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People Round-Up, Mid-December 2021

PEOPLE At Knopf, Jennifer Barth joins as SVP, Executive Editor on January 17. She is presently SVP, Executive Editor at HarperCollins. Jess Deitcher joins the audience development team as Director of Backlist Strategy. On January 10, Concepción de León joins Pantheon as Senior Editor; she was most recently Reporter at The New York Times. At…Continue Reading

Publishing’s Next Iterations: PubTech Connect 2018

NYU’s Center for Publishing once again joined forces with Publishers Weekly on March 6 to present PubTech Connect, a day of conversation about innovation in media. While last year’s inaugural program had speakers who were less familiar with publishing, and less familiar to publishers, this year’s stayed a little closer to the base while still presenting a slew of new…Continue Reading

FutureBook17 and Global Kids Connect

Two excellent conferences took place recently, one in London and one in NYC. FUTUREBOOK 2017: Don’t Delegate the Future FutureBook2017, now coming up to its tenth year, took place on December 1st in East London, and was attended by some 600 publishers, vendors and tech firms from the UK, EU and US.  The conference had…Continue Reading

Social Media for Children’s and Adult Books: Who Posts Where?

Look at some of the top authors on Twitter and you’ll see that the list is pretty evenly divided between authors of books for children and adults.  Paulo Coelho weighs in at 12.2 million, followed by JK Rowling at 11.3 million.  Then a steep fall to Anthony Bourdain (6.1) and John Green (5.33), Stephen King…Continue Reading

Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 7/24-7/28

Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Comic books geared toward kids are good for business and for kid readers. Has the Trump presidency made it more…Continue Reading

A Look at London Book Fair & Quantum Conference 2017

This year’s London Book Fair started off on Monday with Nielsen‘s well-orchestrated Quantum Conference, which focused on consumers: what they want and how to meet their expectations. Sessions covered the typical day of a consumer using the internet and included sessions hosted by Google and Facebook, as well as talks by several publishers about their…Continue Reading

Turning the Virtual Page: Virtual Reality and Traditional Publishing

When we first got Google’s virtual reality headset at my house, called the Google Daydream, I can’t say I was too excited. But then I tried it. I downloaded BBC’s The Turning Forest, grabbed the controller, and put on the headset. A man who sounded vaguely like Martin Freeman narrated a fairytale-like story that took…Continue Reading

Amazon and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year Abroad

A recent article in The Telegraph calls 2015 “the year Amazon delivered on its founder’s vision.” The reporter James Titcomb explains that in 2015 Amazon grew to double its share price, finally became profitable, and is now “almost untouchable as an online retailer” due to its streamlined delivery  service. While it’s been a good year…Continue Reading

Vertical Horizons: Online Courses

In 2013, Magnolia Media Network (formerly Future of Ink) listed online courses among its top ten digital publishing trends. That same year, the Independent Book Publishers Association mentioned Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in its Independent magazine as a rapidly growing industry. The article went on to suggest that publishers embracing online education were likely to see…Continue Reading