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Not since the Twilight parties of the mid-2000s have YA readers been energized enough to show up en masse for midnight releases at bookstores. Instead of teens in homemade T-shirts [...]

On October 16, the Frankfurt Book Fair will host its second children's publishing conference, on the theme of responsibility in children's publishing. Lawrence Schimel, a children's author and translator, is [...]

'The creation and molding of FLORIDA TREND into a magazine we hope you will want and need has been an exhilarating experience. All of us who have been toiling away [...]

Horror is scary. That's the point of it. It is trying to make the reader physically experience discomfort, dread, and fear. Horror is also as hot as it is scary. [...]

SUPERHEROES ORIGINATED IN comics. Yet while superheroes are everywhere--in movies, novels, Little Golden Books, board books, lunchboxes, T-shirts, and video games--actual comics that feature those characters have been harder to [...]

Bam! and Pow! might be iconic terms associated with graphic novels, but readers apply words such as dynamic, engaging, and riveting to these works. This season the Wow! of the [...]

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 [...]

In 2020, the UN declared a Decade of Action to signal that progress towards their Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) - 17 goals offering a blueprint to achieve a better and [...]

For the first two months of the year, the top three held firm in the Audible Top 20. James Clear's Atomic Habits led the chart, followed by David Mitchell's Unruly [...]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides an overview Tof the English-language book publishing startup scene in the United States and around the world as of fall 2022. To the extent that [...]

Faith-based children's books, so often presented as birthday and holiday gifts, are known to delight, teach, or soothe. Titles can excite adventurous spirits and curious minds. They can inspire young [...]

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 [...]

My journey to self-publishing started with thoughts of Mr. Met, the NewYork Mets' famous baseball-headed mascot. It was August in New York City, and I was scanning the seats and [...]

With more than 40 million Spanish-speaking readers and language learners, according to the Census Bureau, the U.S. has the fourth-largest Spanish-speaking population in the world, after Mexico, Spain, and Argentina. [...]

As children's publishers gear up for the summer season, mystery adventure stories for readers aged eight to 12 continue to prove popular, with exciting titles coming from Jenny McLaghlan and [...]

Is Substack the future of media? It's a question the industry has been asking itself for at least two years--long enough for some to start declaring that the 'Substack boom' [...]

Books by Rory Stewart, Claire Keegan and Weird Walk are among the hits this festive season for independent booksellers, who are preparing for a long run-up to Christmas. 'The Christmas [...]

After a threeyear hiatus caused by the pandemic, PWs annual salary and jobs survey is back, albeit later in the year than usual. This year's survey gathers data on 2021 [...]

DANIELLE STEEL books deal with 'Family. Courage. Loyalty', as the cover of one explains. They are also about 'Wealth. Fear. Revenge. Love', as the cover of another has it. Ms [...]

The demand for titles that address the challenges and triumphs of women and girls continues to grow. New and forthcoming books--including nonfiction about women who achieved great things despite social [...]

Welcome to March, which is the biggest month for fiction in the history of the world. I'm not sure that statement would pass muster with the legendary fact-checkers of the [...]

Being an independent author is a business all its own. When all of the steps toward a polished published work fall completely on the author, important steps can be forgotten [...]

Publishers are rolling out a stream of new initiatives in a bid to build on sustainability commitments they made ahead of last year's COP26 meeting in Glasgow, ranging from a [...]

How the graphic novels and manga industry is changing according to publishers and authors The influence of graphic novels and manga is everywhere. Dog Man, by Dav Pilkey, and My [...]

Dragon Ball Z is better in print Japan's cartoon books are being eclipsed by the Korean interloper L EE HYUN-SEOK grew up in South Korea addicted to Japanese manga series [...]

Ireland is the star of Nielsen Books can's five-continent-spanning international league table, with a pandemic-defying boom and its highest sales total in 12 years. Value rose 9.5% to 161.4m [euro] [...]

Spirituality can be a source of strength for married couples as well as for parents, and religion publishers have long supplied Bible-based guides for those in search of better home [...]

When will virtual reality finally take off? This is the burning question gaming publishers have been asking for years. And while the mid to late 2010s saw significant advancements in [...]

Last year, The Bookseller reported on the growing number of literary agents based in Scotland thanks to the widespread adoption of remote working post-pandemic and new agencies opening north of [...]

The most understanding account of male literary ambition was written by a woman. It comes about a third of the way through Mrs Dalloway, and lasts no longer than a [...]

Publishers, agents and authors are 'very optimistic' about the state of LGBTQ+ publishing, particularly the increase in stories of queer joy and queer stories where characters' sexualities are incidental to [...]

Several independent publishers in the north of England are reporting unprecedented growth and success, despite the difficulties of the past 12 months. Bluemoose Books in Hebden Bridge has just had [...]

Byline: Chrissy Taylor When I was in fourth grade, I had one of those school projects where you had to write a profile of a family member by interviewing another [...]

Wiley may have retreated from its plan to pull more than 1,300 ebooks from higher education libraries, but the president of the Library Association of Ireland (LAI), Cathal McCauley, says [...]

There has been no shortage of extraordinary stories from the book world in 2022. But no story this year has been more extraordinary than the ongoing, unprecedented surge in book [...]

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which started on February 24, continues to disrupt Ukraine's publishing industry, as warehouses are destroyed, logistics break down, and employees are displaced. Moreover, Russia continues to [...]

Independent booksellers across the UK have shared with The Bookseller the surprise hits breaking through for them this festive season, with stories with local connections in particular doing well as [...]

By December, most bookshops will have got through the rush of Super Thursday and will have most of their Christmas choices on the shelves, so the weeks up to and [...]

It takes a certain kind of personality to be an independent publisher. A passion for books is an important part of it, but beyond that there almost always needs to [...]