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Inflation hits the publishing industry (This week in books)

July 15, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! I have some really great links to share with you this week, but if you’ll indulge a promo, I’m headed back to Comic-Con in San Diego next week! In real life! If you’re attending, check out the panel I’m moderating on July 21: From Idea to Shelves: The Remix, where we’ll discuss […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Alter, America's Next Great Author, Comic-Con, Elizabeth A. Harris, Emma Chamberlain

Watch out for book to film scams (This week in books)

June 17, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 3 Comments

This week! Books! First up, we continue to live in a golden age for scammers, and Anne R. Allen has an important post about a new, more polished publishing trap: the book to film scam, where a “film scout” suggests you pay for a new screenplay or treatment so they can shop it to streaming […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Alter, Anne R. Allen, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Elizabeth A. Harris, Ian Bogost, literary agents, Scams

Book banning runs rampant (This week in books)

May 20, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! I saved up quite a few links while I was away on vacation, so let’s get to them! Book banning is spreading like wildfire as groups take advantage of new digital tools and strategies to try to enact a wave of challenges and lawsuits. Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter surveyed the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: #OwnVoices, AALA, Alexandra Alter, Barnes & Noble, Becca Puglisi, Brooke Warner, Censorship, Elizabeth A. Harris, Frederick Kaufman, Grace Lapointe, Jessica Contrera, JoAnn Yao, John Maher, Maia Kobabe, Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Strauss, We Need Diverse Books

How a book is made (This week in books)

February 25, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This is one of those weeks when the news is distressing and other topics can seem a bit trivial in comparison. But books are still crucial, writing will keep playing an important role in whatever’s next, and your writing matters. So on to the links. The NY Times has a pretty fascinating look at how […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Alter, Amazon, Angela Ackerman, Anne R. Allen, David Moldawer, George Saunders, Jessica Faust, Lincoln Michel, publishing industry

The week everyone was talking about a kidney (This week in books)

October 8, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Everyone in publishing this week was talking about a kidney. Here’s why. I personally couldn’t get through it, but consider yourself alerted that this story managed to overshadow all other publishing news this week. And it was a week where National Book Awards finalists and the Nobel Prize for Literature were announced! […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Alexandra Alter, Amazon, Blushing Books, Christine Pride, Emily Temple, Joe Piazza, Kyle Chayka, National Book Awards, Nobel Prize, publishing industry, Soccer

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