Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
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This week! Books! Sally Rooney Says Her Novels Will No Longer Be Sold in U.K. (gift link) – Stephen Castle, New York Times – In a truly preposterous and chilling turn of events, Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be for sale in the UK because of her support for Palestine Action, an organization proscribed […]
This week! Books! Normally this is the quiet dog days of publishing summer, but you wouldn’t know it from the number of links I have for you this week! New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. – Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times – As a […]
This week! Books! Sourcebooks Cracks the Big Five – Katy Hershberger, Publishers Lunch – Lots of caveats here, as Sourcebooks is 75% owned by behemoth Penguin Random House, and as Jane Friedman noted in her newsletter, they do quite a few print deals with self-published authors who retain e-book rights. But it’s still a pretty […]
This week! Books! First up, apologies to newsletter subscribers as I had an errant link in my November Office Hours email that went to the September Office Hours, if you’re looking to watch November, click on over here! I confess that I’m not spending much time on social media these days, but even I could […]
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 […]
This week! Books! Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg went on a conservative apologia tour and, on the Joe Rogan show naturally, declared Facebook’s own fact-checking program like “something out of 1984” and that he worried about Facebook becoming “this sort of decider of what is true in the world.” No longer would Facebook be in […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
