Archive Dive
Apple just released iOS 10, its newest operating system for the iPhone, which features a way to send text messages with “invisible ink”—messages or photos hidden until the receiver swipes over them.
To show how far we’ve come with this technology, here’s an ad from our July 8, 1933, issue, in which Houghton Mifflin advertised an invisible-ink trick of its own.
From the Newsletters
Ruth Franklin, author of the biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright), shares 11 things you probably didn’t know about Shirley Jackson.
Three years after releasing its first title, the Lizzie Skurnick Books imprint of Ig Publishing is halting acquisitions due to “very disappointing sales.”
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The most-read review on publishersweekly.com last week was Abandon Me by Melissa Febos (Bloomsbury).
Podcasts
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese talks with Brian F. O’Leary about what he might bring to his new role as executive director at BISG. Plus, a look ahead to the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Interviews with Carla Speed McNeil (cartoonist of the “aboriginal SF” series Finder), and Ben Katchor on the 25th anniversary of Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay, with Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.
Author/illustrator David Shannon talks about Duck on a Tractor, a sequel to Duck on a Bike, in which Duck and his fellow barnyard animals pile onto a tractor and drive into town.
Author Robert Kanigel discusses his new book, Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs (Knopf). And PW editorial director Jim Milliot digs into Canadian publishing trends.
Blogs
On the sometimes-confounding timing of how book releases are (or aren’t) synced to coincide with movie releases.
