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Spotify wants you to listen to audiobooks (This week in books)

June 10, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! A few links for you on this sunny Friday in NYC. In a move that could really shake up the audiobook industry, and thus the entire publishing industry, Joan Solsman at CNET reports that Spotify sees audiobooks as a massive area of growth, which was behind its recent acquisition of audiobook distributor […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: James Patterson, Kate McKean, Kristen Lamb, Michelle Zauner, Social Media, Spotify

Book links for a slow news day (This week in books)

October 2, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! I know you’re probably bored today because so little is happening in the world and you’re looking for some links to click on. WELL. I have some for you!! Some great publishing news this week as bestselling authors Nicola and David Yoon are starting an imprint oriented toward romances featuring heroes of […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: David Yoon, James Patterson, Jessica Faust, Man Booker, Nicola Yoon, Young Adult Literature

Franzen, FREEDOM and the Era of the Blockbuster

August 31, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 109 Comments

You may have heard from, oh, I don’t know, the Time Magazine cover or the Vogue profile or the rave reviews or the Picoult/Weiner spat or the author video where Franzen says he doesn’t like author videos or the fact that the President of the United States was spotted with it….. anyway, you might have […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Culture, James Patterson, Jonathan Franzen, Literary Fiction, Stephenie Meyer, Suzanne Collins

Is Literary Fiction Losing Its Place in Culture?

August 4, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 146 Comments

Throughout this past year there’s been a persistent idea percolating around the literati: could literary fiction really be dead? No for real this time? No less an authority than Philip Roth wondered last year whether people still had the patience to read novels. Last month Lee Siegel wrote an article wondering “Where Have All the […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Bestsellers, Culture, Dan Brown, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, James Patterson, Literary Fiction, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, You Tell Me

This Week in Publishing 9/11/09

September 11, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 90 Comments

Thanks again so much to everyone for your kind words about JACOB WONDERBAR, I really, really appreciate it! But meanwhile, there was a week in publishing and let’s summarize it, hmm? First up, lest ye think I’ve gone all high-fallutin’ on you, Anne & May are hosting an America’s Next Top Model elimination pool where […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, E-Readers, James Patterson, revising, This Week in Publishing

King vs. Meyer, and Who Decides What is “Good” Anyway?

February 5, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 319 Comments

The writosphere is aflutter after Stephen King said, in an interview with USA Weekend: “The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” After some further thoughts on Erle Stanley Gardner (King: “terrible”), Jodi Picoult (good), Dean Koontz (good and bad) […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Culture, James Patterson, Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer, You Tell Me

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