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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago, trade publishing was approximately 93% Caucasian and university press publishing about 99%; at the managerial level, 3.4% of all publishing employees were Black and 1.8% were Hispanic, [...]

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, and an important factot in its longevity has been its ability to serve all aspects of the publishing community. That community [...]

Book publishing will have rarely have had a better two years than during the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, all told, it's rarely had a better decade. I base this bold, [...]

Two years after British prime minister Boris Johnson called the first national lockdown, is there now a real sense of a return to normal? Maybe. This week the Bologna Children's [...]

Can literary culture thrive in the absence of free expression? PERHAPS ONLY in the Middle East do the censors get their own stand at book fairs--as they did at last [...]

A number of publishers in the religion category offer gift books with spiritual or religious themes, and while many publish only a few gift titles per year, others are in [...]

The 16th American Booksellers Association (ABA) Winter Institute was held, virtually, over three days from 18th February, and began with a moving video retrospective of the previous 12 months; a [...]

Unsurprisingly, given the restrictions on movement for most global citizens, the travel book market took a battering in 2020. However, sustainable breaks, staycations and domestic activities could be bright spots [...]

Let's not beat about the bush. Last year wasn't a great one for anyone, with the exception of one person whose name begins with 'J' and ends with 'eff Bezos'. [...]

This year brings two milestones for Scotland's Gaelic and Scots-language publishers, with Acair Books and Black & White Publishing's children's Scots imprint, Itchy Coo, celebrating significant anniversaries. Angus Morrison, manager [...]

A study commissioned by the Booksellers Association (BA) shows more than 90% of booksellers go above and beyond to support local priorities, demonstrably illustrating the 'halo effect' they have on [...]

According to the 'Global Book Publishers Market Report (2021 to 2030): Covid 19 Impact and Recovery,' worldwide sales of e-books are predicted to grow at a compound annual growth rate [...]

Earlier this week the poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe took the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to task for the way its measure of inflation underplays the consequences [...]

When Scholastic sells a title like Kasie West's P.S. I Like You or Sharon Cameron's The Forgetting to Owlcrate, Uppercase, or another YA subscription box, it generates a direct order [...]

As 2021 nears its end, the best news, undoubtedly, has been books' strong sales performance this second Covid year. Although print units took a slight downturn last week, numbers have [...]

Ever since the Covid-1 9 pandemic hit this past spring, industry members from across the book business have monitored the health and stability of the supply chain, concerned about severe [...]

October is the time of year in which people seek to educate themselves on the history of Black British people. They seek to learn about the contributions Black people have [...]

Indian publishers, particularly those of children's books, I have a strong presence at the Sharjah International Book Fair each year. Here we look at what they have to offer for [...]

More than any other chart, Fiction Heatseekers is tied to the fortunes of bricks-and-mortar bookshops. The weekly top 10, which tracks sales of fiction books by authors who have never [...]

The dreams came back after Ahmaud Arbery was chased and killed. I was nine years old again, gripping my twin sister's hand as we ran under power lines in a [...]

The recent imposition of a new National Security Law in Hong Kong was followed by a crackdown on libraries. There are now signs that it is also affecting the work [...]

Vegetable-centric cookbooks, authors and editors say, are not a trend--they're a movement The Covid-19 pandemic has altered the way people eat and has laid bare problematic production and labor issues [...]

Stephen Lotinga, chief executive of the Publishers Association, has cautioned the industry faces uncertainty in the aftermath of Brexit and in the midst of Covid-19, after the PA reported in [...]

Covid-19 has had a particularly severe impact on academic and scholarly publishing, while showing the need to accelerate digital strategies for the wider industry, new research suggests. A report by [...]

Several Northern publishers and organisations have reported an increased interest in poetry over the lockdown. Jamie McGarry, publisher at Scarborough-based indie Valley Press, says the publisher's poetry sales have been [...]

Despite the drastic effects of Covid-19 on publishers and literary organisations, the North of England's book trade is adapting to the challenge and is as ambitious as ever about the [...]

With the ongoing effects of the coronavirns, the Welsh book trade is facing its toughest challenge in decades, but publishers throughout the country are being buoyed by support from the [...]

With Covid-19 continuing to spread across the country, the impact of the disease is being felt acutely in most parts of the book publishing industry. Among the developments last week, [...]

The continuing spread of the new coronavirus is sowing uncertainty across many parts of the book world. Already, the Bologna Children's Book Fair, originally set for March 30 -- April [...]

'If you're a writer and you have the impulse to put down on paper something that will survive you, you are inextricably connected to what a library means.' --Susan Orlean [...]

The number of mobile devices is said to have matched our planet's population two years ago. By 2016, some project that there will be an average of 1.4 devices per [...]

If you've given even a cursory look into the environmental impact of cryptocurrencies, you can quickly get lost in the wash of nearmeaningless analogies. The Ethereum network uses as much [...]

On the shelves of Edinburgh bookshops, it is hard to find memoirs written by disabled and chronically ill writers. The few that I do uncover reveal common themes: an embattled [...]

I thought long and hard about whether to write this piece, before realising the thing holding me back was the very thing we need to tackle: the shame and stigma [...]

Books and e-lending are big business for libraries. Pre-pandemic, public libraries supported an estimated 165 million physical loans per annum, with many millions more across schools, universities and the health [...]