This week! Books! I have been notified that is nearly the end of November, and next week we will be celebrating Thanksgiving here in the United States. Accordingly, the blog will be on a brief hiatus next week, but I’ll be checking email so please feel free to reach out to me if you need […]
This Week in Books
Chelsea Green sues Elizabeth Warren (This week in books)
This week! Books! Publisher Chelsea Green sued Senator Elizabeth Warren on First Amendment grounds for writing a letter to Amazon warning them about the role their search algorithm was playing in promoting books that spread COVID misinformation ($ link). Chelsea Green says they don’t have proof that Amazon demoted them, but they believe they did. […]
DOJ sues to block PRH and S&S merger (This week in books)
This week! Books! Big news this week as the Department of Justice sued to block the proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. If the merger went through, Random Penguin Simon Schuster’s House (or something) would be by far the biggest publisher, with a market share of 50%. The lawsuit takes an […]
Here come the best of the year lists (This week in books)
This week! Books! Did you know that William Faulkner and Graham Greene wrote children’s books? I certainly did not! The New York Times surveyed some lesser-known children’s books by writers more famous for their adult works. It has come to my attention that the year 2021 is nearly over (um when did that happens), which […]
Publishing Twitter loses it over two new ideas (This week in books)
This week! Books! Publishing Twitter was aflame this week about two new ideas for publishing. The first to set tongues wagging was an interview in Forbes with author and entrepreneur Allison Twobridge, who started an app called Copper that she pitches as the LinkedIn of the book world. It allows authors to connect with readers, […]
The curious case of the midsized publishers (This week in books)
This week! Books! Now that Workman has been acquired by Hachette and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has been acquired by HarperCollins, where have all the midsized book publishers gone? Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly surveys this dying breed and cites the difficulty of building a backlist, the capital needed to grow into midsized publisher, and ongoing […]
