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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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. How are some conservative activists refining their book-banning mission? Despite a chilly political climate, LGBTQ YA titles are…Continue Reading
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Tagged academic publishing, Amazon, banned books, book bans, book orders, DOJ vs. PRH, future of publishing, LGBTQ, Penguin Random House, PRH, society publishers, YA books, 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 copyright protect fictional characters? When adult voices advocate for YA over teens’, whose stories are neglected? Should…Continue Reading
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Tagged adults, bestsellers, conservative publishing, copyright, culture wars, fiction, library boards, political publishing, public libraries, teenagers, YA, YA books, young adult, young adult literature
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 are the next steps in working to create diversity in publishing? Does the young adult genre need a savior?…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. Francine Prose and Leslie Jamison discuss the implications of mining real relationships for literary material. Bookish editors predict the…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, Bookish, Childwise, comic books, comixology, cyberpunk, dystopian, e-readers, fairytales, fiction writing, Francine Prose, graphic novels, Leslie Jamison, literary citizenship, subgenres, tablets, The Walking Dead, virtual reality, X-Men, 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. A recent survey of 300 Amazon users suggest that owners of inexpensive Kindles spend almost $450 more than other…Continue Reading