Publishers Lunch Automat
- Alamo Colleges District In Texas Will Use BN College to Provide $17 Million In Free Textbooks
- Hemingway Estate Pairs with Joe Veltre at Gersh to Represent Film/TV Rights
- Target Names Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead Their Book of the Year
- The American Library Association opposes widespread efforts to censor books in U.S. schools and libraries
- Barnes & Noble In Saugus, MA Will Close In January After 25 Years As Landlord Redevelops Site
Publishers Weekly
Publishing Perspectives
- Malaysian Publisher Syazrul Aqram: ‘Keep On Moving Forward’
- The International Alliance of Independent Publishers in Pamplona-Iruñea
- IPA’s Prix Voltaire Ceremony at Guadalajara: Grief, Outrage, Honor
- A Czech Second-Hand Books Boom: Knihobot’s Big Year
- The Börsenverein Welcomes Principles of the German Coalition’s Draft
Publishers Lunch (paid)
UK’s The Bookseller (paid)
Canada’s Quill & Quire (paid)
Australia’s Books and Publishing (paid)
Poets & Writers News
- New York Times Book Review Reveals Ten Best Books, Bryan Washington on Gay Bars in the Pandemic Era, and More
- New York Times Book Review Reveals Ten Best Books, Scribner Ceases Distribution of Sebold Memoir, and More
- Writers on the Job, Shelf Awareness Names Best Books of the Year, and More
- A Busy Long Weekend for Indie Booksellers, NPR Shares Annual Reading Guide, and More
- New York Public Library Names Best Books of the Year, Hervé Le Tellier’s The Anomaly Lands for U.S. Readers, and More
Writer Beware
Janet Reid, Literary Agent
The Passive Voice
Alliance of Independent Authors
- Self-publishing News: 7th Consecutive year of Double Digit Audio Growth
- Contracts for Creatives: a Glossary
- Prepping for 2022 – ALLi Tools and Resources
- A Report from the Futurebook Conference; Spotify Buys Findaway in Audiobook Game-Changer: Self-Publishing News Podcast with Dan Holloway and Howard Lovy
- TwitterChat: Self-Publishing Red Flags
The New Publishing Standard
- Pandemic Y3’s first major book fair casualty is Brussels. What hope for London and Bologna?
- Qatar, Oman and Iraq Int. Book Fairs announce 2022 dates, but all too often there is a narrow focus on what reading is for that does publishing no favours
- India’s Jaipur Literature Festival will be hybrid in 2022, and free online access globally
- UK audiobook revenue up 71% on 2019. Ebooks up 10%. Consumer print up 6%. Children’s digital up 26%. Digital consumer non-fiction up 30%
- Add another $577,000 in new funding to the sums flooding into global digital audio publishing this year. This time it’s Turkey’s Dinlebi
Nate Hoffelder
Good E-Reader
Idea Logical | Mike Shatzkin
- Doubts about the Department of Justice’s objection to the PRH acquisition of S&S
- Every publishing strategy should start with Amazon and Ingram
- 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
Personanondata | Michael Cairns
- Quarterly Newsletter: Publishing News and Articles of Interest
- Media Week (Vol 9, No 10): Supply Chain Issues, Elsevier, Cengage, Wikipedia, AP & Blockchain + More
- Media Week (Vol 9, No 10): Supply Chain Issues, Elsevier, Cengage, Wikipedia, AP & Blockchain + More
- MediaWeek (Vol 14, No 9) Pearson vs. Chegg Legal Issues, Bookstore eBook Sales + More
- MediaWeek (Vol 14, No 9) Pearson vs. Chegg Legal Issues, Bookstore eBook Sales + More
The Future of Publishing | Thad McIlroy
American Booksellers Association
American Library Association
Library Journal
- Scribner Pulls Alice Sebold Memoir ‘Lucky’ Following Overturned Rape Conviction | Book Pulse
- New York Times Book Review Reveals Top 10 Books of 2021 | Book Pulse
- 'Wish You Were Here' by Jodi Picoult Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse
- Performer and Activist Bella Sin Helps Ohio State University Build Burlesque Archives
- The 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist Is Announced | Book Pulse
School Library Journal
New York Times | Books
NPR | Books
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brings 2 dances made for the web to the stage
- Northern Ireland collective wins the prestigious Turner Prize for art
- 'Fresh Air' remembers Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim (Part 1)
- With 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife,' fans welcome a new generation to their ranks
- Alice Sebold apologizes to the man exonerated in the rape that her memoir focused on
The Guardian | Books (US)
- Debut novel by ‘Russian Proust’ to be published in English for the first time
- Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi review – talk is cheap
- Marcus Rashford to publish children’s novel The Breakfast Club Adventures
- Top 10 novels about novelists | Louise Dean
- Alice Sebold’s publisher pulls memoir after overturned rape conviction
LitHub
- You can now buy Mary Shelley’s old address—though you’ll have to bring your own goth.
- Bernardine Evaristo has been named president of the Royal Society of Literature.
- Alice Sebold has now apologized to Anthony Broadwater, and her publisher has pulled her memoir.
- Famous novels, if they were Hallmark Christmas Movies.
- AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: A Conversation with Narrator Rebecca Lowman
The Guardian | Books (UK)
What’s New in Publishing
- Media Moments 2021: Free Report Download
- Publishers “continue to go from strength to strength”: Highlights from FIPP’s Global Digital Subscription Snapshot Q3
- How to use data visualisation to add value to your content
- Affiliate marketing strategies: Monetizing search traffic
- Is Metaverse Advertising the Next Big Thing?
Mediagazer
- A coalition of news outlets sides with Steve Bannon in fighting to keep court documents public ahead of Bannon's case for refusing to testify before Congress (Washington Post)
- Federal judge blocks a Texas law that limits large social media platforms' ability to moderate content, saying it violates the platforms' First Amendment rights (The Verge)
- Disney appoints Susan Arnold as chair of the board, replacing Bob Iger, who has been set to step down by the end of this year (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)
- A freelancer explores how the deep social responsibility that motivates many journalists also makes them an exploitable labor force and susceptible to burnout (Wudan Yan/Poynter)
- Deloitte: more than 150M people will cancel a paid streaming subscription in 2022, leading to a 30% global churn rate, including 38% in the US (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)