Publishers Lunch Automat
- Germany's Weltbild Sells 10 Bookstores to Thalia
- Chris Whitaker's We Begin at the End Wins Theakston Crime Writing Award
- New Audiobook Version of LORD OF THE RINGS Read by Andy Serkis Coming in September from RB Media and Harper UK
- "The Downstairs Girl" is Reese's Book Club's Late Summer YA Pick
- Booktopia Says New Chinese Warehouse Robots Have "Doubled our capacity and significantly improved our picking and put away rates"
Publishers Weekly
Publishing Perspectives
- Interview: Dr. Leana Wen on Public Health and Personal Impact in ‘Lifelines’
- US-Based Open Road Acquires UK Publisher Bloodhound Books
- London’s Booker Prize for Fiction Names Its 2021 Longlist
- IPA Cheers First 100 Signatories to the SDG Publishers Compact
- The UK’s BIC Program Opens Its New ‘Metadata Capabilities Directory’
Publishers Lunch (paid)
UK’s The Bookseller (paid)
Canada’s Quill & Quire (paid)
- Rights Deals: Darrel McLeod, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., and Shane Hawk
- Agony Editor: Drawing inspiration from late relatives
- Second Story Press announces winners of the 2021 Indigenous Writing Contest
- Rights Deals: Jennifer Robertson, Stephen Kimber + 4 more
- 55-year-old ISER Books becomes Memorial University Press
Australia’s Books and Publishing (paid)
Poets & Writers News
- 2021 Booker Prize Longlist, Smith and Griffin Join Mellon Foundation as Fellows in Residence, and More
- Publishing Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors, Read in Color Initiative Arrives in Detroit, and More
- Flood Disaster Damages Bookstores in Germany, Sterling HolyWhiteMountain on Shedding the Colonizer’s Gaze, and More
- New Poetry Series at Beacon Press, Colson Whitehead Discusses Story Adapted From Harlem Shuffle, and More
- Franny Choi and Danez Smith Depart VS Podcast, Douglas Stuart Announces Next Novel, and More
Writer Beware
- Bad Contract Alert: ByteDance's Fictum Reading/Writing App
- Alert: Scammers Impersonating Major Motion Picture Studios
- Eli Bear Company, Star Alley Press: Two Writer Beware All-Stars Return With New Ventures
- Author Complaints at City Limits Publishing
- Two Scams to Watch Out For: Writers' Conference Phishing Scheme, Goodreads Extortion Scam
Janet Reid, Literary Agent
The Passive Voice
Alliance of Independent Authors
- TwitterChat: Just How Important are Books in Society?
- The Ultimate Guide to Comparison Authors, Genres and Tropes
- Voice Technology, AI, and Other Important Tools for Authors, with Bradley Metrock — Self-Publishing Conference Highlight
- Self-publishing News: Going Wide is Getting Wider
- TwitterChat: Using Amazon Live with Jim Fuhs and Chris Stone
The New Publishing Standard
- Behind Storytel India’s Tamil app is a bigger picture Amazon’s Audible has yet to see
- Bangladesh Publishers & Booksellers Ass. seeks $190 million govt. aid to cover the consequences of its myopic pre-Pandemic indifference to digital
- Byju’s acquires children’s reading platform Epic for $500 million in another seismic shift in the publishing landscape
- Storytel Nordics alone hits 1 million subscribers
- Scribd’s likely $1 billion IPO valuation shows how far US digital books subscription lags behind global rivals
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
- Media Week (Vol 14, No.7): B&N Education Reports, Book TikTok, Teaching Reading, Must Read-TV,
- Please, Won't You Be My Member?
- Media Week (Vol 14, No 6) Using Fiction to Forecast, TikTok Book Clubs, Journal Quality Improves, Either the Flag Goes?
- Mediaweek (Vol 14, No 5): B&N and Paper Source, Modern Econ, Wiley Annual Report +More
- Clarivate Report Proquest Financials: Raise $1Billion in Equity
The Future of Publishing | Thad McIlroy
American Booksellers Association
American Library Association
Library Journal
- Booker Prize Longlist Announced | Book Pulse
- 'Devil in Disguise' by Lisa Kleypas Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse
- Susanna Clarke, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and C.L. Polk Are Finalists for the World Fantasy Awards | Book Pulse
- 'The Cellist' by Daniel Silva Tops Bestseller Lists | Book Pulse
- Ocean Vuong, Viola Davis, Kelly Ripa, and Douglas Stuart Announce Forthcoming Books | Book Pulse
School Library Journal
- Got an Idea for the SLJ Summit? Pitch Us.
- Jarod Roselló on the Magic Behind his 'Red Panda and Moon Bear' Sequel
- Three Picture Books that Made the Switch from Hit Song to Picture Book
- Study Finds Fewer School Librarians in Districts that Need Them the Most
- A Conversation with Dr. Kimberly Parker on the Movement to Create More Readers
New York Times | Books
NPR | Books
- Wu-Tang Clan Album Once Owned By Martin Shkreli Sold By U.S. Government
- One Woman Takes A 'Wayward' Approach To Menopause In This Smart New Novel
- Think Of Your COVID-19 Vaccine Like A Very Good Raincoat, Says Dr. Leana Wen
- NYC 'Homecoming' Show Will Star Bruce Springsteen And More, But You Have To Be Vaxxed
- Britney Spears' Lawyer Files To Have Her Father Removed From Controlling Her Finances
The Guardian | Books (US)
- Picture books for children – reviews
- Rachel Cusk’s singular novel stands out on wide-ranging Booker longlist
- Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini review – a bumpy literary road trip
- Booker prize reveals globe-spanning longlist of ‘engrossing stories’
- Poem of the week: The Maid’s Tale by MR Peacocke
LitHub
- Did you know that they used to give out Olympic medals for literature?
- “There is an inclination to punish women.” Elizabeth Hardwick on writing while female.
- This new Scottish bookstore will only stock books written by women.
- Take a look inside this collection of Frida Kahlo’s complete paintings (and illustrated biography).
- A24 is adapting Octavia Butler’s SF classic Parable of the Sower.
The Guardian | Books (UK)
- 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
- Poem of the week: Norfolk Sprung Thee … by Henry Howard
What’s New in Publishing
- The next arms race: Video tech, AVOD, and publishers
- Travel and recreation soar post-pandemic: Digital readership trends
- Pegasus shows just how vital journalism networks and cybersecurity training are for news publishers
- The enduring appeal of slow journalism: The Media Roundup
- Tools that can “supercharge the modern news media”: How publishers are using AI in emerging markets
Mediagazer
- In letters to companies, CA AG says data sharing via analytics trackers, like cookies, for ad and analytics purposes fits CCPA's definition of a data "sale" (Kate Kaye/Digiday)
- Internal email: WaPo will require all employees to show they are vaccinated against COVID-19, starting when workers return to the office, planned for Sept. 13 (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
- YouTube reports $7B in Q2 ad revenue, up 84% YoY from $3.81B, and says its Shorts feature now has 15B global daily views, up from 6.5B in March (Todd Spangler/Variety)
- [Thread] Staffers at Forbes vote 67-7 for a union with The NewsGuild of New York in a NLRB election after management failed to voluntarily recognize their union (@forbesunion)
- PBS leads the nominations for the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, with 52 nominations; CNN is second with 41, CBS with 30, ABC with 22, and Vice with 20 (Erik Pedersen/Deadline)