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This Week in Books 3/25/11

March 26, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 32 Comments

This week! Books! On Saturday! Huge news this week, as a federal judge rejected the Google Book Settlement. If you recall, Google had scanned basically every book in the world and was hoping to make them all available. But there are a ton of old books where the rights situation is uncertain. Technically the books […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Barnes and Noble, Borders, E-books, Google, literary agents, Self-publishing

This Week in Books 3/4/11

March 4, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 60 Comments

Lots of links this week! Shall we? Some big news in the book world as Random House, the lone holdout among the six major publishers, has agreed to Apple’s terms and will be moving over to the agency model. What is the agency model? Well, this post of yore provides some background, but for readers […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, Borders, Dialogue, E-books, E-Readers, Facebook, Harry Potter, iPad, Publishing Economics

This Week in Books 2/25/11

February 25, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 30 Comments

Lots of news this week!! Get started, we will. First up, last Wednesday I asked a question: Have blogs peaked? Well, from my lips to the NY Times’ ears apparently because they tackled that very subject. Their conclusion: they’re on the wane as The Youths move to Twitter and Facebook. Case closed, right? Well, not […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Barnes and Noble, Borders, Kindle, Publishing Economics, Social Media

Do Record Stores Point the Way of the Future for Bookstores?

February 22, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 86 Comments

Now that Borders is in bankruptcy and at least 200 stores closing, some people have asked me what I think is going to happen to brick and mortar bookstores in the future. Do they have a future? Will they survive? There’s one comparison I keep coming back to: record stores. When you consider that the […]

Filed Under: Business of Publishing Tagged With: Borders, Music, Publishing Economics

This Week in Books 2/18/11

February 18, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 41 Comments

Very very very sad news this week as, after several years of speculation, Borders has finally succumbed and filed for bankruptcy. It was Chapter 11 bankruptcy (re-org) and not Chapter 7 (Eric from Pimp My Novel had a roundup of the potential difference there), but even still 200 stores will close, and my heart goes […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Borders, E-Readers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Moby-Dick, Publishing Economics, This Week in Books

This Week in Books 2/4/11

February 4, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 22 Comments

Whew! What a week! Paragraphs were read. Winners were crowned. Tiredness was reached. But I still have a few links for you. First up, I’m going to start with the sad stuff as there’s not one but two bankruptcies in the news. First is Borders, which is the subject of numerous rumors that it could […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Borders, contests, E-books, Moby-Dick

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