The problem with you girly, is you read too much! Listen to the episode this week where we dive into the drama in the publishing world and figure out what's up with Barnes & Noble right now.
Our sources this week:
Our episode on the slow death of local news: https://anchor.fm/the-ink-sink/episodes/17-Your-Neighborhood-Geeks-The-Sad-State-of-Your-Local-News-e1o765i
Our "Dracula Daily" episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pUlJHstbxjQ
Homestuck: https://www.homestuck.com/
Our "Kali Lives to Spite Ezra Pound" short: https://youtube.com/shorts/mPzoFV-kGgk?feature=share
From the guy who brought you the viral "no one wants to work anymore" thread, comes the next one: Kids read too much: https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1555906361065541633
Recent discourse asked whether we still publish controversial novels like Lolita. Here's a measured response: https://countercraft.substack.com/p/why-do-people-think-scandalous-novels
Our episode on banned books, where we talked about Skyhorse: https://anchor.fm/the-ink-sink/episodes/Episode-5-Banned-Books-Bash-e1fpp5a
Another angle, should publishing companies rethink what they publish in light of rising costs? https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/09/08/books-are-physically-changing-because-of-inflation
Interesting numbers e-readers vs books from a climate perspective: https://www.popsci.com/environment/books-ereader-sustainability/
B&N deprioritizing hardcovers? https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/90151-daunt-addresses-furor-over-middle-grade-fiction-buying-policy.html
Related, Amazon orders fewer books from publishers for its fulfillment warehouses: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/90164-amazon-stands-by-books.html
New Lambda Literary head: https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4316&share=true#m57584
Bookshop list of Lambda's 2022 winners: https://bookshop.org/lists/lambda-literary-2022-honorees
What We're Reading: https://bookshop.org/lists/what-we-re-reading-20648183-3934-47b4-aebd-e8457216d11f
“The Allure and Effects of the True Crime Genre” by Geralyn Jones: https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/acadfest/2022/all/198/
