Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
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This week! Books! The U.S. Naval Academy’s library has banned books like I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, while Mein Kampf and white supremacist texts remain on the shelves. I wonder why. Twelve students and the ACLU have sued defense secretary Pete Hegseth […]
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 […]
This week! Books! First up, the blog will be dark the next few weeks for a summer break, but I’ll be back after Labor Day. Make sure to reach out to me in the meantime if you need editing or a consultation! Audiobooks continue to be a major–and growing– driver of revenue for publishers, and […]
This week! Books! We’re well into the publishing summer slowdown so I don’t have a tremendous number of links for you, but I still rustled up a few. First up, I’ll be at Comic-Con next week moderating the From Idea to Shelves panel with a stellar lineup of agents! Swing on by and say hello! […]
This week! Books! Quick note that I’ll be away on a brief holiday the week of October 12 and back with fresh content on October 19. Feel free to contact me if you need editing! It’s book award season, and congrats to American poet Louise Glück for winning the Nobel Prize, to this year’s MacArthur […]
This week! Books! Hoo boy we have a lot of links this week and before I get to your weekly dose of publishing controversies, let’s start with some good publishing industry news. Thanks to a generous donation by the wonderful Celeste Ng, We Need Diverse Books is launching a publishing industry intern program that will […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
