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. The Twilight companion novel Midnight Sun sold a million companies in its first week. How are booksellers responding to the…Continue Reading
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Tagged #ReclaimHerName, American Booksellers Association, book sales, booksellers, Bookshop, gender, Midnight Sun, Twilight, unionization, unions, used bookstores, women writers
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 does the true crime genre look like in 2020? How is publishing filling this year’s “dead zone”? Will the…Continue Reading
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Tagged book sales, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump Jr., education, entertainment, genre, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, open access, pandemic, sales, scholarly publishing, scientific publishing, self-publishing, true crime
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 James Daunt‘s changes keep a post-lockdown Barnes & Noble afloat? What does America’s relationship with war literature say about…Continue Reading
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Tagged Barnes & Noble, big-box stores, book festivals, book sales, coronavirus, COVID-19, James Daunt, lockdown, pandemic, quarantine, social distancing, war, war 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. Sales in May fell 12.1%. As America grapples with police violence, will crime fiction be forced to have a reckoning?…Continue Reading
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Tagged #BlackLivesMatter, book sales, coronavirus, COVID-19, crime fiction, diversity in publishing, first-day sales, first-day sales records, gatekeepers, Mary Trump, pandemic, POD, police violence, print-on-demand, publishers, sales, Simon & Schuster, tell-all
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 the way we read now change our brains? What is it like to be Black in publishing? John Bolton‘s…Continue Reading
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Tagged antiracism, Black professionals, book sales, booksellers, digital reading, John Bolton, POC, POC in publishing, racism, reading, Reading habits
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 does the present political reckoning bode for the future of conservative books? April bookstore sales saw a sharp decline….Continue Reading
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Tagged book sales, bookstore sales, conservative publishing, copyright, coronavirus, COVID-19, diversity, diversity in publishing, industry pay, online storytime, pandemic, Politics
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 did #PublishingPaidMe reveal about compensation rates for black and white authors? How will libraries reinvent themselves in order to…Continue Reading
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Tagged #PublishingPaidMe, author pay, book sales, buying habits, coronavirus, COVID-19, female readers, fiction, libraries, literary fiction, male readers, pandemic, race, racial equality, sensitivity readers
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. Where are black men in fantasy? Is print-on-demand the future of publishers’ disaster response? What effect is the pandemic having…Continue Reading
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Tagged academic publishing, Amazon, book sales, coronavirus, COVID-19, diverse books, Holocaust, memoirs, pandemic, POC writers, print-on-demand, Reading habits, religious 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. Is the indie bookstore renaissance over? Sales were up in all major categories last week. What income are authors losing…Continue Reading
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Tagged author income, authors, Authors Guild, book sales, comics, comics and graphic novels, coronavirus, COVID-19, digital reading, e-readers, independent bookstores, indie bookstores, pandemic, sales
