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On 1 January 2026 the class of 1930 — Faulkner, Hammett, Christie, the first Nancy Drews — aged out of copyright. The mechanism behind that date, and what it does and does not release.
The rule that decides when a maker's turnover tips them from hobbyist into VAT-registered trader, and what the deadlines actually require.
There is no fixed per-page rate. Here is the formula Amazon actually uses to turn borrowed pages into author royalties.
Federal wage data, the trade's own salary survey, and the 2026 freelance rate chart give three different answers to one question about editorial pay.
ONIX is the file format bookstores actually read before a human ever sees your cover. Here's what's inside it, who built it, and where authors get it wrong.
S. law — the harder question is when registering it actually matters.
A breakdown of the fee that decides what a winning bid actually costs, and what changed in Sotheby's 2026 schedule.
A 1983 city law quietly requires New York to spend on original art every time it builds a school, firehouse, or rec center — and the process has paid out more than $65 million to working artists, with real fights along the way.
A new survey of Japanese film shooters puts Kodak ahead of Fujifilm for the first time on record, as steep Fujifilm price increases push photographers toward cheaper, fewer stocks.
Roughly 86 cents of every public library operating dollar is raised within a few miles of the building, which explains almost everything about how the institution behaves when money gets tight.
The dialogue-tag rules that matter: comma before the tag, period after action beats, invisible 'said' — plus when beats and even adverbs beat the folklore.
The museum store explained: gift shop revenue, exhibition catalogs, licensing, and why the exit-through-the-gift-shop floor plan is deliberate.
Film revival timeline 2009-2026: Kodachrome's end, Kodak bankruptcy, Ektachrome's return, Pentax 17, Harman Phoenix and the new film cameras of 2026.
The Supreme Court declined Thaler v. Perlmutter on March 2, 2026, keeping the human-authorship rule for copyright. What it means for working artists.
Exhibition catalogue value explained: how documentation builds an artwork's market history, from museum catalogues to catalogue raisonné entries.
128 submissions, one shortlist: how judges triage a library, what criteria actually operate, and the three lessons a writer can keep.
Understanding your first publishing contract: royalties, advances, rights grants, reversion, non-competes, and ebook-era terms to read twice.
Why we abandon books: guilt and sunk cost. What e-books change — free samples before buying, DNF culture, quitting that costs minutes. Permission granted.
What book cover illustration must solve before painting begins: genre signals, thumbnail legibility, space for type and the art director's brief.
Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929), from the Newnham and Girton lectures of 1928, reread as an argument about the material conditions of fiction.
The New Museum promoted Massimiliano Gioni to Toby Devan Lewis Director in July 2026, completing a transition begun with Lisa Phillips's April retirement.
The LDS church added ten hymns on July 23, 2026, including classics by Watts and Crosby, bringing its new hymnal to eighty-two songs.
London Book Fair 2026 ran March 10-12 at Olympia for the last time — a busy rights market, a weak dollar, and a move to ExCeL in 2027.
Tame the draft pile: naming conventions, clean-copy rules and version logs that beat Git for manuscripts — the publisher-grade system any editor can run.
Fiber vs resin printing paper: wash and drying times, archivality, toning response, flattening fiber, and choosing the right base.
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