Small Press Insights: bestseller tracking site
Author Jim Hanas has launched a website called Small Press Insights that reveals which small-press books are selling on Amazon.
How Faire Fills a Distribution Gap for Publishers
Faire is a tech wholesale B2B marketplace built for the gift, jewelry, and home goods market, but increasingly used by publishers and bookstores.
Authors Guild adds a new AI clause to their model contract regarding publishers’ use of AI on manuscripts
Their statement is in response to a report that some publishing professionals are feeding manuscripts into AI without explicit permission from authors.
Comprehensive Q&A about Draft2Digital fees
Author Kevin McLaughlin has addressed the change in a long FAQ based on his conversation with D2D CEO Kris Austin.
High claim rate in Anthropic lawsuit: 91 percent
That breaks down to 119,876 claims that account for 440,490 of the 482,460 works on the official list.
The Question Every Memoirist Needs to Ask (But Almost No One Does)
Before trying to structure a memoir, you must understand how you’ve changed and what that process looked like—which can be hard to pinpoint.
Giving Your Characters Serious Challenges May Give Them Delightful Strengths
Most characters have a challenge to overcome, but what about more serious physical or psychological issues that can’t be “cured” or ignored?
AI and Libraries: Why Librarians May Become Arbiters of Reality
Librarians are managing AI’s real-world effects, making them publishing’s early warning system on reliability, trust, and the limits of AI literacy.
Ghosting Your Own Book: How to Cross the Finish Line When You Want to Run Away
Faced with pursuing publication that might reopen old wounds, one memoirist overcame the challenge with help from therapy, community, and AI.
On the List: The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson
The Poison Daughter is her fourth novel and her first USA Today bestseller.
Defendants in the Crave copyright case demand that their collective $3.4 million in legal fees be covered
US copyright law allows for the prevailing party to recover legal fees, although it’s discretionary and not automatic.
Barnes & Noble Press sets minimum paperback price of $14.99, among other new guidelines
Cost pressures on print have been increasing, but this requirement will prove challenging for novellas, poetry, or works with low page counts.
New imprint: Caleb and Kyle Publishing
It will focus on English-language originals with previously unpublished English translations of successful German titles.
Links of Interest: April 15, 2026
The latest in viral news, trends, AI, Amazon, and culture & politics.
New publisher: Paramount Global Publishing
The operation will adapt the company’s IP into books and develop new original stories that might reach the screen.
New imprint at Skyhorse with Tucker Carlson
Skyhorse Publishing, known for publishing conservative voices, is launching an imprint in partnership with Tucker Carlson’s media company.
Whoopi Goldberg partners with Blackstone Publishing
Together they are launching an imprint called WhoopInk, focused on bringing “fresh, diverse new talent to the marketplace” in all genres.
New nonfiction imprint at Abrams
Abrams Well will publish five to six wellness titles annually with its inaugural releases beginning next year.
Publisher Subscriptions: Cultivating Reader Loyalty and Profitability
Three nonprofit publishers discuss the importance of their subscription programs: McSweeney’s, Open Letter, and Archipelago Books.
Draft2Digital introduces account activation and maintenance fees
They write, “We’ve seen a significant increase in automated and low-quality account creation. A modest activation fee can make a real difference.”
Microcosm Publishing makes AI policy available
The announcement is due to demand from authors—and also increasingly from stores and sales reps who are asking them to take a strong stance.
How Compassion Changed My Writing
When a writer began to see her mother with compassion, her writing changed—and her stories started getting published.
Paying for Exposure on Social Media: What Not to Do
An author decides to pay a bookstagrammer for exposure for her book, and comes to regret it so much that she asks the promotion to be deleted.
Teach Your Book: Designing a Class Around Your Memoir
By teaching one’s own work, a writer discovers not only what they do well, but how others might use such insights to unlock their own drafts.