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. Who is funding the current wave of book bans? Two years in, what is Bookshop planning next? How…Continue Reading
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Tagged anti-vaxx, anti-vaxxers, book bans, Bookshop, bookstores, censorship, coronavirus, COVID-19, independent bookstores, medical publishing, online retail, online retailers, pandemic, Substack
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 do book-summary apps demonstrate about our entertainment habits? If per-household book spending is still falling, where should…Continue Reading
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Tagged apps, book sales, book summaries, book-summary apps, censorship, Christian publishing, historical scholarship, libel, libel ruling, morality clauses, morals clause, per-household spending, Poland
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 Queen’s Gambit has spurred previously-stagnant chess book sales. Was the retirement of BookExpo inevitable? How have Scholastic Book…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, BookExpo, censorship, chess, chess books, coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, Penguin Random House, platform, Scholastic Book Fairs, Simon & Schuster, The Queen's Gambit
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. Why read travel writing in a pandemic? How did Kickstarter successfully unionize? Is pickup service the future for libraries? How…Continue Reading
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Tagged book launch, book launches, censorship, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, free speech, Kickstarter, libraries, pandemic, publication schedules, unionization, unions
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 online orders keep bookstores afloat if those bookstores can’t restock? Could the pandemic aid a publishing crackdown? What’s keeping…Continue Reading
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Tagged censorship, ComicHub, copyright, digital sales, distribution, Internet Archive, National Emergency Library, online orders, publishing restrictions, reading, Reading habits, supply chain
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. We Need Diverse Books released its annual report. A new Nielsen survey about consumers’ buying habits found that ebook sales increased…Continue Reading
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Tagged buying, censorship, Clean Reader, crowdfunding, ebook, Millennials, Nielsen, Publishing Perspectives, Publishing Technology, sales, we need diverse books
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 calling a book “difficult” subjective, making the concept of readability a myth? Overdrive announced a 32% increase in ebook lending…Continue Reading
While the rest of the world suffers the economic squeeze, the government-run Chinese publishing industry has counterintuitively managed to cultivate opportunity for expansion both for local entrepreneurs and international publishers. Talk of less state interference and mounting interest from foreign markets is encouraging some publishers to brave the censors, fears of piracy, and the cultural…Continue Reading
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Tagged Association of American Publishers, Baensch International Group, Bamboo Goalposts, Barnes & Noble, Bernhard Schlink, Big Apple Tuttle-Mori, Book City Beijing, Book City Shanghai, Cecelia Ahern, censorship, China, Chinese publishing industry, Daniel Watts, Donald Trump, Frankfurt Book Fair, HarperCollins Beijing, Jiang Rong, Jo Lusby, John Nesbitt, Luc Kwanten, Michael Crichton, My Name Is Red, Nobel Prize, Orhan Pamuk, Pan Macmillan Asia, Paper Republic, Patricia Judd, Patrizia van Daalen, Penguin China, piracy, Robert Baensch, Rowan Simmons, Shanghai 99, Stella Cho, Taiwan, The Da Vinci Code, The Kite Runner, Tiananmen Square, Tibet, Toby Eady, Tony Parsons, Twilight, Wolf Totem, Yang Hung Ying
Even though much of the Manhattan publishing crowd was out of the city for at least a couple of weeks, Summer 2008 was surprisingly heavy on drama of the publishing variety. Here, we spice up your Labor Day weekend by providing a rundown of the events that shook up the city this season. SHERRY ARGOV…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adams Media, AllHipHop.com, Amazon, Angela Hoy, Asra Q. Nomani, Authors Guild, Ballantine, BookLocker.com, BookSurge, Brunonia Barry, censorship, Chicken Soup for the Soul, David Nussbaum, Denise Spellberg, F+W Media, Foxy Brown, GalleyCat, Gossip Girl, Health Communications, Herbert Abrams, IMG, Inga Marchand, Jack Canfield, Jane Garrett, Jay McInerney, Jocelyn Kelley, John Edwards, Kelley & Hall, Kim Osario, Kimberley Jones, Knopf, Laura Dilimetin, Lil' Kim, Lisa Druck, Mark Victor Hansen, Nicholas Sparks, Peter Vegso, POD, Publishers Marketplace, Random House, Rielle Hunter, Robert Jacobs, Salman Rushdie, scandal, Shahed Amanullah, Sherry Argov, Sherry Jones, Simon & Schuster, Small Press Blog, Small Publishers Association of North America, SPAN, Stephen King, The Jewel of Medina, The Lace Reader, Thomas Perry, Tim Rothwell, University of Texas, Why Men Love Bitches, William Morrow, William Rouhana
