January 4, 2021 Edition

Industry News

NetGalley suffers data breach

PW – NetGalley, the service for digital downloads of advance readers copies of books, suffered a data breach on December 21 that may have revealed some personal information to hackers. The company became aware of the issue when its homepage was defaced and, after further investigation, realized there was “unauthorized and unlawful access to the backup file of the NetGalley database. “Our database backup was stored in the Amazon Cloud. There was a temporary lapse in security protocol for one of our testing servers, and the credentials became easily attainable by a hacker,” wrote the company in an announcement on its website on December 23.

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Industry veteran launches unique agency for authors

Publishing veteran Don Pape has announced the launch of Pape Commons: a gathering of voices. The Commons will serve the author community as not only a literary agency but also a forum for community and support of writers’ craft.

Mary DeMuth joins Books & Such Literary Management as literary agent

Janet Kobobel Grant, founder and president of Books & Such Literary Management, announced on January 1, 2021 that Mary DeMuth, prolific author, speaker, and writing mentor, has joined the agency as a literary agent.

Media Announcements

Christian Book Expo website becomes ReadGoodBooks.com

The website that hosts ECPA’s bestsellers, sales awards, and book awards — known as ChristianBookExpo.com has recently received a facelift and new brand: Read Good Books. The site will continue to feature ECPA member titles that are featured on the monthly bestsellers, book and sales awards, along with specialized book lists from diverse authors and on topics such as racial justice.

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A new podcast from Ligonier Ministries features teaching from R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries is pleased to announce the release of a new podcast, Ultimately with R.C. Sproul. Drawn from a lifetime of Bible study, this podcast features classic teaching moments from Dr. Sproul as well as some content that has never been released before. New episodes will be released every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and listeners can subscribe to the podcast today at UltimatelyPodcast.com.

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