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 border signify in the changing politics of 2020 crime fiction? Will political publishers hit the…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. Do Little Free Libraries have a role to play during the pandemic? What does Amazon’s market domination mean…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 gets to be a “literary tastemaker”? Is Mark Halperin‘s book deal a sign that Regan Arts is still alive?…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. Bookstore sales saw a large bump in November. Who gets to succeed in the publishing industry? What happened to the…Continue Reading
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 America view publishing? Should higher education be so predicated on digital technology? Sales dropped slightly in the first half of…Continue Reading
Partners’ Corner is a place where the principals of Market Partners International can share their observations of the publishing industry for the month. Recently we have been speaking to people outside publishing who might be candidates for a position we are recruiting. They express concern about moving from whatever medium they are currently in –…Continue Reading
Conventional wisdom would suggest that authors who work in publishing would be the most critical as their insider knowledge allows them to judge the editing, selling and marketing capabilities of the house releasing their book. But in fact, what we discovered when we interviewed a number of people, is that these authors are among the…Continue Reading
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