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The curious case of the midsized publishers (This week in books)

October 15, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Now that Workman has been acquired by Hachette and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has been acquired by HarperCollins, where have all the midsized book publishers gone? Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly surveys this dying breed and cites the difficulty of building a backlist, the capital needed to grow into midsized publisher, and ongoing […]

Why preorders matter (This week in books)

September 6, 2019 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! As you can see from the photo above I spent some quality time traveling during the month of August, but I still kept an eye out for some good writing links. Here are some of the best ones from the past few weeks. In the olden days of yore, preorders weren’t really […]