May 22 2020: The Romance Writers of America will permanently retire its annual RITA Awards, which it has presented annually since 1982, and introduce a new award, the Vivian, named after RWA founder Vivian Stephens.
The move to retire the RITAs follows a controversy related to ...
May 22 2020: Original Story: April 30, 2020: A school board in Alaska has got more than it bargained for after pulling classics including The Great Gatsby and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings from the school curriculum, with members of the local community offering incentives to ...
May 21 2020: After two weeks of consecutive double-digit growth, unit sales of print books fell last week compared to the week ended May 9, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. For the week ended May 16, units dropped 7.8% compared to the prior week. But although units fell...
May 19 2020: The decline in publishing sales due to the impact of Covid-19 began to appear in some, but not all, industry segments in March. The 1,361 publishers who report to the AAP's StatShot program saw a 8.4% decline in sales in March compared to a year ago. While the adult ...
May 15 2020: Before the pandemic, Tomos Roberts read his poems to crowds around London who, he confesses, were often more interested in what they were drinking than what he was saying. Now, hunkered down and out of work, he’s found a far more attentive audience that stretches around...
May 15 2020: From The Washington Post Book Club
You probably know that most news organizations have been walloped by the Great Cessation. Thousands of journalists have been laid off or furloughed, and many publications and web sites are expected to close — or already have. ...
May 15 2020: Sales at bookstores tumbled 33.4% in March compared to March 2019, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales this March were $391 million, down from $587 million a year ago.
The entire retail segment, which rarely shows a monthly ...
May 14 2020: Unit sales of print books continue to defy expectations that the coronavirus crisis will lead to a plunge in sales. In fact, just the opposite is occurring. Last week, unit sales of print books had their second consecutive week of double-digit growth over the previous ...
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