Aug
16
2011
The New York Times reports:
- Revenues from adult novel sales grew 8.8% from 2008-10.
- Juvenile fiction revenues grew 6.6%.
- In total, book-publishing revenues are up 5.6% and total sales are up 4.1%.
- From 2008 to 2010, e-books grew from .6% to 6.4% of the total market for books.
- Adult hardcover and paperback books grew only 1% and mass-market paperbacks declined 16%. (Ouch).
Hat-tip: This Week in Writing, by Mark Evans.
Aug
16
2011
Everything but articles, coordinating conjunctions and prepositions should be capitalized in titles.
Which words should not be capitalized in a title?
- Articles: a, an, & the.
- Coordinate conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet & so (FANBOYS).
- Prepositions, such as at, around, by, after, along, for, from, of, on, to, with & without. (According to the Chicago Manual of Style, all prepositions should be uncapitalized in a title. NIVA and I recommend capitalizing prepositions 5+ letters long).
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