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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 curious case of the midsized publishers (This week in books)

October 15, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angela Ackerman, Arthur C. Brooks, Betsy Lerner, Inkitt, Jane Friedman, Jessica Faust, publishing industry, Sally Rooney

S&S employees and authors protest Pence’s upcoming memoir (This week in books)

April 30, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Hundreds of Simon & Schuster employees and over 3,500 other supporters signed a letter calling upon S&S CEO Jonathan Karp to stop publishing books by former members of the Trump Administration, including Vice President Mike Pence, who recently received a reported multi-million book deal for his memoir. The letter cited Pence’s advocacy […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angela Ackerman, Blake Bailey, Disney, Jonathan Karp, Kate McKean, Lincoln Michel, Mike Pence, Philip Roth, Simon & Schuster

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