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
- AAP Seeking $300K in Legal Fees After Winning Maryland E-book Case (Publishers Weekly)
- Macmillan Slowly Bringing [Computer] Systems Back after taking them offline due to an “unspecified attack.” (Publishers Weekly)
- Comics/Graphic Novel Sales Jumped 62% in 2021 (Publishers Weekly)
Worth Reading/Viewing
- Redesigning Historical Romance Novel Covers to be Actually Historical – Bernadette Banner. Banner is a seamstress and historical costume expert. (YouTube, above)
- How Does Goodreads Make Money? (Book Riot)
- Inside the Push to Diversify the Book Business (New York Times)
- A New Way to Choose Your Next Book: The New York Times takes a look at book-discovery apps.
- Elizabeth Conte promoted her new publishing venture by snobbily shaming the entire romance genre. (The Mary Sue) And the romance world was not having it.
- If They Want to Be Published, Literary Writers Can’t Be Honest About Money: Naomi Kanakia on the Class Contradictions at the Heart of Publishing (Literary Hub)
Books, Movies, TV, and Games
- ‘A little bit addictive and the right amount hard’: new video game is based on poems of Emily Dickinson (The Guardian)
Wendy
I loved the video of Redesigning Historical Romance Novel Covers to be Actually Historical! It was hilarious and informative.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I really love Banner’s videos, but particularly the ones where she talks about the ways in which movies and book covers get historical dress wrong.
Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits
It’s good to see the comics/graphic novel sales bouncing back!
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