Publishers Lunch Automat
- William Morrow Cancels Ed Henry's September Book After His Is Fired by Fox News for Sexual Misconduct
- Barnes & Noble Education Will Consider Outerbridge Board Nominations, But Is "Surprised" Since They Are Doing Such An Awesome Job Already
- ICM Lays Off About 40 Assistants, But Will Pay Remaining Assistants A Minimum of $20 An Hour
- Silly Trump Lawsuit Is Denied for Lack of Jurisdiction; They'll Try Losing In NY Supreme Court Next
- Editors and Agents Miss "Going for drinks and spending the time and saying the indiscreet things"
Publishers Weekly
Publishing Perspectives
- South Africa’s Ramaphosa Sends Copyright Amendment Back to Parliament
- Simon & Schuster’s Mary Trump Book Temporarily Blocked by Restraining Order
- Frankfurter Buchmesse Fetes Bärbel Becker on 39 Years at the Trade Show
- Coming Thursday: A ‘New Italian Books’ Digital Introduction With English
- Authors in the Coronavirus Crisis: The European Writers’ Council Report
Publishers Lunch (paid)
UK’s The Bookseller (paid)
Canada’s Quill & Quire (paid)
- Daily Deals: Figure 1 acquires Michele Kambolis’s When Women Rise
- Publishers question how best to promote novels that have unexpected real-world relevance during COVID-19
- Ami McKay, Gemma Hickey double winners at Atlantic Book Awards
- Marianne Boucher finds healing in her graphic memoir of escaping a cult
- Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires Xue Yiwei novel about globalization
Australia’s Books and Publishing (paid)
Financial Support for Writers
- A guide to economic relief for authors and freelancers, from the Authors Guild. Also, search for funds by state.
- The Carnegie Fund for Authors offers emergency grants for traditionally-published writers
- Poets & Writers maintains a list of financial resources (grants, funds, and more)
- PEN America offers the Writers’ Emergency Fund to all types of writers. You don’t have to be a member to apply.
- Kickstarter has a running list of artist resources
- For UK writers, The Society of Authors has an Authors’ Emergency Fund. Also, there’s a useful roundup of grants and funds at Spread The Word.
- The National Endowment for the Arts will distribute $75 million in relief to arts organizations
- Artist Relief, a US-based initiative organized by national arts grantmakers, will distribute $5,000 grants to artists (including writers)
- The Writers’ Trust of Canada and The Writers’ Union of Canada have launched a relief fund
- Australia’s Copyright Agency offers support grants for artists of all kinds
- Publishers Weekly is keeping a list of special offers and discounts of all kinds to help readers, booksellers, publishers, and authors
- Written Word Media’s email newsletters offer free ad placement to authors
How to Support Bookstores and Authors
- Shop for digital audiobooks at Libro.fm or print books at Bookshop.org
- The independent booksellers of New York City have created a Bookshop storefront with recommendations.
- Scribd is offering free access to ebooks and digital audio for 30 days
- Kindle Unlimited is available for free for two months to new subscribers
- Apple is giving free ebooks and audiobooks to people in the US—just launch the Apple Books app
Resources for Educating and Entertaining Your Kids at Home
- SCBWI offers a digital directory of remote learning resources
- Audible offers a collection of children’s stories for free
- Publishers Weekly maintains a running list of free materials for children during the crisis
- Publishers Lunch also has a similar list of free digital book access for students from a variety of resources
- Scholastic offers free Learn at Home materials
- EPIC! materials are free to students by teacher invitation
- Coronavirus: A Book for Children—with artwork by The Gruffalo’s Axel Scheffler—is available for free
- Magic Tree House Home Adventures will keep young readers engaged
- Rachel Renee Russel’s first Dork Diaries book is now a podcast series
- A treat for Harry Potter fans: a cast of celebrity narrators will read the first Potter book in a series of free online videos (or audio files on Spotify)
Take Advantage of Your Library
- OverDrive is helping libraries identify low-cost and no-cost digital materials for circulation to library patrons
- ProQuest has partnered with 100 publishers to support libraries in making ebook holdings available to patrons at no extra charge
Virtual Book Events
- The Big List of Children’s Book Authors Doing Online Read Alouds and Activities
- LitHub’s Virtual Book Channel
- Quarantine Book Club
- A Mighty Blaze: a social media initiative for authors whose tours have been canceled
Other Resources
- The American Booksellers Association has collected coronavirus resources for booksellers
- The American Publishers Association has collected information about publisher response
Poets & Writers News
- Independent Bookstores Adjust to Online Market, Thirtieth Annual British Book Awards, and More
- An Update From the National Book Critics Circle, Black Publishing Professionals Speak, and More
- CLMP Firecracker Awards, Niela Orr on Seasons of Justice, and More
- Don Share to Step Aside at Poetry, New York City Literary Action Coalition Advocates for 2021 Funding, and More
- Raquel Willis on Revolutionary Energy, Layoffs at Barnes & Noble, and More
Writer Beware
- Dawn Frederick of Red Sofa Literary Threatens Legal Action Against Critics
- Four Major Publishers Sue the Internet Archive Over Unauthorized Book Scanning
- Evaluating Publishing Contracts: Six Ways You May Be Sabotaging Yourself
- Contest Scam Alert: Legaia Books Online Book Competition
- Copyright Violation Redux: The Internet Archive's National Emergency Library
Janet Reid, Literary Agent
The Passive Voice
Alliance of Independent Authors
- Establishing Your Author Platform With Sacha Black and Orna Ross: Self-Publishing Fiction & Nonfiction Podcast
- Self-publishing News: Frankfurt wants to Hear From You
- TwitterChat: Lessons From a Best Selling Author with Adam Croft
- The Alliance of Independent Authors Summer Sale Bonanza
- Interview with Eric Twiggs — Procrastination Expert Says There’s No Time to Lose: Inspirational Indie Authors Podcast
The New Publishing Standard
- Sweden’s Nextory grows revenue 95% in Q2. 58% new user growth in June
- China’s Beijing International Book Fair will be online this year
- Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina holds virtual literature seminar while other MENA publishing stakeholders dither over digital
- Only 30% of Jordan’s publishers took digital seriously before the pandemic ripped up the MENA book fair calendar. Now digital is too little too late to be a safety net
- The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish Africa #9 is now available
The Digital Reader
Teleread: Ebooks, Publishing, Libraries, Tech
- Four publishers file suit against the Internet Archive over its Open Library
- The Internet Archive’s ‘National Emergency Library’ expands on Open Library’s copyright violations
- Coronavirus ebook news roundup
- Library ebook use, paper book sales up despite library, bookstore closures for corona lockdown
- Librarians, publishers, performers use fair use to liven up virus isolation
Good E-Reader
Idea Logical | Mike Shatzkin
- The supply chain for book publishing is being changed by Coronavirus too
- Two pretty easy ways to add revenue that most publishers are missing
- What is causing the uptick in independent bookstores?
