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National Book Award winners! (This week in books)

November 19, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

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 […]

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 […]