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Ingram Launches New Digital Catalog, DRC, and Ordering Platform Covered, a digital catalog and galley service for booksellers, librarians, media, and publishers, aims to be a cost-effective alternative to Edelweiss and to fill a gap left by the closure of Baker & ...

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Ingram Launches New Digital Catalog, DRC, and Ordering Platform Covered, a digital catalog and galley service for booksellers, librarians, media, and publishers, aims to be a cost-effective alternative to Edelweiss and to fill a gap left by the closure of Baker & ...

Huge news from Ingram!

If you're an author, make sure your publisher knows about what we're building.

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MediaScout: Book Adaptation Rights Discover and acquire adaptation rights to turn books into screen masterpieces. Tailored for film and TV professionals.

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Why Did ‘Heated Rivalry’ Strike Such A Chord? Top TV And Streaming Execs Have Some Ideas Top TV and streaming programmers unpacked the "Heated Rivalry" phenomenon in a panel discussion at NATPE Global in Miami.

"The fact that Heated Rivalry is based on Rachel Reid’s successful series of 'Game Changers' books helped it make its mark...as the panel was happening, HarperCollins was reporting a 6% uptick in sales at the book division."

deadline.com/2026/02/why-...

More Job Cuts at S&S After confirming on Monday that the publisher had made limited reductions to its staff, Simon & Schuster made another round of layoffs later in the week. More than a dozen jobs have been cut, mostly o...

"One agent told PW she was 'reeling' from the scope of the layoffs."
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Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Standing with and sending extra love to our Minneapolis bookstore friends and their entire community today 💜

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Miller can’t believe he’s getting away with this.

This is the third or fourth time I've seen this headline and I'm starting to get a good hold of the plot now.

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MediaScout: Book Adaptation Rights Discover and acquire adaptation rights to turn books into screen masterpieces. Tailored for film and TV professionals.

There's a lot happening at MediaScout this month!

Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: FREEMONTH26.

It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)

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There's a lot happening at MediaScout this month!

Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: AS2026.

It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)

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There's a lot happening at MediaScout this month!

Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: AS2026.

It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)

www.themediascout.com

I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities.

Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.

1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.

I have many friends and former colleagues quoted in this article and I am very proud to know and support them all.
thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

How one Kansas City teacher built a reading culture in a school with no library “You can see the shift around the school,” said one teacher. “... It’s impressive and inspiring to see someone do something so big in an out-of-the box way.”

“Their sleep gets better, their stress level, their impulse control, their empathy...If you could take what reading does to you and put it in a pill, it would be the fastest-selling pill in the world.”

Thousands of books have since been donated to this school.
www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

Warner Bros Discovery tells investors to reject latest $108bn hostile Paramount bid Board unwilling to accept hostile takeover despite $40bn guarantee from billionaire Larry Ellison Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has again told its shareholders to reject an “inadequate” $108.4bn (£80bn) hostile takeover bid by Paramount Skydance amid an extraordinary corporate battle to control the media conglomerate. Paramount, controlled by the billionaire Ellison family, had sought to combat WBD’s criticism of its offer and claims it had “consistently misled” investors by saying it had a “full backstop” – a safety net to ensure it has sufficient funds – from the Ellisons. Continue reading...

Warner Bros Discovery tells investors to reject latest $108bn hostile Paramount bid

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Oil is bad and we should be using less of it.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

“It’s pretty crazy that streaming services haven’t produced many new kids’ hits or animated hits when reruns of those genres dominate ever year.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Today's @publisherslunch.bsky.social reports that trade books sales skyrocketed this past season.

"That makes it the second-best October recorded by the AAP, next to the massive sales of $1.042 billion in 2021, which was the best year ever for trade book sales."

Go buy a book.

My chest!!

Amazing! CONGRATS!!!

The Supreme Court Just Opened the Door to a New Era of Book Bans The Supreme Court’s inaction puts Americans’ First Amendment rights at risk.

"What’s happening on our shelves isn’t a local quirk, it’s a national stress test of your rights...

If they can get away with it here, it’s coming to your libraries too."

time.com/7341120/book...