This week! Books! Huge news dropped before Thanksgiving that ViacomCBS has agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House’s Berteslmann. Assuming the deal survives antitrust scrutiny, it would essentially turn the Big 5 into one mega-publisher (whatever Penguin Random House + S&S ends up being called) and three major publishers (HarperCollins, Macmillan, and […]
Science Fiction
The greatness of characters with bad ideas (This week in books)
This week! Books! It’s been a week of very bad ideas, but Gizmodo has a great post on how bad character choices in fiction can lead to some great work. To wit: Jurassic Park! In Amazon news, in the UK supply shortages resulted in book buy buttons being removed. And the New York Times profiled […]
Jeff Bezos is now $24 billion richer (This week in books)
This week! Books! Things might be feeling pretty apocalyptic outside but since the onset of the pandemic Jeff Bezos is $24 billion richer. So, uh, there’s that. In not-Amazon news, the co-founder of LitHub and Electric Lit is launching Bookshop, an online bookstore that supports independent bookstores and sports a rival affiliate program. You might […]
The Pulp-o-mizer
This is one of the cooler things I’ve seen on the Internet lately. Make your own pulp magazine cover! (via CNET)
This Week in Books 3/11/11
This week in books! Just a little late! I wasn’t able to get this up on Friday as I was watching the fabulous Stringer Belle and todayokay at the Hotel Utah Thursday evening, but I saved up lots and lots of links for your weekend! Oh, and if you want to see Stringer Belle yourself, […]
This Week in Publishing 9/10/10
This Week in Publishing! First up, just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I’ve been experiencing some e-mail technical difficulties and some queries have disappeared into the great electronic ether. My policy is still to respond to all queries, so if you sent me a query and didn’t hear back within a week […]
