In the News section of Monday's issue, there are items on total sales at the nation’s three largest bookstore chains; and Warner Brothers’s takeover of DC Comics’s licensed publishing. The Retailing page offers a look at Chicagoland’s bookselling landscape, which has been hit hard by Borders’s financial troubles. There’s an interview with renowned science writer James Gleick, and our National Poetry Month package includes a feature on poetry and ebooks, a piece on poets with books to watch this spring, and a Why I Write essay by Kathleen Ossip. There’s a feature on spring and summer sports books and a Q&A with Albert Brooks. On the Soapbox page, grad students share their impressions of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]