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
- The HarperCollins strike is over! The union has voted to ratify the agreement reached early in the week. (HCP Union’s Instagram & Twitter)
- Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive (The Guardian)
Worth Reading/Viewing
- What the hard-won HarperCollins union contract means for the future of books (Vox)
- BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform (Leigh Stein, Literary Hub) It makes me wonder what I’m missing.
- Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI (Wired)
- Wonderwell Finds Niche in Hybrid Publishing (Publishers Weekly) The article serves as a good introduction to hybrid publishing, a model where the author fronts the costs, while the publisher provides professional editing, cover design, distribution, and even promotion. (What makes it different from a “vanity press” is the ethics of the publisher, and the professionalism of the publishing staff, many of whom come from a background in traditional publishing.)
- Tom Gauld on controversial books and social media – cartoon (The Guardian) Note: I would love to have simply included the cartoon here, but can’t for copyright reasons.
- From meet-cutes to happy endings, romance readers feel the love as sales heat up (NPR)
For Writers & Bloggers
- Want to be a writer? This bleak but buoyant guide says to get used to rejection. (Book review, NPR)
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Wendy
Yay for the end of the strike!! Great news.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
IKR? Thank goodness! I’m sure everyone involved is heaving a sigh of relief.
Anne+-+Books+of+My+Heart
I’m so happy about the end of the strike. I also saw the Roald Dahl thing and I don’t really think I like that.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
Me too… on both counts. (Although Dahl is problematic in more ways than one.)
Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits
Hooray for the end of the strike!
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