William Greenleaf's Blog, page 6
July 9, 2018
July 9, 2018
Fortune
It’s not just Oprah Winfrey or even your friends trying to coordinate a suitable date on a never-ending reply-all Gmail thread anymore. Book clubs are more popular than ever, with bookworms meeting up through more and more social media-based communities moderated by publishers, celebrities, popular newsletters, and even “influencers.”
While book clubs themselves are nothing new and a rather old school version of socializing, there has been a proliferation as of late for book clubs as a method for connecting with readers (a.k.a. consumers) while boost branding, whether it be for a company or personality. With some book clubs being advertised on city subways and even national TV shows, lucrative opportunities are ripe for marketers, publishers, and authors.
What Audiobooks.com’s CEO Thinks of the Industry’s Double-Digit Growth
Forbes
Ian Small, CEO of Audiobooks.com, speaks on the current success and future promise of audiobooks: “With the more recent adoption of smartwatches, smart home speakers and other connected devices, audiobooks are able to integrate with people’s lifestyles more than ever before, and I don’t see that slowing down anytime soon.”
July 2, 2018
July 2, 2018
Combined print and digital book sales in the genres of science fiction and fantasy have doubled since 2010, according to data from the publishing industry analysis blog Author Earnings. This reality is going unreported, Author Earnings notes, largely because of a lack of transparency surrounding the amount of sales from nontraditional publishers.
The news, from a presentation given in May 2018 at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s 52nd Annual Nebula Conference, relies on new data covering 2017 book sales from a raft of different sources: NPD Pubtrack, NPD Bookscan, and Amazon ebook sales.
Newsprint tariffs threaten ‘hundreds of thousands of jobs’ in journalism and publishing
An industry group is asking for signatures to a petition against newsprint tariffs it says could threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs in journalism and publishing nationwide.
Stop Tariffs on Printers & Publishers, or STOPP, is gearing up for a hearing before the International Trade Commission on tariffs of up to 32 percent on newsprint imported from Canada.
“Our members want to make sure decision makers understand the impact this case will have on over 600,000 jobs in the publishing and printing industries,” said Paul Boyle, senior vice president of public policy at the Arlington, Virginia-based News Media Alliance. “These tariffs have already had a disruptive impact on the news industry with increased costs, job loss and supply issues. We are doing everything we can to make sure that local newspapers do not become extinct.”
This Week’s Bestsellers: July 2, 2018
June 20, 2018
Quote of the Day, 6/20/18
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
(George Orwell)
June 18, 2018
June 18, 2018
In the news…
Amazon comes under fire for removal of book reviews.
Fiction writers turn their attention to Donald Trump.
http://www.tbo.com/features/books/Fiction-writers-turn-their-attention-to-Donald-Trump_168983515
Book Deals: Week of June 18, 2018.
June 13, 2018
Quote of the Day, 6/13/18
“When will you learn that there isn’t a word for everything?”
(Nicole Krauss)
June 6, 2018
Quote of the Day, 6/6/18
“We live and breathe words. … It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt–I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted–and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
(Cassandra Clare)
May 30, 2018
Quote of the Day, 5/30/18
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
(Markus Zusak)
May 23, 2018
Quote of the Day, 5/23/18
“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
(Jules Renard)
May 16, 2018
Quote of the Day, 5/16/18
“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
(Marcel Duchamp)
May 9, 2018
Quote of the Day, 5/9/18
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
(Tahereh Mafi)
