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Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 52 selfpublished titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

GLOOMY, DUSTY, NOISY, and smelly--that's what I thought a print production floor was. It was 1985, and I was a child visiting my aunt and following my cousins around the [...]

Three years after the start of the pandemic, children's publishers continue to adjust This time last year, a range of issues were top of mind for most children's publishers--supply chain [...]

Publishers are facing tremendous challenges securing printing capacity, paper supply, and even the means of distribution and transportation to support new titles and reprints. "Printers and publishers are having raw [...]

Digital platform Beanstack soars as it motivates young readers and tracks their progress Preparations for summer reading programs are already well underway at libraries across the country. These programs are [...]

The supply chain issues facing the book business this holiday season and beyond were years in the making and there are no quick fixes, said speakers at the webinar "Publishing [...]

In our second installment on how independent publishers are faring in 2021, presses reported a generally good year through the first six months of 2021, and while they are optimistic [...]

Agate Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir Iliana Regan (Jan. 24, $27) Announced first printing: 10,000 Publicity and marketing highlights: Promotions with MIBA/GLIBA; prepublication advertising. Regan, a Michelin-starred chef and the author [...]

Numbers do not lie, but they often vary, especially from one industry research paper to the next. But two indicators are consistent when it comes to the digital publishing industry: [...]

It's now been more than a year since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, killing hundreds of thousands, sending millions into exile, and throwing the country's publishing industry into disarray. [...]

The 2022 holiday season officially kicked off the weekend after Thanksgiving, and bookstores across the country reported being filled with crowds of eager shoppers and the merry sounds of cash [...]

Despite the omicron variant's spread during last year's holiday season, independent presses across the Midwest reported a strong finish to 2021. Most that PH/spoke with said good nonfiction and backlist [...]

The popularity of the true crime genre has sparked numerous think pieces about how to distinguish diverting entertainment from harmful voyeurism. This season, several novelists, some of them former journalists, [...]

Publishers of activity books, workbooks, book-plus sets, and other highly interactive formats for children and adults are leaning into brand extension, taking some of their strongest performing books, series, and [...]

It's no secret chat authors like Colleen Hoover, Ana Huang, and Rebecca Yarros have benefited from the BookTok effect. But the community champions entire publishing subgenres too--especially those that get [...]

In 2022, the comics retail sector attempted to level out the roller-coaster track of the recent pandemic years. After a period of significant change in the industry, paired with record [...]

A Family Affair LEIGH ABRAAASON "For me, law school was a kind of a rebellion, which is unusual," says Leigh Abramson, who grew up in Manhattan and received her JD [...]

1. Attacks on the Freedom to Read Escalate In 2022, a pernicious wave of politically motivated book banscontinued to surge in local library and school districts across the nation, with [...]

Continuing the trend of the past several years, publishers'--and consumers'--demand for middle grade titles remains strong. Barnes & Noble, however, recently made a move to cut back on buying middle [...]

Once upon a time not so very long ago, any board games beyond the household staples like Monopoly and Scrabble were the exclusive property of, well, nerds. And during this [...]

After increasing 8% in 2020 and 9% in 2021, it is unlikely that unit salesof print books will grow again in 2022, said Kristen McLean, executive director and industry analyst [...]

IN THE LATE SPRING AND SUMMER of 1999, it did not take a wizard to see that something unprecedented was afoot in the rarified precincts of American publishing bestsellerdom. After [...]

NO MATTER WHAT we call comics--be it comix, comic books, cartoons, webcomics, and so on--they are also books. The transition of North American comics publishing from the traditional monthly comic [...]

THE INTERNATIONAL circuit begins each year with two spring fairs: the Bologna Children's Book Fair and the London Book Fair, typically held in March and April, respectively. The several book [...]

SOMEWHERE THERE ARE fragments of a scroll that are the memoirs of a politician--presumably, a man--that could well be the first example of this selfjustifying, aggrandizing, and occasionally illuminating genre. [...]

FOR MOSTOF PUBLISHING history, there was one dominant mode of literary publicity: the book review. The major--and most prestigious--consumer book review outlets have changed little over the past hundred or [...]

Speaking to independent book sellers across Canada, it seems as if they've been feeling pinched and proud in equal measure. Even as the country moves in to a new stage [...]

As Penguin Random House fights with the Department of Justice to win approval of its acquisition of Simon & Schuster, industry consolidation is once again a hot topic. A look [...]

This year has provided little respite from the unprecedented challenges of 2020. As a second year of coping with a global pandemic concludes, the publishing industry has taken pains to [...]

The pandemic that has swept the world for nearly two years has led to some unanticipated positive changes. For example, Canada was slated to be the Guest of Honor country [...]

True stories in the form of biographies have proven to be an appealing way to introduce students to complex ideas and the trailblazing people behind those ideas. Luckily, a plethora [...]

An online survey of the Ukrainian book market undertaken by Anastasiia Zagorui on behalf of Ukrainian trade publication Chytomo was conducted from March 26 to April 8. Eighty-one publishers participated [...]

Literary Fiction Moderated by PW's David Varno, Wednesday, May 26, 2-3 p.m. ET. Mitzi Angel, publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney(FSG, $28, Sept. 7) [...]

Most writers dream of being published by a major traditional publisher and becoming a bestselling author. It can take a while to realize that the number of writers with that [...]