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Bookselling Spotlight: The Writer's Block

By Ed Nawotka
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Jan 29, 2021
When Drew Cohen and Scott Seeley opened the Writer’s Block in 2014, it was Las Vegas’s only independent bookstore. Today, it still is. It is also the only independent bookstore in southern Nevada and, along with Sundance Books and Music in Reno, one of only two independent bookstores in the state focused on selling new books.
“The growth of Las Vegas has really outpaced the book scene,” said Cohen, who noted that Las Vegas’s best-known used bookstore, the Amber Unicorn, closed at the beginning of January after nearly 40 years in business.
Cohen and Seeley came to Las Vegas from New York City, where Seeley had been cofounder and executive director of Brooklyn literary nonprofit 826NYC. The opening of the Writer’s Block was serendipitous: “[Author] Jennifer 8. Lee was working with [late Zappos CEO] Tony Hsieh and approached Scott to ask if he knew anyone who might want to come to open a bookstore in Las Vegas,” Cohen recalled. “He said he did: us.”

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"The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing" Revisited

"The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing" Revisited
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Book Deals: Week of February 1, 2021

Book Deals: Week of February 1, 2021
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PW's Most-Read Comics Stories of 2020

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Breaking Down the Bestselling Books of 2020

Breaking Down 2020 Bestsellers by Publisher
Independent publishers strike back
By many measures, 2020 was an unusual year in publishing, and that extended to
Publishers Weekly’s bestsellers lists. In a rare occurrence, the Big Five publishers’ hold over the adult hardcover and paperback bestsellers lists declined in 2020 compared to 2019, with independent publishers gaining ground.
PW runs two hardcover and two paperback lists each week, and each list has 20 titles on it, meaning that in the course of a year there are 2,080 hardcover and 2,080 paperback positions on the lists total. On the hardcover side, the Big Five controlled 89.1% of all available bestseller slots—down

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Amazon faces class-action lawsuit over eBook pricing, says report

Amazon.com was slapped with a class-action lawsuit on Thursday accusing the e-commerce giant of inflating the prices of ebooks in collusion with some publishers.
The lawsuit alleges that Amazon and the five largest US publishers, collectively called the 'Big Five', agreed to price restraints that cause consumers to overpay for eBooks purchased from them through a retail platform other than Amazon.com.
The lawsuit comes a day after Connecticut said it was investigating Amazon for potential anti-competitive behaviour in its business selling digital books.
Amazon declined to comment. About 90 per cent of eBooks are sold through Amazon, the largest US eBooks seller, the lawsuit claimed.

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Nolan Promoted to Publisher of Penguin Books

Nolan Promoted to Publisher of Penguin Books
By Ed Nawotka
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Several changes to leadership have been made at Penguin Random House imprint Viking Penguin.
Patrick Nolan has been promoted to publisher of Penguin Books. Nolan, who will report to Brian Tart, president and publisher of Viking Penguin, will continue to acquire for his own editorial list as well as supervise reprints of the imprint's 2,500 or so backlist titles, focusing on production, scheduling, packaging, sales coordination and further opportunities, according to the company.
Andrea Schulz, editor-in-chief of Viking, will now be the editor-in-chief of Viking and Penguin Books. She will be in charge of all the acquisitions across both imprints and will continue reporting toTart.

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Bookselling Spotlight: The Raven Book Store

By Claire Kirch
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Jan 08, 2021
In my heart, it seemed like such a good fit,” recalled Danny Caine, a former high school teacher and published poet, about his decision to buy the Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kans., in 2017, a few months after completing his MFA in poetry at the University of Kansas. “Of course, I didn’t want to make a bad business decision. It wasn’t just that I wanted to avoid financial ruin for myself. It was also important to me to be a good steward for the store, which has been here for so long and has a hugely passionate and loyal following. I knew if I did something bad to the Raven, I’d be run out of town.”

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Book Deals: Week of January 11, 2021

With a six-figure preempt,
Claire Kohda’s
Woman, Eating for HarperVia. The debut novel, set for spring 2022, was sold in a North American rights agreement by
Sam Copeland at London’s RCW Literary Agency. Parsons described the work as a “literary vampire novel” that is “Ottessa Moshfegh meets
My Sister, the Serial Killer meets Twilight.” It follows an intern named Lydia who, Parsons explained, is living on her own, in London, for the first time. Away from her vampire mother, lonely, and hungry (subsisting on a diet of hard-to-secure pig blood), Lydia must “reconcile the conflicts within her—between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food and, in turn, humans—if she is to find a way to exist in the world.” Kohda is a book reviewer who has written for the

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Panel Mania: I'm A Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De La Cruz

Sharon Lee De La Cruz’s 'I’m a Wild Seed' is a playfully illustrated graphic memoir that explores her personal experiences accepting life as an intersectional Puerto-Rican/Dominican queer Afro-Latina. This is a ten-page excerpt.

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