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You Tell Me: Why IS Romance Reviled?
iStockphoto / GlobalStock So What Is It? Chopped Liver? Romance novels continue to be the most disdained of all genres. Often not just disdained or dismissed, but reviled with an unbridled hatred that...
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At Frankfurt Book Fair: Is The ISBN Still Worth Its Barcode?
iStockphoto / tobi ISBN Fail: We Cannot Count Thousands Of Books FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany — As I’m reporting here at the 66th Frankfurt Book Fair today in The Bookseller’s Show Daily, the United...
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‘Murder, She Read!’ Taking A Deep Dive Into Mystery With Nielsen
iStockphoto / KrivosheevV Do We Have A Clue What’s Happening In Mystery/Crime Reading? Their safe and secure lives rocked by a shocking revelation! Their routines turned upside down! Their world...
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Give Her Credit: Sarah McIntyre Crusades With Class For Book Illustrators
Sarah McIntyre and unidentified bird / Image provided by the artist #PicturesMeanBusiness And So Does She Sarah McIntyre. Image: Jabberworks.co.uk/about Once you break yourself of tweeting to her as...
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This Week’s Nielsen’s Children’s Book Summit: Research Over Guesswork
iStockphoto / IPGutenbergUKLtd When Your Reader Is Not Your Customer Most kids aren’t choosing and buying their own books. Most of the time, parents are the ones at the cash register, right? Of course...
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AuthorEarnings: Brought To You By Us, Your Breathless Media
iStockphoto / wellphoto My Hype Is Better Than Your Hype Sometimes it seems that almost no one in the publishing industry can deliver a message without a sticky gloss of agenda-laden hype on it. The...
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Age, Surveys, And Income: The Authors Guild’s View
iStockphoto / Type17 ‘Only One Piece Of The Puzzle’ Subsequent to our report on the Authors Guild’s release of results from its 2015 Member Survey, I’ve invited the Guild to provide some interpretation...
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Nobody Said YA Books Aren’t For Teens: Panel and Pushback At Nielsen’s Fine...
iStockphoto / Diego Cervo When The Medium’s Message Gets Rough It was an odd turnabout in the annual Nielsen Children’s Conference. Led by Kristen McLean—among the most respected people in the business...
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