Publishers Weekly

Our annual Google calendar, updated throughout the year and to which readers can subscribe, keeps track of the dates of dozens of book business events of interest.

After some two years of legal wrangling, Jones will finally get her day in court after the Louisiana Supreme Court vacated a decision tossing the defamation case and remanded it back to the appeals court with an order to hear the case on the merits.

The former U.S. president and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who authored every word of his 32 titles on politics, faith, and more, has died at 100.

In print and audiobooks, the former president shared how Christian beliefs shaped all his endeavors.

After issuing a preliminary injunction in July 2023, a federal judge in Arkansas has now permanently struck down two key provisions of Arkansas’s controversial “harmful to minors” law, known as Act 372, finding the law to be unconstitutional.

While we already picked our favorite books of 2024, our reviews editors thought it would be a shame to let the year end without one final round of recommendations.

Since 1985, literary agent Richard Curtis has irregularly chronicled the state of trade book publishing in verse in the pages of 'Publishers Weekly.' In honor of his final year-end poem, we've republished them all here.

A sincere thank you from outgoing PW executive editor Andrew Albanese, and best wishes for a happy holiday season.

Lower sales in the company's trade group, due mainly to the timing of the publication of some of its biggest books, was the major factor in dropping second quarter results. For the full fiscal year, Scholastic still expects revenue to increase between 4% and 6% over fiscal 2024.

PW looks back at some of the library stories that captivated the publishing world this year and what they portend for 2025.

Major contractions in the independent book distribution space, an explosion of artificial intelligence tools and businesses, and turmoil over freedom of expression in multiple sectors defined the book business landscape throughout the year.

Publisher Judy Clain has acquired North American rights to ‘In This Dark Room: Secrets, Shame, and Reckoning at a French Trial,’ billed as as “a gripping journalistic account of the infamous 2024 rape trial” that has ended with a guilty verdict for Dominique Pelicot.

On a rolling basis this week and for the first time in its 50-year history, the NBCC is announcing longlists for its annual awards. Finalists will be announced on January 23, with winners to follow at a ceremony on March 20 in New York City.

With four categories posting double-digit gains, October sales at the 1,279 publishers that report data to Association of American Publishers’s StatShot program rose 8.3% over last October.

We pay tribute to the authors, illustrators, and publishing professionals we have lost this year.

In 2024, as we do each year, we reviewed thousands of new books. Of all the reviews we published this year, these are the 10 you read the most.

Helped by increased demand for well-crafted books, U.K.–based Folio reported that sales in fiscal 2024 rose 16%, while profits jumped 137%. The U.S. accounted for over 50% of the company’s sales in the year.

Religion publishers' forthcoming books offer pathways to a fresh start after the tough times of 2024.

We count down the top 10 bookselling stories of 2024, featuring tales of activism, advocacy, and acquisition.

Ben Hyman is enthusiastic about leading the historic Jewish imprint, known for a backlist ranging from Kafka to cookbooks.