The Future of Reading

Looking ahead to the American Libraries Association annual conference in Las Vegas later this month, Andrew Albanese takes stock of efforts by ALA’s Digital Content Working Group to influence the future direction of reading. “Formed three years ago when the library...

Hey, Author: You’re Promoted to CEO

As the independent publishing boom swells further, more authors are seizing the opportunity to take control of their writing careers. And while that move may offer potential for greater financial reward and even greater personal satisfaction, it means more work, too....

Amazon? Hachette? Whose Side Are You On?

At BookExpo America last week, the buzz at the show wasn’t about any new titles, or even any new apps, but about the bare-knuckle brawl between Amazon and Hachette over e-book pricing. The debate raises sharp, difficult questions about what lies ahead for publishers...

The “New” Agents

For the book business in 2014, everything is new – for proof, turn to the news media, which breathlessly covers the breaking stories as if filing dispatches from a war. Self-publishing particularly receives attention, and is often pitched as a David and Goliath tale....

BookExpo’s Magic Word

BookExpo America is the nation’s largest exposition devoted to the publishing business. As the weather in New York City clears and warms, it’s all the better to see the changes brought by the digital revolution. Above all, the buzz at BEA is a story at the heart of...

No End To This Work

From Williamsburg to Brighton Beach, the streets of Brooklyn have given life to as many novels as there are brownstones. Among the latest is the story of a young textbook salesman who can’t get past the chapter in his life when his actions may have led to the death of...

Hoopla And More at BookExpo

Next week, May 28-31, BookExpo America lands at the Javits Convention Center on Manhattan’s West Side. The nation’s largest trade show for the book business, BEA is a powerful magnet not only for authors and publishers, but also for librarians who love books – it’s...

Future Uncertain For Book Startups

The business of publishing is in disarray and experiencing disruption, but for a generation of whiz kids, that’s the good news. They see opportunity. If and when they can find venture capital, they pursue their dreams of paradigm shifts with energy and enthusiasm....

Hachette to Amazon: Let’s Rumble

In one corner, Amazon, the heavyweight online retailer; in the other corner, Hachette Book Group, parent of numerous leading imprints including Little, Brown and Company and Grand Central Publishing. In the early rounds of the bout, both sides have taken bruising...

BookExpo 2014 Preview

Book publishers turn out in force each spring for BookExpo America, the industry’s largest trade show in the U.S. But it’s the authors who draw the crowds. From Angelica Huston to Dick Cavett, Tavis Smiley to Lena  Dunham, BEA puts authors on stage to bare their...

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