Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 10/14-10/18

­Red Number 5Every 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.

Bookstore sales fell 10.3% in August.

What is Jeff Bezos’s end game?

How will we face the coming book preservation crisis?

Can progressive publishing and unions find common ground?

Self-publishing grew 40% last year, says Bowker.