust become a self-help and wellness bestseller? What relationship does competitive Scrabble…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. Over half of young UK readers say BookTok “helped them discover a passion for reading.” Do book rating…Continue Reading
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Tagged banned books, book bans, book rating systems, BookTok, censorship, Christian publishers, Christian publishing, industry consolidation, literary community, literary Twitter, Penguin Random House, publishing mergers, Reading habits, Simon & Schuster, Twitter, UK, United Kingdom
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 crucial are university presses to the commercial publishing ecosystem? Is BookTok losing its reader-led credibility? Why are…Continue Reading
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Tagged banned books, book bans, book rating systems, BookTok, censorship, ebook piracy, HarperCollins, HarperCollins strike, libraries, public libraries, school libraries, social media, strike, unionization, unions, university presses, Z-Library
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. Could a slowdown in venture capital funding for publishers be positive? Is it time for the scholars of #SciTwitter to…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 children’s and YA trends were evident in Frankfurt? How have parents’ rights groups increasingly allied themselves with…Continue Reading
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Tagged canon, children's books, children's publishing, DOJ vs. PRH, fandom, Frankfurt Book Fair, law enforcement, librarians, libraries, parents' rights, PRH, public libraries, publishing mergers, S&S, school librarians, school libraries, YA, young adult, young adult 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. Does better data actually make for better art? Who owns a story in translation? Will COVID research ultimately…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, Apple, art, audiobooks, books in translation, consumer habits, coronavirus, COVID-19, data, discretionary spending, literature in translation, paywalls, Spotify, translation rights
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. Could an NFT startup meaningfully change the industry, or just reflect current trends? Would the problem of gatekeeping…Continue Reading
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Tagged crime, crime fiction, europe, Frankfurt Book Fair, gatekeeping, genre fiction, NFTs, peer review, Russia, scholarly publishing, scientific journals, scientific publishing, startups, Ukraine, war
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 “bestseller” an objective category? What literary tropes has racial representation challenged – and created? Why are we…Continue Reading
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Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, bestseller list, bestsellers, BIPOC writers, book sales, children's books, literary tropes, race and representation, sales, trauma, violence
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 creators responding to PRH’s BookTok monetization efforts? Do End Times-themed bestsellers speak to a prevailing mood in…Continue Reading
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Tagged algorithm, algorithmic curation, Amazon, apocalypse, bestsellers, book data, book translation, BookScan, BookTok, Christian publishing, digital rights management, DRM, end times, literature in translation, monetization, monopsony, Penguin Random House, PRH, translators
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. Who holds the copyright on AI-generated art? Industry sales rose overall in 2021. Should “honorary authors” be listed…Continue Reading
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