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Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs (This week in books)

April 11, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. In a week where the whole world struggled to digest the impact of America’s ever-changing tariff landscape, the American Booksellers Association has a helpful rundown on how this will impact the publishing industry and bookstores more holistically. Books themselves are exempt from tariffs, though the components of books (paper, […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ABA, AWP, Boris Kachka, California, Charlie Jane Anders, Dan Blank, Kate McKean, Leo Tolstoy, Randee Dawn, Sarah McCarry, Tariffs, Thomas Kinkade

Has your book been pirated by Meta? (This week in books)

March 21, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Meta allegedly pirated millions of books to train its A.I. via Library Genesis, or LibGen, a piracy library. The Atlantic created a searchable tool to see if your book(s) are available on LibGen, with the caveat that this means your book could have been used to train A.I. They […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., David Moldawer, Kate McKean, LibGen, LitHub, Meta, Scholastic, Science, Skibidi Toilet, We Need Diverse Books

Bookshop.org launches e-books! (This week in books)

January 31, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Some really terrific news for the book world this week as independent online bookseller Bookshop.org has launched its long-awaited e-book platform. You can now buy e-books that support many of your favorite independent bookstores! I gave the app a spin, and it looks great. For now they have traditionally published books, but […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ALA Awards, Amazon, Audiobooks, Authors Against Book Bans, Authors Guild, Bookshop.org, BookTok, Censorship, DeepSeek, Emily Gould, George R.R. Martin, Kate McKean, Ken Whyte, OpenAI, PEN America, Sean Manning, Simon & Schuster

The best book covers of 2024 (This week in books)

December 13, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! TikTok has been a somewhat unlikely boon to the publishing industry via its books-obsessed crowd, nicknamed BookTok, which has propelled authors like Colleen Hoover and Emily Henry to mega-bestsellerdom. So it likely sent a chill through the business that a federal court unanimously upheld a law that requires its parent company, ByteDance, […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Book covers, Censorship, David J. Morris, Giles Harvey, Goodreads, J. David McSwane, Kate McKean, Lincoln Michel, M.J. Rose, Ned Blackhawk, TikTok, Victoria Strauss

All about dedications in books (This week in books)

September 20, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, I’m taking an early fall blog break over the next few weeks and will be back posting in October. As always, I’ll still be answering emails and scheduling edits and coaching sessions, so feel free to reach out if I can be helpful. Sophie Masson has a cool post on […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Andrea Long Chu, Cynthia Swanson, Draft2Digital, Hans Haacke, Kate McKean, Kathleen Schmidt, M.H. Miller, Sally Rooney, Self-publishing, Sophie Masson, Thomas Gebremedhin

National Book Awards longlists! (This week in books)

September 13, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! The highly anticipated National Book Award longlists have been released, and congrats to the deserving nominees. I’m rather struck by the short titles in the nominees for fiction. None more than two words! Fiction Nonfiction Young People’s Literature Translated Literature Poetry Gen Z is into both reading and accessorizing, so I was […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Gen Z, Kate McKean, Kathryn Schulz, Liane Moriarty, Marcia Bjornerud, Maris Kreizman, National Book Awards, The Folio Society

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