Publishers & Booksellers Archives - Perspectives on Reading

Editorial: Everyone loves print books. How can ebooks get more love?

dsantoli October 2, 2019

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.

Point of View: R.L. Stine, Author, Goosebumps

dsantoli July 1, 2019

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.

Editorial: What every author and agent should know about library sales of their titles

dsantoli July 1, 2019

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…

Confessions of an audio addict

dsantoli July 1, 2019

It started innocently enough when I was in grad school. I had a 40-minute commute, and a friend gave me a tape.

Editorial: Up in the sky…It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…book? Why we need reading heroes

dsantoli March 25, 2019

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.

Point of View: Skip Dye, Vice President, Penguin Random House

dsantoli March 21, 2019

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.

Readership, sales of titles from diverse authors are on the rise

dsantoli March 21, 2019

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.

She Would Be King author Wayétu Moore on the magic of storytelling (Q&A)

dsantoli March 20, 2019

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.

Vox author Christina Dalcher examines the importance of language (Q&A)

dsantoli November 10, 2018

A first-time novelist, Christina Dalcher is also a writer of flash fiction (short, short stories) and previously taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses in linguistics, phonetics and phonology as well as writing and rhetoric.

“Imagine a world in which all children can see themselves in the pages of a book.”

dsantoli November 6, 2018

We Need Diverse Books was founded in 2014 to advocate for greater representation in children’s literature.