Here’s what caught your interest in 2024, in order of popularity.

The brightest sparks of the year.

Here are a few of the notable literary works hitting the public domain on January 1, 2025.

Upon its release on Black Friday, Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour Book—available from Target only—became an instant bestseller.

The Authors Guild recently published a statement asserting that standard book publishing agreements do not grant publishers AI training rights.

The November 2024 bestseller lists are now available at the Hot Sheet website, free to everyone. Here are some points of interest.

Three distinctive monthly bestseller lists: top 50 hidden gems, top 50 self-published ebooks, and top 50 self-published print books.

Most authors should not pay to exhibit at industry trade shows like London Book Fair and Frankfurt Book Fair.

When publishers and agents show no interest in novellas, contests might be a more reliable path to publication.

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Oprah will announce her new monthly book selections on a new companion podcast sponsored by Starbucks.

Learn about the UK’s bestselling books every month from the folks who work at Nielsen BookScan.

Next year, the streaming service Mubi is launching Mubi Editions, a publishing arm dedicated to cinema and the arts.

Evermore will publish romance for the “younger voracious romance reader.”

Ed Wood has joined as a fiction agent and director of fiction development at The Blair Partnership.

The Apple and Android app can bring realistic narration to any book, article, PDF, newsletter, or text that you import.

In The Small and the Mighty, McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks.

A successful pitch deck may act as a simple vibe check or perform a function similar to that of a nonfiction book proposal.

Don’t let buzzwords and trends mislead you about the viability or meaningfulness of a publishing startup.

Earlier this year, Costco announced it would no longer carry books outside of the holiday season (the last three months of the year).

Spotify for Authors is a new feature from Spotify to help both authors and publishers better understand their audience on Spotify.

The director of an MFA program wrestles with how to make it a more useful degree for aspiring commercial novelists.

Triumphs are most compelling when the hero has to fight for them, so even quiet stories need plenty of obstacles, challenges, and uncertainties.

Becoming a mother was the motivation one freelance writer needed to abandon the toxic hustle culture by which she defined “success”.

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