@DerekKrissoff

Independent publishing consultant in Pittsburgh. Editor-at-large with @oupress and @kentstateupress. Reach me at dkrissoff at gmail dot com.

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I may have quit my job, but I’m still sitting on the same couch hoping to do some of the same work. Authors and publishers: I’m here to write marketing material, help with proposals and questionnaires, and think about building community around your books: derekkrissoff.com
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Dan Brooks@DangerBrooksOct 22
Reading is one of the best things you can do and costs like $20 for six hours, tops. In many cases it's free. The people who make it possible live in penury and the whole modern economy is organized against it.
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Woke up on the Allegheny and am now a new level of Pittsburgher.
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Dr David Vernon@DrDavidVernonOct 21
more gorgeous penguin covers — the wonderful twentieth-century classics editions from the 1990s.
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My third fiction acquisition ever is the recovered novel “Pat the Lion on the Head” by Raymond DeCapite—compared by Salvatore Scibona to Bellow and Twain. If funny, street-smart dialogue in a midcentury Cleveland setting is your thing, hit me up re: review copies, features, etc.
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Nab an ARC at Edelweiss: edelweiss.plus/#sku=16063552…

Edelweiss+

Edelweiss, by Above the Treeline, is the book industry’s platform to sell, discover, and order new titles.

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Tamara Winter
@tamarawinterOct 20
“Actually, in America, the reading of books is up. Sales of print books have increased nearly twenty-five per cent from a decade ago. The number of independent bookstores in the United States has climbed steeply since 2009, with a seventy-per-cent increase since 2020.” These nuggets & more in this delightful @NewYorker profile of James Daunt, founder of Daunt Books, CEO of Barnes & Noble, and Managing Director of Waterstones: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

The New Age of Reading

Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand.

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If you’re sending a kid to college and want (very reasonably) to steer them toward institutions that deemphasize AI, this “AI Campus Index” list can be read upside-down: aicampusindex.com
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Andrew Berzanskis@ABerzanskisOct 15
ICYMI Two new books this fall in the @OUPress series "Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed"! "Classroom Mindscapes: An Introduction to Neurodiversity for Educators" by Sarah E. Silverman "UDL at Scale: Whole-Campus Universal Design for Learning" by Thomas J. Tobin
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Imo, newspapers and magazines were the far more important vehicles of casual literacy. Daily habit for a ton of people to read real articles, essays, etc. Books still exist and will endure far beyond our lifetimes; newspapers and magazines are actually gonna die.
Neocon Nixonite(formerly Hungarian)🇭🇺🇳🇱🇩🇰@nixoninexileOct 13
The biggest reason for the decline of reading imo, is that it doesn't have a "three movies a year" crowd anymore. Regular, not very intellectual people reading a couple of airport paperbacks every year was a huge market in the 20th century, but those people are all on tiktok now
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Xenocrypt@xenocryptsiteOct 14
Reading is an absurdly cheap hobby lol end of discussion.
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Lincoln Michel@TheLincolnOct 13
A funny thing about the mass market paperback discourse is in my childhood they were about $6.99 or roughly $16 in 2026 dollars... which is about what trade paperbacks are priced today. The cost of a paperback book hasn't really changed (although hardcovers are extra pricey now)
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Rob Henderson
@robkhendersonOct 14
Have these idiots forgotten libraries exist
Jacobin
@jacobinOct 12
Everyone blames screens for the decline of reading. Nobody blames the consolidated corporate publishing industry that made books pricier, more generic, and harder to find. jacobin.com/2026/10/books-pu…
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Rachel
@tolstoybbOct 13
That's ridiculous. Totally false premise. I just finished a novel from 1980 with a stated price of $19.95. Hardcover novels would be $60 today if prices kept up with inflation.
Jacobin
@jacobinOct 12
Everyone blames screens for the decline of reading. Nobody blames the consolidated corporate publishing industry that made books pricier, more generic, and harder to find. jacobin.com/2026/10/books-pu…
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matt@mattybtweets69Oct 10
Quitting my job to listen to every Guided By Voices song
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Joe Bruno
@JoeBrunoWSOC9Oct 8
The new Charlotte Wegmans has a section called “A Taste of Upstate New York”
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rust belt roadtrip@gmoultOct 8
we focus too much on third spaces and not enough on things like bells, public transit, and parks that create a shared urban experience
Cora Harrington@CoraCHarringtonOct 7
One of our local churches decided to start ringing the bells again this year, and it absolutely slaps. Those medieval folks were on to something using bells to keep track of time.
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Andrew Berzanskis@ABerzanskisOct 8
"The country was born in print, its future lies in people knowing what's going on, so what do they do but nail us poor publishers." —from Richard Stern's novel "A Father's Words" (1985)
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Three years ago Hamas terrorists launched a premeditated slaughter of innocent Israeli citizens, unleashing an explosion of violent antisemitism worldwide. As we remember the victims of 10/7, we must all recommit to confronting anti-Jewish hate wherever it appears.
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Andrew Berzanskis@ABerzanskisOct 7
"Previously stodgy regional publishing programs that skewed toward older and wealthier audiences have been energized by younger and more progressive readers." Read @DerekKrissoff on the resurgence of regional publishing & Raymond DeCapite's "Pat the Lion on the Head." Link ⬇️
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holy cow:
Jon Schleuss@gaufreOct 5
Supreme Court rules in our favor. “A lot of honest, determined people sacrificed more than most know to get this ruling enforced and finalized,” said Andrew Goldstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh.
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Jay Jennings@JayJenniOct 3
Jonathan Lethem on Masters of Atlantis: “Science fiction writers pass along that book like it’s the Bible.”
The Paranoid Style@paranoiacsSep 24
Over at my amazing podcast Known Associates, Season 2 starts with a prismatic chat with the great Jonathan Lethem. Topics include: film-noir, Charles Portis, profiling Dylan and James Brown, the ecstasy of influence and his rad new band the Disassociation. southwestreview.com/known-as…

Known Associates | Season 2, Episode 1: Jonathan Lethem

By Elizabeth Nelson

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