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Reading a book without a prefaceReading a book without a preface is like arriving at someone’s house for dinner, and being conducted straight into the dining room. Michael...
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A Terribly Serious AdventureFrom The New York Times: When setting out to write “A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960,” Nikhil Krishnan...
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Designing Thriller and Mystery Twists That WorkFrom Jane Friedman: When mystery, thriller, and suspense authors plot their stories, one of the biggest consistent hurdles is designing...
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The Counterfeit CountessFrom The Wall Street Journal: The remarkable story of Janina Mehlberg almost didn’t see the light of day. A Holocaust survivor and a...
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Publishing isPublishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. Paulo Coelho
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Much publishingMuch publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity. Charles Bukowski
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There is a marvelous peaceThere is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It’s peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. J. D. Salinger
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The majority of the wealth of human knowledgeThe majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing...
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Life Inside the Fiction Factory: Dan Sinykin on Conglomerate PublishingFrom Public Books: For the average reader who loves getting lost in books, there’s usually no reason to pay much attention to the shifts...
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A new book looks at the past and future of copyrightFrom The Economist: If Walt Disney were still alive, he would be dismayed at the new film role given to his signature character, Mickey...
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Over one million “manipulated” tracks found on streaming platformsFrom NME.com: A new study has found there are over one million “manipulated” tracks on streaming platforms. Pex is a tech company that...
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OpenAI’s admission it needs copyright material is a gift to the publishing industryFrom The New Publishing Standard: The Writers Union of Canada is among the latest to, rightly, calls for legislation to regulate the excesses...
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The Wound and The ContradictionFrom Writer Unboxed: Finding ways to deepen characterization Over the holidays and now into the dark days of winter, I’ve been...
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Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing?From The Honest Broker: “This feels like the end of music reviews,” complained a depressed critic last night. That gloomy prediction is...
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Infectious GenerosityFrom The Wall Street Journal: In this unpleasant cultural moment, there’s no shortage of thinkers with ideas to cure what ails us. In “ The...
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Big Five Domination of Adult Bestseller Lists Slipped in 2023From Publishers Weekly: The Big Five’s grip on the hardcover bestseller lists continued in 2023, as 84.8% of the 2,080 positions on PW...
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Six reasons you’re confusing the readerFrom Nathan Bransford: If you hand off your novel to a loved one and you can’t help but notice their attention wandering, it might be more...
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Censorship: Texas ‘Book Rating’ Law Is Blocked on AppealFrom Publishing Perspectives: Late-day news from Austin today (January 17) is that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled “HF 900” a...
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Law Bots: How AI Is Reshaping the Legal ProfessionFrom Business Law Today: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is disrupting almost every industry and profession, some faster and more profoundly...
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Artificial intelligence in architecture: 10 use cases and top technologiesFrom itransition: Artificial intelligence in architecture enables engineers and architects to design, plan, and build structures more...
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Disruptive Innovation QuotesFrom CIO magazine: Regardless of the word’s over/misuse, there’s no denying that we are in an era of disruption. From Amazon to Apple, and of...
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What Is Disruptive Innovation?From The Harvard Business Review: The theory of disruptive innovation, introduced in these pages in 1995, has proved to be a powerful way of...
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Palworld breaks 1 million concurrent players on Steam and rockets onto its top 5 all-time most played games list, blowing past Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077From Windows Central: Just a few days after its launch, Pocketpair’s new “Pokémon with guns” open world survival creature...
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Japanese laureate deals fatal blow to notion that AI will never write as well as a humanFrom The New Publishing Standard: Music to my ears. A book part-written by AI has won a prestigious literary award. A fatal blow to the AI...
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Dealing with ChangeAs dealing with change becomes a regular activity, leading it becomes a skill to hone, an internal capacity to master. Arnaud Henneville
