Publishers Lunch Automat
- Substack Successfully Gave Money to....: Chuck Palahniuk
- Behind the Lagardere Takeover: "Since taking over his father’s business in 2003, Mr. Lagardère delivered annual shareholder returns of 4%"
- Library of Congress Literacy Awards Honor Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and More
- After Only 9 Months of Pre-Orders and 3 Days of Sales, Rooney's New Novel "Already" Waterstones' Top Selling Novel of 2021
- Susanna Clarke Wins Women's Prize for Fiction for Piranesi
Publishers Weekly
- Chuck Palahniuk to Serialize a Novel on Substack
- Astra Forms Children’s Division, Introduces Imprint
- Jason Reynolds Extends Term as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
- Publishers, Amazon Ask Court to Dismiss ‘Illogical’ E-book Price-Fixing Suit
- Will ‘The Quiet Tenant’ Make a Loud Noise?
Publishing Perspectives
- PRH Publisher Services to Distribute IDW Comics Internationally
- Pulling Together: IPA Opens the ‘Inspire’ Charter for Pandemic Response
- US National Book Awards 2021 Longlist: Fiction
- Sourcebooks’ International Rights and Sales: A Booster from Bloom Books
- Rights Roundup: Quick Sales for a Vietnamese Conservationist and Her Sun Bear
Publishers Lunch (paid)
UK’s The Bookseller (paid)
Canada’s Quill & Quire (paid)
- Personnel change: Firefly Books
- Rights Deals: Tracey Lindberg, Tarisai Ngangura + 12 more
- Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada
- KidLit Special: Five children’s book illustrators share their adventures in storytelling
- KidLit Special: In new novel, Primrose Madayag Knazan tackles the struggles of blended heritage
Australia’s Books and Publishing (paid)
Poets & Writers News
- Comic Book Helps Preserve an Indigenous Language, Second Annual BIPOC Bookseller Awards, and More
- National Book Award Longlists for Fiction and Nonfiction, PEN America Literary Grant Recipients, and More
- HarperCollins Folds in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade, Two More National Book Award Longlists, and More
- 2021 Booker Prize Shortlist, Prizewinners at the Poetry Foundation, and More
- New Hires at the New York Times Books Desk, the Art of the Fake Dear Prudence Letter, and More
Writer Beware
Janet Reid, Literary Agent
The Passive Voice
Alliance of Independent Authors
- Why Self-Publishers Should Join the Alliance of Independent Authors
- How Can I Set My First Book Up for Success? Other Questions Answered by Orna Ross and Michael La Ronn in our Member Q&A Podcast
- TwitterChat: What the Only Fans Ban means for Indie Authors with Dan Holloway
- Self-publishing News: Mailchimp Sold for $12billion
- TwitterChat: Should authors censor themselves?
The New Publishing Standard
- Amazon-owned Audible’s unlimited subscription now in five markets. And counting…
- With 25 million audiobook consumers, India takes third place behind USA and China. Might Storytel be eyeing an acquisition?
- Buchmesse Guest of Honour Canada unlikely to attend in-person as for the second year Frankfurt plays dice with the publishing industry
- PRH, Bloomsbury and HarperCollins among those not attending the Buchmesse this year. As Pandemic Y2 fears grow, more will – and should – follow suit
- Taiwan’s Taipei Book Fair is on tour while sister fair TIBE was virtual. What chance TIBE 2022 will go ahead in-person?
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
The Future of Publishing | Thad McIlroy
American Booksellers Association
American Library Association
Library Journal
- 'Peril' by Woodward & Costa Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse
- 2021 National Book Awards Longlists For Nonfiction and Poetry Announced | Book Pulse
- 2021 National Book Awards For Translated Literature Longlist Nominees Announced | Book Pulse
- UNC Libraries Release Open Source 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge Syllabus
- The Booker Prize Announces Shortlist | Book Pulse
School Library Journal
- As Banned Books Week Approaches, the Fight Against Censorship Intensifies
- Sessions on Teaching the Truth, Facing Challenges to Antiracist Books, Mobile Services, and More Planned for SLJ Summit
- Young Readers Editions: What Makes for a Great Adaptation of an Adult Book?
- Longlist Announced for the 2021 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
- SLJ’s Reviews of the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Longlisters
New York Times | Books
NPR | Books
- America Is Divided. Evan Osnos' 'Wildland' Looks At How That Happened
- Friday and Menace II Society actor A.J. Johnson has died
- Prosecution Rests Its Case In R. Kelly Sex Crimes And Racketeering Trial
- Make This 'Fortnight in September' Your Pandemic Escape
- 'Peril' Details The Capitol Riot And Trump's Last-Ditch Effort To Hold Onto Power
The Guardian | Books (US)
- First edition of Frankenstein sells for record breaking $1.17m
- Trump may be gone, but Covid has not seen off populism
- Poem of the week: Thames by John Challis
- Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks review – the collective trauma of a continent
- We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole review – sweeping account of Ireland’s evolutions
LitHub
- “Write the tale that scares you . . . I dare you.” Michaela Coel has some writing advice for us.
- Chuck Palahniuk wants more places for edgy fiction. So he’s starting a Substack.
- Here’s John Waters reading a dirty scene from Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
- Who are the most talented but under-appreciated writers in America?
- Jason Reynolds will serve a third term as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
The Guardian | Books (UK)
- Poem of the week: Thames by John Challis
- Poem of the week: Sonnet from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Poem of the week: A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Finch
- Good Omens is going beyond the book? That’s not a bad sign
- Poem of the week: from War of the Beasts and the Animals by Maria Stepanova
What’s New in Publishing
- How publishers are using robot journalism to drive engagement, subscriptions and ad revenue
- Top 6 Apple updates that make trackers’ life harder. Or do they?
- Newsletters are on the rise. How can publishers make the most of it?
- Facebook’s ‘Ray-Ban Stories’ smart glasses: What you need to know
- How COVID-19 changed the independent European media market
Mediagazer
- Survey: 47% of US Facebook users regularly get news on the platform, down from 54% in 2020; 29% of US TikTok users regularly get news from the app, up from 22% (Pew Research Center)
- BBC News appoints Zoe Kleinman as its first Technology Editor, as part of a new Technology & Innovation story team based in Glasgow (@bbcnewspr)
- The Daily News says its EIC Robert York is being replaced on an interim and "as-needed" basis by Andrew Julien, editor and publisher of The Hartford Courant (Marc Tracy/New York Times)
- Fox Business Network overhauls its primetime schedule, dropping opinion shows for documentaries and reality shows, says it doesn't want to compete with Fox News (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
- In an internal email, The Daily News says Robert York is no longer EIC; Andrew Julien, editor and publisher of The Hartford Courant, will be interim EIC (Marc Tracy/@marcatracy)