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05/11/2024

Publishers Weekly reports that Macmillan's sales in 2024 are up over 18% over the same period 2023. CEO Jon Yaged attributed the growth to strong frontlist sales led by “fabulous results” for Kristin Hannah’s The Women.... Most appropriate news on this Election Day.

25/09/2024

Attended the book launch of ( Chef and Restauranteer) Renee Erickson's new cook book. Beautiful book complete with her art, and published by ABRAMS Books. Gotta love a book signing that comes with gourmet food and drink. Spectacular!

Signed copies available for pre-order! James Beard Award–winning chef Renee Erickson explores the surprising wonder and satisfaction you can find in making everyday food, inspiring us all to cook creatively.After more than 25 years running award-winning restaurants, acclaimed chef Renee Erickso...

31/05/2024

Any article discussing the current undulations of book marketing is appealing.

Keila Shaheen’s “The Shadow Work Journal” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok.

31/05/2024

Good article discussing the modern challenges of
launching an author's debut novel, and how it's changed
since Kerouac.

For first-time writers, it’s harder than ever to break out. That poses an existential crisis for publishing—and disturbing limits on your access to exciting new voices.

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.