Well, it finally happened. After years of waiting and requests, Amazon debuted the $280 Kindle Colorsoft, its first ereader with a color display. The company’s ereaders have dominated this space since the original Kindle came out 17 years ago, but in this case, it feels like Amazon is playing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-10-30 13:15:29 UTC ]
Leaked emails reveal organisers of leading science fiction and fantasy awards flagged works of a ‘sensitive political nature’Leaked emails from the organisers of the prestigious Hugo awards for science fiction and fantasy suggest several authors were excluded from shortlists last year after they... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-02-15 18:16:42 UTC ]
Concerns raised about interference or censorship after documents showed writers were barred despite receiving enough nominationsA prestigious literary award for science fiction, which was hosted in China for the first time, has come under fire for excluding several authors from the 2023 awards,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-24 15:53:48 UTC ]
On March 11, 2022, Molly McGhee shared a resignation letter on Twitter. She was quitting her job as an assistant editor at Tor, despite the fact that her first acquisition, The Atlas Six, had debuted at number three on the New York Times Bestseller List. She cited “systemwide prejudice against... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-10-20 11:03:00 UTC ]
Colleen Hoover’s novels took the top six places on last year’s New York Times bestseller list, while in the UK she rivals Richard Osman as the biggest author in recent times. How has she done it?The first Colleen Hoover book I read was It Ends With Us, and when I opened it on the tube, I saw... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-08-19 10:00:17 UTC ]
Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, which debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list and won a National Book Critics Circle award. His new book, Above Ground, is a return to … The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2023-04-07 10:00:00 UTC ]
Bestseller juggernaut James Patterson has sold over 425 million copies of his books, per Fox Business, but his latest, Walk the Blue Line: No right, no left―just cops telling their true stories to James Patterson, has broken with tradition. The title, he says, is conspicuously absent from the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-03 13:46:35 UTC ]
The New York Times just released their Best Books of 2022. How much does it overlap with the bestselling books of the year? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-12-01 11:40:00 UTC ]
The book that spent 150—yes, 150!—weeks on the New York Times bestseller list is coming to theaters this July. The movie adaptation for Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing finally has a shiny new trailer! You know Daisy Edgar-Jones from Hulu’s Normal People adaptation, but now she tests her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-03-22 17:05:44 UTC ]
How book-loving communities on social media are helping authors break barriers to become bestsellersTalia Hibbert was rewatching a Spider-Man film and eating a meal in her living room when she received life-changing news. Her romance novel Act Your Age, Eve Brown, which she wrote at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-30 08:00:44 UTC ]
Hot Key Books has snapped up a prequel to number one New York Times bestseller and TikTok sensation We Were Liars by E Lockhart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 03:31:50 UTC ]
The Queen’s Gambit, Bridgerton, Mindhunter, Maid: Netflix has a track record of turning books into hit television series. And though popular adaptations often drum up interest in their source material—after the show premiered, Walter Tevis’s The Queen’s Gambit landed on the New York Times... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-10-13 18:00:07 UTC ]
Matt Haig’s latest novel, The Midnight Library, has spent 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list since its publication in September 2020. The novel focuses on Nora Seed, a young woman living in her hometown of Bedford, England, who thinks she has nothing to live for. She decides to die... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-22 08:49:49 UTC ]
The latest TikTok trend is surprisingly old-school: it’s a book. Last week, Sherry Argov’s 2002 relationship guide Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman’s Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship made the Sunday Times bestseller list for the first time since its release... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-08 17:27:52 UTC ]
In her latest book, out now, Oluo examines the cultural and political underpinnings of what she calls the “mediocre-white-man-industrial complex.” As protests against police brutality and racial injustice swept the country this summer, Ijeoma Oluo’s debut book, So You Want to Talk About Race was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-12-02 06:00:29 UTC ]
What do actual readers think about the books which land on the New York Times Bestseller List? A new study finds out. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-10-09 10:33:00 UTC ]
The August 2020 publication of Margot Livesey’s The Boy in the Field comes 30 years after her first novel, Homework. In that time Livesey has earned a wide range of honors, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment from the arts, a New York Times bestseller (The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-10 08:48:39 UTC ]
Mark Dawson’s purchase pushed his thriller The Cleaner up the Sunday Times chart, but the sales monitor Nielsen has now revised its figuresAuthor Mark Dawson has lost his Top 10 position in the Sunday Times bestseller charts for his thriller The Cleaner after revealing that he bought 400 copies... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-22 11:24:02 UTC ]
Author Mark Dawson has attracted criticism after bulk buying his own book gave him a high chart position. But that isn’t breaking any rulesFor any author, being able to describe yourself as a bona fide bestseller is key to conferring your career with a certain gravitas – and will often bring you... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-20 15:59:35 UTC ]
Michelle Alexander and Ijeoma Oluo among those on list, marking first time top 10 entries are primarily titles on race issuesGeorge Floyd killing – latest US updatesBlack American authors, including Michelle Alexander and Ijeoma Oluo, have surged to the top of the latest New York Times’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-06-11 18:10:43 UTC ]