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President, KMSPR. Book publishing, marketing, consulting, strategy. I write Publishing Confidential on Substack.
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I think they need MORE employees at Goodreads, not fewer. That site is a hot mess. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/a...

Call me crazy, but I don't think it's smart not to have a publishing person on their board. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

This is a good interview. I'm interested in the doc. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

End of an era. variety.com/2025/digital...

Here we go again. www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

I didn’t dislike Sirens, but I’m also not sure what it’s actually about. Sisters? Rich vs Poor? Wealthy people’s summer homes? Josè was really the star of the show.

They are "fully embracing AI." Yikes. www.thewrap.com/business-ins...

Holy cow. www.voguebusiness.com/story/beauty...

Come ON. futurism.com/fantasy-nove...

Quite a read. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

A lil tidbit from the summer reading AI culprit in an interview w WashPost.

So basically the guy who created it for King Features used AI, packaged the content, and sold it as his own work. AI-generated summer reading list gets published in major newspapers www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

I wrote about the AI-generated Summer Reading list. open.substack.com/pub/kathleen...

So, it wasn't just the Chicago Sun-Times. The Philadelphia Inquirer ran the same AI-generated summer reading list, per Publishers Lunch. This is so demoralizing.

If the Chicago Sun-Times is going to use ChatGPT to come up with fake summer reading titles, but real authors, it is 100% doing a disservice to its readers and the authors. Like, who the hell made that decision?

This is so fucking depresssing.

My friend Katie Rosman did great reporting here. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/s...

What a mess over there. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

A little bit of everything in this week's newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/kathleen...

I am watching a lecture about Medieval Welsh and Tolkien for my grad school linguistics class + it's making me want to poke my eyes out.

All I want from the Celtics is a game 7.

It always amazes me how much money media CEOs make for doing largely uninspired work.

Between this and ESPN's DTC streamer being named...ESPN, there is just so much creativity in branding rn. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

This will not go over well with human narrators at all. www.thebookseller.com/news/audible...

I know it’s upfronts week, but I do not need to see a preview of a Christmas movie right now. Let us get to summer.

Pauline Chalamet (Timmy's sister) wrote an excellent op-ed: www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...

This is a travesty. Trump names Todd Blanche Acting Librarian of Congress www.npr.org/2025/05/12/n...

I don’t need a Mother’s Day brunch. I need the Celtics to win.

I want the Celtics to have a 30-point lead at all times in this game.

Let's hope the Celtics remember how to play basketball through this entire game.

Welcome to my world, Hollywood. www.thewrap.com/actors-insta...

This is so bad. www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...