Catch Citi of Books at the 30th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books!
Citi of Books is thrilled to announce our participation in the 30th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the largest book festival in the United States!
Scheduled for April 26-27, 2025, this annual celebration of literature will take place at the University of Southern California Campus.
Learn more: https://citiofbooks.com/blog/catch-citi-of-books-at-the-30th-los-angeles-times-festival-of-books/
When your industry dies out - #adaptation lessons for all of us!
The Gen X #Career Meltdown https://buff.ly/GfLSj4r
“Every writer has a legacy, whether it’s a single self-published book, a growing backlist with a small press, or a series of essays and poems shared online. You don’t have to be a household name to plan for the future of your creative work.” — Charlotte Jones Voiklis
https://janefriedman.com/planning-for-the-life-of-your-work-even-if-youre-not-famous-yet/
Are you an academic planning to attending @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference #PSA25 next week?
Do say hello to LSE Press's Managing Editor, Alice Park (@alicecpark.bsky.social) who will be attending!
#politicalstudies #ir #conference #academic #publishing
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cpvfuohvyf4r4qontll7z6en/post/3lmero2cofk2s
Thomas Pynchon announces Shadow Ticket, his first novel in more than a decade https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/09/thomas-pynchon-announces-shadow-ticket-his-first-novel-in-more-than-a-decade #ThomasPynchon #Publishing #Culture #Fiction #Books
Patti Smith to publish ‘intimate’ new memoir, Bread of Angels https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/09/patti-smith-to-publish-intimate-new-memoir-bread-of-angels #Autobiographyandmemoir #PattiSmith #Publishing #Culture #Books #Music
Oh boy, we live in uncertain publishing times.
Do you rely on other platforms for web traffic?
I’d love to know—drop your preferred traffic sources in the comments! #SEO #google #socialmedia #flipboard #flipboardusergroup
#publishing #blogging
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Oh boy, we live in uncertain publishing times.
Do you rely on other platforms for web traffic?
I’d love to know—drop your preferred traffic sources in the comments! #SEO #google #socialmedia #flipboard #flipboardusergroup
#publishing #blogging
https://digiday.com/media/publishers-left-guessing-how-googles-march-2025-core-update-will-reshape-search/
“We asked 18 experts and leaders from across the publishing industry to reflect on what’s changed for authors and publishers over the past five years and share their predictions about where they believe the industry will be in 2030.” #authors #publishing #books
https://insights.bookbub.com/publishing-leaders-share-predictions-2025/
I vastly underestimated, as a young-in-path writer, the time to *maintain* a large catalog.
I thought having a large catalog would be the key to a successful career, esp in self-pub (and it was), but the maintenance goes exponential w/ # of books.
Still worth it tho.
Pitches and Queries: A Big Question - There’s not much point in saying “I’m submitting to you because you represent XYZ.” They already know what they represent, and it doesn’t show that you did more than look at a listing for them.
Read more 
https://lttr.ai/AcKpB
#writing #publishing #amquerying #querying #QueryLetters
Congratulations to the editors of the new open access journal ZML: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik
I hope they succeed and that more will follow their footsteps and separate from the for-profit publishing industry and move to an open acess model, free for all.
> “We, the editors of ZML, support true open access removing all barriers to access,” according to the letter. The journal will publish papers and make them available to read for free. The editors write they “believe that the scientific content of research journals must be under the sole control of the academic community and should be free from any commercial or profit-oriented influence.”
Forthcoming biofictions and adaptations seminar: Deepfake? True Lies, Real Lives & The Ethics of Biofictions.
30th April 2.00-3.30pm UK time.
This Post-Publishing seminar, taking place at Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures, and online, will explore the troubled line between fact and fiction in literature and on-screen.
Talks by Dr Bethany Layne (De Montfort University) and Clare Harvey (Coventry University), followed by a Q&A. 2-3.30pm hybrid (from 1pm in person, including pre-seminar networking lunch at CPC).
More info and registration here: https://www.eventsforce.net/deepfake
Jim Milliot: #Books Escape New #Tariffs, At Least for Now
#publishing
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/97494-books-escape-new-tariffs-at-least-for-now.html
"What tech companies are doing is neither 'fair use' nor 'fair dealing'. It is a blatant infringement of copyright."
Ambre Morvan tells Matilda Battersby that Meta's defence won't fly:
#books #reading #writing #publishing #AI #bookstodon @bookstodon
Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks are advocating for libraries in response to the March 14 executive order dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcements/publishers-send-letter-to-congress-advocating-for-libraries-imls-funding/
#Publishers #Publishing #Libraries #EndFascism #IMLS
How to navigate the #publishing industry if you have social #anxiety.
https://www.sfwa.org/2025/04/01/how-to-navigate-the-publishing-industry-with-social-anxiety/
Do you subscribe to @ems_press content? Make sure your IP data is correct in theIPregistry.org to make sure your access to content is set up correctly.
#Library #libraries #publisher #publishers #publishing
Books 'exempt from US tariffs' – but booksellers and distributors still anticipate 'major supply chain issues' #publishing #books #tariffs
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