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Showing posts with label Publishers Weekly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Publishers Weekly. Show all posts
2/4/26
NO MORE DRUGSTORE PAPERBACKS? PUBLISHER WEEKLY SAYS NO ; MAYBE SOME BODICE RIPPERS?
Excerpting: The decision made this winter by ReaderLink to stop distributing mass market paperback books at the end of 2025 was the latest blow to a format that has seen its popularity decline for years. According to Circana BookScan, mass market unit sales plunged from 131 million in 2004 to 21 million in 2024, a drop of about 84%, and sales this year through October were about 15 million units. But for many years, the mass market paperback was “the most popular reading format,” notes Stuart Applebaum, former Penguin Random House EVP of corporate communications. Applebaum was also once a publicist at Bantam Books, one of the publishers credited with turning mass market paperbacks into what he calls “a well-respected format.”
5/24/08
ARE YOU STUCK WITH A GENRE ?
As a writer, are you stuck with a genre without meaning to be?
This morning I was thinking about how pleased I am to read obituaries in Publishers Weekly and learn that a particular writer was published in several genre, or moved between Journalism and Novels. Sometimes, but not always, this was accomplished in part by establishing separate identities and names of the plume to write behind. Sometimes the writer left one form of writing behind and never returned to it. Whatever the case, children's book authors have written grants, and grant writers have written novels, and novelists have written poetry and poets have written hard news, and tabloid journalists have written poems. But, I think, once you have arrived on the literary scene with a successful book project, it may be more difficult than ever to become more expansive in range. After all, the wealthiest writers are often not those who spent 10 or 20 years on THE BOOK, but the ones who develop a strong character or characters and take them through adventures book after book with a regular publishing schedule that allows maybe a year to go by between books.
Any experiences or opinions?
This morning I was thinking about how pleased I am to read obituaries in Publishers Weekly and learn that a particular writer was published in several genre, or moved between Journalism and Novels. Sometimes, but not always, this was accomplished in part by establishing separate identities and names of the plume to write behind. Sometimes the writer left one form of writing behind and never returned to it. Whatever the case, children's book authors have written grants, and grant writers have written novels, and novelists have written poetry and poets have written hard news, and tabloid journalists have written poems. But, I think, once you have arrived on the literary scene with a successful book project, it may be more difficult than ever to become more expansive in range. After all, the wealthiest writers are often not those who spent 10 or 20 years on THE BOOK, but the ones who develop a strong character or characters and take them through adventures book after book with a regular publishing schedule that allows maybe a year to go by between books.
Any experiences or opinions?
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