Happy Tuesday!

Still in pure gratitude that we had the privilege of hosting Mrs. Loida Lewis on our Founders Talk Podcast to discuss her new book "Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?" and her late husband, Reginald Lewis.

Reginald Lewis was the first African American to buy and own a billion-dollar company in America.

Loida took over the company after his early passing in 1993.

I will share a clip and a link to the full podcast below:

Table of Content:

• 📚 Product Update: We are SEARCHING!

•  📺 Jack Edwards in Business Insider

• 📖 New Kennedy Ryan Book

This Week On Bookum:

A few new updates were pushed to the App Store today:

We improved search, making it easier for you to find books. You can now search for books by author name alone. With access to over 5 million books, this should be helpful! (Lastly, if you can't find your book, you can also contribute a book to our app anytime you want!)

We added "Books" to the + sign for easier access to adding books to your profile, tracking progress, and reviewing!

Happy Reading, and please let us know other features you would like to see on the app!

This Week in The Book World:

What's our favorite mantra… We shout out Creators! (Alright, we are in month 2 of this weekly Newsletter - last ellipsis before the mantra) 😆

Last week, YouTube's Resident Librarian, Jack Edwards, was featured in Business Insider and put book content creators front and center.

It was an excellent article that we don't want to spoil.

Booknote (our views):

Overall, it's great to see the bookish content creator space continue to shine their light and get mainstream attention.

This space has some of the best content creators on the internet, and we are doing our part to highlight and open up more revenue opportunities for creators in the space.

(Yes, that was a long way of saying start your membership club with us for your core audience and start earning today!)

We will leave article courtesy of Business Insider below:

(please note Business Insider seems to have paywalled this article now)

This Week in Publishing:

The word on the street is that Kennedy Ryan has a new book out 👀👀

Not only that, but it is living up to the hype!

This Could Be Us tells the story of Soledad Barnes.

Here's the full Book Summary:

"Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion.

But there is no time to pout or sulk, or even grieve the life she lost. She's too busy keeping a roof over her daughters' heads and food on the table. And in the process of saving them all, Soledad rediscovers herself. From the ashes of a life burned to the ground, something bold and new can rise."

If you are a big Kennedy Ryan reader, make sure to grab some friends and start a book club with us! We would love to host it!

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Happy Reading!

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

Steamy Lit Founder Melissa Saavedra joining us for the Creator Talk Podcast on Wednesday - Listen Live on Bookum Nook!

 Bookish Content Creators Cree Myles and chinelo release first episode Girl V. Book Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7MtJh7f88pN1J3oOIG30RE

“Dune Club” Launches on Bookum - https://link.bookumapp.com/AI53JERxTHb