Publishers Lunch Automat
- ViacomCBS Says A Former Employee Alleged Inappropriate Touching By CEO Bob Bakish, But "An Investigation Did Not Support the Allegation"
- UTA Will Pay Assistants $22 to $26 An Hour
- Snowden Agrees to Forfeit $4.2 Million in Book Earnings to A Trust, Pending A Potential Appeal
- Amazon Plans 1,000 "Small Delivery Hubs in Cities and Suburbs All Over the US"
- Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's Second Novel "Good Company" will be Published in May 2020 by Ecco
Publishers Weekly
- More on McGuigan's New Shingle, Ultra Literary
- Artist Relief Distributes $13.5 Million in Pandemic Grants
- Release of 'Rage' Led to Small Unit Sales Increase Last Week
- New England Booksellers Announce Major Diversity Reading Initiative
- Covid-19 Impact Listing: Cancellations, Closings, Policy Changes, and More
Publishing Perspectives
- A Three-Market Roundtable: Mexico, China, and South Africa
- In Brussels, the Federation of European Publishers’ New Leadership
- Guest of Honor Canada Announces Frankfurt Digital Events
- FT and McKinsey Announce a Business Book of the Year Shortlist
- NPD Book Cites a ‘Switching of Gears’ in the US Market
Publishers Lunch (paid)
UK’s The Bookseller (paid)
Canada’s Quill & Quire (paid)
- Daily Deal: Figure 1 acquires Leslie Jen book on Canadian architecture
- Distribution changes: Login Canada
- Canada announces 11 authors and illustrators as part of reduced virtual presence at Frankfurt
- Hamish Cameron, overseer of distribution for UTP, to receive Janice E. Handford Award
- A Press from Scratch: Behind the scenes of Hush Harbour Press
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.
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
- 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
- Namwali Serpell Wins Arthur C. Clarke Award, Writers Respond to Breonna Taylor Announcement at NEIBA Awards Banquet, and More
- 2020 American Poets Prizes, Claudia Rankine on Difficult Conversations, and More
- National Book Foundation Announces 5 Under 35, Literary Freedom Project, and More
- Open Letter Advocates for the Emerging Voices Fellowship, Macmillan Moves Forward, and More
- National Book Foundation Reveals Fiction and Nonfiction Longlists, Bryan Washington Wins Young Lions Award, and More
Writer Beware
Janet Reid, Literary Agent
The Passive Voice
Alliance of Independent Authors
- Self-publishing News: Audible Offers Unlimited Subscription
- TwitterChat: Writing Good Book Descriptions with Bryan Cohen
- Interview with Darryl Lansey: A Black Man’s Journey in the CIA — Inspirational Indie Authors Podcast
- International Insights: Global Book Distributors — Apple, Google Play and Nook
- Getting the Most from Amazon Advertising: AskALLi Members’ Q&A Podcast
The New Publishing Standard
- The dam has been breached! Amazon’s Audible launches an unlimited audiobook subscription service in Spain. How long now before Audible rolls out the model in the US?
- Sri Lanka Govt. said Colombo Int. Book Fair can go ahead, then advised the public not to attend, leaving event and exhibitors facing losses
- Authors from Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria make the shortlist for the 2020 ArabLit Story Prize
- Sharjah Publishers Club shows Arab publishers the power of social media to engage audiences and advance book sales
- An interview with Nigeria’s Performance Poet Otor Matthew (via Zoe Writes)
The Digital Reader
Teleread: Ebooks, Publishing, Libraries, Tech
- On ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day,’ read about the history of IP piracy
- In Kamen Rider Saber, public domain books have power
- Video game publisher Epic challenges Apple’s in-app purchase fees in legal battle
- Review: Epomaker GK68XS Bluetooth mechanical keyboard
- Denied binge-watching, ‘The Boys’ fans retaliate with one-star reviews
Good E-Reader
Idea Logical | Mike Shatzkin
- What James Daunt did and did not say about Barnes & Noble’s future
- 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?
Personanondata | Michael Cairns
The Future of Publishing | Thad McIlroy
American Booksellers Association
American Library Association
Library Journal
- Budgeting for the New Normal: Libraries Respond to COVID-19 Funding Constraints
- Namwali Serpell Wins Arthur C. Clarke Award for 'The Old Drift' | Book Pulse
- Equipping First-Year Students for Remote Success
- 5 Under 35 First: All Honorees Are Women of Color | Book Pulse
- Buzz Builds for Marilynne Robinson’s 'Jack' & Anne Helen Petersen’s 'Can't Even' | Book Pulse
New York Times | Books
NPR | Books
- An Israeli Agent Finds Herself Stranded In 'Tehran' In A Gripping New Spy Series
- You Think Your Favorite Video Game Is Hard? Try Speedrunning It
- In 'We're Better Than This,' Rep. Elijah Cummings Offers Some Lasting Thoughts
- MoMA Workers Must Decide Whether To Return To Work Amid Pandemic
- Met Opera Says It Won't Return Until Fall 2021
The Guardian | Books (US)
- White House 'pressured official to say John Bolton book was security risk'
- ‘Barefoot bookseller’ sought to run island bookshop in Maldives
- Elmer author David McKee: 'I've never been a prize winner'
- House of Music by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason review – memoir of an extraordinary family
- Beyond the Red Wall by Deborah Mattinson and The Northern Question by Tom Hazeldine – review
LitHub
- Antibody: Starring Megan Cummins, Melissa Ragsly, and Kelli Jo Ford
- The greatest job in the literary world is accepting applications again.
- You can stay in the house where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived for $72 a night.
- 5 texts that have been read during filibusters.
- Lit Hub Daily: September 24, 2020
The Guardian | Books (UK)
- The Age of Innocence is a gang story as brutal as Goodfellas
- Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
- Not the Booker: Akin by Emma Donoghue - daft premise, good writing
- Poem of the week: Before It Is All Gone by Ifigenija Simonović
- JK Rowling's Troubled Blood: don't judge a book by a single review
What’s New in Publishing
- 67% consumers likely to engage with ads on trusted publisher sites: Contextual advertising promises better revenue and control
- “Without technology content is nothing”: What is a media company nowadays?
- London’s ES Magazine goes ‘all in’ on Brand Stories
- ePaper readers are a younger, more profitable group than print readers: A case study from Germany
- “Sell more than a product or a cause”: How memberships can help publishers build a sustainable future
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
- Apple confirms it has acquired cross-platform podcast app Scout FM, which created podcast stations for users based on listening history, earlier this year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- A judge dismissed a defamation suit against Fox News host Tucker Carlson by Karen McDougal, saying his program uses "exaggeration" and "nonliteral commentary" (New York Times)
- Ahead of US elections, YouTube says it is including info panels under videos about voting by mail, pointing viewers to a report by the Bipartisan Policy Center (Russell Brandom/The Verge)
- A free training course, Product Immersion for Small Newsrooms, expands with three more cohorts starting in 2021, supported by the Google News Initiative (Poynter)
- The Washington City Paper says it's temporarily moving from a weekly to monthly print schedule, "in an effort to protect staff and salaries as best we can" (Washington City Paper)