Category: publishing

“They can pass it on to somebody else; they can recycle it. If they lose it, they can buy another one. It’s available everywhere, and we’ll send it to their door for even less. That’s a pretty good deal. Magazines are a very viable part of our lives and will be for as long as people are alive.”

“Everyone in the world – except Dutch and Scandinavian footballers – learns American English because it is today’s lingua franca. It’s the principal means for disseminating ideas and getting work, as Latin used to be.”

“The news came out this week in English-language media, that Luo Li, the founder and former head of one of China’s largest literary websites, Qidian, has been arrested, though there are still conflicting reports about what he’s actually been accused of and the whole picture remains a bit murky.”

“The Library of Congress will announce on Monday that Natasha Trethewey is to be appointed to a second one-year term as the United States poet laureate.”

Nook Snaps bulks up marketing and ease of author access. Is that going to make a difference at all in Amazon’s market share?

“Ms. Reidy, displaying occasional flashes of impatience and sarcasm during several hours of testimony, repeatedly deflected the government’s suggestion that the most-favored-nation clause imposed the agency model on other retailers.”

The Guardian’s latest look at who reviews and who gets reviewed reveals a newspaper world creeping toward gender equality … in most cases.

“Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.”

The early short story collection Antwerp “finds Bolaño making the transition from poet to story writer – a transition he never fully completed, even in the almost nine-hundred pages of 2666. Always in his fiction the reader senses a discomfort with information revealed any way but indirectly.”

“The truth is, book publishers still aren’t sure what to make of digital publishing. BEA 2013 boasted a “Digital Discovery Zone,” but for every business aimed at revolutionizing delivery to consumers, there were two whose purpose boiled down to making the digital landscape less frightening for hidebound publishers.”