A major way people are educating themselves about racial injustice is through books.
Continue ReadingWhen schools began to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Room to Read faced unprecedented challenges in fulfilling its mission to create a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality.
Continue ReadingThere is no reason to think that circulation of Chinese content will slow down, especially not as more libraries and schools develop their collections to better reflect their readers.
Continue ReadingWhile 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.
Continue ReadingThe nationally syndicated radio host’s first memoir, Where Do I Begin?, landed on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Continue ReadingEditorial: 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.
Continue ReadingPoint 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.
Continue ReadingEditorial: 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…
Continue ReadingIt started innocently enough when I was in grad school. I had a 40-minute commute, and a friend gave me a tape.
Continue ReadingEditorial: 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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