Publishing Newsauthorial persona / book-covers / cover-art / holiday cards / octopus / reader expectations / Satire / social mediaComments Off on Monday News: “Literary necrophilia,” octopi, history of book covers, and bad holiday cards
Book Lovers: Literary Necrophilia in the 21st Century – A very interesting piece from Joanna Walsh on the continually evolving relationship between author and text. The necrophilia in the title relates in part to the conceptual “death of the author,” and the reader’s attempt to mark their relationship to the ... more >
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Students host book drive to help recreate Mosul library – The 2014 destruction of the University of Mosul library included at least 100,000 rare books and manuscripts, and while most, if not all, may be irreplaceable, a historian at the University started a campaign to collect 200,000 books to begin rebuilding the ... more >
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Book Publishers Scramble to Make Sense of Trump’s Rise to Victory – We talk a lot about what direction publishers are taking, especially traditional publishers, and for the next months, at least, one significant focus may be politics. This isn’t surprising, of course, because commercial publishers are always engaged in capitalizing on ... more >
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Brexit: what next? – Neill Denny’s pro and con consideration of Brexit’s likely effect on the book industry. Some of his pros are a little dicey (the ‘we’re masters of the English-speaking world’ angle, for example), but certainly it’s true that disruption makes room for change, both positive and negative. Still, ... more >
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DABWAHA is here! – It’s that time of the year again! The annual DABWAHA tourney. In celebration of books and my love of the NCAA basketball tournament, Dear Author and Smart Bitches have teamed up to bring you the DABWAHA competition. Step one involves nominating your own favorite book published ... more >
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Surprise Laura Ingalls Wilder Bestseller Transforms a Small Press – This story is really about the success of two things: South Dakota Historical Society Press and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiography. I’m actually not surprised at the success of Wilder’s book, but the impact of its success on this small publisher is ... more >