Bridget Marmion Book Marketing

10/07/2025

How will we know what’s real anymore? SORA is getting high marks for how easy it is to create VERY REALISTIC videos using only a prompt - and inserting whatever images you want. Even it’s moving watermark, so you, me, law enforcement, news media can tell it’s fiction; that it never happened, can be edited out with effort.
“Increasingly realistic videos are more likely to lead to consequences in the real world by exacerbating conflicts, defrauding consumers, swinging elections or framing people for crimes they did not commit, experts said…”
Your thoughts on SORA and other AI video apps?

The new A.I. app generated videos of store robberies and home intrusions — even bomb explosions on city streets — that never happened.

10/05/2025

So glad I snagged a ticket to THE OTHER AMERICANS at The Public. Rob not with me, sadly! Only one ticket available at any performance he could make

10/03/2025

On Defector, poet/editor/literary scholar/educator Nick Sturm takes a decidedly more critical view of what the end of Scribner Books annual “Best American Poetry” book series means.

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project, published by Macmillan in 1987, was a flop. But Lehman had an editorial vision. As he writes in th...

10/03/2025

The New York Times poetry columnist Elisa Gabbert reflects on the end, after 38 years, of the Scribner Books annual “Best American Poetry” book series.

After four decades, the annual book series is drawing to a close. Our columnist looks at what it all meant.

10/03/2025

Going to Frankfurt? Here's A BISG event no agent, editor or publisher should miss - if you want to MAKE DEALS, not chase paperwork!
ADVANCING STANDARDS FOR TRANSLATION RIGHTS
ROYALTY STATEMENTS

Friday, October 17, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Frankfurt Book Fair | Hall 5.0, Conference Room “Encounter”

You're invited to a presentation on the updated Proposed Standards for Translation Rights Royalty Statements by the BISG Rights Committee and Rights Royalty Standards Working Group invite

Last year, BISG introduced a research-driven proposal to bring greater clarity and consistency to translation rights royalty reporting. This year, we return with an updated and expanded version shaped by global stakeholder input and practical feedback.

This is your chance to preview the forthcoming standard, ask questions, and help finalize recommendations that can benefit the entire industry.

Click here to register to attend.

09/26/2025

On LinkedIn’s Pulse, Linda Ruth, who does Audience Development and Digital Marketing Strategies for Publishers at PSCS Consulting, offers tips on how publishers can stay visible when search engines stop sending clicks.

Here’s the reality: AI is eating search. If your publishing model still leans on SEO traffic, you’re already feeling the tremors.

09/23/2025

How can publishing embrace AI’s potential without sacrificing creative integrity, reader trust, or control over the work we produce?

Tuesday, September 30, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT)

Artificial intelligence is no longer on the horizon—it’s in your inbox, your workflows, and your metadata. But as AI tools reshape publishing from editorial to marketing, the stakes for ethics, transparency, and trust have never been higher.

09/12/2025

On THE WEEK, Abby Wilson examines the impact of BookTok influencers on what bookstores buy.

“BookTok bestseller lists compiled by major publishers and retailers, reveal a clear pattern: almost exclusively, the books that rank are romance, fantasy" and adult fiction. . . . [although] BookTok is also making classic and literary fiction, often seen as ‘elitist’, more ‘accessible to the masses.’”

Social media recommendations are boosting book sales but critics give the trend mixed reviews

08/29/2025

On The Bookseller magazine, Suzanne Collier, founder of Bookcareers, weighs in on the question “Will AI destroy entry-level jobs in publishing?” Didn’t pundits predict that about spell checkers?

Aspiring publishing people don't need to panic, but they do need to start honing their AI skills.

08/28/2025

Congratulations to Keith Arsenault on his outstanding rep award from NEIBA!

Keith ArsenaultKeith Arsenault of Chesapeake & Hudson has won the 2025 Saul Gilman Award, given by the New England Independent Booksellers

08/28/2025

Which have you read? Do you recommend it?

Barack Obama has released his summer reading list. On Instagram, he wrote, "Reading has always been an important part of my journey, which