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December 28, 2015
Elaine Teng
Japan, meet Mr. Babe.
December 4, 2015
Alex Shephard
American publishers put out significantly fewer works in translation in 2015.
November 4, 2015
Dustin Kurtz
My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon’s Bizarre New Bookstore
A former indie bookseller visits the retailer’s brick and mortar store.
August 5, 2015
William Giraldi
Mockingbird, Inc.
Harper Lee’s juvenilia sprouts a literary industry
July 16, 2015
Laura Marsh
What's the Next 'Go Set a Watchman'?
The lost works of Joan Didion, Marilynne Robinson, and other great writers
June 26, 2015
Neal Pollack
Amazon's Pay Per Page Deal Is No Big Deal
Just read the fine print
October 24, 2014
Evan Hughes
Matt Yglesias Entirely Misunderstands Why the Book Publishing Industry Exists
July 18, 2014
Andrew Ladd
We Get to See Director's Cuts of Our Favorite Movies. Why Not an "Author's Cut" for Books?
June 27, 2014
Elizabeth Winkler
J.K. Rowling's New Novel Reveals What She Really Thinks of the Publishing Industry
And it isn't pretty
April 23, 2014
Marc Tracy
Evangelical Christians Are Disappointed to Discover That Book Publishers Believe in the Free Market, Too
February 20, 2014
Laura Bennett
The Book Industry Is So Scared of Amazon, No One Will Talk on the Record
Except these people
November 23, 2013
Linda Kinstler
Do Readers Give Infographics a Free Pass?
Why we need to learn to scrutinize them like any other journalism
October 25, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
How Chinese Readers Will Help Save American Publishing
October 25, 2013
Lionel Shriver
How to Succeed as an Author: Give Up on Writing
The rancid smell of 21st century literary success
October 22, 2013
Noreen Malone
The New King of Trash Publishing: Meet the Man Who Revolutionized Lowbrow
October 9, 2013
The New Republic Staff
The Next Time Someone Tells You Books Are Doomed, Show Them These Numbers
October 9, 2013
Evan Hughes
Books Don't Want to Be Free
How publishing escaped the cruel fate of other culture industries
October 8, 2013
Laura Bennett
The Andrew Wylie Rules
How the literary agent still makes millions off highbrow
August 5, 2013
The New Republic Staff
Farrar, Straus & Giroux: A History in Book Covers
December 2, 1991
John Updike
The Waspshot Chronicle

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