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I did not wish that my book were Eat, Pray, Love. As the only journalist to live undercover in North Korea, I had risked imprisonment to tell a story of international importance by the only means possible. By casting my book as personal rather than professional—by marketing me as a woman on a journey of self-discovery, rather than a reporter on a groundbreaking assignment—I was effectively being stripped of my expertise on the subject I knew best. It was a subtle shift, but one familiar to professional women from all walks of life. I was being moved from a position of authority—What do you know?—to the realm of emotion: How did you feel?

[Mike Shatzkin says,] “Publishers are going to have to adjust to a model where they print what they know will sell rather than what they hope will sell.”

<a href=http://www.elle.com/culture/books/a37207/toni-morrison-writing-is-dangerous/" target="_blank">Toni Morrison

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In 2013, the Syfy channel underwent some changes, with programming changes that brought along its current slate of programming. With these new shows came a new focus on presenting a diverse cast. Some of the network’s latest offerings, such as Twelve Monkeys, The Expanse, Dark Matter, Killjoys, and Wynonna Earp each prominently feature women and a diverse cast. It’s a positive and progressive step forward within science fiction television, but their actions show that this isn’t something that happens by accident: it’s a deliberate series of decisions that are made to make this happen.

From "5 Strangest Books Ever Written" by Paul Ratner for Big Think

"He has exposed what many have suspected all along - that this was a concerted operation by the Chinese authorities to go after the booksellers."

From "Book publishers have shed 25,000 jobs over the last two decades, but hey, at least we’re not newspapers" by Simon Reichley for Melville House's MobyLives

I may finally buy an adult coloring book.

From "Sorry, You Can't Speed Read" by Jeffrey M. Sachs and Rebecca Treiman for The New York Times

Labeled, not so modestly, the “Gutenberg press of the 21st century” by its creators, the machine sits in a back corner of the shop, humming as it turns PDFs into paperbacks. Customers use tablets to select the titles for print — adding, if they want to, their own handwritten inscriptions — while sipping coffee in the light and airy storefront in the Latin Quarter of Paris.

From "Self-published authors may be no worse off than the rest of us" by Russell Smith for The Globe and Mail