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Book Purists, It’s Finally Time to Give Up and Start Watching Game of Thrones – It’s interesting to see that as GoT the television show chugs on, while the book series crawls toward a new book, we are seeing more arguments for the usurpation of the books by the show. Not ... more >
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Fear not, the novel is not history – Literary agent Ian Mulcahy responds to the recent Telegraph article that laments an apparent drop in UK fiction sales and notes that books are competing with other forms of entertainment for people’s “limited leisure time.” Mulcahy argues that overall book sales trends show growth in sectors ... more >
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Disrupting the book: Serialization, new formats, and AR – We continue to see stories evolve, including their format, and as Ja Ja Liao points out in this post, technologies continue to evolve. Tablets and dedicated e-readers were not the end of the road, nor are smartphones. And now we’re seeing more serialized ... more >
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Game of Thrones Publisher Denies Winds of Winter Release Date Rumor – There is a distinct possibility that the HBO series Game of Thrones will end before Winds of Winter even releases. A placeholder release date of March 2017 on Amazon France’s website created international anticipation, but neither George R.R. Martin nor Random House ... more >
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Books are back: Printed book sales rise for first time in four years as ebooks suffer decline and BEA 2016: E-book Sales Fell 13% in 2015, Nielsen Reports – Trends in both then UK and US book markets appear to mirror each other, with adult coloring books and other “lifestyle non-fiction” propelling the ... more >
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Sorry about the news yesterday, folks. I finished a two-year long work project (not exaggerating) on Friday and pretty much collapsed after that. Roberta Gellis dies – Thank you to the DA reader who sent me a link to this obituary, because although I had heard of Gellis’s death, her obit ... more >