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Meg Reid 🦦
@megireid.bsky.social
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Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Canadian in the South 🍁
Happy to be on your podcast, etc!
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obsessed with this house (that I thought was fish eye filter at first)

www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Attn Nancy Lemann hive [ie 2 out of 3 men who work in publishing]! We have some fresh galleys!
Galley of THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU Galleys for the Ritz of the bayou by Nancy lemann
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I've been calling romantasy and other booktok stuff "fast literature" for years so this makes total sense to me.
Shein Partners with Alibris to Sell Books on Fast Fashion Site Fast fashion retailer Shein has partnered with online bookseller Alibris to create an Alibris storefront on the Shein site. Alibris works as a third-party seller, offering more than 100,000 titles in romance, fantasy, mystery, non-fiction, young adult, and more, as well as textbooks. Shein plans to add more Alibris titles going forward. "The average SHEIN customer reads one to three books a month—this isn't a trend, it's a lifestyle," general manager and head of SHEIN Marketplace U.S. George Chang said in a release. "We're excited to support our customers' love of reading and learning by teaming up with Alibris to offer a wide variety of books to our shoppers for the very first time." "We're thrilled to partner with SHEIN to bring our wide selection of books to a whole new audience of Gen Z and millennial readers," Alibris vice president of global sales and marketing Rob Lambert said. "Together, we're making it more convenient than ever for readers to discover and access the books they want."
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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the world doesn't need a children's book from neil gorsuch!!!!
screenshot of pm announcement: HEROES OF 1776 By Neil Gorsuch, Janie Nitze, Chris Ellison Imprint: Harper Children's US Supreme Court Justice and NYT-bestselling author of OVER RULED Neil Gorsuch and NYT-bestselling author Janie Nitze's HEROES OF 1776: THE STORY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, the tales of ordinary individuals who performed extraordinary feats—from iconic figures like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Paul Revere to lesser-known revolutionaries like Caesar Rodney and Thomas Paine, John Hart and Emily Geiger, illustrated by Chris Ellison, to Harper Children's, for publication in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, by Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer of Javelin (world).
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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South Carolina measles outbreak rises as schools with low vaccination see new cases One charter school in South Carolina's Upstate region had an immunization rate at just 17%, according to state health data. Portrait of Eduardo CuevasEduardo Cuevas USA TODAY
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I think we're about to get an absolute glut of stuff like this
Gen Z influencer, TPUSA Ambassador, and ceo of Victory of USA Lily Kate's WE CAN'T DO IT!: 50 REASONS FEMINISM FAILED AND WHY TRADITION IS THE ULTIMATE REBELLION, asserting that feminism betrayed the very women it claimed to liberate; pitched as offering a biblically grounded, joy-filled vision of womanhood rooted in truth, beauty, and the finest ideals of Western civilization, to Anthony Ziccardi at Bombardier Books, by Jonathan Bronitsky at Athos (world).
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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you can't convince me these aren't all one guy
screenshot of PW about the new bertelsmann head
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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hey, remember when I posted this two months ago and everyone said I was misunderstanding the article and costs were up AND sales were down?

(this is HCP but the Amazon and audiobook sales will carry across publishers, I think)
Harper Collins Reports Third Quarter Declines on Baker & Taylor Closure and Orders from "Certain Customers" Quietly topsy-turvy days in book publishing are well reflected in Harper Collins' third quarter earnings report, released Thursday night by parent company News Corp., if you are paying attention. CEO Robert Thomson reported "an uncharacteristically weak performance in Book Publishing" in the quarter, with sales of $536 million, down $10 million from the same period a year ago. Profits fell further, at $58 million, down from $81 million last year. They took a $13 million "receivable write-off relating to the expected closure of Baker & Taylor," CFO Lavanya Chandrashekar reported on the investor call. The unit "faced blustery winds in the first quarter with orders slowing from both readers and retailers," Thomson said, with "sales of general books...notably lower than the prior year" according to Chandrashekar. The press release cites "the timing of ordering from certain customers," which is likely a reference to Amazon. Consumer sales were soft as well, reflected in an 11 percent decline in audiobook sales and a 9 percent decline in e-book sales, "driven by mix of titles and the difficult prior year comparison." A year ago they received a boost from renewed interest in J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, setting up a difficult comparison. But this time around, current events did yield a jump of over 65 percent in Bible sales in September following the murder of Charlie Kirk, "with retailers reporting a significant influx of new and younger customers." Harper also gained $5 million in the quarter from foreign exchange -- since they are one of the publishers that benefits from a weak US dollar (in contrast to Bertelsmann, Lagardere and Holtzbrinck). A big part of those sales patterns appears to be fluctuations at Amazon. A number of publishers have mentioned on background seeing an unexpected pullback in inventory by the etailer to a leaner supply-on-hand in July, August and September (unlike previous inventory changes, which were explained in advance and aimed to driving efficiency). That is reflected in part in the outsized 10 percent declines in AAP monthly sales reports for July and August, even as consumer print book sales were steady in the third quarter according to Circana Bookscan. Not all publishers we contacted on background experienced the same level of pullback in backlist ordering at Amazon, however. In line with News Corp.'s assessment, though, publishers have seen Amazon build back up their inventory in recent weeks. Asked for comment, an Amazon spokesperson told us, "We are constantly working with publishers to offer the best possible selection and availability."
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Nancy Lemann fans! We have a cover for our THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU reissue! @hubcitypress.bsky.social is so pleased to be working with our pals at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social (who are publishing Nancy's new novel, as well as a reprint) for a big combined release day on April 7!

