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Unpublished authors in their 60s, 70s and 80s are now at a premium in the book world – with radical, edgy women in high demandThe literary world is often accused of an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 ]
Micro-publisher Martin Riker has just published a novel of his own, 'The Guest Lecture,' that proves fiction can be experimental and rigorous at once. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-01-26 14:00:20 UTC ]
According to multiple presenters at the Digital Book World conference, ChatGPT has potential to remake the way people write and streamline production and editing, while AI voice replication promises affordable audiobook adaptations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
According to multiple presenters at the Digital Book World conference, ChatGPT has potential to remake the way people write and streamline production and editing, while AI voice replication promises affordable audiobook adaptations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Digital Book World, a conference focused on innovation in publishing, opened in New York City with a talk from the International Publishers Association about a two-year project focusing on data collection, as well as the need for more accessible books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
Digital Book World, a conference focused on innovation in publishing, opened in New York City with a talk from the International Publishers Association about a two-year project focusing on data collection, as well as the need for more accessible books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
Two years after her apparent suicide, the novelist has announced she is still very much alive. Is this what it takes to sell books nowadays?‘All publicity is good publicity,” Susan Meachen thought to herself as she prepared to stage her suicide. In September 2020, Meachen, the self-published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-01-11 07:00:12 UTC ]
'Independent publishers make up the soul of the book world, and I felt that strongly here.' Industry pros rave about rights meetings in Rome. The post Italian Publishers Host an Airy Rights Center in Rome appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-12-09 22:55:39 UTC ]
The book world can be opaque to outsiders. A case offered an unusual glimpse into it, revealing curiosities about the business and details about book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-08-19 14:50:05 UTC ]
Books about books have always been super popular, but there are a lot of romance novels set in the publishing world in 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-04-29 10:34:00 UTC ]
Unless an author is a household name or has a celebrity endorsement, the hardcover fiction list can be elusive for first-timers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-23 10:00:01 UTC ]
The staff of Book World will answer your questions and provide their recommendations on Friday, July 2, at 3 p.m. Eastern time. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-07-02 07:00:47 UTC ]
WW Norton withdrew Bailey’s Roth biography after a series of allegations about its author. As generational conflict rages in the book world and across culture, we ask: who decides whether we can separate the art from the artist?There was something dramatically overwrought about first the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-06-27 08:00:19 UTC ]
John Green has the #2 book in the country with 'The Anthropocene Reviewed.' Plus the children's book world says goodbye to beloved creators Eric Carle and Lois Ehlert. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-05-28 04:00:00 UTC ]