The best gift books of 2024, the New York Times's 100 notable books of the year, Costco updates its in-store book plans, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-12-01 16:00:00 UTC ]
Cormac McCarthy's secret relationship with an underage girl, the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-24 16:00:00 UTC ]
Schwartz, a former high school English teacher who founded Children's Book World in Haverford, Pa., in 1989, died on November 8. The store, celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, is one of the country's oldest children's bookstores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
There is so much to complain about in the book world at the current moment, from Amazon’s stranglehold on book retail to the increasing usage of generative AI to replace writers and artists of all kinds. But you’re reading this column on Thursday; I turned it in on Tuesday, Election Day. I have... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-07 12:52:28 UTC ]
Heartland Fall Forum, the joint fall trade show of the Midwest Independent Booksellers and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Associations, is taking place in Milwaukee this week—and it's been a celebration of everything that makes the Midwest book world unique. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
“I was loath to jump into it,” Black List founder Franklin Leonard says of expanding into publishing. “It’s not a great look to be like, ‘I'm from Hollywood and I'm here to save you.’” Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2024-10-04 15:00:00 UTC ]
Organizers of Frankfurt’s 2025 Guest of Honor Philippines program describe crime and mystery writing in the Philippine market. Sponsored. Publishing Perspectives Staff Report ‘More Than Solving a Mystery’ hile much of the book world is focused on the upcoming 76th edition of Frankfurter... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-10-04 12:00:59 UTC ]
Chicago booksellers and other literary-minded organizations are responding to the crowds in town for the Democratic National Convention by selling books, promoting causes, and, in the case of one publication, reporting on the proceedings from a literary perspective. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
Some stories come and go, but there are some stories that are part of fundamental questions that the book world is asking and trying to answer. Here are the ten that I find to be the most important at the moment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-08-21 10:00:00 UTC ]
Contemporary literature is one of those four-dimensional things that seem to expand whenever you take a closer look. No one really knows more than a corner of it, perhaps a very large one, but a corner nevertheless. This quality, this mercuriality, of literature makes it more endless than any... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-08-16 11:05:00 UTC ]
Susan Wojcicki, best known as the head of YouTube but also a key player in convincing the book world to allow Google to scan books into its search engine, died of lung cancer on August 9. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
The new book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century lays out what might actually happen if China were to invade Taiwan in 2028. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2024-06-19 10:00:00 UTC ]
Dear Lit Hub Reader, We need your help. For the past decade, Literary Hub has brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. Now, as one of the last independent book-focused publications on the internet, we want to cover an even larger part of that world. Because of you, Lit Hub has […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-15 08:22:22 UTC ]
Her solution? A packaging business that sells ideas for commercial genre fiction featuring characters from broadly diverse backgrounds. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-12-10 10:00:31 UTC ]
This year’s gatherings provide opportunities for booksellers to rub shoulders with authors and strategize about challenges facing the book world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-07-01 09:00:50 UTC ]
Another day, another piece of horrifying anti-trans news in the book world. Even by recent standards, though, this one seems particularly fucked-up. An Alaska-based children’s book illustrator has been dropped by his publisher after making terroristic threats against transgender people. Mitchell... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-06 18:26:08 UTC ]
Even the most passionate bibliophile gets annoyed by aspects of books and the book world sometimes. Here are some examples. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-03-22 10:34:00 UTC ]
Unpublished authors in their 60s, 70s and 80s are now at a premium in the book world – with radical, edgy women in high demandThe literary world is often accused of an obsession with youth, from multiple awards targeted at authors under 40 to publishers who hunt for new voices exclusively among... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-25 07:00:46 UTC ]
Book "trends" are not what the world needs; we present here an extremely comprehensive overview of what the book world could really use. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-02-13 11:37:00 UTC ]