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Is the end near for mass market paperbacks? (This week in books)

February 28, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Could the end be near for mass market paperbacks, the small book format that has populated many a supermarket rack over the years? Mass market paperbacks have declined to 3% of all book sales, profit margins were always slim, and distributor Readerlink will stop shipping them at the end of 2025. According […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Ariella Garmaise, Dan Kois, Dave Eggers, Jeff Bezos, Jim Milliot, Laurene Powell Jobs, Leigh Stein, Mass Market Paperbacks, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Readerlink, Sam Mills, We Need Diverse Books

Did Taylor Swift need a publisher after all? (This week in books)

December 6, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, we have two polls running, first the 18th annual extravaganza Will You Ever Buy Mostly E-books. I’ll reveal those results early next week! We also have one on whether listening to audiobooks counts as reading, and here are the returns so far: Pretty close, but the “listening is listening” crowd […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Ben Mezrich, Cindy Lee, Internet Archive, Jeff Bezos, Kevin Kearney, Mason Currey, Sarah Bahr, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Taylor Swift, Toni Morrison

Watch my ComicCon panel! (This week in books)

July 23, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, I’m very excited to be participating in ComicCon @ Home again this year. A great panel I recorded with literary agents Kurestin Armada, Quressa Robinson, Bridget Smith, and literary manager Lars Theriot will go live on the SDCC YouTube page this evening at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. We talk […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: #OwnVoices, Alexander Manshel, Angie Hodapp, ComicCon, Donald Trump, J.D. Porter, Jeff Bezos, Kristin Nelson, Laura B. McGrath, We Need Diverse Books

Jeff Bezos steps down as CEO of Amazon (This week in books)

February 5, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Upstart online bookseller Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon, ceding the spot to Andy Jessy, who led Amazon Web Services. Bezos will serve as Executive Chairman, and he’s still expected to stay involved in Amazon’s future. More and more of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are in the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Jeff Bezos, Jennifer Hubbard, Karen Inglis, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

Amazon and Bezos in the spotlight (This week in books)

October 11, 2019 by Nathan Bransford

This week in Amazon! I mean books! There were dueling Jeff Bezos profiles in two of our finest print institutions. First up, The New Yorker, which looks at Amazon through the lens of its overall impact and potentially monopolistic practices. And while the profile in The Atlantic covers much of that ground, it also takes […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Janet Reid, Jeff Bezos, Mike Shatzkin, National Book Awards, Nobel Prize

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