Morning Coffee – 12 April 2021
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.
- The ALA has released its latest list of the ten most challenged books.
- James Daunt is still getting headlines for saying the most innocuous things.
- Brilliant Books has a fascinating piece on books whose spines do not match the covers.
- Andrew Fowlow shares a list of ways readers ca support authors without spending a penny.
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Comments
Disgusting Dude April 13, 2021 um 12:40 pm
Well, the B&N piece does offer *some* meaningful data that might be headline worthy: barely half the shelf space in a typical store actually moves books. Being kind. (65×0.75)=48.75%, actually.
That’s a lot of space doing nothing for book sales.
Richard Hershberger April 14, 2021 um 1:05 pm
The crack about headlines is a cheap shot. This is a perfectly cromulent trade journal article about the state of play of a major player in the trade. It isn’t being splashed across the front page of the New York Times.
Disgusting Dude April 15, 2021 um 7:01 am
cromulent (Adjective) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic. Etymology: A humorous neologism coined by television writer David X. Cohen; see 1996 quotation.
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So you agree the headline is a joke?
Check.