Technology • Innovation • Publishing - Issue #173

Curated resources for those seeking to understand, build, and otherwise get involved with decentralized autonomous organizations or DAOs. #DAOs

The “Hello, World!” message was first penned by the platform’s co-founder back in 2001. #NFTs

RT @rishad As we all fixate on forging things with the scalability, math and plumbing of data, a case may be made that true wealth and joy are being sculpted with the specialness, magic, and poetry of creativity.

A 2011 thriller was supposed to cost $15. One merchant listed it at $987, with a 17th-century publication date. That’s what happens in a marketplace where third-party sellers run wild. #Amazon

Amazon is taking extreme measures to get Christmas packages to customers, from putting toys on steel-hauling cargo ships to sending out half-empty trucks.

Journalists and activists worry Twitter’s new privacy policy will be weaponized and will make their jobs harder, due to vague terms like “the public interest.” By @mathewi.

The parties declined to disclose terms of the deal, but a person familiar with the sale said @OpenRoadMedia, which had been primarily owned by a group of institutional investors, sold for between $60 million and $80 million.

MT @JaneFriedman I’ve freshly updated my foundational how-to article on writing a nonfiction book proposal. It now includes a Word template, formatted according to industry standards, with tips & guidance on each proposal section.

Incorporate several holidays from this extensive 2022 literary calendar into your book marketing plan for next year. Via @sandrabeckwith.

HT @PublishersLunch

HT @PublishersLunch @RBmediaCo acquired Toronto-based Author’s Republic, a distribution platform for self-published audiobooks. The deal includes the company’s Novel Audio audiobook publishing imprint as well. (Novel Audio was originally Audiobooks.com Publishing, and changed its name after the Audiobooks.com retail site was sold to RBmedia’s predecessor. And RBmedia just sold Audiobooks.com to Storytel.)

HT @PublishersLunch #PrintingNews

The Boston Globe reports that Reginald Dwayne Betts, a MacArthur Award-winning poet who himself spent eight years in prison, plans to convert a prison cell at MCI-Norfolk into a new “Freedom Library,” as part of a grant project through the Mellon Foundation.

The estate of fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien has successfully blocked a cryptocurrency called “JRR Token.”

HT @BoSacks

After experimenting with rolling out feature stories and videos globally this year, Architectural Digest will publish its first global magazine issue.

Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.

Selected by the editors of the Journal’s books pages, the year’s most distinguished works of fiction and nonfiction.

These 10 stand-out books are an eclectic bunch, but all will make you see the world a little differently.

Elizabeth Day, Lisa Taddeo, David Nicholls and more reveal their top reads - and the gifts they’d most like to find under the tree

I’m working the Penguin Hotline 12/6, 12/8, and 12/10! Ck out the #PenguinHotline to get a personalized list of recommendations. For every request btwn 12/1-12/15, the Penguin Hotline’ll donate $2 to ProLiteracy (up to $10K) And there are “golden tickets” to get recommendations from authors, such as Jasmine Guillory, Megan Abbott, Emma Straub, Emily Henry, Jason Mott, Chang rae-Lee, and more. The holidays are #BetterWithBooks. #TeamPRH

@WMG_NYC Members: Don’t forget to sign up for this week’s FREE Holiday Party. It’s 12/9 from 6-8pm ET. Come celebrate with us, get to know your new fellow members, and reconnect with old friends. We’ll have guided breakout rooms with festive themes for intimate networking, contests for Best Zoom Décor and Most Creative Cocktail or Mocktail, and we’ll be naming a Belle of the Ball. So, feel free to dress to impress…without having to leave the comfort of your home!