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Happy New Year everyone! Let’s send 2009 off with one final news post, shall we?
Sean Cranbury of Books on the Radio breaks down the literary world’s new rules of engagement. As traditional book coverage shrank, alternative coverage like the National Post’s Canada Also Reads and Sean’s own Advent Books Blog emerged.
Book trailers are beasts that, so far, are better in theory than practice. The Huffington Post observed today that readers tend to make better book trailers than publishers and point to a video by the New Zealand National Book Council for Going West by Maurice Gee. Is it the best book video ever? Watch it and decide for yourself.
BookNet Canada rounded up a few great publishing minds to look back at publishing 2009 and forward to 2010 (and beyond!).
BookNet isn’t the only one getting in on industry recap action. Bob Miller of HarperCollins put together a great list of trends and counter-trends we saw start in 2009 and forecasts what’s to come.
