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Depending on your perspective, it’s been a difficult few weeks for publishing. Or it’s been a golden one. Certainly author tricks, hijinks and missteps have been everywhere, along with scandals and cups of urine. (Wait. What? Never mind. Keep reading.) Front and…
Want to get away from the everyday? We look back at a 2017 list of “17 Places Book Lovers Need to Visit” from Conde Nast Traveler. The magazine deems this nearly half score of getaway spots to be ones “that seem to…
After more than a decade of digitally fostered decline, bookstores are making a comeback says CBS News in a recent article: Between 2009 and 2015, more than 570 independent bookstores opened in the U.S., bringing the total to more than 2,200; that’s…
Though Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff’s book about the Trump White House had been set for publication on January 8th, following a cease and desist order from President Donald Trump’s lawyer, publisher Henry Holt moved the publication up several days, to January…
“Margot met Robert on a Wednesday night toward the end of her fall semester. She was working behind the concession stand at the artsy movie theatre downtown when he came in and bought a large popcorn and a box of Red Vines.”…
Though Amazon’s forays into real space bookselling have thus far been modest, their future plans are anything but. From The New York Times: The company is exploring the idea of creating stores to sell furniture and home appliances, like refrigerators —…
On a day when the sky feels like it’s falling in any case, this news from the world of print journalism seems less chilling than it might have been at other times. From Deadline Hollywood: As print advertising revenues continue to fall…
More often than not, first time authors get a real shock. Writing a book worth reading is a very difficult task. And once the book is complete, it’s easy for an author to say, “Well, that was hard. But now I’m done.”…
The Crooked Heart of Mercy will be out January 5 from Random House Canada and in the US it will be available in March from HarperCollins. It’s a very special book. Author Billie Livingston is a long-time friend of January Magazine (see…
Early on in this business, I learned to pay attention when multiple copies of a book started rolling in the door. More than one copy of a review book arriving doesn’t necessarily indicate that the book will be good, but it does…