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. Oxford English Dictionary Adds 23 New Words Reading Initiative Drives Children and YA Sales Vermont Set to Pass…Continue Reading
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 will Simon & Schuster be affected by the sale to KKR? Is Scholastic enabling book bans? Why…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. Will TikTok inevitably decline? How does a rise in YA paperback price negatively impact YA readers? What is…Continue Reading
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Tagged activism, book prices, book technology, digital platforms, disruption, feminist bookstores, paperback price, paperbacks, technology, TikTok, YA, YA books, young adult
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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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. Can recipes truly be owned? Springer Nature has published one million gold open-access articles. What does second person…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. Does copyright protect fictional characters? When adult voices advocate for YA over teens’, whose stories are neglected? Should…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. In Q1, publishing sales were up 22%. What doomed the craze for literary dystopia? Where are the contemporary…Continue Reading
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Tagged arts, arts economy, Black-owned bookstores, book sales, comic novels, comic writing, coronavirus, COVID-19, George Floyd, literary dystopia, pandemic, sales, YA, YA dystopia, young adult
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 the reign of dystopian fiction over? How will digital-native publishing conferences change the work we do together? Audiobooks are a…Continue Reading
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Tagged audiobook sales, audiobooks, book sales, conferences, coronavirus, COVID-19, digital conferences, dystopian fiction, independent publishing, LGBTQ, pandemic, radical publishing, trans representation, YA, young adult
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 happened to the early-2010s YA juggernaut? When did sex in books get so boring? How has Amazon shaken the…Continue Reading
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