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 should used books go? Who will be first to publish the January 6 report? Three years into…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. Could a slowdown in venture capital funding for publishers be positive? Is it time for the scholars of #SciTwitter to…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. Does better data actually make for better art? Who owns a story in translation? Will COVID research ultimately…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. How will the Ukrainian publishing industry be affected by the Russian invasion? Is it still too soon for…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. Who is funding the current wave of book bans? Two years in, what is Bookshop planning next? How…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. Why could a case in Maryland end up shaping terms for digital book borrowing? Does Colleen Hoover’s TikTok-fueled…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. Are libraries essential services? Which areas of scholarly publishing are the most and least diverse? Why are book-lovers…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. What can horror fiction offer us in a pandemic? Amazon growth is slowing. How does ebook DRM leave…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. Who is the face of poetry’s new golden age? What comes next for Scholastic? Are books about trauma…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. How dire is the looming book bottleneck? Has Amazon changed how literature is written? What happened to mid-size…Continue Reading
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