Happy Pub Day!

This is our last newsletter before Emily Henry season is here - grab your beach towels, tote bags, and sandals because once EH season hits, your feed will be all 'Funny Story'!

We made a list of 24 questions for hosting your Book Club Discussions on this book!

Let’s Dive in:

•  📚 Scheduled Nooks

• 📺 The Love-Hate Relationship for ARCs

• 📖 Becky Lynch - The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl

This Week On Bookum:

Last week we said we were leveling up the club hosting experience and like the talented book posse that we are 😎… we present Scheduled Nooks!

Seamlessly integrated with your Apple/Google Calendars, hosts can now schedule nooks for their clubs, and their members can add them to their phone's calendar!

To use, go into "club settings" and hit club schedule. Once set up, it will appear in your club events like this:

And your members will see the event in their notifications like this:

Club hosts, this is for you! Let your members know - no more missing book club meetings 😂

Other updates on the new version include:

• Club hosts can now delete all posts in a club

• Revamped design for video nooks

• Update to 30-Video Posting on Community Feed!

Start your book club with us today, and don't forget if you are a book content creator, you can earn money hosting your membership club on Bookum!

Join us at www.bookumapp.com

This Week in The Book World:

Recently, there has been a rise in discourse about the ethics and protocols of receiving ARCs (Advance Readers Copies).

On the surface, it seems like an incredibly nice gesture from your favorite publishers and authors to receive a free book to read, share, and review online.

You might even feel like a part of an exclusive club of readers lucky enough to get access to books before the general public.

Even more so, you might even feel obligated to give positive feedback on the book whether you enjoyed it or not because a level of reciprocity is at play.

Behind this amazingly nice gesture is also access to millions of dollars (perhaps Billions) in free online marketing (The global books market revenue was valued at USD 137.12 billion in 2022.)

Save to say there are a lot of different beliefs.

To better understand this phenomena, we sat down with two creators, Sara Hildreth of Fiction Matters, and Julianne Buonocore of The Literary Lifestyle, to discuss the roles ARCs and free publicity play in the book space.

Sara has a unique solution that makes a lot of sense (and one we will incorporate in assisting our membership host)!

We will share their takes in clips below:

Our Take:

As book content creators ourselves, turned book platform, this issue is at the heart of why we started Bookum.

Having experienced the exploitation that book content creators face, as well as the need to support debut/favorite authors, this issue isn't a one-size-fits-all solution.

If you love getting free books early and sharing with your large audience, do it!

If you enjoy ARCs but don't feel like giving a positive review, do that too! Your community will respect your honesty above all!

Ultimately, at Bookum, our focus is to give creators monetization vehicles in the book market that allows them flexibility, honesty, and support for their true fans!

As mentioned above, membership clubs are great for content creators looking to build a space where their community can support them as creators!

Curious to hear your thoughts! Reply to this email and let us know!

This Week in Publishing:

THE GREATEST WEEKEND IN SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT™️

better known as Wrestlemania happened last Sunday.

From The Rock (Dwayne Johnson), to John Cena to the Undertaker all showed up to the 40th Wrestlemania.

Even so, the best part of the show for us readers, was the marketing of Becky Lynch's new book "Becky Lynch - The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl" as she walked to her fight!

Here's the Summary:

Rebecca’s childhood love of wrestling set her on an unlikely path. With few female wrestlers to look to for guidance, Rebecca pursued a wrestling career hoping to change the culture and move it away from the antiquated disrespect so often directed at the elite female athletes who grace the ring.

Even as a teenager, she knew that she would stop at nothing to earn a space among the greatest wrestlers of our time and to pave a new path for female fighters.

Add "Becky Lynch" to your TBR List or start a book club today!

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

MoreofMegs Launches “Hopeless Dreamers Club” Membership Club on Bookum - www.bookumapp.com

Bookforum’s Critical Review of Star Struck by Lauren Olyer - https://www.bookforum.com/print/3004/lauren-oyler-s-meditations-on-goodreads-anxiety-and-gossip-25333

Bookish Content Creators Steph Bohrer & LarryReads Team Up For Booktube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw6tnW4VQ4k&t=516s