Category: publishing

“After a turbulent few years in the book business, there was a feeling at BookExpo America, the publishing industry’s annual trade convention that convened in New York this week, that the disruption might have calmed.”

“Politics certainly stirs up edit wars much more often than mathematics, and articles related to current events are often locked while the events are ongoing, to prevent defacement. But can we quantify the topics that are most controversial on Wikipedia?”

The six-volume self-published children’s book series sold thousands of copies in France, where publishers didn’t think it was intellectual enough for teens. Then the teens started a letter-writing campaign.

The (questionable, internet-focused) glory of an MFA in a world where MFA programs have exploded.

“That Canadian critics let Americans and Brits have all the good public ripostes is a disservice to both our cannon and the reading public. The problem is, we’re just no good at not-niceness. We’re too conciliatory, too subdued, too well-mannered – and not in the arch, seething-just-under-the-surface British way, but honest-to-gosh polite.”

“Amazon’s move is a canny one – on two fronts. The first is that it makes a range of new works – and probably plenty of pre-existing ones – eligible for sale and profit. It also brings on board members of fan fiction communities, among the most voracious and socially connected readers.”

“I ain’t ask Governor Barnett to give me one thing. Unless he wants to give me a pat on the back for the trouble I went to this morning. But he don’t have to if he don’t want to. I done what I done for my own pure-D satisfaction.”

“Don Share, 56, who is currently the magazine’s senior editor, is the second new addition to the top ranks at the Poetry Foundation, which publishes the magazine.”

“On behalf of word people everywhere, I hereby extend this general apology to numbers. We have not always counted you as friends.”

“Mauro Perani, professor of Hebrew at the University of Bologna, said experts and carbon dating tests done in Italy and the United States dated the scroll as having been made between 1155 and 1225. The scroll, which has been in possession of the Bologna University Library for more than 100 years, had been previously thought to be from the 17th century.”