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Meta argues pirated books have no economic value (This week in books)

April 18, 2025 by Nathan Bransford 3 Comments

This week! Books! The U.S. Naval Academy’s library has banned books like I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, while Mein Kampf and white supremacist texts remain on the shelves. I wonder why. Twelve students and the ACLU have sued defense secretary Pete Hegseth […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ACLU, Alia Hanna Habib, Angie Thomas, Book Banning, Censorship, Charlie Jane Anders, Ella Creamer, Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, Lincoln Michel, Mark Zuckerberg, Maya Angelou, Richard Curtis, Science

Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs (This week in books)

April 11, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. In a week where the whole world struggled to digest the impact of America’s ever-changing tariff landscape, the American Booksellers Association has a helpful rundown on how this will impact the publishing industry and bookstores more holistically. Books themselves are exempt from tariffs, though the components of books (paper, […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ABA, AWP, Boris Kachka, California, Charlie Jane Anders, Dan Blank, Kate McKean, Leo Tolstoy, Randee Dawn, Sarah McCarry, Tariffs, Thomas Kinkade

Cormac McCarthy… well, you just gotta read it (This week in books)

November 22, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, the blog will take next week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, and whether you’re in the U.S. or not, let me just say I’m very thankful for you! Thanks for reading and commenting and just generally hanging in there. Now then. In a harrowingly bizarre profile that should have content […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Charlie Jane Anders, Cormac McCarthy, DW McKinney, Hachette, Jordan Michelman, Maris Kreizman, Pooja Makhijani, Publishers Marketplace, Survivor, Vincenzo Barney, We Need Diverse Books

Harper’s audio sales exceed e-books (This week in books)

August 9, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, the blog will be dark the next few weeks for a summer break, but I’ll be back after Labor Day. Make sure to reach out to me in the meantime if you need editing or a consultation! Audiobooks continue to be a major–and growing– driver of revenue for publishers, and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Becca Puglisi, Charlie Jane Anders, HarperCollins, J.D. Vance, Michael Dirda, publishing industry, Science

What writers should do when they’ve been scammed (This week in books)

June 24, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! I’m under the weather with COVID today (careful out there!), so I’ll be listing these links instead of summarizing. But here are some of the best writing and books links I spotted in the past few weeks: The Latest Impersonation Scams – Victoria Strauss, Writer Beware Cheated, Swindled, or Scammed: What’s a […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Charlie Jane Anders, Dan Sinykin, Ed Nawotka, Ferris Jabr, Kate McKean, Lincoln Michel, Richard Jean So, Sadie Stein, Victoria Strauss, Writer Beware

Are literary men uncool? (This week in books)

April 14, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Will Lloyd at the New Statesman dared to ask the question on everyone’s mind today (okay maybe not everyone’s): has the literary male become terminally uncool? After scanning Granta’s list of Best of Young British Novelists and recognizing only one man, Lloyd asks, “If I – a long-time subscriber to literary journals […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Adam Serwer, Barack Obama, Charlie Jane Anders, Eric Sullivan, Greg Rosalsky, Kate Knibbs, Kieran Culkin, Kobo, Will Lloyd

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