Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.
- It's apparently still news that indie bookstores are thriving in the age of Amazon.
- The RWA decided to set itself on fire the day before Christmas. If you really want to understand what happened, this Twitter thread sums it up better than any of the reporting.
- Did you know Japanese bookstores shelve books by publisher, not author? (Patterson would be shelved the same under either system)
- China is blocking the release of American books as Trump's trade war causes more economic damage.
- People are now imputing political attributes into the choice of serif vs san serif fonts.
- This piece on the history of ebooks over the past decade missed a couple key points, including how several segments of the non-fiction market are getting eaten by things like instructional videos. (It also ignored library ebooks, and services like Kindle Unlimited.)
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