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Is publishing too top-heavy?

Nov 04 2019: Book publishing has long been a hits-driven business. The bestsellers, the logic went, paid for the flops. And it was the authors of those in the middle—the so-called midlist—that publishers hoped to build into the next crop of bestsellers. But midlist sales have ...

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Macmillan CEO John Sargent: 'We're not trying to hurt libraries'

Oct 30 2019: Days before Macmillan’s controversial embargo on new release e-books in public libraries is set to go into effect, Macmillan CEO John Sargent is speaking out to librarians. In an open letter to librarians published this week, he struck a somewhat conciliatory note, but ...

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California booksellers contend with fires, power outages

Oct 30 2019: Indie booksellers throughout California are contending with mandatory evacuations, power outages, road closures, and air quality issues as fires continue to rage in the state.

The situation in Northern California for many indie booksellers can only be described as ...

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Elena Ferrante's first novel for five years coming from Europa in June 2020

Oct 29 2019: Europa Editions has revealed it will publish Elena Ferrante’s first novel for five years, The Lying Life of Adults, in June 2020. The book will be published in Italy on 7th November 2019 by Edizioni E/O, as reported in September, while Ferrante’s English language ...

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Little Free Library founder's family clash with organization

Oct 29 2019: A year after the death of its founder, Todd Bol, the Little Free Library nonprofit literacy organization and Bol’s family are at odds.

The dispute appears to hinge on the matter of trademarks. Bol, who set up the first book box in front of his mother’s Wisconsin ...

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Congress looking into anti-competitive behavior in the digital library market

Oct 24 2019: The American Library Association (ALA) has delivered a written report to the House Judiciary Committee telling lawmakers that “unfair behavior by digital market actors," including Amazon and some major publishers, is "doing concrete harm to libraries.”

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Major public library system will boycott Macmillan e-books

Oct 16 2019: King County (WA) Library System, the nation's top digital-circulating library has said it will stop buying new release Macmillan e-books once the publishers' two-month embargo begins next month.

In her note, executive director Lisa Rosenblum said King County’s ...

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Dav Pilkey credits his ADHD for his massive success. Now he wants kids to find their own ‘superpower’

Oct 14 2019: By any measure in publishing, cartoonist Dav Pilkey is a rock star. The children’s author created his characters Captain Underpants (a superhero for grade-schoolers) and Dog Man (a hound-supercop) while an Ohio second-grader, sitting alone in the hall during class as a ...

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