Viz Media is one of the largest manga distributors in the United States and due to COVID, sales are booming. Kevin Hamric, the vice president of publishing sales at Viz Media recently gave an interview to ICV2 and stated “VIZ has been doing extraordinarily well during the pandemic period. Our sales are beyond expectations. For …
To mark the release of Dead Girls by Selva Almada (Charco Press), we asked translator Annie McDermott a few questions. Enjoy! How did you come to Dead Girls? Annie McDermott: In fact, Dead Girls came to me. Chris Andrews, who translated—brilliantly—Selva’s first novel, The Wind that Lays Waste, was too busy to take it on, so …
Has your book group ever become frustrated by members who join in book discussions without having finished the book — or, in some cases, without even starting it? If so, you’re not alone. According to our research, 15% of reading group members say their book club has experienced problems around this issue; and a quarter …
Has your book group ever become frustrated by members who join in book discussions without having finished the book — or, in some cases, without even starting it? If so, you’re not alone. According to our research, 15% of reading group members say their book club has experienced problems around this issue; and a quarter …
Remarkable is spending millions of dollars on marketing and promotional advertising for their second generation model, the Remarkable 2. On paper, some of the specs are really compelling. They have doubled the RAM, processing power and extended the battery life. The device has been resigned to be slimmer and lighter, at the expense of removing …
Dead Girls by Selva Almada, translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott (Charco Press) Yesterday, on Twitter, I promised that the rest of this month’s posts on new books in translation would be way more positive, but, well, sorry everyone—I momentarily forgot which books I was planning on writing about today (and next week). Let’s …
TCL is the company responsible for making budget 4K televisions and all sorts of other devices, such as smartphones and tablets. They have just unveiled a new breed of screen technology called TCL NXTPAPER and they want to compete against E INK for readers eyes. The new TCL NXTPAPER technology is a low-power, reflective display …
Bertelsmann is the parent company of Penguin Random House, and this year they own 100% of the company, after they bought out the stake Pearson had in it. Penguin Random House is responsible for almost half of all books published in the world, on a yearly basis. When Viacom and CBS merged, in late 2019, …
I can’t imagine I’m the only person who feels like they haven’t been their best work self over the course of the past six months. We all have acedia. Some days are foggy, others start out fine and then you find out that your local police department killed a black man in MARCH and just released the …
Readers, do you remember the first book that made you fall in love with reading? For today’s guest, an encounter with The Baby-Sitters Club #4 Mary Anne Saves the Day in middle school launched a lifelong love of reading AND a special fondness for middle grade novels. Afoma Umesi is a freelance writer, editor, and …