'Alexa read me my book.' is a popular refrain from people who want to unwind after work, and that’s changing the way audiobooks are being marketed.

At Wattpad, says Ashleigh Gardner “we have a huge pool of content that we could never read ourselves as human editors. We really lean on machine learning to help us understand what those stories are about before we even open the page.”

This week, PW launched The Fanatic, a biweekly email newsletter on graphic novels and comic books

“I keep an eye on absolutely everything. I’m discovering things that I never, never knew about how the nuts and bolts of the business work.”

While 2018 numbers brought smiles to faces at trade book houses, publishers in other segments suffered significant declines in sales.

Amazon has become a form of infrastructure for 21st-century commerce. If you’re an independent merchant or an independent producer, and you want to reach consumers in the 21st century digital markets, you have to ride Amazon’s rails.

An opportunity in NYC for international reporters to put down their notebooks and compare professional circumstances

What’s so great about this crowdfunding model is that titles that might not appeal to a mainline publisher are eminently suitable. And in the end, you’re delivering directly into the hands of the reader a publication whose every quality you can control.

The next mega-memoir is very possibly “The Moment of Lift” by Melinda Gates, coming in April 2019

We’re casting a light on the whole industry. A publishing partner is going to be able to see how the toy sales are going and how the ed-tech licensing deals are going and how the video game sales are going.