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This week in books 4/30/17

April 30, 2017 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

I’ve been traveling. Follow me on Instagram! @nathanbransford This week! In books! Just a few days delayed. This is probably worth a full post unto itself, but there have been some very good articles on what has happened to Google Books, the incredibly ambitious effort to digitize all of the world’s physical books. It’s a tale […]

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Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Google, literary agents, This Week in Books

Imagining a Post-Amazon World

May 21, 2013 by Nathan Bransford 33 Comments

A few weeks back I wondered why publishers haven’t taken the initiative to begin selling e-books in a more-agressive way, and especially why they don’t empower authors to sell their own e-books. Reader Steve Davidson took that a step further and wonders why an author with a platform needs a publisher or distributor at all: […]

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Filed Under: Business of Publishing Tagged With: Amazon, E-books, Future of Publishing, Google

The Last Few Weeks in Books 5/20/13

May 20, 2013 by Nathan Bransford 4 Comments

Brooklyn Heights. Photo by me. I’m on Instagram here. Lots and lots of links stored up from the past few weeks, let’s get to them! It hasn’t been long since the courts rejected a settlement between the Authors Guild and Google over Google’s bookscanning project, which many people characterized as far too generous to Google. […]

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This Week in Books 7/8/11

July 8, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 33 Comments

This week! The books! Another relatively quiet week in books this week, so just a few quality links for you. Also, on Monday and Tuesday I shall be away from the blog and will be posting blog posts of yore, which will possibly incorporate my new kick of including art from yore. First up, the […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Google, literary agents, Social Media, This Week in Books

This Week in Books 3/25/11

March 26, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 32 Comments

This week! Books! On Saturday! Huge news this week, as a federal judge rejected the Google Book Settlement. If you recall, Google had scanned basically every book in the world and was hoping to make them all available. But there are a ton of old books where the rights situation is uncertain. Technically the books […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Barnes and Noble, Borders, E-books, Google, literary agents, Self-publishing

Fun With Google Ngrams

December 21, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 53 Comments

First up, if you haven’t left a comment on yesterday’s post, please continue to do so! Every comment means $1.00 more for Heifer International, and please also consider helping out the needy by making your own pledge. Transition. Ever wonder how popular a word or phrase or person or thing is over time? Well, wonder […]

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