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Supply issues will disrupt the fall season (This week in books)

August 28, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, I don’t usually do this but I really want to make sure you saw my post on head jumping from Monday, which is one of the most important posts I’ve written in a long, long time. Please please read it, take it to heart, and stamp out head jumping wherever […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, Amazon, Malcolm Gladwell, Ocean Vuong, Onikah Asamoa-Caesar, Powells

YOU get an open letter! YOU get an open letter! (This week in books)

July 10, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

This week in open letters! I mean books! This was the week of Open Letters to Solve Everything. First, a group of luminaries led by Thomas Chatterton Williams including J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, and Malcolm Gladwell published an open letter that bemoaned an “intolerant climate that has set in on all sides” and, though it […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Dana Canedy, J.K. Rowling, Kathryn Craft, Malcolm Gladwell, Margaret Atwood, Nan Talese, Ruth Harris, Thomas Chatterton Williams

This Week in Publishing 10/8/10

October 8, 2010 by Nathan Bransford

Tento týden v publikování… First off, thank you so much to everyone who entered the Guest Blog Contest Festival Event! There were actually so many spectacular entries that I decided to expand the number of contest winning slots. That’s right folks, this blog is going seven days a week. Well. At least until I get […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Harry Potter, Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, Publishing Economics, This Week in Publishing, Twilight

The Science of Buzz

April 20, 2010 by Nathan Bransford

Fads, crazes, hysterias, and other contagious social phenomena have long been a mysterious and occasionally hilarious part of human history. From meowing nuns to the Backstreet Boys, we humans have periodically been overtaken by curious mass obsessions for reasons that have never been entirely clear. At least, until now. Science is catching up with buzz. […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing Tagged With: Culture, Future of Publishing, Malcolm Gladwell, Twitter

Publishing’s Winner’s Curse

December 14, 2009 by Nathan Bransford

Originally posted in the Huffington Post In the climactic scene in Frank Norris’ classic novel McTEAGUE, the two antagonists find themselves in the desert. Shady San Francisco dentist McTeague has murdered his wife to steal her money (Belated spoiler alert!). He is then pursued by his former best friend Marcus, who wants revenge slash money […]

Filed Under: Business of Publishing Tagged With: Malcolm Gladwell, publishing industry

This Week in Publishing 3/20/09

March 20, 2009 by Nathan Bransford

Lots and lots of links this week, so let’s get this started, shall we? First off, I’m as surprised as you are that my bracket wasn’t completely busted by 3 PM yesterday, which probably means that I’ll be dead in the water by the end of the day. There’s currently a nine-way tie atop the […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: David Foster Wallace, Google, Ian McEwan, literary agents, Malcolm Gladwell, This Week in Publishing, Why Do I Need A Literary Agent?, Writing and Sports

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