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The Great Resignation hits publishing (This week in books)

March 18, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 5 Comments

This week! Books! The Great Resignation. Publishing style. Editors are creaking under chronically low pay, ever-expanding publisher expectations, publisher under-investment in support infrastructure like contracts departments… and oh yes, all of this is happening amid bonanza years for publishers’ bottom lines. This makes it accordingly more difficult for young agents to get their books read […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Horowitz, Censorship, coronavirus, Elisabeth Egan, Erin Somers, Kate McKean, Meredith Maran, Octopus, Olivia Fisher, Picture Books, publishing industry, Quarto, Rider Strong

Buying a rare book doesn’t mean you own the copyright (This week in books)

January 21, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 3 Comments

This week! Books! Some eclectic links for you this chilly week. A group of misguided “Dune-loving cryptocurrency enthusiasts” banded together to pay €2.9 million for a rare copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s plans to adapt Dune for film, thinking that then meant they could release it to the public, produce an animated series, and/or produce […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Andrew DeYoung, Angie Hodapp, Ben Dreyfuss, Bethanne Patrick, Copyright, Disney, Kate McKean, Kathryn Schulz, Kishōtenketsu, Lincoln Michel, Photography

Here come the best of the year lists (This week in books)

October 29, 2021 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! Did you know that William Faulkner and Graham Greene wrote children’s books? I certainly did not! The New York Times surveyed some lesser-known children’s books by writers more famous for their adult works. It has come to my attention that the year 2021 is nearly over (um when did that happens), which […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alice Wong, Antonia Saxon, Asha Sridhar, Cal Newport, Dhonielle Clayton, Hayao Miyazaki, James McGowan, Kate McKean, Kim Lionetti, Sona Charaipotra, Tim Ferriss, We Need Diverse Books

RIP Eric Carle, creator of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” (This week in books)

May 28, 2021 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! Lots and lots of links from the past few weeks, but first, in case you’re not a newsletter subscriber, a quick heads-up that I’m offering special “Get your writing back on track” discounts, including 25-35% off coaching sessions and a special editing package to get you unstuck. So if you’re not yet […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alex Shepard, Camryn Garrett, Casey Cep, Constance Grady, Diana Giovinazzo, Emily Wenstrom, Eric Carle, James McGowan, Jane Friedman, Jessica Faust, Kate McKean, Kristin Nelson, Lincoln Michel, Lisa Lucas, NFTs, Rachelle Gardner, Simon & Schuster, Stacey Abrams

S&S employees and authors protest Pence’s upcoming memoir (This week in books)

April 30, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Hundreds of Simon & Schuster employees and over 3,500 other supporters signed a letter calling upon S&S CEO Jonathan Karp to stop publishing books by former members of the Trump Administration, including Vice President Mike Pence, who recently received a reported multi-million book deal for his memoir. The letter cited Pence’s advocacy […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angela Ackerman, Blake Bailey, Disney, Jonathan Karp, Kate McKean, Lincoln Michel, Mike Pence, Philip Roth, Simon & Schuster

98% of books released in 2020 sold less than 5,000 copies (This week in books)

April 23, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 8 Comments

This week! Books! A factoid this week about the publishing industry certainly got some eyeballs popping. In an article about how the publishing industry is weathering the pandemic, Alexandra Atler and Elizabeth A. Harris noted that 98% of the books newly published in 2020 sold fewer than 5,000 copies. Sales have inexorably drifted to the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Atler, Blake Bailey, Cathi Hanauer, Elizabeth A. Harris, Jane Friedman, Jessica Faust, Judy Blume, Kate McKean, Lincoln Michel, Philip Roth, publishing industry, Whales

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