Sunday, October 11, 2015

The Roundup with PW

Graphic Novel Sales Hit $460 Million in 2014
Shared at an event during yesterday's kick-off of New York Comic Con, Milton Griepp's annual report on industry numbers revealed that graphic novel sales hit a high of $460 million in 2014. more »


New Edition of 'Rabbit' Moves 10K Copies in Two Days
Random House Children’s Books’ edition of 'The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep' sold just over 10,000 copies in its first two days on sale, according to data from Nielsen BookScan which tracks about 85% of all print sales. more »


Meyer Explains Gender-Flipped 'Twilight': At the Twilight 10th-anniversary panel at New York Comic-Con, Stephenie Meyer spilled the beans on 'Life and Death,' her brand-new gender-flipped rewrite of the YA classic.

Iran confirms FBF boycott: Iran’s cultural ministry has confirmed its Iranian representatives will not attend the Frankfurt Book Fair next week - and has urged other Islamic countries to boycott in protest about Salman Rushdie's presence there.

The Impact of Svetlana Alexievich's Win: The writer's Nobel sends a stern message to Putin, according to the 'Telegraph.'

DFW Is No Saint: To "venerate" David Foster Wallace as "literature’s 'good guy’ is to miss the point," says the 'Guardian.'

Stolen Darwin Returned to Canada: Mount Saint Vincent University in Nova Scotia will be getting back its first edition copy of Darwin’s 'On the Origin of Species' after it was stolen from the university’s library three years ago.


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