U.S. Book Show Programs to Air on C-SPAN

Jun 20, 2025

This weekend, C-SPAN will air two programs taped during Publishers Weekly’s U.S. Book Show, held on June 3 at the New York Academy of Medicine in Harlem. 

The first program will air on C-SPAN’s American History TV channel on Saturday, June 21, focusing on a keynote delivered by Joy Bivins, the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. Bivins was in conversation with Randy Winston, creative director for fiction at the Black List, a discovery platform for unproduced screenplays and manuscripts, and marked the centennial the Schomburg Center, a New York Public Library outpost and renowned cultural institution dedicated to preserving and promoting Black history and culture.

The second program will air on C-SPAN’s BookTV channel on Sunday, June 22, showcasing a conversation between Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp and Hachette Book Group CEO David Shelley, moderated by PW editorial director Jonathan Segura. During the panel, Karp and Shelley discussed AI, data-driven decision-making, indie publishing, book banning, and DEI.

Both programs will also be available in C-SPAN’s video archives on Monday, June 23.

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