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The backlist is hot (This week in books)

June 4, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

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 1 Comment

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 13 Comments

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 […]

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

November 30, 2016 by Nathan Bransford 17 Comments

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

Moneyball for book publishers

April 6, 2016 by Nathan Bransford 10 Comments

Way back in 2007, I wrote about what I called the “holy grail” of book publishing: the blockbuster detector. Inspired by both The Wisdom of Crowds and Moneyball, I wondered about the possibility of a tool that could identify undervalued markets and help predict future sales. 2007, mind you, was the era before the Kindle and […]

Filed Under: Business of Publishing Tagged With: E-books, You Tell Me

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

December 21, 2015 by Nathan Bransford 18 Comments

Has there been a disturbance in the Force? It’s not just The Force Awakens, but for the second consecutive year, e-books have reversed their gains in my poll that asks whether you think you’ll ever buy mostly ebooks. The results! Here are the people who say you can pry paper books out of their cold dead […]

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

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