Publishers Lunch Automat
- Writers Are Prevailing In Hollywood As ICM Joins UTA In Signing Writers Guild Agreement, Ending Packaging By 2022
- Sean Hannity Book Jacket Corrected After College Student Pointed Out Errors In His Rough Latin Version of "Live Free or Die"
- Longtime Editor and Publisher James Silberman Dies at 93
- Don Jr. Didn't Use.A Copyeditor for His Jacket or Website, So What About His Self-Published Book?
- CAA Lays Off 90 Agents and Executives From "Across the Agency," Furloughs 275 Assistants and Others
Publishers Weekly
- Prayer Collections Help Believers Dial in to God
- So Much More Than Ghostwriting: Spotlight on Kevin Anderson & Associates
- Covid-19 Impact Listing: Cancellations, Closings, Policy Changes, and More
- A Theologian Finds Black Culture, Struggle and Hope in Scripture
- Meyers Reported Fired by IDW Publishing
Publishing Perspectives
- US Book Industry: Groups Form Health Insurance Coalition
- UK Book Industry: Society of Authors’ Hardship Fund Renews Appeal
- Frankfurter Buchmesse Calls for 2020 Film Awards Entries
- Nigel Roby Sells the UK’s ‘The Bookseller’ to Stage Media Company
- Canada: White Pine Options Kids Can Press’ YA Book on Women Politicians
Publishers Lunch (paid)
UK’s The Bookseller (paid)
Canada’s Quill & Quire (paid)
- Daily Deals: Uzma Jalaluddin’s new romance to HarperCollins Canada in two-book deal
- Bestsellers: BLM essay collection Until We Are Free resonates amidst civil-rights revolution
- Surreal trailer drops for adaptation of Iain Reid’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things
- Publishing scholarship in honour of the late Greg Younging to be offered at SFU
- FOLD Kids announces quarterly book club
Australia’s Books and Publishing (paid)
- Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 shortlists announced
- Arab-Australian writers auction signed books for Beirut
- Guidelines for $75m RISE and $35m Arts Sustainability funds released
- Create NSW funding recipients announced; future of Writing NSW ‘at risk’
- Hardie Grant acquires Ellis’ ‘Sex, Lies and Question Time’
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.
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
- Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowships Finalists, Revolutionary Bookseller Moves to Taipei, and More
- David Varno Elected President of National Book Critics Circle, Beirut Bookseller Describes Damage from Explosion, and More
- Camille Dungy Named Poetry Editor at Orion, Layoffs Affect Airport Bookstores, and More
- Ta-Nehisi Coates to Guest-Edit Vanity Fair, Oprah’s Book Club Selects Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, and More
- Penguin Random House Delays Reopening, Inaugural Duende-Word BIPOC Bookseller Awards, and More
Writer Beware
Janet Reid, Literary Agent
The Passive Voice
Alliance of Independent Authors
The New Publishing Standard
- Denmark’s largest book fair, the Bogforum, is cancelled until 2021
- Quote Unquote: “The strongest digital sales performance in years” – HarperCollins. “Robust growth in digital formats” – Hachette
- Afropolitan Comics: the Online Exhibition. “From South Africa to the Continent”
- Showmax Pro rolled out video streaming across more than 40 African countries last month as digital publishing remained a novelty
- Amazon Sweden launch now imminent, but what part will books play?
The Digital Reader
Teleread: Ebooks, Publishing, Libraries, Tech
- ‘Black Software’: Pioneering book on the Internet and racial justice
- 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
Good E-Reader
Idea Logical | Mike Shatzkin
- Both the supply chain and book marketing are forever changed by Coronavirus
- 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
Personanondata | Michael Cairns
- Digitial First Textbooks - My Interview with CCC's Beyond the Book
- Barnes & Noble Education Reports Full Year. Standstill Agreement with Key Investor
- MediaWeek Report: Business Strategy in Time of Change
- Classes Going all Online? ICE says Foreign Students Must Leave the Country
- Electric Book Works: Visualizing Digital Book Production
The Future of Publishing | Thad McIlroy
American Booksellers Association
American Library Association
New York Times | Books
- ‘Stanley Kubrick,’ a Brisk New Biography of a Major Talent
- She Explains ‘Mansplaining’ With Help From 17th-Century Art
- Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Who Made the Talmud More Accessible, Dies at 83
- A Bookstore That Shines as ‘a Lighthouse of a Free Society’
- Shirley Ann Grau, Writer Whose Focus Was the South, Dies at 91
NPR | Books
- 'Everybody Deserves To Be Seen As A Hero,' Says 'Old Guard' Director
- Is Singing Together Safe In The Era Of Coronavirus? Not Really, Experts Say
- 'Caste' Argues Its Most Violent Manifestation Is In Treatment Of Black Americans
- The Escapist Land Of 'Cottagecore,' From Marie Antoinette To Taylor Swift
- Good Thinking: How Rodin Ensured The Financial Future Of His Paris Museum
The Guardian | Books (US)
- Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley Garrett review – the new doom boom
- Finding Dora Maar by Brigitte Benkemoun review – sketchy portrait of the artist
- Hidden Hand review – China's true global ambitions exposed
- Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand – Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Support funds for UK authors hit by pandemic are running out
LitHub
The Guardian | Books (UK)
- Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
- Poem of the week: The Ancestors by Jackie Wills
- Reading group: which PD James novel should we read this month?
- Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
- Not the Booker prize longlist: vote now to decide the 2020 shortlist
What’s New in Publishing
- Apple News+ to intercept publisher traffic, with iOS 14 update
- 6 potential solutions to ease the COVID-19 news media crisis
- “Opportunity to own the entire user journey”: What publishers can learn from BuzzFeed’s efforts to deepen engagement and multiply eCommerce revenues
- Is the COVID magazine subscription bump a short-term trend or a long-term bet?
- Using content to drive sales: Ecommerce and the power of intent
Editor & Publisher
- Opinion: In Pakistan, a Bizarre Arrest Shows How Media Freedom is Being Squeezed
- News Coverage of Violence in Protests is More Complicated Than It May Seem, New Research Shows
- FBI Failed to Follow Justice Department’s News Media Guidelines When Agents Questioned San Francisco Freelancer
- The Fight for COVID-19 Data, and What the Press Can do with It
- Why the Email Newsletter is 2020’s MVP Format
Folio
- Message to Our Folio: Community
- Face Up: The Best Magazine Covers From the Worst Year
- How Publishers Are Converting a Spring Traffic Surge Into Sustained Growth
- Hearst Magazines President Troy Young Resigns After NYT Report
- When Experience Counts: How Bustle Digital Group Is Future-Proofing Its Business
Mediagazer
- The anti-Trump episode of Black-ish that was canned by ABC in 2018 and led its creator Kenya Barris to leave Netflix, finally debuts on Hulu (Reid Nakamura/The Wrap)
- eMarketer: without in-person events, US B2B digital ad spend will hit $8.14B, up 22.6% YoY, vs. a 1.7% YoY increase in overall digital ad spend (Kenneth Hein/The Drum)
- Warner Bros. TV Group to consolidate its scripted and unscripted TV production operations, folding its cable/streaming unit Warner Horizon into Warner Bros. TV (Tim Baysinger/The Wrap)
- Internal email: Amazon to add podcasts in Amazon Music and will expand their availability on Audible, for free and paid tiers on both services (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
- Data from 7Park: "Hamilton" on Disney+ reached 37% of US households in July, the largest streaming audience of 2020, ~3X that of Netflix's widest-reaching title (Kevin Tran/Variety)