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Showing posts with label Romance Novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romance Novels. 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.”
9/27/23
AN ARTIST WHO REDESIGNS HISTORICAL ROMANCE BOOK COVERS TO FIT THE STORY and THE TIME PERIOD : BERNADETTE BANNER
I don't read romance novels but this genre is the best seller to women. (Murder - fiction and nonfiction - sells best overall.) The writer of a historical novel does their best to describe their characters authentically but then the cover is turned over to an artist who may not read the book or understand the fashion, hairstyles, and cosmetics of the era. BERNADETTE BANNER does and with a much better understanding of what the writer wrote, attempts to redesign the covers. Watched her videos and was just fascinated.
Because I have a rule that I do not embed videos that have commercials, I'll provide the links instead.
REDESIGNING HISTORICAL ROMANCE BOOK COVERS TO BE ACTUALLY HISTORICAL PARR 2
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