NBN to close, clients offered opportunity to move to S&S
In another sign of the changing economics of distribution in the publishing industry, independent distributor National Book Network (NBN) will close next year, with its approximately 150 clients...
View ArticleHachette acquires Sterling Publishing from Barnes & Noble
In another reworking of Barnes & Noble's business under the direction of CEO James Daunt, the company has sold its publishing division to Hachette Book Group. Under the agreement, all Sterling...
View ArticleAgents, authors question HarperCollins AI deal
In a significant move, HarperCollins has become the first Big Five publisher to strike a licensing deal to provide access to select nonfiction books for AI training purposes. And so far, authors and...
View ArticlePercival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of...
Percival Everett has won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US's most prestigious literary prizes, for James, his acclaimed reimagining of Mark Twain's The Adventures of...
View ArticleMicrosoft launches imprint that aims to be faster than traditional book...
Microsoft has launched a new book imprint with the aim of printing faster than traditional publishers. Named after an Intel microprocessor, 8080 Books will publish titles focused on technology,...
View ArticleTikTok owner ByteDance to publish print books
ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, will begin publishing print books in February. The company already publishes ebooks through its imprint 8th Note Press, but will begin selling physical copies...
View ArticleFlorida moves to dismiss publisher lawsuit over book bans
Attorneys for the state of Florida have asked a federal judge to toss a closely watched book banning lawsuit filed by six major publishers, the Authors Guild, students, parents, and several...
View ArticleWriters condemn startup's plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI
Writers and publishers are criticising a startup that plans to publish up to 8,000 books next year using AI. The company, Spines, will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books...
View ArticleHow digital innovation both strengthens and threatens the book business
On Nov. 18, 2022, PW published a report analyzing a database of 1,300 publishing startups, almost all of which were founded since Amazon launched the Kindle some fifteen years earlier. As soon as it...
View ArticleIBPA and PubWest unite to become one association
Members of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and the Publishers Association of the West (PubWest) have voted unanimously to combine into a single entity this week. PubWest held its...
View ArticleMubi moves into book publishing with Mubi Editions imprint
Mubi, the film distributor, production company, and streaming service founded in 2007 by Efe Cakarel, will launch a publishing arm, Mubi Editions, next April, focusing on titles on cinema and the...
View ArticleCrown Publishing Group acquires Compendium
The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, has acquired Compendium, the publisher of illustrated books, journals, and notecards. At Crown, Compendium will become a standalone...
View ArticleThe Philosopher Fish wins oddest book title prize
The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire has been crowned the winner of the Diagram prize for the oddest book title of the year. The book, by Richard Adams Carey, traces how...
View ArticleU.K. authors weigh in on AI licensing in new survey
Only 7% of authors aware that their work has been used to train AI have given permission for such usage, according to a survey of 13,574 members of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society in the...
View ArticleBook climbs bestseller list after title was apparently cited on bullet...
The book criticizing the US healthcare insurance industry whose title resembles words etched on to shell casings found at the scene of the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week...
View ArticleIPA congress warns of risks of Russian aggression
Last week, in a powerful address at the International Publishers Association Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk emphasized the critical role of...
View ArticleNew Jersey delivers a victory for the freedom to read—and for librarians
More than three years after she became a target of abuse from book banners, librarian Martha Hickson found herself in a place she could scarcely imagine back in the dark days of threats and...
View ArticleAuthors Guild reinforces its position on AI licensing
As the debates and discussions over all matters of rights pertaining to AI move forward, the Authors Guild has issued a lengthy statement that reiterated the organization's position that it is authors...
View ArticleWar leaves scars on Lebanese publishing
On November 27, 2024, a fragile ceasefire took effect in Lebanon following two months of intense Israeli bombardment mostly in southern Lebanon and Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburb. Dahiyeh, where...
View ArticleThe National Book Critics Circle inaugurates award longlists
For the first time in its 50-year history, the National Book Critics Circle is announcing longlists for its annual awards in the autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry...
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