Why metadata is the dental flossing of discoverability By Linda Secondari, Studiolo Secondari Four million books were published in 2025. Five hundred thousand through traditional publishers. The rest, self-published. Every single one of them is competing for visibility in an online marketplace that runs entirely on algorithms — and algorithms run on data. Last week, [...]
Madeline McIntosh on Authors Equity Success in 2025 By Linda Secondari, Studiolo Secondari Last night I attended a publishing industry event presented by New York Book Forum and Westchester Publishing Services and hosted by Macmillan Publishers. The featured speaker was Madeline McIntosh, CEO and Publisher of Authors Equity, who spoke candidly about the success of the young publishing house [...]
NYBF President, Martha Hanson, and Program Director, Irene Chan, attended the Care for the Homeless A Legacy of Hope breakfast on October 23rd where CFH commemorated its 40 years providing care and compassion to individuals and families experiencing homelessness. NYBY coordinates book donations for Care for the Homeless throughout the year.
An article about our organization appearing now in Publishers Weekly!
Peggy Samedi Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Peggy Samedi, and I am a Director of Production at Penguin Random House and President of the New York Book Forum. I work in the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The group publishes literary and commercial fiction, nonfiction, and Graphics. I am a [...]
Who Decides What You Can Read? September 22- 28 is national Banned Books Week and the theme this year is “Freed Between the Lines.” It is a week when the entire book community—publishers, writers, libraries, booksellers, and all of us at New York Book Forum—come together to champion the freedom to read what we [...]
Care for the Homeless provides healthcare to people experiencing homelessness across the city. With the start of the new school year, CFH held a back-to-school vaccine event at one of their family healthcare centers. Thanks to generous donations of children’s books from several publishers, including Astra and Penguin Random House, these children [...]
Alison Gervais Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Alison Gervais and I am the Director of Production at Abrams Books. I oversee our Adult and Kids divisions as well as some imprints under the Abrams Comic Arts division. I moved to the Bronx just a few years ago after 25 [...]
Tell us a little about yourself I'm Brigid Black, Senior Production Manager at Simon & Schuster and Vice President of the New York Book Forum. I'm originally from Brooklyn. My family uprooted to southern Maine in 2020 when remote work became a reality. I've been working from home ever since. My non-book related [...]
