• Penguin Random House had a . That means advances will go up, right? Right?
• Why crime fiction is leftwing and thrillers are rightwing. .
• A coloring book has risen to #1 at Amazon. , by Joanna Basford, might just represent a new genre. Certainly it’s a godsend to the colored pencil industry.
• Is brewing with Amazon? HarperCollins is refusing to sign the new boilerplate contract. Or are we reading into this.
• When you know it’s time to move on: Elizabeth Spann Craig shares on going indie. Or rather hybrid, since she still has traditionally published books in print, and one forthcoming. I think hybrid is the future. At least the near future.
• The will go on permanent display.
• Who really needs ? We all do, that’s who. I love this interview.
• Tomas Tranströmer, poet and 2011 Nobel Prize laureate, at age 83.
• is the fastest-selling adult hardcover fiction debut ever.
• Joe Konrath has launched a company to sell indie ebooks to libraries: . We’ll have to wait and see whether libraries will embrace it, and whether KDP Select will stand in its way.
• Nielsen survey results: “E-books’ market share of new-book sales in 2014 over 2013, while the share of all book sales made through online retailers and bookstore chains dipped in the same period.”
• 25 that explain the English language. I eat this shit up.
• Finally, 100 you need to use more. They left out my favorites: haberdashery and nonchalance.
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