- 2020: Zero year thoughts about the changes in book publishing
- Should Barnes & Noble rethink its supply chain?
Personanondata | Michael Cairns
- Electric Book Works: Visualizing Digital Book Production
- Edcation News: Wiley Reports & Pearson shares jump 11% as activist Cevian discloses stake
- LIBER Webinar: The Anatomy of a Transformative Agreement
- A Selected List of My Popular Presentations
- Information Media Partners: Summer Newsletter 2020 - News Clips and More
The Future of Publishing | Thad McIlroy
American Booksellers Association
American Library Association
New York Times | Books
NPR | Books
- Seamless And Moving, 'Hamilton' Streaming Works Stunningly Well
- 'Fresh Air' Remembers Carl Reiner, A Legendary Writer, Producer And Performer
- There's One Pleasant Surprise In 'The Last Of Us Part II': Its Depiction Of Judaism
- Patrick Stewart On His Return To 'Star Trek': 'I'm Braver Now Than I Was'
- Pitch-Perfect 'Mexican Gothic' Ratchets Up The Dread
The Guardian | Books (US)
- 'I stuck my foot in the door': what it is like to be black in UK publishing
- David Starkey dropped by publisher and university positions after racist remarks
- David Mitchell: 'I think most writers have a deep-seated envy of musicians'
- England's libraries begin to reopen but grave fears remain over long-term futures
- David Baddiel: 'I don't really have shame as an emotion'
LitHub
- Pavlina R. Tcherneva: The Case for the Job Guarantee
- Ottessa Moshfegh: The Strange Responsibility of Holding Death in Your Hands
- Mona Eltahawy On How Patriarchal Oppression Permeates Society
- Behind the Mic: On The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, Read by Santino Fontana
- How to donate to Liberation Library, an organization that provides books to incarcerated children.
The Guardian | Books (UK)
- Reading group: which black British author should we read in July?
- Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
- Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
- Poem of the week: Glacier by Gillian Clarke
- A bookshop reopens: 'Customers are awkwardly dancing around each other'
What’s New in Publishing
- “Not only an altruistic endeavor but also a commercial one”: How publishers are tackling climate change, driven by growing readers’ concerns
- Updates on the publisher relationship with Facebook, Apple, and Google
- The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week
- iOS 14: Apple urged to adopt standards promoting interoperability and more predictable user privacy
- Trust levels in news aren’t great, but here’s what you can do about it
Editor & Publisher
- Three Strategies to End Your Digital Subscription Plateau
- Beyond Fact-Checking: Fighting the Onslaught of COVID-19 Disinformation
- Newsrooms Updates to Style Guide Entries Related to Race are Heartening, but Far from Comprehensive
- Australian Federal Police Ask Prosecutors to Consider Charges Against ABC Journalist
- Why Do People Share Misinformation About COVID-19? Partly Because They’re Distracted
Folio
- A Tale of Two Economic Indicators: Publishing’s Long Road to Recovery Will Require More Detours
- A Look Inside Pitchfork’s New Weekly Podcast, “The Pitchfork Review”
- Active Interest Media Sells Several Magazines to Pocket Outdoor Media
- Essence Denies Toxic Workplace Allegations After Anonymous Letter
- Stuart Emmrich to Step Down as Editor of Vogue.com
Mediagazer
- In memo, Boston Globe EIC outlines steps to address race in the newsroom and in coverage, including an audit of past work and a right to be forgotten initiative (Dan Kennedy/Media Nation)
- Boris Johnson is planning to replace afternoon Lobby press briefings in the UK with a daily televised press conference, akin to the American format, in October (Laura Hughes/Financial Times)
- WNYC staff express sense of betrayal in letter to board, having said before that they wanted an EIC who was a POC, knew the city, and had experience in radio (Ginia Bellafante/New York Times)
- The Trans Journalists Association launched Tuesday to offer professional support to trans journalists and to provide guidance to newsrooms on trans coverage (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
- Profile of The Juggernaut, an ad-free, subscription-based publication focused on stories about the South Asian diaspora in America (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)