There’s a lot of interesting trends going on in the publishing industry, and some pretty cool new content. Below is a list that breaks it down:
Trends and News in Publishing
- “Indie Authors: Are We Ready for Self-Publishing 3.0? Part 1.” on Self Publishing Advice Center
- “The Rise of the Fidget Spinner and the Fall of the Well-Managed Fad” on The New York Times
- “The Video Game That Shows Us What the E-Book Could Have Been” on Electric Lit
- “IBM Launches Watson Media at the 2017 US Open Tennis Championships” on IBM News
- “The Hard Facts on Hardcover Books” on Indies Unlimited
- “An Editor’s View of Digital Publishing” on The Iris
- “A day in the digital life of teenagers” on The Conversation
- “2016 Was Not Kind to Book Industry Blogs” on The Digital Reader
- “Apple won’t end music downloads in 2 years, but it will someday” on Mashable
- “Banned Books and Blockbusters” on The New Yorker
- “I Wish Apple Loved Books” on Dim Sum Thinking
- “Google Play Turns Five, Names Five Top E-books” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “How an idealistic Silicon Valley founder raised $174 million to change journalism, then crashed into reality — Inside Medium’s meltdown” on Business Insider
- “Inside Forbes: Up Against Mobile Goliaths, Newsrooms Must Own Their Destiny Or Step Aside” on Forbes
- “It Didn’t Have To Be This Way” on Gene Doucette
- “Nielsen adds Facebook, Hulu and YouTube to Digital Content Ratings” on Fierce Cable
- “Maria B. Campbell Named Scout for Netflix” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “‘Game of Thrones’ Author George R.R. Martin Opening New Film Studio” on Rolling Stone
- “Google Said to Offer Publishers A New YouTube Deal” on Advertising Age
- “Publisher or Author? Whose Job Is it to Innovate Anyway?” on Publishing Perspectives
- “The Myth About Print Coming Back (Updated)” on Jane Friedman
- “Why the paperback fought back… and what’s next in digital marketing” on The Bookseller
- “Publishing, Weight, and Writers Who Are ‘Hard To Look At’” on The Toast
- “Serialization and Digital Storytelling: What Victorian-Era Publishing Teaches Us About Generating Leads” on Skyword
- “Why We Are Self Publishing the Aviary Cookbook – Lessons From the Alinea Book” on Medium
- “Is Mass Market Dying, Or Just Evolving—Again?” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Releases 2017 Digital News Report” on Library Journal
Content Trends
- “Micro-Publishing: An Inside Look at Goosebottom Books” on Digital Book World
- “At IDPF: Why Are Subscriptions Outside the US Succeeding?” on Publishing Perspectives
- “The Case for Very Short Novels” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “9 Reasons Why We All Need Accessible Ebooks” on Digital Book World
- “It’s the Law: Accessibility Mandated For Digital Books” on Digital Book World
- “Changing the way multi-format textbooks are made” on Fire and Lion
- “Agile Publishing: Creating Better Books Through Transparency” on Digital Book World
- “Building the Better Ebook and Beyond” on Coalition for Networked Information
- “What are millennials reading? Chat fiction” on CBS
- “Amazon’s chat fiction app Rapids ties up with Amazon Studios with launch of ‘Signature Stories’” on TechCrunch
- “Wattpad takes ‘chat fiction’ beyond text with launch of Tap Originals” on TechCrunch
- “Why Unpaywall will be a game-changer” on Fossils and Sh*t
- “Digital Publishing: As Crosswords Move Online, Publishers Can Still Make a Profit” on Editor & Publisher
- “The Promise and Potential of Fan Fiction” on The New Yorker
Publishing Companies
- “Hachette UK acquires Bookouture” on The Bookseller
- “Hachette’s new clothes” on The Bookseller
- “HarperCollins Adds Book Recommendation Bots to Facebook” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “HarperCollins to Offer Multi-User E-Book Access to Libraries” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “Here’s Where Innovative Publishers Need to Focus” on Digital Book World
- “Lighting It Up with Fahrenheit Press” on Digital Book World
- “Unnamed Press Expands into YA” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “At IBPA Meeting, A Push for Parity” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “A publisher of one’s own: Virginia and Leonard Woolf and the Hogarth Press” on The Guardian
- “Missingham launches Lounge Books” on The Bookseller (Lounge Books)
- “New Tor Imprint to Focus on Experimental Genre Publishing” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “Reuters launches Reuters Connect, a content marketplace driven by the needs of modern day publishing” on Reuters
- “How the Huffington Post Redesign Can Inspire Digital Publishing” on Skyword
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- “How The Economist turned circulation into its most profitable revenue line” on FIPP
- “At Berrett-Koehler, an Emphasis on Authors” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “American Vogue Publisher Talks Strategy Shifts” on Business of Fashion
Publishing and Funds
- “ComicBlitz Looks to Crowdfund Equity Investment Using WeFunder” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “Epic Success in Kids’ E-Book Subscription” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “Fossilized culture, not lack of funding, put news media on deathwatch” on Monday Note
- “This Swedish startup is ‘Spotify for magazines’ — and it just closed a $13 million investment to boost global expansion” on Business Insider
Library and Bookstore News and Trends
- “Peace in Our Time: how publishers, libraries and writers could work together” on Boing Boing
- “57 Years Later, Even the Library Had Stopped Counting the Fines” on The New York Times
- “Giant Cedar Tree Repurposed As A Little Free Library” on Ellis.FYI
- “Library Loans Are a Double-Edged Sword” on Digital Book World
- “Librarians in the 21st Century: The Power of Our Choices” on Literary Hub
- “Librarians take up arms against fake news” on Seattle Times
- “Millennials Are Using Public Libraries More Than Any Other Generation” on Huffington Post
- “Employee-Free Bookstore offers a place to rest, and leisurely read” on The Hankyoreh
- “Paris and the Machine: Now Printing a New Business Model” on Publishing Perspectives
- “What It Takes to Open a Bookstore” on The New York Times
- “Bookstore Pop-ups Keep On Popping Up” on Publisher’s Weekly
New, Cool Content
- “Aziz Ansari, Paulo Coelho, Julia Alvarez Now on Chipotle Cups and Bags” on Vanity Fair
- “Below Bryant Park, a Bunker and a Train Line, Just for Books” on The New York Times
- “Enjoy Book-Themed Travel With Culture Trip’s New Literary City Guides” on The Culture Trip
- “Craft brewers question Anheuser-Busch’s foray into publishing” on Portland Business Journal
- “Electric Literature Serializes Joe Meno’s ‘Star Witness’ Online” on Publisher’s Weekly
- “‘There’s nothing like it in comics’ … how Love and Rockets broke the rules” on The Guardian
- “The Archaeologists Serialization” on Along Came Tomorrow
- “The Archaeologists: Chapter 1” on Broken Pencil
- “CNET Releases Crowdsourced SciFi Novel” on Digital Book World
- “The Interface Series” on Reddit
- “Car Wars” on This
