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This year in books 2020

December 18, 2020 by Nathan Bransford2 Comments

This year! Books! This will be the last “This Week in Books” of our godforsaken year 2020, and I wanted to take a minute to reflect on the year that was in the book world. While I was recovering from COVID in early April, I interviewed publishing industry sage Mike Shatzkin on the effects the […]

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Filed Under: This Week in BooksTagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, Bookshop.org, Bookstores, Chris Jackson, Christine Carron, Diversity, Jay-Z, Jennie Nash, John le Carré, Joshua Rothman, Mike Shatzkin, pandemics, publishing industry, Stephen King

This Week in Publishing 8/13/10

August 13, 2010 by Nathan Bransford38 Comments

In!!!!!!!!!! PublishingThisWeek First up, if you are in the San Francisco vicinity I will be on a panel hosted by the good people at GigaOM regarding Disintermediation in Publishing the morning of August 25th. It’s free, the panel I’m on is with the CEO of Smashwords, author Simon Wood, and the Director of Marketing at […]

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Filed Under: UncategorizedTagged With: Barnes and Noble, E-Readers, Facebook, Future of Publishing, Jay-Z, Jonathan Franzen, Suzanne Collins, This Week in Publishing, writing advice, Writing and Sports

Editors Becoming Agents

May 1, 2008 by Nathan Bransford44 Comments

Wanna know one reason it’s tricky being a young agent on the block? Although I don’t have precise statistics, the industry seems to be in contraction mode from an editorial standpoint as companies merge (i.e. Avalon into Perseus, Harcourt and Houghton), others downsize (i.e Thomas Nelson), and as editors are simply let go. This is […]

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Filed Under: Literary AgentsTagged With: Jay-Z, literary agents, publishing industry

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