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Amazon to launch…department stores (This week in books)

August 20, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! In a bid to prove that time is a flat circle, Amazon is developing plans to launch…department stores. Yes, really. The first stores will reportedly be in Ohio and California and will sell all sorts of things and facilitate returns. In yet another step in the publishing industry’s long, long history of […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Calvin Tomkins, Hachette, Jane Friedman, Jennifer Chen Tran, Kerry James Marshall, Michelle Brower, Middle Grade, Reeves Wiedeman, Tiffany Yates Martin, Tirzah Price, Workman

The confusing literary agent landscape (This week in books)

February 19, 2021 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! There has been a lot of angst in the literary Twittersphere these past few weeks around agents, alleged bad behavior even among reputable agents, “schmagents” (basically bad agents who sometimes don’t even know they’re bad agents), and quite a lot of author frustration. I don’t want to get into too many specifics, […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alison Flood, Amanda Gorman, Ann Marie Nieves, Book Marketing, Clint Smith, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Fiona Sampson, Hachette, Jay Cheses, Kehinde Wiley, Molly Crabapple, Penguin Random House, PR, Viet Thanh Nguyen, We Need Diverse Books

Ronan Farrow drops Hachette, employees walk out (This week in books)

March 6, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 9 Comments

This week! Books! Hoo boy we have a lot of links this week and before I get to your weekly dose of publishing controversies, let’s start with some good publishing industry news. Thanks to a generous donation by the wonderful Celeste Ng, We Need Diverse Books is launching a publishing industry intern program that will […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: American Dirt, Celeste Ng, Dan Blank, Diversity, Florence Osmond, Hachette, Jess Walton, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Oprah, Ronan Farrow, Science

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