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The Latest News from The Hot Sheet

by Richard Smith
Bowker | Tue Oct 19, 2021

If you’re an author and want to stay on top of the important issues in the world of publishing — issues that affect you — you need The Hot Sheet.
 
With all the chatter out there, it will help you sort through the noise with stories that focus on relevant topics from across the publishing spectrum. From author success stories to key industry statistics, you’ll find what you need to know in The Hot Sheet. Among the most important insights in this issue:
  • Reading and writing apps like Wattpad have recently grown 50 percent year on year as a category. That helps explain, in part, why Inkitt and its serial fiction app Galatea attracted $59 million in funding this month. In this issue, you’ll learn about the company’s history and reputation in the writing community as well as its top-performing authors.
  • It seems there’s always more to say about the supply chain problems that will, with certainty, affect book sales and inventory this holiday season. A recent panel I attended offered some eye-popping graphs on low paper inventory. These problems won’t go away any time soon.
  • This year’s virtual Digital Book World kicked off with an excellent Big Five marketing case study on a cookbook, Jew-ish, by Jake Cohen. Traditional publishers are using social analytics to find a book’s readership and to avoid reinventing the wheel with each new marketing campaign.

Here's a look at the new edition's table of contents: 

• Hot Shots
• “Pretty Much Everything Has Gone Wrong”: Navigating Supply Chain Issues
• Inkitt Raises $59 Million, Touts Success with Galatea
• How Traditional Publishers Are Shifting to Data-Informed Marketing
• Point of Interest
• Trailblazes
• Links of Interest
• Old Flames
• Closing Image
 
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