Innovation
This road can charge vehicles as they drive on — mashable.com
Sweden has built an electrified road that can charge your car as you’re driving above it.
Google Glass is adding Meet so remote supervisors can see through field workers’ eyes — www.theverge.com
Google Workspace customers will soon be able to use Google Meet with their Glass Enterprise Edition 2 to let remote supervisors see through the eyes of their workers.
Allure designs holiday shopping issue around virtual try-on experiences — www.mobilemarketer.com
via @mobilemktrdaily #magazines #AR #innovation
Google launches a suite of tech-powered tools for reporters, Journalist Studio — techcrunch.com
#journalism #Google #AI #MachineLearning
Google Maps now lets you know how crowded public spaces are before you go — www.cnet.com
Google Maps updated its “busyness” feature to show you live information about how crowded shops and restaurants are. Parks, too.
Google search lets you hum to find a song that’s stuck in your head —www.cnet.com
AT&T has another streaming service coming, and this one is designed for the car — WarnerMedia Ride. — www.cnet.com
Google wants to turn YouTube into QVC with new shopping features —arstechnica.com
YouTube wants to become an e-commerce player with direct sales on video pages.
Publishing
Barnes & Noble cyberattack exposed customers’ personal information— www.cnn.com
ICYMI A day after Barnes & Noble solved its Nook outage, the bookstore revealed a far more serious problem: A massive cybersecurity attack breached the company’s data, exposing information about customers, including email addresses and other personal information.
Publishers are building their own podcasting apps to capture the “next frontier of media” — whatsnewinpublishing.com
“In the US, one quarter of adults, or 60M people, listen to a podcast a few times a week, and 91M listen to one at least once a week,” according to journalists Piet van Niekerk and Pierre de Villiers. “And, as new podcasts are being aired every three minutes somewhere in the world, publishers have been handed the ideal revenue subscription tool.” #podcasting
Meredith, an overachiever in the magazine business, now finds itself in trouble — www.poynter.org
ICYMI Facing layoffs, declining stock prices and the recession, the magazine industry’s brightest star is heading in the wrong direction. #magazines
Rom Coms Set at Women’s Magazines, Ranked by Staff at a Women’s Magazine — www.instyle.com
For a smile: ’13 Going on 30,’ ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,’ ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ — all of these films have an occupation in common: Women’s publishing. How accurate are their depictions of glossy life in the editorial world? InStyle staffers give their honest reviews.
How One Book Biz Insider Is Getting Books to Prisoners —www.publishersweekly.com
W.W. Norton’s Liveright imprint publicity director Peter Miller moonlights as a bookstore owner in Brooklyn — and he’s working with Books Through Bars to get books into the hands of the imprisoned.
RIP Ed Benguiat “man of 1000 faces”
He created 600 typefaces including Avant Garde Gothic, Bauhaus, Bookman, Edwardian Script, and the eponymous ITC Benguiat repopularized by the Stranger Things logo. He also did logos for the New York Times, Esquire, Coke, Ford, AT&T, and so many others.
R.I.P. Chris Meadows — teleread.org
HT @inkbitspixels Chris Meadows, a gifted writer and editor who played an important role in TeleRead, is dead at 47 from an electric bike accident.
Resources & Opportunities
Charitybuzz: 20-Minute Pitch & Editorial Meeting with Eloisa James —www.charitybuzz.com
Attention #amwriting folks: Eloisa James is auctioning a 20-min pitch & editorial mtg on behalf of @WMG_NYC scholarships. She’s written >30 books, w sales of 7M, +can help you w literary fiction, genre fiction, nonfiction, or memoir. Bid now! #RomanceReaders #nanowrimo2020#NaNoWriMo
DVpit event
RT @DVpit_ calling all authors and illustrators from historically underrepresented communities! If you’re looking for an agent and/or a publisher, pitch your work at the twitter event #DVpit (or #DVart for illustrators), October 26 + 27, 2020.
KidLit: Practical Strategies for Authors & Illustrators —newengland.scbwi.org
RT @EngageReaders Space is still available for this awesome event! Anti-racism in KidLit: Practical Strategies for Authors & Illustrators — October 22, 2020- 7:00–8:30 pm @valerie_bolling @Meg_Medina @MisterMinor@WhatSticks @Tiff_Liao @tracisorell #scbwi @nescbwi #kidlit
Virtual Introduction to Publishing Networking Event
RT @HBGJobs Join us for Hachette Book Group’s Virtual Introduction to Publishing Networking Event! Submit an application here.
HarperCollins Author Academy
www.harpercollinsacademy.co.uk
RT @PublishersLunch Harper UK Starts “Author Academy” to “Train and Support Writers from Underrepresented Ethnic Backgrounds”
Scholastic Ages 0–8 Open Submission Call
RT @Scholastic Are you a BIPOC creator? Scholastic’s 0–8 group wants to hear from you! Until 12/15/20, we are accepting portfolios, board books, picture books, early readers, and early chapter books for readers ages 0–8.
Getting a Job in Publishing: What Does a Social Media Manager Do? | Epic Reads Office Hours
RT @EpicReads What does it actually look like to work in the publishing industry? With our new Office Hours series, we want to tell you! Catch me (@tbreitfeller) in the premiere episode talking about managing social media, my semi-deranged articles, children’s books, and more!
The Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program for BIPOC students in in theatrical management, design and other offstage artistic concentrations
RT @BwayAdvocacyCo Representation backstage is JUST as important as it is onstage. Through the Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program, we can support the next gen of Black, Asian, Latinx, Indigenous & People of Color theatre makers. Applications are due Sunday, October 25
Free Well-Read Black Girl Festival 2020 Nov. 6–8 — Keynote Nikki Giovanni — mailchi.mp
From @wellreadblkgirl Put together your #WellReadBlackGirl Festival 2020 reading list! Our theme? Black Political Power: Past & Present. From your favorite poets and journalists to frontline activists and everyone in between.
Support We Need Diverse Books —acommunitythrives.mightycause.com
RT @ElloEllenOh My goal for WNDB is to give away 100,000 books in the next few years and eventually grow that number to over a million. There are far too many children who still don’t have the pleasure of owning their own books.RT @diversebooks With the help of supporters like you, we can expand our WNDB in the Classroom program, through which we’ve already given away over 19,000 books! Gifts as small as $5 can go a long way
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources — Book Industry Study Group
@BISG: Thanks for the shoutout to @WMG_NYC in your list of Organizations supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion!