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15/11/2023

Oh, Publishing....

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

25/09/2023

A classic.

06/06/2023

Thinking about A.I. in publishing? Read this article by Thad McIlroy.

The latest generation of AI is a game changer, Thad McIlroy writes. And the change won't be incremental, but scary fast. If he's right, then the trade book publishing industry as we know it will soon be obsolete.

20/05/2023

Book recommendation, though a BISAC code for “school shootings” seems to be lacking.

American politicians funded by pro-gun organizations either refuse to acknowledge the urgent need for stricter gun control laws.

31/01/2023

Some good insights/info from this recent review on eBook piracy.

Ebook piracy has long been a problem of publishing. How easy it is to pirate ebooks these days? And how do book thieves do it?

11/01/2023

Not unexpected.

Between 2017 and the end of 2022, Javier Celaya says, the field of Spanish-language audio providers has grown from 15 to more than 60…

11/01/2023

Tropes within your keywords?

. . . Is picking books by trope too easy?

23/12/2022

2022 Roundup of new imprints and agents. Great list for writers, or to refresh the memory of any publishing professional

23/12/2022

The "hot plate" of publishing.

Publishers are releasing more than half a dozen editions of the report, and are now in a frantic race to be first to market.

06/10/2022

Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ernaux’s publisher in the United States, Seven Stories Press, is a small independent house with only 16 employees on staff (per NY TImes). Nice to see a win going to someone other than the Big 5.

18/08/2022

14/05/2021

Need some ideas?

It's time to stock up on fresh and enticing books from our local independent stores and get going on your summer reading.Right now, it would be easy to focus exclusively on recent and upcoming titles from Bay Area authors and emerge with an amazingly unique and diverse pile to read. There truly is s...

28/04/2021

NetRead provided sponsorship and managed the authors during the first two years of this festival (known as "LitStock" at that time). It took place at the Band Shell in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park before moving to Yerba Buena Gardens in year 3. Tonight: A Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 28. Free. Details in link.

It was the third year of the literary event, which had just changed its name from Litstock. Ferlinghetti wrote a poem that riffed on the name change.

17/03/2021

Big.

The agreement comes more than two years after UC officials walked away from its subscription deal with Elsevier, demanding the publisher negotiate a fair transformative open access deal.

09/03/2021

Amazon has deprecated ONIX 2.1. It's 3.0 or nothin'!

10/12/2020

“Denver needs Tattered Cover, and Tattered Cover needs Denver.” Denver's Tattered Cover Bookstore Is Now the Largest Black-Owned Bookstore in the U.S.

Denver's iconic Tattered Cover Bookstore, which has been owned by Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan since 2015, has been sold to two entrepreneurs and Denver natives, Kwame Spearman and David Back.

08/12/2020

From the New York Times.

01/12/2020

The business, the friendships, the parties, the music, the memories....

The biggest trade show in U.S. book publishing is being retired. BookExpo and its attendant consumer-focused events, BookCon and Unbound, will not be held in 2021, as organizer ReedPop considers the future of the events.

08/10/2020

The American writer was lauded “for her unmistakable poetic voice.”

17/09/2020

Seemingly lost in the news of John Sargent's departure; Very positive news in the publishing world from Macmillan Learning.

/PRNewswire/ -- Macmillan Learning, part of the family-owned Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, today announced the promotion of Susan Winslow to President of...

04/08/2020

A bright spot in publishing's diversity effort.

Novelist Nicole Dennis Benn interviews Dana Canedy

04/08/2020

Nice value-add to the world of independent publishers.

(Manhattan Beach, CA – August 4, 2020) – Today, a coalition of eleven book industry associations, including the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), launched the official Book Industry Health Insurance Partnership (BIHIP), an alliance with Lighthouse Insurance Group (LIG) Solutions de...

08/07/2020

Regardless of one's position, the "middle" has narrowed.

An open letter published by Harper’s, signed by luminaries including Margaret Atwood and Wynton Marsalis, argued for openness to “opposing views.” The debate began immediately.

04/05/2020

Unexpected news, and not related to Covid-19.

The inability to reach an agreement with the government about which divestitures the publishers needed to make to allow the merger to move forward led to the deal being canceled, the companies said.

03/04/2020

Coronavirus aligns the interests of publishers and libraries .

Why the rapid shift to digital library services necessitated by the Covid-19 crisis could help chart a new, more productive course for the digital library market long term.

03/04/2020

Virtual Book Tours coming soon...

Canada’s National Arts Center is using streaming video for authors to promote their spring and summer titles to a nation stuck indoors by the pandemic.

19/03/2020

Book Expo America is postponed until July 22-26 at the Javits Center.

24/02/2020

Cool stuff. FanFic expands the boundaries for genre, gender, race and online book clubs.

How the once-obscure literary genre is giving voice to the voiceless and inspiring a new, more diverse generation of computer scientists.

19/02/2020

Staying on top of California's Prop 65.

NetRead's support for Ingram and California's Proposition 65 requirement. ONIX 3.0 implementation allows publishers to satisfy legal demands.