One of the Most Remarkable Publishing Stories I Have Ever Read
โ Books ๐ 2026-04-02 ๐ค surdeus ๐๏ธ 1
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I try to avoid hyperbole. Best. Craziest. Worst. Whatever. And I am not sure what superlative applies to the story of Woody Brown, his debut novel, and his mother, Mary Brown. I implore you to give it a few minutes of your time. I can tell you this much: I will be reading Upward Bound.
Reading magazines is (was?) one of the secret superpowers of Kindle Unlimited. The selection was good, reading quotas generous, and delivery automatic. Two of those things are getting worse this month:
Automatic delivery is ending: Only the issues you select will be added to your Library. Automatic delivery of future issues will no longer be available.
Magazines will count towards your 20-borrow limit: Magazines will share the 20-borrow limit with all other Kindle Unlimited content.
I am not sure what competitors there are: I use Apple News for a lot of magazine reading, but I am also not a Kindle (the device) heavy user.
Pretty rare anymore for me to see an indie bookstore event/activity that gets my attention, but โrare books scavenger huntโ apparently does it. The Next Chapter bookstore in Huntington, NY is hosting an event where they are hiding rare books around the store with a special $10 price per book, where the regular price would be $150 or more. If you find it, you have the choice to buy it. Fun. Makes me wonder if bookstores have done straight up easter egg hunts for kids in theirโฆ.oh wait, The Next Chapter is doing that as well.
Pretty interesting collection of books that are appearing on all five of the best-seller lists that we track each week. Though these are all books have have been doing well for awhile, together that seem different than the kinds of books that have been dominating over the last couple of years.
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