Victor Morrison // Blog Writer As mentioned in my previous post, progress in the printing and publishing world did not cease after the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press. In fact, print media really took off after Gutenberg, as a huge…
Category: About Publishing
The Origins of Publishing, Part 1
Victor Morrison // Blog Writer The history of publishing stretches much further back than the invention of the printing press or the creation of the book. The idea of leaving a mark or writing down a written message for others…
Pub Club Takes New York: a Review of the New York Connection Trip with Career Services
Madison Heim-Jinivisian//Undergraduate Students for Publishing Co-President Each year, Emerson’s Office of Career Services sponsors an event called the New York Connection trip. The trip gives current students an opportunity to join Emerson alumni and friends in New York City for…
The Fall… and Rise of Books
Sarah Vincent//Blog Writer In 2015, almost every journalistic piece written about books and their competitors, the e-books, warned of the decline of the book. E-books were a huge hit, and there were many books that could only be found online,…
Young Adult to New Adult
Angie Haas//Blog Writer Young adult novels are typically of the fiction genre and are aimed at people from fourteen to twenty-one years of age. Yet, many young adult consumers are beyond this age range; not only are my friends…
Amazon’s Top 10 Bestsellers of 2017 and the Status of the Publishing Industry
Jonathan Smith//Blog Writer Some say that a year is only as good as the literature read within its 365 days. In that sense, 2017 was actually phenomenal. For the purposes of this article, we can look back on the…
The Rise in Thrillers: Cue “Thriller” by Michael Jackson
Angie Haas//Blog Writer It, Get Out, Annabelle: Creation, and Happy Death Day. What do these movies have in common? They all fall into the horror/thriller genre and were all released this year. But movies aren’t the only way get your…
Could Internships be the Answer to the Publishing Industry’s Diversity Problem?
Felicia Gullotta // Blog Writer It’s a problem even STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medical) fields face—a lack of diversity. In publishing the lack of diversity can be harder to find especially, if you don’t know where to look. While…
Self-Discovery in Self-Publishing
Cynthia Ayala // Blog Writer I was seventeen when I published my first novel. It was awful; I regret it every day. The book, not the experience. But it taught me so much and even though I look back and…
What Amazon’s Top 10 Bestsellers of 2016 Say about Publishing
Jonathan Smith // Blog Writer Amazon, one of the largest booksellers in the world, publishes a list of its top 100 bestsellers each year. Though there are still two months left in the year, it is presumed that the top…