Up for 2020, Book Business Braces for 2021
Publishers finished 2020 pretty much how they carried all of the year—with strong sales.
Amazon Considering E-book Lending for Libraries
Discussions with the Digital Public Library of America cover Amazon Publishing titles only.
BookExpo Is “Retired”
ReedPop has announced that book publishing shows BookExpo and BookCon are being “retired.”
“Promised Land” Promises Big Holiday Book Sales
“A Promised Land” is expected to dwarf all the other big books we’ve seen already this year, reports PW’s Andrew Albanese.
US Book Business May Cheer Biden and Love Trump Books
Joe Biden in the White House does not mean Donald Trump titles will vanish from bookstore shelves
London Book Fair Hopes For Summer 2021 Return
London Book Fair organizers Reed Exhibitions revealed plans to return to Olympia Hall in late June 2021.
Homeland Elegies is 2020’s Great American Novel
Despite all the challenges thrown by 2020, the book business continues to be strong.
High Marks for Virtual Frankfurt Book Fair
The Frankfurt Rights digital platform saw 4,165 people sign up, and some 400,000 titles were listed. There was even a “big book of the fair.”
Congress Calls Digital Giants “Prone to Monopolization”
A handful of digital companies are branded as having achieved the same level of pernicious market dominance as Standard Oil.
The Decade’s Top 100 Banned Books
According to ALA, 2019 saw an alarming uptick in challenged books that included or addressed LGBTQ+ content.