Links of Interest: March 13, 2024
The latest in traditional publishing, bookselling, trends, Amazon, AI, and culture & politics.
The latest in traditional publishing, bookselling, trends, Amazon, AI, and culture & politics.
WorkingLit is a cloud-based system that helps small publishers streamline their product databases, manage orders, and more.
Author Candice Marie Benbow has joined Gardner Literary as an agent, with a focus on nonfiction.
Brydon Books is a new children’s publishing company based in the UK, launched by author Alli Brydon and her husband, Edward Brydon.
Zando has established a new imprint called Slowburn to publish books targeted at the BookTok audience.
It recently announced that readers can now engage with some titles through an AI chat model that’s been trained on the full text of the book.
The new publisher looks positioned to offer top authors a bespoke experience. How will they do with unknown authors? Will they take unknowns? We’ll see.
As of the week ending March 2, print book sales are down 4 percent versus last year, according to Circana BookScan.
While the functionality is welcome, it basically replaces what Ingram took away in January 2023 when it shut down Aerio.
In our 2024 outlook, we said we’d be watching for a larger trend of traditional publishers partnering with successful self-published authors.