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State-sponsored censorship week (This week in books)

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This week! Books! I’m back, and luckily nothing at all happened while I was away (okay everything happened while I was away). Lots and lots of links this week! Let’s get to it. 2026 We Need Diverse Books Mentorship Program Application – Applications are now open for We Need Diverse Books’ terrific mentorship program for […]

Is the rapid release self-publishing era ending? (This week in books)

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This week! Books! First up, thanks so much to all my newsletter subscribers who joined my inaugural office hours yesterday evening! Thanks for your patience as I worked out the kinks. It was a lot of fun and I hope to do it again. Be sure and subscribe to my newsletter if you want to […]

An inside look at rampant publishing scams (This week in books)

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This week! Books! ‘Our Goal Is to Get Their Money’: Inside a Firm Charged With Scamming Writers for Millions – Brent Crane, Bloomberg (gift link) – A well-reported and wrenching look into rampant scams preying on authors. One reason so many of the scams originate in the Philippines is because some of the scammers cut […]

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

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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 […]

Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs (This week in books)

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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, […]

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

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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 […]