Booksology What will be in the public domain in 2025?: A festive countdown
Works by Matisse, Faulkner, Woolf, and many others. A well packaged resource and currently in my bookmarks.
Taylor Swift’s book is a huge hit
taylor swift’s The Elas Tour According to Circana, the book is by far the best-selling book of the year and the second-fastest-selling nonfiction title in Circana’s records, surpassed only by Barack Obama in 2020. “The Promised Land.” There are also two notes on it. First, Swift’s books are only available at Target, which admittedly cost Swift a few copies in the first week. Obviously the more hardcore people went to Target, but there are tons of sales going on for people like B&N, Walmart, and Indie. Second, as far as I know, pre-orders were not available. The Elas Tour. Huge releases like this often end up with a significant number of first-week sales hoarded as pre-orders, as pre-orders aren’t “realized” until the book is actually released. Combining these two factors makes me wonder what the implications of this book’s first week’s cap actually were. Wouldn’t it be better if it was twice the size? 1.6 million? I think so.
The best gift for our readers this year
The safest way to gift a bookworm is to give them a book you know they want, not a book they should look at. Apart from that, book-related gifts will be more fun and surprising. So if you have readers on your list (or just want a list to forward potential gift recipients to), Book Riot’s 2024 gift guide is for you.
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