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New York Times bestsellers: Week of September 29, 2019

Posted on 09/20/2019 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week of September 29,...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Bestsellers, Book lists, The New York Times

What you need to know about a licensing contract's deal memo

Posted on 09/19/2019 at 05:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Kristine Kathryn Rusch has been explaining, for literally months, why you need to strategically license your intellectual property. And now,...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, The business of writing

Francoise Sagan's son publishes her unfinished novel

Posted on 09/19/2019 at 04:39 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A newly published book has the ultimate cliffhanger ending: its author passed away over a decade ago. Francoise Sagan, author...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: The Guardian, Women in literature

Walmart is selling the new Kobo Libra H2O

Posted on 09/19/2019 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Lest anyone think we’re biased toward Kindles, we’ll share an update on Kobo ereader availability. The Digital Reader reports that...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: E-reader, Kobo, The Digital Reader

A reading list for now and a reading list for later

Posted on 09/19/2019 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Times has two recommended reading lists to share today. One is a roundup of nine books that...

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Tagged As: Book lists, The New York Times

Front matter: How to arrange it and what to include

Posted on 09/19/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You’ve read countless books in your life, but chances are that if you were asked to list the typical order...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Design

Here's the 2019 longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction

Posted on 09/19/2019 at 10:46 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction came out today. Finalists will be announced October 8, and the...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Book lists, Nonfiction

Author Graeme Gibson has passed away

Posted on 09/18/2019 at 03:19 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author and conservationist Graeme Gibson has died at the age of eighty-five, according to the Guardian. His long-term partner, the...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Nonfiction, Obituary, The Guardian

Vision loss inspires man to create world's first audio comic book

Posted on 09/18/2019 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When Chad Allen went completely blind, after thirteen years of slowly losing his vision, he naturally turned to audiobooks. But...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Audiobook, Graphic novel, The Guardian

Here's the 2019 longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry

Posted on 09/18/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry came out today. Among the ten honorees is a political strategist:...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Poetry