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New, More and Older
We’re always busy here at Lunch HQ building new features, stories and enhancements — though we’re often so focused on the work that we forget to share our progress with you. So today we’re taking a beat to review, and celebrate. Yesterday we sent out the second monthly issue of our new Authors Lunch newsletter, created especially for our growing population of author members. It combines relevant highlights and summaries from our daily reporting with a lot of original pieces focused on author questions and development, as well as getting the most from PM. (Two popular pieces in the latest […]
Call for Spring/Summer Season Preview Listings
Our forthcoming Buzz Books 2023: Spring/Summer samplers will include, as usual, extensive seasonal preview/overview listings of notable titles on the way. We compile these big roundups by looking at publisher catalogs; our own comprehensive monthly lists of significant forthcoming books; hints from our substantial flow of deal reports; aggregation of “anticipated books” lists from other publications; word-of-mouth within the industry; and more. If you have notable spring/summer titles you would like to have considered for the preview list — particularly ones you are concerned we might have missed from the regular signals, along with drop-ins and rescheduled releases — now […]
The Sound of Lunch
No, it’s not a Zen koan but rather yet another new experiment from Team Lunch. For enhanced accessibility as well anyone who prefers listening to the day’s news, we are now offering a podcast of the daily newsletter. Visit or bookmark the Publishers Lunch Audio page, where we will post the daily recording after the newsletter is emailed. (There is an RSS feed as well, to notify you of new daily posts.) Each day of the week a different Lunch staff member reads you the day’s news. The index page will hold an archive of up to two weeks posts […]
Publishing Today: The Comprehensive Account of THE TRIAL
While publishers large and small are planning to issue versions of the still-unwritten January 6th report, only Publishers Lunch is bold enough (or crazy enough) to bring to market a nearly complete record of THE TRIAL: The DOJ’s Suit to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Simon & Schuster. It may not be the “big book” of the fall season, but it’s certainly a strong candidate for the biggest book. (Or ebook, since we’re still figuring out the mechanics of doing something so long through print-on-demand.) This digital doorstop, at nearly 700,000 words, brings together the significant day-by-day antitrust trial […]
In Case…
Two modest open calls: 1. We’re looking at new experiment that involves AI/machine audio narration. If you have any experience or recommendations here, please let us know! 2. If anyone wants to suggests a neutral Washington, DC watering hole for people to find each other after court hours next week, we’re open to suggestions.