By Hannah Bennett Several big announcements and interesting articles caught my eye this week, necessitating another roundup! In case you missed your publishing industry news this week, here are some great articles to catch up on. *** Let’s start big, with the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. …
By Susannah Greenberg Three recent news stories and the subsequent media coverage of them have me thinking about gender equality in the workplace and more specifically in the book industry: Pioneering Woman Astronaut Sally Ride’s passing and posthumous coming out; Marissa Mayer’s appointment as CEO of Yahoo at 37 years…
By Hannah Bennett Last Sunday, the WNBA-NYC ran a booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival, and we couldn’t have asked for a more spectacular day. The weather was perfect, the crowd was engaged and energized, and even the mischievous wind couldn’t put a damper on our spirits. The highlight of…
I enjoyed researching and writing the last article roundup so much, I thought I would do it again! This week, I wanted to start with an interview suggested by our chapter President, Jane Kinney-Denning. In an NPR interview conducted by JJ Sutherland entitled, “For Julie Smith, It’s All About New…
This week, thanks to our well-read WNBA-NYC community, I received quite a few recommendations about blog-worthy articles. So, rather than feature one article this Friday, I thought I would pass along all of these excellent recommendations in one roundup post! The articles below all cover different facets of today’s publishing…
“It was a dark and stormy night.” A cliché, sure, but once upon a time, someone was the first person to begin his book with those words. That person was Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, a Victorian novelist whose book Paul Clifford (1830) began with the immortal phrase in question. But did…
By Hannah Bennett Combine feminism, books, and Ryan Gosling, and you’ll be hard pressed to keep away devoted WNBA-ers like Erica Misoshnik and myself! When we heard about the event at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, celebrating the release of Feminist Ryan Gosling, The Book, we knew this was just…
On July 18th, The New York Times published some surprising news about 2011 book sales: Retailers sold more e-books in the adult fiction genre than hardcover or paperback books. Of course, if you are an industry insider, this news may not be so surprising after all. E-books sales have grown…
By Hannah Bennett By compiling movie reviews and creating a score for each movie, Rotten Tomatoes has made itself an invaluable resource for movie lovers. A quick look at the website’s ‘tomatometer’ gives you an idea of what the critics thought of each film. As an avid Rotten Tomatoes user,…
In June, we posted a list of some of the best books of the year so far. This week, we thought we’d give you a look at some of the great books to look forward to for the rest of 2012! Offering a fantastic peek at what’s to come, The…
