Today, people truly own their eBooks for the first time. Until now, digital books have been handled by licensing models by centralized retailers. If there’s one thing I hate about my books, it’s the knowledge that they’re just sitting there on my bookshelves degrading over time, and that I might not be able to read them hundreds of years from now.īook Token, which launched last week, has approximately 10,000 ebooks in its catalog at the moment, and apparently each one of them features “a video inside the book, over 70 high-resolution images, and over 650K words.” (Why?) Per CEO Joshua Stone, with the customary humility of Web3.0, Book Token “is revolutionary for digital book ownership. And if you were to purchase said NFT ebook, your book would live on the blockchain where, according to a press release from Web3.0 start-up Book Tokens, it would “not degrade over time, and can be transferred around the world in mere seconds.” Oh good, now there’s an app to buy books as NFTs. A natural leader, he will push for provocative coverage and challenging ideas, and bring fresh perspectives to our books report. He is a seasoned manager and a digital innovator, possessed of superb news judgment and a fount of ideas, and a wise practitioner of journalism that answers readers’ needs. Gilbert emerged from a talented pool of applicants to show that he was exactly the right person to lead these efforts. And the third is to build new muscles in service journalism that will help our readers choose their next books with ease and joy.
The second is to increase and embolden our reporting on and criticism of ideas and intellectual life, the publishing world and all that lives within it. The first is to reimagine The New York Times Book Review, the nation’s last stand-alone newspaper book-review section, for the digital age. Now he’ll move to Books to focus his energies on three important pillars of coverage. “Gilbert spent the past four years bringing important changes to our arts report, diversifying its voices and story forms, shepherding prize-winning criticism, breaking news and overseeing a muscular service operation devoted to helping our readers discover what to watch next,” wrote Sam Sifton, Joe Kahn, and Carolyn Ryan in a press release. Today, The New York Times announced that current Culture editor Gilbert Cruz will be the paper’s next Books editor, replacing Pamela Paul, who left the role in March. Due recognition of the talent of a group of exceptional writers or further evidence of a shadowy misandrist conspiracy against the sidelined grandsons of Roth, Cheever, et al? Interestingly, 23 of this year’s 24 nominated debutants are women, which I imagine is some sort of record for a literary longlist of this length. Previous winners of the CFF First Novel Prize include Junot Diaz for The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), Ben Fountain for Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012), Viet Thanh Nguyen for the The Sympathizer (2015), and Raven Leilani for Luster (2020) The shortlisted titles will be announced this fall, and the winner will be revealed on at The Center for Fiction Annual Awards Benefit on December 6. The winner receives a cool $15,000 prize, with each of the shortlisted authors taking home a (still pretty cool) $1,000. The twenty-four nominated debut novels-which include Leila Mottley’s Nightcrawling, Fatimah Asghar’s When We Were Sisters, Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers, and Isabel Kaplan’s NSFW-were chosen from over 140 submitted titles published between between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2022. New York City’s Center for Fiction today announced the longlist for its prestigious First Novel Prize, which has, since 2006, honored the best debut fiction of the year.
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