Why Does Every Famous Woman Have a Book Club Now?

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Why Does Every Famous Woman Have a Book Club Now?

Of course, it isn’t each well-known girl, and in reality, that hyperbolic headline really does the very actual pattern a disservice. A extra fascinating query is: why is it these sort of well-known girls? Mostly white. All within the leisure trade. Mostly between the ages of 27 and 47. I believe Gould’s final conclusion is essentially the suitable one: the cultural forex that comes with being seen as aligned with books, primarily upmarket literary fiction, issues to those girls. Which is nice! Except that it doesn’t appear to matter to the books who get a flip, ever so fleetingly, in an Instagram Reel.

Higher Prices. Fewer Books Sold.

It’s not simply your creativeness. Books are getting costlier. More costly sufficient apparently to offset that fewer books are being offered. South Africa, surprisingly, exemplifies each tendencies, with a 7.7% drop in 2023 variety of models offered however a worth acquire of 9.6%. Is anybody on the market making an attempt to correlate this? Are fewer books being offered as a result of the costs are going up? Would the variety of books offered be increased if books have been cheaper? And if not, why aren’t costs even increased?

Introductory Book Fair Etiquette

I’ve learn/adopted Rebecca Romney for a lengthy whereas, and although I’m not a purchaser of uncommon books, I discover the world utterly fascinating. She just lately posted a thread, now weblog put up, about etiquette at uncommon e book festivals (that is aimed toward institutional patrons, fwiw). I by no means articulated this fashion, however I like studying in regards to the “etiquettes” of micro-communites, be it uncommon e book sellers or baseball gamers or artwork sellers or skilled fly-fishermen or no matter.