Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 7/13-7/17

­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.

Sales in May fell 12.1%.

As America grapples with police violence, will crime fiction be forced to have a reckoning?

How could the newest generation of gatekeepers transform the industry?

Mary Trump‘s tell-all shattered first-day sales records at Simon & Schuster, selling 950,000 copies by the end of Tuesday.

Is POD the future for pandemic-stricken publishing?