Publishers Weekly

Ballantine takes Holly Jackson’s adult debut, Bloomsbury nabs a reimagined Welsh myth, a former ‘Saturday Night Live’ writer sells her memoir to Morrow, and more.

An inside look at the publication process for the bestselling author’s latest contemporary romance.

Ina “The Barefoot Contessa” Garten has the #1 book in the country with the memoir ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens.’ Plus BookTok fave Lynn Painter returns with a new YA novel, and actor and comedian Kate McKinnon makes her middle grade debut.

With the case now with the Superior Court of Alameda County in California, filings show the now-defunct distributor still owes more than $316,000 to 163 publishers.

Curnow has returned to IDW to replace Jamie S. Rich, who left the company last year in a stream of departures and layoffs during a turbulent period for the comics publisher. Andy Khouri will also join IDW as senior editor, leading the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics line.

In a major deal in the educational wholesaling business, Mackin Educational Resources has acquired Booksource.

In a joint release, reps said that the new line will focus on “inclusive romantic and pop fiction,” and will aim to publish four to six titles per year. CEO and publisher Dominique Raccah called the imprint “a dream partnership.”

Welcome to the 10th anniversary of Star Watch, our annual program dedicated to recognizing and honoring rising talent in the publishing and bookselling businesses.

The executive editor at Holiday House/Neal Porter Books was honored for what she describes as a life-long ambition: working as a children’s book editor.

Meet the 35 honorees of the 10th anniversary edition of Star Watch, our annual program dedicated to recognizing and honoring rising talent in the publishing and bookselling businesses.

Our reviews editors look back at the 150+ titles they’ve recommended in our PW Picks newsletter over the past year and share 20 books they especially don’t want you to overlook.

The rise of BookTok and a "collector's mindset" among readers are fueling a surge in demand for eye-catching deluxe editions for frontlist fiction.

Esteemed author and educator Lore Segal, who wrote and translated clever and sunny children's tales alongside the autobiographical adult stories and novels informed by her early life as a Jewish refugee during WWII, died on October 7 at her home in Manhattan. She was 96.

The Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association wrapped up its annual FallCon on October 9 in Denver, reporting a strong showing of 234 booksellers plus an additional 24 librarians and others. Participants shared ideas, talked with publisher reps and vendors, and met dozens of authors.

'Newsweek' has included Seattle-based ThriftBooks and Nashville-based Lifeway in its annual list of the "500 Best Online Shops" for the sixth consecutive year.

After a day of celebration, the 250 booksellers attending Heartland Fall Forum focused on the business of bookselling, with a busy trade show followed by a day of education as veteran booksellers mixed with 114 first-time attendees.

The owner of the bookstore Bettie’s Pages in Lowell, Mich., is “an outspokenly progressive voice running a small business successfully in a conservative small town” and a tireless advocate for the freedom to read.

The South Korean author, best known for her novel 'The Vegetarian,' has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

Sales of print books were up 0.1% for the first nine months of 2024 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan, with titles by Colleen Hoover, Sarah J. Maas, and Rebecca Yarros dominating the top 10 list.

David Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s new graphic novel ‘Big Jim and the White Boy’ is an imaginative retelling, in comics, of Mark Twain’s ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’ An 11-page excerpt.