Publishing During A Pandemic: A Conversation with Skip Dye of Penguin Random House

How has COVID-19 impacted the book publishing industry? Our guest Skip Dye – SVP of Library Sales & Digital Strategy and SVP Director of Sales Operations at Penguin Random House – knows a thing or two about how publishers are adapting to this very different world we find ourselves in.

We pack a lot into this episode. Learn the ways in which Coronavirus affects a publisher’s supply chain, how PRH is responding to the Black Lives Matter movement, changes in reading tastes, how authors are still connecting to readers, the evolving publisher/library relationship, and of course what Skip’s been reading lately.

BOOKS MENTIONED

• Intimations by Zadie Smith
• There There by Tommy Orange
• The Places That Scare You by Pema Chödrön
• Born A Crime by Trevor Noah