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Everything old is new again, and graphic novels that recall the 1980s, the '90s, and even the aughts are as fashionable today as cargo pants and JNCOs. And the comics [...]

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 [...]

After a year when publishing industry layoffs have frequently been in the headlines, it will surprise no one that the total number of jobs in the industry is in decline. [...]

There's a dark, Gothic theme in fiction this month, with Shook! A Black Horror Anthology (Dark Horse) featuring 190+ pages of 'terrorising material', Emma Hinds' The Knowing (Bedford Square Publishers) [...]

'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 [...]

At the end of 2023, industry observers told PW they expected 2024 to be an active year for mergers and acquisitions. So far, those predictions have been accurate, with seven [...]

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 [...]

Publishing and educating beyond borders is a key mission of the NYU Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts. For the last 11 years I have been enormously honored to [...]

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 [...]

As paid open access becomes a mainstream academic practice, stakeholders must evaluate their role in the system. While open access advocates develop new ways to support the publication process and funding structure, commercial publishers continue to pivot to maintain their profit, relevance, and power in the publication system. This article provides the details of Montana State University's Open Access Author Fund as an evaluation of the service and its impact on the local publishing ecosystem. As stewards of publicly funded knowledge, it is essential to critically analyze each new publishing route before adopting and supporting it. Especially when models claim to transform the system, librarians need to understand how an action changes the system, for whom, and at what cost., As open access (OA) publishing solidifies its position as a mainstream academic practice, there is extensive speculation about the future of scholarly communication and how a new system would be [...]

The Bookseller News Team @thebookseller Tom Weldon C.e.o., Penguin Random House UK The past three years have been characterised by extraordinary levels of disruption and uncertainty, and the only thing [...]

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 [...]

In recent years, the UK publishing industry has branched out and become less London-centric, a trend that increasingly includes audiobooks. Audiobooks are a specialised segment of publishing, and involve audio [...]

For readers looking for faith and guidance, women from nonsecular history can provide spiritual blueprints, as seen in a host of new books. 'It can be easy to think that [...]

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. [...]

One of the big publishing success stories-and perhaps one of the industry's biggest surprises--of the past two years is how well manga is selling in North I America. Words like [...]

ADVANCES IN DIGITAL technology over the past 25 yeats have fueled an unprecedented surge in audiobook sales and demand, and transformed the audio category in nearly every way, from production [...]

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 [...]

WHEN AMAZON.COM went live in the summer of 1995, selling mostly Dilbert comics collections, sex guides, and computer manuals, few imagined the impact the company would end up having on [...]

FROM THE YEAR AFTER PW's 125th anniversary issue, 1998--the year when the first handheld e-readers came out, the first library lending of e-books was launched, and e-books first got ISBNs--to [...]

PUBLISHING POLITICIZED me. With a degree in comparative literature, I went to work for Andre Schiffrin at Pantheon Books in 1985. I had started at Knopf, but jumped at the [...]

THE PAST 25 YEARS has seen a tidal wave of change in the book business, and nowhere has that upheaval been more evident than in conservative publishing. Changes to the [...]

TODAY 2022 presents a difficult juncture for free expression. Consider: when PW asked a half-dozen luminaries from the biggest publishers to share their thoughts for this sweep through First Amendment [...]

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 [...]

The Pacific Northwest is famously home to Amazon--but it is also home to the indie press that publishes How to Resist Amazon and Why, a fact that reflects the richness [...]

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 [...]

I am part of an LGBTQ+ parents Whatsapp group, and one member recently messaged to express their distress at the homophobic graffiti that had been daubed on a banner outside [...]

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 [...]