Bridget Marmion Book Marketing

07/22/2025

If you’re in NYC today, you MUST get outside! Find a comfortable place to sit and/or a pretty place to walk and ENJOY THIS GIFT OF ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS WEATHER!

07/19/2025

In response to David Brooks’ Op Ed in The New York Times Opinion Section “When Novels Mattered” in which he laments the current lack of ambitious works of literary fiction, Ann Patchett, author and owner of Parnassus Books, offers some ten recent novels for him to read.

23K likes, 969 comments. “It’s Friday, and if you haven’t read this towering stack of great literature, it’s new to you! This week, Ann mixes it up a bit and responds to an op-ed by David Brooks in the NYT. Is the novel really dead? Read the article, watch Ann’s take, and let us know what ...

07/09/2025

A light has gone out in our industry. My deepest condolences to John Mendelson and all colleagues, friends and family of
Katie Cunningham.

Kate Cunningham of Nosy Crow has died following complications related to ovarian cancer…

07/08/2025

On The Open Book podcast, Open Road Integrated Media CEO David Steinberger interviews Andy Hunter, founder of Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and Bookshop on his remarkable career in publishing, including how the 2020 launch of Bookshop just before the COVID pandemic turned out to be the perfect platform for independent bookstores at that time and how sales went from $50K a month to $50K a day to $7 million a month to this year’s projection of $70 million in 2025.

07/04/2025

In The New York Times Styles, reporter Joseph Bernstein investigates the reported phenomenon of the disappearance of the “novel-reading man.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/style/fiction-books-men-reading.html?

Men are leaving fiction reading behind. Some people want to change that.

06/27/2025

On Literary Hub, in an open letter to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, and all other publishers of America, some 70 authors, including Colleen Hoover, Lev Grossman, Lauren Groff, and Emma Straub, call on publishers to pledge “that they will never release books that were created by machines,” among other pledges.

To Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America: We are standing on a precipice. At its simplest level, our job as …

06/24/2025

In The New Yorker, Joshua Rothman explores whether AI is changing not only what is available to read or how much we read but also how we read and how we communicate:

“Some theorists have even proposed that we’re returning to a kind of oral culture—what the historian Walter Ong described as a “secondary orality,” in which gab and give-and-take are enhanced by the presence of text. The ascendance of podcasts, newsletters, and memes has lent credence to this view. “The Joe Rogan Experience” could be understood as a couple of guys around a campfire, passing on knowledge through conversation, like the ancient Greeks.”

For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.

06/23/2025

Yes, a reported 2.2 million books published each year! In , Erin L. Cox reports on a new tool for DISCOVERABILITY, from NetGalley: Booktrovert, which can tap into NetGalley’s existing community of 630,000.

Each campaign provides reportings such as campaign traffic and clicks on calls to action, giveaway campaigns also offer optional detailed analytics, including email addresses of participant, aggregated demographic data, and more.

NetGalley launches new consumer marketing site called Booktrovert which offers book giveaways, consumer insights, activities, games, and more…

06/22/2025

Book readers and book lovers: Plan to put Book Con on your schedule!

After ending operations in 2020, BookCon is coming back to New York City next April. The event is like Comic-Con for book lovers. More details 👇

06/17/2025

Friends in book publishing, , , ,
, in houses large, medium and small, , , , , please take a look!
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) is conducting a new survey developed by their AI Working Group to better understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is currently being used—and how it’s likely to shape the future—across the North American book publishing supply chain.

Help Shape the Future of AI in the Book Industry - Book Industry Study Group

https://www.bisg.org/news/help-shape-the-future-of-ai-in-the-book-industry

📅 Deadline to respond: July 31, 2025

Whether you're new to the book world or a seasoned veteran, work for a publisher or a printer or vendor, your insights are essential. The survey will take only ten minutes!

The more perspectives we gather, the more meaningful the insights will be. BISG's AI Working Group will use the data from this survey to inform their work to create guidelines, best practices, and programming for the industry.

Share Your Voice
We invite you to participate in the survey and share your experiences, challenges, and views. We appreciate you sharing widely with others in the book publishing supply chain, as well as participating.

Responses are anonymous, though you may optionally provide your email to receive a summary of the results.

Thank you in advance for helping us map the evolving landscape of AI in book publishing.

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) is conducting a new survey developed by our AI Working Group to better understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is currently being used—and how it’s likely to shape the future—across the North American book publishing supply chain.

06/16/2025

In his address this month at Publishers Weekly's U.S. Book Show, Keith Riegert, CEO of Perfect Bound, shared the details of his company’s yearlong experiment in trying to incorporate AI into every aspect of its business.

Using AI to Supercharge Book Marketing Keith Riegert Stable Book Group | President Perfect Bound | CEO June 2025