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Copyright still requires human authorship, but read the fine print (This week in books)

April 4, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! The Trump tariffs are tanking your 401k at the moment (if you’re lucky enough to have one), but how will they affect publishers, whose books are often printed in Asia and Europe? According to Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg at the WSJ, they don’t really know either. The U.S. Copyright Office, apparently one of […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., A.O. Scott, Amazon, Copyright, Donald Trump, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hayao Miyazaki, Libraries, Neko Case, Penguin Random House, Tariffs, TikTok, Whiskey

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

Taylor Swift bypasses the publishing industry (This week in books)

October 18, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, it’s always a thrill when one of my editing clients lands a book deal for a project we worked on together, congrats to Heather Aimee O’Neill! While publishing executives gather in Frankfurt, Germany to make deals and talk about how their acquisition by private equity behemoths is going, a bombshell […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Cullen Murphy, Ilana Masad, Kindle, Maris Kreizman, Michael Cader, Target, Taylor Swift, TikTok, Zando

The impact of TikTok on the book world (This week in books)

May 27, 2022 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, a few exciting new site-related things this week: I launched online classes! I recorded four online classes on navigating the traditional publishing process, with exclusive downloadable resources. Until June 8, blog readers and newsletter subscribers get a 15% discount off of the “How to Get a Book Deal” bundle using […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Addison Rizer, Dan Blank, Morton Janklow, TikTok

What’s after the plague? (This week in books)

March 26, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! As we Americans ramp up our vaccinations and the end of the pandemic feels like it could possibly be around the corner, it’s very tempting to wonder what’s next. I really enjoyed this fascinating essay by Jill Lepore about what the end of plague novels say about what could lie ahead. Teens […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Emma Southon, Facebook, Jill Lepore, Lincoln Michel, Lucinda Halpern, pandemics, Rebecca Wei Hsieh, TikTok, We Need Diverse Books

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