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🎙 Podcaster and Author Steven Barrlett Launches AI/Creator-Forward Imprint, Posting Revamped and New Book by Tomi Adeyemi
Happy Place, Marcus Collins, For The Culture
Kyle Colley
July 02, 2024
Happy Pub Day!
Back to our regularly scheduled program this week!
And since it's the first of the month, it's only right we meme it up:
Alvin Coolturkey has taken over the newsletter🫡
+5 points for replying back to let us know your librarian name.
Check out our latest Authors Talk Podcast with Dr. Marcus Collins on his book "For the Culture."
Collins was previously a digital strategist for Beyoncé, worked with Apple, and helped with the marketing launch of the Brooklyn Nets.
We discuss branding, marketing, and how culture influences us.
Listen to the full conversation here - https://youtu.be/3_L2uNgwDNE
Today's Standup:
📚 Improved Posting, Video Nooks, and Currently Reading
📺 Podcaster and Author Steven Bartlett Launches AI-Forward Imprint
📖 ew Book by Tomi Adeyemi
This Week On Bookum:
The app got some exciting updates this week!
First, we revamped video posting for a more seamless and intuitive creation experience. Post up to 30-second videos on the community feed!
 Video now uploads in the background so you can continue to use the app. |  Book Videos Look Great on Bookum! |
Second, video nooks (video conferencing) got a fresh redesign. As mentioned last week, we added a real-time chat space with friends. In this new update, we made it more integrated into the video nook experience.
Lastly, we updated voting polls so that you can have multiple-choice options on your club voting and scheduling nook times!
 Multiple Choice |  Set Choice Limits and How long the poll runs! |
We believe readers and creators should have tools that make conversations about books easier and fun. This new update should delight!
Download the new version at www.bookumapp.com (on Apple and Android).
This Week in The Book World:
Creators come in all styles at Bookum, and this week we got news from the host of the UK's No.1 Podcast of 2023, 'The Diary of a CEO,' Steven Bartlett.
Bartlett is taking his podcast audience to the bookstore (or audiobook store) with his newly announced imprint Flight Books.
In partnership with Ebury, the imprint aims to "empower extraordinary voices" and will use an "AI-powered, data-first, growth-focused" strategy.
Additionally, the imprint will publish books from various esteemed guests from Bartlett's podcast.
The first book, "Hardest Geezer: Becoming the First Person to Run the Entire Length of Africa," releases October 24th.
Our Thoughts:
As the landscape of publishing continues to change (check out our interview with Publisher Brooke Warner), creator-economy moves like this make a lot of sense, especially for a podcaster like Bartlett.
This Week in Publishing:
Tomi Adeyemi is back with the last installment of the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy with Children of Anguish and Anarchy.
The book is said to be "earth-shattering" and an epic conclusion to Zélie's journey!
And just to fulfill our weekly sports reference quota, here's what the late Kobe Bryant said about Tomi's writing:
Add "Children of Anguish and Anarchy" to your TBR list on Bookum and get your copy today. Consider a local bookstore.
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Happy Reading!
See you next week!
Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):
The 40-Year Book Club - https://www.nextavenue.org/the-forty-year-book-club/
