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Let's start with a number: 37 million.

That's not page views or a figure about student debt. It's the number of subscribers to the PewDiePie YouTube channel.

PewDiePie is Felix Kjellberg, a video gamer with a legion of fans he calls "bros." He's the latest in a series of YouTube stars who have decided to publish a book.

"This Book Loves You" is a collection of aphorisms, bits of wisdom-slash-jokes, paired with photos and other visuals. It's coming out in October simultaneously in the U.K., Germany, Norway, Sweden and France and

Author Kamila Shamsie is "right to draw attention" to gender inequality in publishing, but her suggestion of a year in which only books by women are published has been greeted with mixed views by the trade.

Writing in the latest issue of The Bookseller, Shamsie [pictured] said 2018 - the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote - should be a year in which the UK only published new titles by women.

This would help with the gender inequality female authors experience when it comes to reviews, media coverage, prize shortlistings and winnings, and more, said Shamsie.

Each June, editors, publishers, and authors anxiously await the release of the Journal Citation Report (JCR)-a dataset that reports, among other things, Journal Impact Factors for approximately 12,000 scholarly publications.

While new titles are added to the JCR each year, several dozens will be suppressed for "anomalous citation patterns." Stated in more direct language, the JCR will kick out journals that attempt to game the system. Thomson Reuters, the publishers of the JCR, prefers to use language that does not infer intent; however, the result is the same. Last year, 38 titles were delisted from the JCR

Last week was the Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting in Arlington. With fantastic programming, more than 900 attendees, and an impressive list of exhibitors and sponsors, the meeting was a great success both for the audience and the Society! To give you a flavor of what was covered, we asked the Chefs: What did you learn at this year's SSP Annual Meeting? David Crotty: Probably the most important lesson I brought home from SSP was the humility that comes from listening to a panel of active researchers talk about where publishing fits into their lives.

NEW YORK - On a sunny Saturday morning, the line of people marching into the Javits Convention Center was more than four blocks long. Armed with tote bags and backpacks and smartphones and Starbucks cups, they were here for one thing: books.

Thousands turned out this past weekend for BookCon 2015, the second annual event billed as "the place where pop culture and storytelling collide."

Jonnelle Morris, 29, came "just for today, just for this," from Richmond, Va.

A new report produced by Nesta in the UK, in collaboration with Literary Platform and Douban Read, looking at the potential for the Chinese book market for English-language writers has been released to coincide with the China Market Focus at this year's BookExpo America, opening in New York today. We offer an introductory excerpt below:

In 2014, China overtook the US to become the world's largest economy, when measured by purchasing power parity (PPP), according to the International Monetary Fund.18

Academic publishing is a multi-million dollar business dominated by just a few major publishing houses. Many academics and open access advocates believe that's unfair-publishers simply take researchers' work and sell it back to them, they say. Stan Correy takes a look at the state of play.

In 2001, I did a story for RN's Background Briefing called Knowledge Indignation: Road Rage on the Information Superhighway.

That rage was aimed at companies in the STM industry-science, technology and medical publishing.  Leading the charge against these commercial publishers were scientists, doctors, university librarians and other researchers

Diversity will get an extra push at this week's BookCon and BookExpo America.

Last year, a virtually all-white lineup of speakers at publishing's annual national conventions highlighted the whiteness of the industry itself. BookCon's selection of four white, male authors for a discussion of children's books helped lead to the formation of the grassroots advocacy group We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) and the hasty assembly of the panel "The World Agrees: We Need Diverse Books."

In 2015, WNDB was helping out from the start.

(New York, NY: May 26, 2015) The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced today that Mark Kuyper, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA), has been hired as the organization's new executive director. Mr. Kuyper will join the organization June 15.

The next big thing in children's literature isn't necessarily an imaginative story or lush illustrations. In fact, if you're looking for a particularly innovative children's book, you might not even find it on a bookshelf at all.

Instead, try digging in the ground.

That's where the makers of Mi Papa Estuvo en la Selva ("My Father was in the Jungle") are hoping their story ends up. There, the picture book will slowly sprout roots, and eventually grow into a tree, closing the loop on the typical "tree becomes paper becomes book" progression that we've become used to.