HT @precociouspenny There is a directory devoted to listing and supporting literary agents of color in the publishing industry. If you are an agent of color and would like to be included, please visit http://litagentsofcolor.com and fill out the contact form. If you are looking for an agent, please visit the site.
Congrats to @DVpit_ on almost 100 success stories! In case you don’t know, #DVpit is a Twitter event created to showcase pitches from marginalized voices that have been historically underrepresented in publishing. See more here:
This breaks my heart: Starting in 2019, the teen lifestyle magazine will focus in on the growing digital-first strategy at Hearst Magazines. Via @foliomag
HT @Tech4Pub Following a media-wide trend, a web pioneer finally decides to put a price tag on its online offerings: A digital subscription will cost $5 a month, or $50 a year.
RT @LWShanley Podcasts and audiobooks would compete for listeners if the audience for both weren’t growing so fast, through Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomePod and pre-installed audio systems in new cars.
Scroll down in this bible newsletter of podcasting from @nwquah to see his take on Pandora’s announcement that they plan to use human curation and AI to surface podcasts.
RT @nycmedialab Audioburst’s new feature allows listeners to enter keywords and get clips from podcasts discussing subjects. You can try it yourself here, by clicking “Create your Personalized Playlist.”
In our frenetic age, audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion. But this intimacy can become manipulative, Rebecca Mead writes in @NewYorker.
ICYMI Statistically speaking, there are roughly five podcasts for every human on the face of the Earth. And now they all finally have a home on Spotify. The streaming music giant this week opened podcast submissions to everyone through the beta of Spotify for Podcasters platform.
RT @TechCrunch Amazon on Thursday launched a new service aimed at Alexa developers that automatically provisions and helps them to manage a set of AWS cloud resources for their Alexa skill’s backend service. The service is intended to help developers speed the time it takes to launch their skills by allowing them to focus on their skills’ design and unique features, and not the cloud services they need.
The titles include a mix of classics like “Rocky” and “The Terminator,” as well as other family fare like “Zookeeper,” “Agent Cody Banks,” and “Legally Blonde,” among others.
With one million jobs now secured through the social network, Facebook launched a new education portal, Learn with Facebook; and it is expanding two services it had already launched that are adjacent to that, Mentorships and Jobs.
ICYMI The infinite retailer appears to be ushering untold numbers of stealth brands into your life, even as it plans to take over the East Coast. If you like Ween Charm, you’ll love Austin Mill!
Amazon has to become Walmart before Walmart becomes Amazon: The future of Amazon is starting to look a lot more complicated than just selling products on the internet. One of the company’s cashier-less Go convenience stores opened in San Francisco last week. Coupled with Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods last year, these Go stores give us a glimpse into a future hybrid form of retail that Amazon could use to expand from e-commerce into the real world. Via @Verge
Per Amanda Litman, in under 2 years, Run for Something has recruited nearly 20k young progressives who want to run! They’ve elected nearly 200 people to local office in 40 states – 56% women, 49% people of color, 15% LGBTQ, ages 19-40. They spent about $2.25m to do it from over 12k donors. Read more about the awesome@WMG_NYC event with Amanda and Glory Edim (Well Read Black Girl), moderated by Rachel Barry (ResistanceReads.com) here:
Facebook announced that since it debuted charitable giving tools in 2015, people have raised more than $1 billion for nonprofits and personal causes via its Fundraisers feature and Donate buttons.
RT @nycmedialab Introducing the Magic Leap Independent Creator Program, a development fund to help creators bring their vision to life. Magic Leap is offering grants between $20,000 and $500,000 per project along with developer and marketing support, and the hardware you’ll need to launch your next great idea. You own your IP and publishing is not exclusive to Magic Leap.
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