Category: publishing

Goodreads has made an Infographic that explains…

“Last month, a disastrous earnings report coincided with the company’s announcement that it would no longer manufacture color tablets. And on Monday, Barnes & Noble announced that Mr. Lynch, the young, tech-savvy architect of the company’s digital strategy, had abruptly resigned. A new chief executive was not named. That leaves the nation’s only major bookstore chain without a clear path forward, reviving fears among publishers, authors and agents — who are deeply dependent on a viable Barnes & Noble — about its future.”

“What should it offer? It finds its etymological roots in the old French essai: to attempt. It blends inquiry and confession into a hybrid weave that deepens each. It draws personal material into public mattering.”

“Is it unthinkable that today’s grade schools require the memorization of a poem or two? Sister Rosanne assured us we would thank her in later years. When I meet old classmates from those years, I find she was correct.”

“The lab at Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center will stock three MakerBot Replicator 2 3D printers, two laser cutters, a milling machine and a vinyl cutter, plus a selection of software.”

“Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) moved closer to breaking up the largest U.S. bookstore chain after its chief executive officer resigned and it named a manager with a history of spinning off units to its most senior position.”

“The shortlist for the £10,000 best collection award is headed by Michael Symmons Roberts, who won the Whitbread award for poetry in 2004, and Glyn Maxwell, whose collection Pluto examines the language of dating websites.”

Williams Book Store in San Pedro opened in 1909 but in recent years has been operating on fumes.

“It’s amazing how the question of genre category, and especially the definition of “literary” fiction, is still sparking more passion and frank upset among writers and fans than any subject (except perhaps gender, and the two are not unrelated, since some genres are associated with genders; “hard” sci-fi with men, paranormal romance with women, etc).”

“A bad week for women and a good one for geeks, sighed an industry insider after a couple of days that saw one of British publishing’s two queens abdicating, and the other resigning herself to a less regal role.”