Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
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This week! Books! I’ll never forget it. When I was on vacation in Hawaii in the late 2000s, I checked my email and it was nothing but “new follower” notifications from Twitter. Sandwiched in between hundreds of these alerts was a congratulations. I’d made Twitter’s inaugural “Who to follow” list. Everyone from Mike Tyson to […]
This week! Books! First up, please stick with me past a housekeeping matter because there’s some analysis about the last fifty years in publishing that I want to make sure you see. Housekeeping: Elon Musk’s ongoing demolition of Twitter reached yet another low this week as he removed headlines from links, further antagonizing anyone running […]
This week! Books! Massive, massive news for the publishing industry, and, in truth, for all US antitrust law as the DOJ successfully convinced Judge Florence Pan that Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster would create a monopsony that would harm authors. This is particularly notable because antitrust precedent over the past 50 […]
As if my blogging hasn’t sporadic enough with the craziness of the holidays, next week is CES, land of 100″ TVs and 18-hour-work days! Yes, I am headed to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, where the devices of tomorrow are gawked at by the nerds of today. It’s always a lot of fun, […]
Hofball in Wien – Wilhelm Gause Amid all the uproar over Facebook’s latest redesign of the newsfeed and some possibly huge pending announcements today (disclosure: links are to CNET, I work for CNET, and all views expressed herein are completely my own), there were some… well, murmurs in my feeds about Facebook having jumped the […]
It’s a battle as old as time. Or, er, at least as old as when Twitter launched “New Twitter” last year. RT or the Retweet Button? In this corner, you have the Old School, the way people always used to pass along a fun or hilarious or awesome or interesting or all of the above […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
