McQuade is a professor from practice at the U. of Mich. Law School where she teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, national security, and data privacy.

My April 10 piece prompted responses from readers who work inside the industry, some of whom took issue with my portrayal of the business.

While atypical lending models may affect book sales, an Australian publishing effort demonstrates that library lending can have a positive effect on the commercial market.

Elle Griffin, who has long been a Substack advocate, surfaces many quotable nuggets and stats from the DOJ vs PRH trial from 2022.

Janet Reid passed away on April 14 “swiftly and at peace, with loved ones seeing her through,” according to a friend.

In the last year or two, production costs for book publishers have been responsible in part for declining profits.

A retired US Army veteran who wrote her novel with extensive assistance from ChatGPT was granted limited copyright protection.

After being closed for more than three years to new suppliers, Amazon Advantage has opened up again to applications.

Using a phone’s text-to-speech feature to read your story aloud while doing chores is a great way to catch errors that you might otherwise miss.

Imagine a friend reveals a secret past so compelling that no novelist could resist turning it into fiction. Here’s how one author went about it.

Boundaries within ourselves—our limits, standards, knowing which interactions are worthwhile—are as important as those we set with others.

Like a genie in a bottle, flashbacks can be wonderful and terrible things. If not carefully controlled, flashbacks can get disastrously out of hand.

A brief but super-powered lesson from one of our recent webinars about the how to avoid overly coy and "mysterious" backstory in fiction.

Traditional Publishing Low sales for Biden books. Simon & Schuster has withdrawn its contract with an Axios national political correspondent

Indie author TL Swan, who publishes the Miles High Club romance series, is launching a romance-focused publishing house.

A new business imprint, Simon Acumen, will publish books that help readers navigate the “dynamic world of work.”

Two editors from HarperCollins, Ben Rosenthal and Mabel Hsu, are joining Sourcebooks to establish a new children’s imprint.

Bull City Press had close to 50 titles with SPD, with a couple thousand books warehoused that they need to get back.

Rose Metal is owed at least $40,000—about 60 to 70 percent of their annual book sales revenue—by SPD for sales in 2023 and 2024.

Small presses must choose quickly from a number of distribution options; some urge forming distribution co-ops.

SPD supported small publishers who don’t always qualify for commercial distribution.

So far for 2024, print book sales are down by 1.7 percent versus 2023, according to Circana BookScan.

Publishers Weekly is on the ground in Bologna, and early reports indicate continued challenges in the middle-grade category.

Draft2Digital has entered into a retail distribution agreement with Fable, the social reading app that powers online book clubs.

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