Publishers Lunch Automat
- Master of Online Sales James Daunt Says Success of Bookshop.org Is "Dangerous" to Indies
- Serialized Fiction App Radish Sold to Investor Kakao in Korea for $440 Million
- Berkley to Reissue Stacey Abrams' First Three Out-of-Print Romance Novels, Written as Selena Montgomery
- Believer Magazine Editor Joshua Wolf Shenk Resigns After Zoom Incident
- Endeavor Goes Public Thursday, Priced at $24 A Share
Publishers Weekly
Publishing Perspectives
- London Book Fair: Pandemic Issues Play Into Education Conference
- Wales’ Dylan Thomas Prize Names Raven Leilani Its 2021 Winner
- Singapore’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content: Fast COVID Adjustments
- The British Book Awards Name Their 2021 Winners in a Three-Part Evening Online
- Hachette Book Group Announces Diversity Progress in 2020
Publishers Lunch (paid)
UK’s The Bookseller (paid)
Canada’s Quill & Quire (paid)
Australia’s Books and Publishing (paid)
Poets & Writers News
- Diversity Gains at Hachette, Celebrating Asian American Literature, and More
- Winners of the 2021 Publishing Triangle Awards, Catherine Cho Founds Paper Literary, and More
- Jones and Jarvis Join Triangle House Literary, Inaugural U.S. Book Show Scheduled for End of May, and More
- Carmen Maria Machado Speaks Out Against Book Bans, Shortlists for London Book Fair International Excellence Awards, and More
- Firecracker Award Finalists, Tobi Haslett Writes on the Aftershocks of Uprising, and More
Writer Beware
- 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
- Scammers Taking Big 5 Publishers' Names in Vain: A Growing Trend
Janet Reid, Literary Agent
The Passive Voice
Alliance of Independent Authors
- Author Interview with Ankur Mahajan: Book Captures Rich Cultures in War Zones — Inspirational Indie Authors Podcast
- Do I Need Sample Edits for my Book? Other Questions Answered by Orna Ross and Michael La Ronn in our Member Q&A Podcast
- Are Self-Publishing Services Silencing Authors with Nondisclosure Terms?
- Self-publishing News: Publishing Dips Its Toe into NFTs
- TwitterChat: Writing family memoirs with Terri Tomoff
The New Publishing Standard
- Turkey the fastest-growing of Storytel’s 25 markets, up 112% in 2020. But can global revenue keep up with expectations?
- South Korea’s Kakao spends $950 million to acquire Tapas and Radish. Plans launches in Thailand, Taiwan, India and China as the online reading market heats up
- Colombia’s pandemic-driven online book sales boom
- Since Jan 2018 the Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service has paid out over $1 billion in royalties to indie authors
- USA’s AAP numbers shows print and digital formats all doing well, but the digital numbers only tell a partial story
The Digital Reader
Teleread: Ebooks, Publishing, Libraries, Tech
- Black and Latinx people MORE ‘engaged’ with books than most Americans are: New report
- Big Fail for publishers? Just $92 per household spent on rec reading in 2019—and even that may decline long term
- Are publishers leaving billions on the table by fixating on well-heeled readers?
- Get 1925 lit classics for free: Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Hemingway, Woolf, Kafka, Huxley among authors
- How to read Kindle books, library books, free classics, and more on your TV via the $50 Chromecast
Good E-Reader
Idea Logical | Mike Shatzkin
- “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
- Introducing ClimateChangeResources.org, organizing and contextualizing the challenge we all face
Personanondata | Michael Cairns
- Adobe Summit - Evangelists For Publishing
- Pearson 1Q Report and Other Higher Ed Publishers show Positive Results
- Thinking About Selling your Publishing Business?
- NOT SO SUPER – How out of touch owners have badly miscalculated their fans gullibility.
- How streaming is changing the music business | FT Film
The Future of Publishing | Thad McIlroy
American Booksellers Association
- Sign Up for “In the Heights” Virtual Book Launch Now
- President Obama Talks Books and Reading With Indie Bookstores
- E-commerce Update: Sales Stabilize
- E-commerce Update: Comparing 2021 Weekly Sales and Traffic Online to 2019
- Macmillan Further Extends Promotional Terms Offered to Indies for COVID-19 Response
American Library Association
Library Journal
School Library Journal
- REFORMA Children in Crisis Project Continues to Aid Unaccompanied Minors at the Border
- Library Summer Reading Programs Can Help Combat COVID Slide
- Read Woke: From Picture Books to Fantasy, Children’s Literature Can Open Minds and Hearts
- Marvelous Read-Alikes for WandaVision
- Four Middle Grade Novels for Fans of "Flora & Ulysses" on Disney+
New York Times | Books
NPR | Books
- Andrew McCarthy Recalls His Brat Pack Years In A New Memoir
- Paris Bookstores Are Designated Essential — But These Landmarks Struggle To Survive
- 'The Plot' Works As Literary Satire, But Its Mystery Fizzles
- Not My Job: We Quiz Elizabeth Warren On 'War And Peace'
- A Boy And His Grandfather Visit Home 'On The Trapline'
The Guardian | Books (US)
- Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’
- Featherweight by Mick Kitson review – a punchy historical yarn
- The Nightingale by Sam Lee review – a love letter to the songbird
- Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe: ‘I’ve always been interested in secrecy’
- Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips review – celebration of a free spirit
LitHub
- Lit Hub Weekly: May 10 – 14, 2021
- Here are the best reviewed books of the week.
- Fun fact: Courtney Love read Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” for her Mickey Mouse Club audition.
- “I have walked through many lives”: Listen to Stanley Kunitz read his poem “The Layers.”
- Evelyn Waugh’s twelve-bedroom house—complete with party barn—is now for sale.
The Guardian | Books (UK)
What’s New in Publishing
- “The audience growth has been too good to let it go away”: How the Wall Street Journal is adapting its live journalism in a virtual age
- How the largest UK news publisher generated a 32% increase in page views
- What ‘trust in news’ means to users, shoppable print using image recognition, and more: This week in publishing
- Apple threatens to upend podcasting’s free, open architecture
- Using real women in imagery: Future Publishing’s story
Mediagazer
- How Netflix uses both personalization and objective rankings in its lists of popular shows, and how it continues to test rankings to encourage more viewing (Josef Adalian/Vulture)
- A look at the Ambies, Podcast Academy's annual podcast awards whose nominees across 23 categories were chosen by 100+ members, ahead of its inaugural show (Matt Pearce/Los Angeles Times)
- Amazon launches miniTV, an ad-supported free video streaming service that is available within the Amazon shopping app in India (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- The Intercept stands by its reporting on Gab and "Riot Squad", after it was accused of doxxing conservative journalists, says its reporters have been harassed (The Intercept)
- Israeli airstrike destroys a high-rise in Gaza City that housed offices of AP and Al-Jazeera, after the military warned people to evacuate the building (Associated Press)