Goodbye old/dead, white, male poets. Hello young, female poets. Donna Ferguson of The Guardian reports that “Young women aged 13 to 24 are now the biggest consumers of poetry in… Read more »

Last Thursday, the Washington Post announced that its new weekly bestsellers list would be calculated with some unconventional data. The calculations will include information from Amazon’s reading subscription services, including Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. The Post has also… Read more »

Statistics is hard. I get it. We work in book publishing, and we are people of letters. We draw from these artsy little shape-thingies here assembled some semblance of profundity, if not raw knowledge… Read more »

At last, some good news. Over at Publishers Weekly, Jonathan Segura has reported that print book sales, for the third year in a row now, were up in 2016 —… Read more »

In the publishing of dumb political books with great names, Donald Trump’s recent campaign biography is considered especially heinous. There’s the fact that it may have facilitated fraud, the Hitler-y… Read more »

Forty-five years ago Oxford University Press published the first edition of William H. McNeill’s survey, A World History. It’s still in print. Now in its fourth edition, the book has… Read more »

A Monday article in the New York Times by David Streitfeld about the threat Amazon’s publishing company poses to the industry seems to have been the spark that finally ignited… 1 / Read more »