News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff
Bookish News
- ‘We’re back in business’: UK bookshops see sales soar (The Guardian)
- Print Units Jump at The End of June, at least in the US. (Publishers Weekly)
Worth Reading/Viewing/Checking Out
(not all book-related)
- Reading Anti-Racist Nonfiction Is a Start. But Don’t Underestimate the Power of Black Fiction. (author Jasmine Guillory, Time)
- Me and my detective, by Lee Child, Attica Locke, Sara Paretsky, Jo Nesbø and more. (The Guardian) A number of bestselling mystery authors talk about their detective characters and what it’s like to write about them.
- Comics Without Cons. With San Diego Comic Con and many others canceled, CCI and other con organizers are trying to figure out how to survive. So are comic book publishers, comic book stores, and the artists who sell their wares at the cons. And there are concerns about the future of cons, which may depend on the pandemic. (Publishers Weekly)
- The Case for E-Galleys (Bethanne Patrick, Publishers Weekly)
- Humble Bundle Rises to New Challenges “Since the pandemic began shutting down parts of the U.S. economy earlier in the year, Humble Bundle has been an indispensable fund-raising platform for book-related and pandemic nonprofits.” (Publishers Weekly)
