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How to fight book bans (This week in books)

April 7, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! The resurgence of book bans remains distressingly rampant as parents try to control not just what their own kids read, but other kids as well. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what some are calling “parents rights” is really “when some parents have the right to dominate all the others.” Alyssa Rosenberg has some […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Censorship, ChatGPT, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Donald Maass, E-books, John Matthew Fox, Roald Dahl, Stacy Frazer, Star Wars

National Book Award winners! (This week in books)

November 18, 2022 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, if you need a great read for the holiday season, might I point you to The Darling Killers by Sarah McCarry, which was recently released in print and e-book? It’s a juicy and funny neo-noir centered around a group of authors in Los Angeles, perfect for book lovers. Get it! […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Ainslee Alem Robson, Alan Dean Foster, book recommendations, E-books, Imani Perry, John Keene, Kate McKean, Lynell George, National Book Awards, Ryan Britt, Sabaa Tahir, Sacramento Kings, Samanta Schweblin, Sarah McCarry, Tess Gunty

The backlist is hot (This week in books)

June 4, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! It’s now officially summer in the publishing world, and happy Summer Friday to all who are celebrating by shutting their laptops around lunch time. Just a few links for your weekend pleasure Publishers Weekly hosted a virtual U.S. Book Show, and BookBub has a good roundup of some of the marketing and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bashirat Oladele, Book Marketing, E-books, Jessica Faust, Science Fiction

RWA implodes (This week in books)

January 3, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! New decade! RIP to legendary Knopf leader Sonny Mehta, whose influence on the world of literature would be hard to overstate. I particularly liked this quote, spotted by Publishers Lunch: I don’t think you can work in this business without faith or optimism. Reading a manuscript, sensing something special about it, and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Adam Gopnik, Chris Van Allsburg, E-books, Jennifer Hubbard, RWA, Star Wars

Will you ever buy mostly e-books? The results! (2016)

December 5, 2016 by Nathan Bransford

For the 10th consecutive year, I asked people if they could see themselves going mostly paper free. We seem to have settled into a bit of an equilibrium. Ever since 2011, the number of e-book aficionados has hovered between 44% and 49%, but last year there was anomalous reversal down to 40.5%. Interestingly, this year’s […]

Filed Under: E-books Tagged With: E-books

Will you ever buy mostly ebooks? (10th annual poll)

November 30, 2016 by Nathan Bransford

Well by golly we made it to ten years of this poll. I have been asking this question every year since 2007, when the Kindle was brand new and the iPad did not yet exist. So. Do you think you’ll ever buy mostly ebooks? Do you already? Caveats, because even ten years in I still […]

Filed Under: E-books Tagged With: E-books, E-Readers

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