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 much control do authors have over film and TV adaptations of their work? What hurt frontlist sales…Continue Reading
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Tagged authors, Backlist, ebooks, film adaptations, frontlist, Harry Potter, libraries, library ebooks, self-publishing, traditional publishing, TV adaptations, 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. How has the Harry Potter series changed China’s ebook sales? What made Forbes decide to publish books? Where do indie…Continue Reading
The Magicians Trilogy author Lev Grossman in his 2011 Time article summarized the mentality surrounding fanfiction in mainstream culture as “what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker.” Now don’t get Grossman wrong—he is pro-fanfiction, but he…Continue Reading
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Tagged 50 Shades of Gray, After, Alex From Target, Alloy Entertainment, Amazon, Anna Todd, Archive of Our Own, Ashleigh Gardner, Big Bang Press, E.L. James, fanfiction, Gossip Girl, Harry Potter, Kickstarter, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, Kimberly Karalius, Kindle Worlds, Launch Kids, Lev Grossman, Minecraft, Morgan Davies, Pretty Little Liars, Publishers Weekly, The Magicians Trilogy, Time, Twilight, Washington Post, Wattpad, Writing Commons
They’re back! Year after year, the Columbia Publishing Course (formerly the Radcliffe Publishing Course) introduces a preternaturally cosmopolitan and accomplished cast of students to the world of book and magazine publishing. Just as dutifully, every year Publishing Trends collects the most surprising and impressive tidbits from the students’ biographies and constructs a single (slightly more)…Continue Reading
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Tagged Andrea Chambers, Cannes Film Festival, Columbia Publishing Course, Disney World, Harry Potter, NYU Summer Publishing Institute, Pulitzer Prize, Scrabble, Scribner, Stephanie Chan, zines
It’s been over a year since the last book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, was published in the US. The trilogy’s blockbuster success promises to continue with three English-language film adaptations yet to be released (one advantage Lisbeth Salander has on Harry Potter at this point), but Publishing…Continue Reading
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Tagged Barbara Fister, Barry Forshaw, Camilla Läckberg, Death in a Cold Climate, Eirin Hagen, Faceless Killers, Gylendahl, HarperCollins, Harry Potter, Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbø, Kari Marstein, Knopf, Lisbeth Salander, Maj Sjöwall, Martin Berg, Millennium Trilogy, Palgrave Macmillan, Pegasus, Per Wallöö, Sarah Death, Scandinavian Crime Fiction Project, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Steven Murray, Stieg Larsson, Swedish Book Review, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The LA Times, The New Press, The Redeemer, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Vintage
Take a look at BookScan’s bestselling juvenile titles for the week ending April 25: an astounding 73% were titles from one of several series. But these are not your Baby-Sitters’ Club of yesteryear: “Harry Potter turned the whole paperback series notion on its head,” says Megan Tingley, SVP, Publisher, Little Brown Books for Young Readers….Continue Reading
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Tagged 39 Clues, Amy Berkower, Amy Pattee, Angel Island, Artemis Fowl, Baby-Sitters' Club, Barnes & Noble, Berkley, Blue Bloods, BookScan, BSC, Candy Apple, Cape Light, Chaos Walking, children, Choose Your Own Adventure, Dan Weiss, Dear America, Disney-Hyperion Books for Children, goosebumps, Goosebumps HorrorLand, HarperCollins Children's Books, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, James Patterson, John Deere for Kids, juvenile, Karen Marie Moning, Kirby Lane Larson, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Lost, Maximum Ride, Maze Runner, Megan Tingley, Melissa de la Cruz, new adults, Parachute Publishing, Percy Jackson, Poison Apple, Power Rangers, R. L. Stine, Scholastic, series, Simmons College, St. Martin's, Stephanie Lurie, Susan Katz, Susan Knopf, Suzanne Murphy, Sweet Valley High, Target, teens, The Amanda Project, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Fever, The Life of Pi, The Lovely Bones, The Sopranos, The Wire, Thomas Kinkade, trilogy, tweens, Twilight, Uglies, Writers House, YA, YA or STFU, Young Bond
After Ipsos/NPD, which provided consumer data to the Book Industry Study Group’s Trends, exited the market, publishers struggled to get timely—or detailed—data on their consumers, and because their customers were retailers, they had little idea of who their readers were. The data that existed was too generic and surveyors often used questionable methodologies to get…Continue Reading
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Tagged Book Industry Study Group, Books in Print, BookScan, Bowker, Codex Group, data, DC Comics, Direct Brands, Harry Potter, Ipsos, Jack McKeown, James Howitt, K-Mart, MarketTools, PubTrack, PubTrack Consumer, Random House, Verso Digital, Verso Flight Plan, Zondervan, ZoomPanel
Anyone who saw (or was) an adult reading Harry Potter on the subway knows that the line between books for grownups and books for children has become increasingly blurred. And despite time devoted to the discussion (see the recent New York Times Book Review essay “I’m Y.A. and I’m O.K”) and celebrity authors writing the…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adam Gopnik, Alison Morris, Amy Berkower, Andrew Smith, children's books, Clive Barker, Dara LaPorte, Egmont USA, Elizabeth Law, Foundry Literary & Media, Harper Children's, HarperCollins, Harry Potter, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Jeff Foxworthy, Jessica Stockton, Joanna Cotler, John Grogan, Little Brown, Maria Modugno, Marley & Me, McNally Jackson Books, Michele Jaffe, Nancy Stauffer, New York Public Library, Peter McGuigan, picture books, Politics & Prose, Sandra Payne, Shelftalker, Sherman Alexie, Stephenie Meyer, teens, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Host, The Thief of Always, tweens, Twilight, Wellesley Booksmith, Writers House, YA, young adult
“A crystal ball to the future” is what LIMA promised Licensing International 2006 would be. And what does the ball forecast? After a quick sweep through the floor at Javits during the show (June 20-22), it seems that celebrities, polar bears, positive pre-teens, and, of course, fairy dust, are on the horizon. With a trumpet…Continue Reading
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Tagged Andy Mooney, B*tween Productions, Barbara Lalicki, Beacon Street Girls, Brands-to-Books, Brittany Murphy, Disney Consumer Products, Gaspard & Lisa, Groovy Girls, HarperCollins, Harry Potter, javits, Kathleen Spinelli, Licensing International, LIMA, Mary Engelbreit, Mixed Media, Moxie & Company, Nancy Drew, Nicky Hilton, Philip Pullman, Random House, Russell the Sheep, Scholastic, Silver Lining Productions, Simon & Schuster, Steve Scebelo, The Golden Compass, The Lord of the Rings, The Night Before Christmas, United Media, Warner Brothers, Whitbread