Email me to get an ARC!
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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My mom has submitted these guys, which may be a canada thing? I LOVED them.
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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definitely some strong memories around these guys
October 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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being a child of 90s health food stores, I'm transported back there immediately by looking at these labels
short-lived tofutti ice cream rice dream bars healthy fruit leather? panda chocolate chews
October 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I really love this melon-green book and all the authors within! Introduction on the history of @hubcitypress.bsky.social and where we sit at this particular moment, by yours truly. Stories by @katearden.bsky.social @rainbowfish523.bsky.social and other HCWP staff. A deeply meaningful project for me!
Duplex cover of this is how it works: 30 years of fiction from hub city press Duplex cover of this is how it works: 30 years of fiction from hub city press
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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stuff like this is driving me away from this platform, ngl
someone responding "hey how about donating some of that 50 million to feed americans" on my post about the Mellon fund for literary arts.
October 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Libraries, be careful. This will probably go about as well as BN College.
Another major industry player is expanding its reach to fill the void in getting books to libraries following the collapse of Baker & Taylor. In an email sent out Tuesday morning, Barnes & Noble began upping its efforts to promote its &Classwork e-commerce portal, the retailer’s B2B ecommerce site launched in 2020. Through the portal, B&N ships books to such customers as libraries, schools, and nonprofits and offers discounts between 20%-35% off most titles.
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Me: the gang's all the here!
The gang:
S&B Sansho, nanami, and ichimi togarashi
October 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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these guys really thought the robocop universe was aspirational, huh
Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump.
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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The Body Keeps the EIGHT FIGURE DEAL
Psychiatrist, researcher and the author of NYT bestseller The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk, MD’s COME TO YOUR SENSES, on the science of our sensory system and how it holds the key to healing, as well as an accompanying workbook, to Flatiron Books, plus two children’s books to Macmillan Children’s, in a major deal, for eight figures, at auction.
October 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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This is why I won't engage with any "red states deserve what they get" blue maga discourse. Look at those two maps. The modern south is gerrymandered and occupied against its citizenry's will and things will only get worse if the supreme court decides what we think they will.
Without Section 2, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South. Republicans may not eliminate every Democratic-leaning district that they technically could (more on why later), but the party’s aggressive mid-cycle redistricting suggests they would eliminate enough to obtain a significant structural advantage. It’s not clear whether this would occur by next year’s midterm elections, with a court ruling likely next summer, but the new seats would eventually be enough to make Republicans favored to win the House even if they lost the popular vote by a wide margin.
October 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Woah people were not lying about the new Ian McEwan interior layout. Type is too big and feels crammed into too-small margins, text feels stretched and over-kerned, the ellipses look like the word doc ones...
Interior pages from new Ian McEwan
October 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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You heard it first here: the It's Never My Fault Club is about to pivot to "immigrants gave us the measles."
Screenshot from South Carolina nextdoor post positing completely unsupported idea that immigrants brought measles into the country.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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In an age of rising fascism and tyranny-via-Medbed-meme, the truth is that fun is probably too much to ask for. Today’s literary culture is obviously more imperiled than it was when The New Republic first became a Nobel analysis outfit a decade ago. Subtle and blunt-force censorship is on the rise everywhere, and more people are spending more money than ever on technologies that claim to make art, definitely don’t make art, harvest art’s raw materials, and are ultimately invested in the project of destroying art altogether. They won’t win, but they’re damaging and extremely tiresome. Which is all to say that as much as we’d prefer to make jokes about @krasznahorguy1954, we have to acknowledge that, in the age of ChatGPT, there is almost something heroic about never shutting the fuck up about The Melancholy of Resistance. The Nobel Prize got it right, and literary life is far better for having the Nobel be a part of it, as esoteric, imperfect, and eerily Swedish as it might be
October 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Update on the MEASLES OUTBREAK in my county: "Spartanburg County has the highest rate of religious exemptions from vaccine requirements in the state at around 6 percent, representing about 3,200 kids. The last measles outbreak in the state was 2018."
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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A depressing update we've seen coming for a long time, with numerous impacts. Namely, even less competition for library acquisitions and wholesale, publishers (including Hub City) left with unpaid bills, and small presses left high and dry, and vanishing distribution options.
"Baker & Taylor will be closing their business, after a planned acquisition of their assets by Readerlink fell through last month. Operations will cease by January 1, according to online posts from former employees. Employees were informed yesterday that their positions will be eliminated. A local newspaper in Illinois reports that 253 of the 318 staffers at the 379,000-square-foot distribution center in Momence were let go immediately, as 62 others will stay on to assist with "wind[ing] down" the business until late December, with the last three employees departing January 3. A report from Illinois' Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act explained that the closure is due to the termination of the Readerlink sale, which "would have resulted in the continuing employment of all Baker & Taylor employees." "Despite Baker & Taylor’s subsequent efforts, it was unsuccessful in seeking a path to continue its business operations," the report continues. B&T was the largest supplier of materials to libraries, and B&T Publisher Services distributes books from more than 250 small presses. Small publishers are particularly in need of distribution services after the closure of Small Press Distribution. B&T did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, NC."
October 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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100%. Saw this yesterday on threads.
Threads post that says albums should not be released early to critics (or anyone) until a week after release.
October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM