PubTalk Live is a publishing talk show, broadcasting live to YouTube every 2nd and 4th Saturday at 9pm Eastern. Host Sarah Nicolas is joined in each episode by a Guest Co-Host and at least one Special Guest. They talk about all aspects of the book publishing industry, including its intersections with other media and libraries. This episode of PubTalk Live features Guest Co-Host Danny aka Lodestar and Special Guest Sarah Simpson-Weiss, an author’s assistant who works with bestselling authors.
→Danny aka Lodestar
https://www.theshapeofastarpodcast.com/
https://twitter.com/lodestarslagoon
→Sarah Simpson-Weiss
Website: http://www.yourauthorassistant.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MightyMouse118
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→Amanda Gorman’s poetry book price increase: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/87229-gorman-book-s-price-hike-startles-booksellers.html
→Hachette acquires Workman: https://www.piworld.com/article/hachette-book-group-to-acquire-workman-publishing/
https://publishingperspectives.com/2021/08/hachette-book-group-announces-acquisition-of-workman-publishing/
→Beijing Book Fair postponed: https://www.bibf.net/en/
→Greenlight Bookstores unionized: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/87157-greenlight-bookstores-in-brooklyn-unionize.html
→Amazon plans department stores: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/business/amazon-department-stores/index.html
→Officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting looking for new book publisher: https://www.wsj.com/articles/police-officer-in-breonna-taylor-shooting-seeks-new-book-publisher-11629318016
→Congressman Ronny Jackson book deal: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2021/08/17/house-rules-ban-book-advances-heres-how-trumps-old-doctor-now-in-congress-got-one-anyway/?sh=8cb243d6f122
→Ted Cruz book dealings: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2021/08/16/ted-cruz-made-320000-as-an-author-last-year-his-campaign-bought-153000-worth-of-books/?sh=7cbff0482e15
→Vatican Selected a Publisher:
https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/pope-names-italian-journalist-head-vatican-publishing-house
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