While it is impossible to know the exact number of self-published books available on the market, all data points available indicate they continue to make a bigger dent in the market year over year.
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Category: Publishers & Booksellers
The nationally syndicated radio host’s first memoir, Where Do I Begin?, landed on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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Editorial: Everyone loves print books. How can ebooks get more love?
As we approach 2020, I expected ebooks to be a much bigger part of book publishing revenue.
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Point of View: R.L. Stine, Author, Goosebumps
OverDrive’s Steve Potash speaks with R.L. Stine, the author of hundreds of children’s horror fiction novels, including the Goosebumps series. Stine discusses growing up as a “weird kid,” the joys of writing for a young audience, how a librarian changed his life, new projects and much more.
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Editorial: What every author and agent should know about library sales of their titles
In an effort to promote more informed conversations between publishers and their authors/agents, here are two questions I recommend every author and agent ask their publisher…
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It started innocently enough when I was in grad school. I had a 40-minute commute, and a friend gave me a tape.
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Editorial: Up in the sky…It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…book? Why we need reading heroes
Each of us has an opportunity to become a superhero: a reading hero. It’s time to support all the book and reading champions among us.
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Point of View: Skip Dye, Vice President, Penguin Random House
OverDrive’s Steve Potash speaks with Skip Dye, Vice President for Library Marketing and Digital Sales, Sales Operations for Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade publisher.
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Though there’s still a long way to go to achieve true equality in publishing, 2018 saw increases in both digital readership and sales of content created by authors that come from a diverse background.
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Before the written word, stories were passed down through the oral tradition of storytelling. For Liberian-American author Wayétu Moore, the stories of West Africa were her introduction to imaginative worlds and speculative fiction.
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