Book Industry Research The Global 50 publishing ranking: Every year since 2007, analyst Rüdiger Wischenbart releases an in-depth report that determines and discusses the biggest 50 publishers in the world. Take a look (free preview, or pay what you want). Where is all the book data? A group of scholars takes issue with an industry that has made sales … Read more
Traditional Publishing Trend watch with middle-grade dealmakers: Agents and editors discuss what’s succeeding right now, including the graphic novel genre. Read Shannon Maughan at Publishers Weekly. Even writers who don’t typically write series are thinking about sequels after winning awards. But they’re not called sequels. Instead, they are “follow-ups.”
Traditional Publishing The ongoing conglomeration of publishing will not lead to the destruction of literature. So argues a professor of English who studies the history of conglomeration in publishing. He says, “A lot of interesting things are generated in resistance to conglomeration. The nonprofit presses exist as a direct result of it. There’s a dialectical relationship … Read more
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