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
Posted in 5 Links •
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
Posted in 5 Links •
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. How does the new genre of “lockdown erotica” reflect international experience? What can boost the falling numbers of women researchers…Continue Reading
Posted in 5 Links •
Tagged audiobook narrators, audiobooks, classics, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dana Canedy, erotica, lockdown erotica, pandemic, problematic books, scholarly publishing, Simon & Schuster, women in scholarly 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. What does the present political reckoning bode for the future of conservative books? April bookstore sales saw a sharp decline….Continue Reading
Posted in 5 Links •
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
Posted in 5 Links •
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. Who are anti-racist reading lists for? Will the audiobook boom make room for narrators of color? Sales of books about…Continue Reading
Posted in 5 Links •
Tagged anti-racism, anti-racist, audiobook narrators, audiobook sales, Book Expo, book fairs, BookCon, BookConline, coronavirus, COVID-19, digital book fairs, narrators of color, pandemic, POC, race, racism
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
Posted in 5 Links •
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. Is the reign of dystopian fiction over? How will digital-native publishing conferences change the work we do together? Audiobooks are a…Continue Reading
Posted in 5 Links •
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. Why can’t we read right now? Can Bookshop make a compelling pitch to ecommerce-dependent publications? Graphic novels sales are rising…Continue Reading
Posted in 5 Links •
Tagged Africa, African authors, African publishers, Bookshop, coronavirus, COVID-19, Diamond Comic Distributors, ecommerce, graphic novels, pandemic, 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. Do we really need in-person book fairs? In the UK, will the smallest publishers survive? In Italy, how do bookstores…Continue Reading
Posted in 5 Links •
Tagged aesthetics, book fairs, bookcases, bookshelves, coronavirus, COVID-19, independent publishers, indie publishing, Italy, pandemic, UK, unionization, unions, video conferencing, worker organization
