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PEN America releases comprehensive survey on race in publishing (This week in books)

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This week! Books! PEN America released a wide-ranging survey of over 60 publishing employees on the paltry state of diversification and cultural change within the publishing industry when it comes to race, exploring “a host of historically underexplored financial and institutional factors that feed into underrepresentation across the industry,” and pointing to publishers’ “persistent obstacles […]

Apply for WNDB’s mentorship program! (This week in books)

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This week! Books! The fantastic organization We Need Diverse Books has launched its 2023 mentorship program, which pairs aspiring children’s book authors/illustrators with experienced mentors. Applications are free and open to anyone working on a diverse project; you don’t necessarily need to be from a diverse background. The deadline to apply is September 30. Apply, […]

Spotify wants you to listen to audiobooks (This week in books)

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This week! Books! A few links for you on this sunny Friday in NYC. In a move that could really shake up the audiobook industry, and thus the entire publishing industry, Joan Solsman at CNET reports that Spotify sees audiobooks as a massive area of growth, which was behind its recent acquisition of audiobook distributor […]

Netflix goes Wonka (This week in books)

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This week books! It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a links roundup, and I have quite a few good ones to share. Let’s get to it! Netflix spent over £500 million on a golden ticket and purchased the rights to Roald Dahl’s entire catalog. They have movies, TV shows, and more planned. Jay […]

The ambiguous loss when a book doesn’t sell (This week in books)

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This week! Books! Hello, September. Where did you come from? Nearly every writer everywhere who pursues traditional publication at some point confronts one of their books not selling, and for those who self-publish, you might experience a pang of relative silence. I really enjoyed this article by Danielle Lazarin about the ambiguous and painful loss […]

Cormac McCarthy is not on Twitter (This week in books)

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This week! Books! After the sudden death of longtime Scholastic CEO Richard Robinson, there’s now a succession drama surrounding his estate that’s worthy of, well, HBO’s Succession. This would be merely the stuff of tabloids, and not fit for the esteemed halls of This Week in Books, except that control of a $1.2 billion publisher […]