Publishing world

Have you read Victoria Helen Stone's False Step? No? Surprising, given that it's a best seller, and that you clicked on an article about books and publishing-I thought you were more widely read. Surely you've at least gotten through Loreth Anne White's The Dark Bones? Julianne MacLean's A Fire Sparkling? Claire McGowan's What You Did?  Read more

Five members of the book publishing and bookselling industry appeared Tuesday at hearings being conducted by the U.S. Trade Representative over the Trump administration's proposal to impose a 25% tariff on $300 billion of goods imported from China, including books.  Read more

The rush to release a print version of the Mueller report is the latest example of a desperate industry increasingly addicted to quick takes for fast profit.  Read more

While times have been upbeat in the book world, with almost universal good results for publishers, the same cannot be said of news media, and in particular digital news media. Whereas a few years ago startup news companies, backed by aggressive venture capital and touting technologically turbo-charged journalism, were riding high, now they are in full-on crisis mode.  Read more

This past weekend, the New Yorker published a lengthy exposé detailing how Dan Mallory, the former William Morrow executive editor and pseudonymous author, as A.J. Finn, of the bestselling thriller The Woman in the Window, had lied to colleagues and superiors for years as he rose up the ranks in publishing.  Read more