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BookCon is back (This week in books)

June 20, 2025 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! First up, I’ll be out for the next few weeks to take a break around the 4th of July holiday, so I will see you again later in July. BookCon Will Return in 2026 – Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly – After shuttering during the pandemic, the exposition formerly known as BookExpo will […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: 8th Note Press, A.I., BookCon, Dana A. Williams, Jane Friedman, Jim Milliot, Joshua Rothman, Kate McKean, Kathleen Schmidt, Lincoln Michel, Roger Federer, Rustin Dodd, Toni Morrison

Did Taylor Swift need a publisher after all? (This week in books)

December 6, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, we have two polls running, first the 18th annual extravaganza Will You Ever Buy Mostly E-books. I’ll reveal those results early next week! We also have one on whether listening to audiobooks counts as reading, and here are the returns so far: Pretty close, but the “listening is listening” crowd […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Ben Mezrich, Cindy Lee, Internet Archive, Jeff Bezos, Kevin Kearney, Mason Currey, Sarah Bahr, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Taylor Swift, Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison’s generous rejection letters (This week in books)

March 29, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First off, Melina Moe at Los Angeles Review of Books has a really fascinating look at the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent during her stint as an editor at Random House. Aside from pointing to industry realities of the time (and some realities seem eternal, like publishers not knowing how to sell […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Anthony Aycock, John Holten, Lillian Fishman, Melina Moe, Toni Morrison

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