Publishers Lunch Automat
- How the Audiobook Business Is Approaching Representation and Casting
- 'Cat Person' Short Story to Be Adapted to Film
- Michael Wolff's LANDSLIDE: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency to Publish July 27 from Holt
- As Promised, HMH Pays Down $337 Million of Its Debt with Proceeds From Sale to HarperCollins
- NYT On the Late Richard Baron
Publishers Weekly
Publishing Perspectives
- London’s ‘Author HQ’ Programming Led by Bestseller Matt Haig
- Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre in Partnership With Brill
- China Bestsellers: TikTok Credited With Boosting Alex Michaelides’ ‘Silent Patient’
- English PEN’s Centenary Features Adichie, Shafak, Thiong’o, Dangarembga
- Tbilisi International Book Festival Returns to Physical Production
Publishers Lunch (paid)
UK’s The Bookseller (paid)
- Bookstat: Jewell maintains sparkle at the top
- TV rights for 'chilling' Bervoets novel scooped by Quay Street at auction
- Angela Y Davis signs five-book deal with Hamish Hamilton
- Wizarding World launches free Harry Potter hub for school summer holidays
- HarperCollins Ireland scoops story of country's coronavirus response
Canada’s Quill & Quire (paid)
Australia’s Books and Publishing (paid)
Poets & Writers News
- The Undervaluation of Freelance Writing, Oprah Daily Spotlights LGBTQ-Owned Bookstores, and More
- Winners of 2021 Griffin Poetry Prizes Announced, Oprah Daily Spotlights LGBTQ-Owned Bookstores, and More
- Survive to Thrive Initiative Disburses $1.1 Million to Independent Bookstores, Parul Sehgal on the Literature of Consent, and More
- Catherine Lacey Wins Young Lions Fiction Award, Jennifer Szalai Pays Tribute to Janet Malcolm, and More
- PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowships, Publishers Weekly Resumes Accepting Print Galleys, and More
Writer Beware
- Author Complaints at City Limits Publishing
- Two Scams to Watch Out For: Writers' Conference Phishing Scheme, Goodreads Extortion Scam
- #DisneyMustPay: Authors' Groups Join Forces to Advocate for Writers Owed Money by Disney
- The Case of the Purloined Blog Post: How a Fake DMCA Notice Failed to Silence Writer Beware
- Publisher Storm Warnings: Diversion Books
Janet Reid, Literary Agent
The Passive Voice
Alliance of Independent Authors
- Self-publishing News: New Sponsor for Indie Inclusive Prize Promises to Double Prize
- TwitterChat: How has the COVID crisis affected you?
- AI for Authors. Practical and Ethical Guidelines.
- Inspirational Indie Author Interview. Benedict Brown: Children’s Author Turns to Life of Crime Fiction
- What’s the Best Way to Keep in Touch With My Readers? Other Questions Answered by Orna Ross and Michael La Ronn in our Member Q&A Podcast
The New Publishing Standard
- Australia’s lost literary treasures show how publishers have squandered the digital opportunity
- Africa has 590 million people online. Here’s the Top 21 Countries for all those publishers looking the other way
- Sharjah will be Bologna 2022 Guest of Honour as Bologna ‘21 clocks 75,000 digital visitors
- There’s a new kid on the digital books retail and subscription streaming block, but can Legible live up to its own hype?
- The USA has just 6% of the world’s 5.2 billion internet users as Pandemic Y2 drives publishing online
Nate Hoffelder
Good E-Reader
Idea Logical | Mike Shatzkin
- “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
- Thoughts about what Covid and 2020 mean for book publishing
Personanondata | Michael Cairns
- Mediaweek (Vol 14, No 5): B&N and Paper Source, Modern Econ, Wiley Annual Report +More
- Clarivate Report Proquest Financials: Raise $1Billion in Equity
- Some Book Returns are Good: Managing Returns an Upcoming BISG Webinar
- Early Summer Newsletter: Accelerate Out of COVID (Bob Dylan is 80. The sun's not yellow, it's chicken).
- Amazon in Anti-trust Case: DC Attorney General Charges Price Fixing
The Future of Publishing | Thad McIlroy
American Booksellers Association
American Library Association
Library Journal
- Indigenous Voices Awards and Kobo Emerging Writer Awards Announced | Book Pulse
- NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade Of Great Sci-Fi And Fantasy | Book Pulse
- 'Dream Girl' by Laura Lippman Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse
- How the American Rescue Plan Act Works for Libraries
- Catherine Lacey Wins the 2021 Young Lions Fiction Award for 'Pew' | Book Pulse
School Library Journal
- AASL Announces 2021 Best Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning
- 2021 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winners Announced
- YA Read-Alikes for Netflix's "Monster"
- Educating for Equity: Ideas, Resources from Facing History and Ourselves
- 18 Novels for Teens That Blow the Dust Off History | Summer Reading 2021
New York Times | Books
NPR | Books
- Britney Spears Speaks Her Mind At Last In Conservatorship Hearing
- 'Sexy Beasts' Is Coming To Netflix, And We Have ... Questions
- Rembrandt's Huge 'Night Watch' Gets Bigger Thanks To AI
- You Don't Have To Be A Complete Nerd To Love This Novel ... But It Helps
- A Woman Is Committed To An Asylum For Thinking In 'The Woman They Could Not Silence'
The Guardian | Books (US)
- ‘Most of Australia’s literary heritage is out of print’: the fight to rescue a nation’s lost books
- Top 10 books of everyday social anthropology | Gillian Tett
- The Broken House by Horst Krüger review – growing up under Hitler
- The Shadow of the Mine review – an enlightening story of decline
- The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi review – a masterpiece of love and grief
LitHub
- Trump is spiraling out about Jared Kushner’s book deal.
- Amazon is destroying thousands of unsold books.
- Did you know that Daryl Hannah created best literary board game of all time?
- New works from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s archives will finally be published, starting next year.
- Attention internet, J.D. Vance has Complaints about the Gossip Girl reboot.
The Guardian | Books (UK)
What’s New in Publishing
- Digital News Report 2021: 5 top takeaways for publishers
- For-profit publishers race to collaborate
- Growing an employee-owned newsbrand: Insights from Defector Media
- How impartial news reporting helps publishers build trust: Insights from Reuters Institute
- Paywalls: Protect the investment in your content
Mediagazer
- A look at Dean Baquet's managerial cliché-fest of labeling multiple journalists over the last few years as "one of the finest journalists of his/her generation" (Erik Wemple/Washington Post)
- Nielsen: among top streamers, Hulu had the most average viewing minutes per day in May in the US at 130 minutes, and has the biggest share of viewers 18-34 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
- Black-ish creator Kenya Barris says he left his $100M Netflix deal because "Netflix became CBS" and wants "down the middle" content, not edgy content (Lacey Rose/Hollywood Reporter)
- US appeals court upholds dismissal of Virginia Lt. Governor's slander suit against CBS for broadcasting interviews with women who accused him of sexual assault (Mike Leonard/Bloomberg Law)
- Fuse Media launches Fuse+, a streaming service that is aimed at underrepresented millennial and Gen Z audiences and costs $1.99 a month or $19.99 annually (J. Clara Chan/Hollywood Reporter)