Publishers Lunch Automat
- Caldecott-Winning Illustrator Jerry Pinkney, 81, Dies
- It's Like LinkedIn Meets Goodreads Meets Real Time Book Club, With Copper Plumbing, and Iconic "Ca" Sounds
- Urban and Auletta List NYC Apartment for $3.35 Million
- HarperCollins Pledges Moves Towards Becoming Carbon Neutral
- The Believer Will Be Discontinued By UNLV Black Mountain Institute Next Spring
Publishers Weekly
Publishing Perspectives
- Showcasing Work at Frankfurt: A Myanmar Publisher in Self-Exile
- Markus Dohle Launches Frankfurt Studio: ‘Long-Form Reading’
- Frankfurter Buchmesse’s Opening Ceremony: ‘One Story at a Time’
- HarperCollins Targets 2022 To Be Carbon-Neutral in Operational Emissions
- Frankfurter Buchmesse 2021: ‘What Do We Want To Do With Our Lives?’
Publishers Lunch (paid)
UK’s The Bookseller (paid)
Canada’s Quill & Quire (paid)
- The Puritan launches Austin Clarke Prize
- Bestsellers: Suzanne Simard’s nonfiction debut takes people back to their roots
- ‘We’re here, we made it’: Canada FBM2021 takes centre stage
- Rights Deals: Sarah Cox, Salma Hussain + one more
- Samir Shaheen-Hussain, Aimee Wall, and Sheila Fischman among 2021 QWF Literary Awards finalists
Australia’s Books and Publishing (paid)
Poets & Writers News
- Black Mountain Institute Drops the Believer, New Book Series Honors Black Thinkers and Artists, and More
- Booksellers Envision the Future, the Art of Translating Tove Ditlevsen, and More
- The History of Racial Passing in Books, Finding Work-Life Balance, and More
- Sonia Sanchez Earns Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, Bridge From Winnie the Pooh Sold at Auction, and More
- Announcing Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, Asian American Writers’ Workshop Celebrates Thirty Years, and More
Writer Beware
Janet Reid, Literary Agent
The Passive Voice
Alliance of Independent Authors
- Self-publishing News: Into the Metaverse
- The Self-Publishing Advice Conference #SelfPubCon2021
- What’s the Best Way to Include Photos in a Book? Other Questions Answered by Orna Ross and Michael La Ronn in our Member Q&A Podcast
- TwitterChat: When should you give up on writing a book?
- Self-publishing News: Amazon expands its network of “4 Star” stores
The New Publishing Standard
- Lithuania’s Vilnius Int. Book Fair returns in Feb ‘22
- With the acquisition of Youboox, Nextory blazes a trail beyond Storytel’s shadow
- Norway’s unlimited subscription market was worth $50 million in 2020 – in a country of just 5.4 million people
- Saudi Arabia publishing’s “very exciting time” as CUP returns to SA and IPA President Al Qasimi talks of the Arab Renaissance
- Russia audiobook market grows 4X in 2021. “The next five years will be the most successful in the history of audiobooks” – Boris Makarenkov, Storytel RU
Nate Hoffelder
Good E-Reader
Idea Logical | Mike Shatzkin
- Why books are different and why enterprises will be discovering they should be issuing them
- “Enterprise self-publishing” is coming: the third great disruption of book publishing since the 1990s
- “The Family Business” is Ingram: the global infrastructure for the book industry
- Amazon has done so many smart things that some of the best ones get forgotten
- Remembering Jim Haynes, the man with more friends than anybody else
Personanondata | Michael Cairns
- MediaWeek (Vol 14, No 9) Pearson vs. Chegg Legal Issues, Bookstore eBook Sales + More
- Business Transformation and Technology Improvement - Podcast Episode with Michael Cairns
- MediaWeek (Vol 14, No 8) Pearson Sues Chegg, B&N goes COVID Book Crazy, UK Copyright, Open Access Policies + More
- Publishing Technology Report 2021 - PrePub Price Ends 9/21!
- Publishing Technology Software & Services Market Report - 2021
The Future of Publishing | Thad McIlroy
American Booksellers Association
American Library Association
Library Journal
- Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize Shortlist is Announced | Book Pulse
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia's 'Mexican Gothic' Wins the 2021 Aurora Award for Best Fiction | Book Pulse
- 'The Judge's List' by John Grisham Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse
- 2021 Canadian Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalists | Book Pulse
- Kakwenza Rukirabashaija Named 2021 PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage | Book Pulse
School Library Journal
- Interview: Susan H. Kamei on "When Can We Go Back to America?"
- Award-Winning Illustrator Jerry Pinkney Remembered for His Kindness, Legacy of Work
- Documentary Chronicles Diversity in Children's Literature
- Nation's Report Card: Long-Term Trend Assessment Shows Reading Decline
- Nominations Open for School Librarian of the Year 2022
New York Times | Books
NPR | Books
- Jerry Pinkney, the beloved, award-winning children's book illustrator, has died at 81
- 'The French Dispatch' is a love letter to 'The New Yorker' — and to love itself
- Harry Styles isn't the leader of a fashion revolution, but neither is Billy Porter
- From Scar to James Bond enemy Safin, movie villains have long shared a harmful trope
- Vienna museums' social media posts got rejected for nudity, so they're on OnlyFans
The Guardian | Books (US)
- Claire Keegan: ‘I think something needs to be as long as it needs to be’
- Mental health charity declines donation from Jamie Lynn Spears
- Top 10 true crime novels | Denise Mina
- Reprieve by James Han Mattson review – ‘horror shows who we are’
- Animal Vegetable Criminal by Mary Roach review – when the natural world breaks the law
LitHub
- Here are the finalists for the 2021 Cundill History Prize.
- Who will buy the £80,000 watch from James Joyce’s Ulysses?
- Watch the trailer for a new documentary about Kurt Vonnegut, with footage spanning decades.
- This 1998 advice from Ursula K. Le Guin about gender-neutral language is still relevant.
- This spooky season, take a virtual tour of Edward Gorey’s elephant house.
The Guardian | Books (UK)
What’s New in Publishing
- Growing a newsletter from scratch via Instagram: 1 year later, what I learned
- Google PageSpeed Insights: How publishers can boost their website speeds
- How pandemic uncertainty sparked innovation in the media industry
- Facebook is neither our enemy nor our friend: The Media Roundup
- How one UK publisher successfully launched in China
Mediagazer
- China's Cyberspace Administration removes Caixin Media, one of the country's most liberal news sources, from an official list of outlets that can be republished (Bloomberg)
- Yahoo Finance's mobile app, which posts news from other outlets along with market data, has disappeared from the App Store in China (Sophia Yan/Telegraph)
- Google News Showcase rolls out in Ireland, with national and regional publications including Irish Independent, The Irish Examiner, and The Irish Times (RTÉ)
- Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and TRUTH Social, a social network coming in Nov. to "stand up" to Big Tech, in the App Store for preorder (ABC News)
- Since May, Google says it has blocked 1.6M messages and restored ~4,000 YouTube influencer accounts affected by a phishing campaign offering fake collaborations (Aisha Counts/Protocol)