News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News National Book Award for Translation Added (Publishers Weekly) Celeste Ng Is Author Ambassador for Independent Bookstore Day 2018 (Shelf Awareness) Publishers call on Man… Read more »
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News & Notes – 1/27/2018
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Dead Sea Scroll deciphered to reveal ancient calendar (The Guardian) Walmart partners with Kobo to sell e-readers, ebooks (Publishers Weekly) Fire and Fury Sales Hit… Read more »
News & Notes – 1/20/2018
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News BookCon Adds Sci-Fi, Mystery and Thriller Authors to Adult Lineup (Publishers Weekly) Amazon narrows list of potential cities for second headquarters to 20 (NPR)… Read more »
News & Notes – 1/13/2018
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Author Banned From Attending WorldCon (Book Riot) Long-Hidden Text Is Uncovered in Alexander Hamilton Letter to his fiance, Elizabeth Schuyler. The missing text, probably crossed out… Read more »
News & Notes – 1/06/2018
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News ABA, Author’s Guild Slam Trump’s Legal Campaign Against Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff’s controversial book about the first nine months in the Trump White… Read more »
News & Notes – 12/30/2017
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Christmas Week Sales Jump 7% Over 2016 (Publishers Weekly) S&S was concerned about the content and quality of Milo Yiannopoulis’s autobiography well before the publishing… Read more »
News & Notes – 12/02/2017
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff This week’s News & Notes issue is a bit leaner than usual, because a) there wasn’t a lot of big news in the bookish world,… Read more »
News & Notes – 11/25/2017
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Darwin’s annotated copy of On the Origin of Species goes to auction (The Guardian) John Lewis plagiarism row gives Christmas sales boost to… Read more »
News & Notes – 11/18/2017
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The 2017 National Book Awards winners were announced on Wednesday. NPR has the story, and a complete list of finalists and winners. Barnes &… Read more »
News & Notes – 11/11/2017
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Canada’s Indigo Books and Music plans 3-5 stores in the US. (Financial Post) The stores carry a wider mix of items than large-format… Read more »