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Ian MacAllen
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The One-Man Publishing House
Gabriel Levinson just might operate one of the world’s smallest independent publishers. ANTIBOOKCLUB releases just one book a year and each title is the product of the one-man publisher who serves as editor, marketer, promoter, and bookkeeper. Brooklyn-based Levinson has…
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Books as Beautiful Objects
Perhaps some buyers do judge books by their covers. A designer has been turning classic literature into beautiful objects. Coralie Bickford-Smith, a London-based book jacket designer for Penguin, convinced the publisher to begin a line of books with traditional cloth…
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Print Books Bounce Back
Physical books are not only surviving, they are thriving. New data suggest that 2015 saw an uptick in the number of print books sold.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
James Patterson is giving away $2,000,000 in holiday bonuses to bookstore workers and libraries. An adults-only sex shop in Anchorage, Alaska is getting remade into an indie bookstore. Philadelphia’s Hakim’s Bookstore, a landmark African-American shop, is a small business on…
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An Editor’s High-Priced Advice
Submission fees irk writers because they often prey on novice writers without the connections to bypass slush piles. Narrative Magazine is one of the worst offenders, with a fee of $23, seven times the typical fee of $3. Narrative justifies the…
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Notable NYC: 12/19–12/25
Saturday 12/19: Harry Burke and Juliana Huxtable join the Segue series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 12/20: Guillermo Filice Castro, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Sarah Gambito, and Mark Nowak join the Sunday Salon series. Jimmys No. 43, 7 p.m.,…
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Inside the Secrets of NYPL’s Underground Stacks
The New York Public Library holds more than 16 million volumes, making it the 4th largest library in the United States. Many of those volumes are stored in the Milstein stacks, two levels of the library directly under Bryant Park.…
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Paying Authors to Appear
The British Society of Authors has called on literary festival organizers to pay authors who make appearances at events. The organization is asking that any literary festivals that charge entrance fees pay authors a minimum fee. At present, few events pay,…
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An Audio Library for Blind Readers
A unique library project in India is helping people who are blind access books. Printed books are converted in audio formats so blind readers can listen to them, with the target audience students between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five. Volunteers…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
One Grand is a new bookstore in the western New York state town of Narrowsburg where the only books are recommended reads. The inventory will cycle through recommendations from selected curators with salon-style readings held on a barge near the…
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Crowdsourced Publishing
A new book about Taylor Swift will be crowdsourced. GalleyCat reports that Simon & Schuster plans a new, unauthorized look at the singer. The publisher has organized a series of contests for fans to produce the content of the book.
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Notable NYC: 12/12–12/18
Saturday 12/12: Diana Hamilton and Steve McCaffery join the Segue series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Many people read Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Housing Works, 1 p.m., free. Brian Matthew Kim, Ann Podracky, Jolie Hale, and Jason N. Fischedick…