This is very cool
A behind the scenes video from Simon & Schuster's warehouse in Riverside, NJ. This is how we get books into the store.
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Guest Post: The persistence of indie bookstores
Note from Paul: This is a guest post from our friend Catherine Connors, legendary blogger (previously Her Bad Mother, now Holy Doodlebug) and co-author of The Feminine Revolution. Catherine visited the store during her trip to Alt Summit and wrote the following about her visit. When I was younger, I
Mark, My Words
Fascinating and outrageous piece by Alex Reisner in The Atlantic today about how Facebook used a gigantic repository of pirated books to train their AI models. When employees at meta started developing their flagship AI model, Llama 3, they faced a simple ethical question. The program would need to be
British covers are always better
An ironclad rule in publishing.
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of hardcovers
Every so often I get an email from one of our publisher reps about a "drop-in" title. That is, a book that wasn't in the publisher's seasonal catalog of upcoming titles but has been "dropped-in" as a last minute addition. Usually drop-ins