Happy Pub Day!

Hope everyone is enjoying their long summer days and making it through the first 50% of their current books.

Check out our latest Creators Talk Podcast with Dawnshaeé Reid. We talk about book clubs, staying original as a creator, and an introduction to eclecticism. Great conversation!

This Week’s Percentages:

• 📚 Balanced Black Girl x Bookum (33.3%)

•  📺 The Power of Bookish Influence (33.3%)

• 📖 New Book by Mike Maples Jr. (33.4%)

This Week On Bookum:

We are still working on a few updates on the app. We'll share some soon.

This Thursday (12 PM EST), join us live on Bookum (Nooks) for a special sit-down with Les Alfred, host and creator of the Balanced Black Girl Podcast.

Les is an avid reader (big romance fan), wellness and balanced lifestyle creator. We will be talking about reading, community, and balance this week on Creators Talk.

If you have any questions for Les, join the Nook live on Bookum!

See you Thursday www.bookumapp.com

This Week in The Book World:

We got hit with the book world’s version of those orange squares from Fyre Festival.

You might have noticed that a lot of your favorite creators were dropping their top 10 nonfiction books of the 21st century.

Why, you might ask?

Because the New York Times dropped their list of the best 100 books of the 21st century (spoiler the top book was My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 2012) Voters from book influencers Jack Edwards to Stephen King shared their top 10 books (kinda funny Stephen King picked his own book; respect the self-promotion 🤣).

As our friend Jules said it best:

Like all listicles, people had their critiques.

Which brings in the creators.

Christmas came in July and we got endless lists from our favorite bookish content creators.

We will share some below from some Bookum users!

Let us know what books have been your favorites in these first 24 years of the century!

This Week in Publishing:

For our Founders Club readers, we've got you covered this week.

Mike Maples Jr., co-founder and partner at Floodgate, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and Peter Ziebelman, professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and co-founder of Palo Alto Venture Partners, have a new book out today: "Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future."

Dubbed as "the most important start-up book of the last ten years" by Steve Blank, co-creator of the Lean Startup Movement.

Add this book to your TBR list and let us know if you want us to make this our August/September Book Club pick!

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Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):

Audible Rolls Out New Royalty Plan -https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=4814

Emily Henry’s “Funny Story” is Heading to the Big Screen - https://booktrib.com/2024/04/18/emily-henry-funny-story/ 

Exec Jeanell English and Book Content Creator Tanya Sam Launch New Publishing Company - https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/jeanell-english-tanya-sam-publishing-housewives-atlanta-kenya-moore-1236063752/