After a few years of extraordinary growth, the creator economy, AI, BookTok, and Amazon may be poised for a fall.

Good news: The final week of holiday sales in 2022 outpaced the same week from 2021.

The leading digital book subscription service in Europe, Storytel, has launched a new subscription level with a listening cap.

According to OverDrive, which distributes digital materials to 22,000 libraries in 45 countries, these were the most popular titles globally.

Sanderson ran the most successful Kickstarter in history last year for four “secret” novels that will be self-published.

Except for lead titles, HarperCollins will no longer send advance review copies (ARCs) in print format for children’s books.

At the end of 2022, Canada changed its copyright laws so that books, songs, and plays will enjoy an additional 20 years of copyright protection.

This year, works published in 1923 enter the public domain.

The key to creating successful content as an author-creator lies in the same ingredients that make your stories so great.

Your audience won’t remember the chapter where your hero took a breather. What’s memorable are the forces of antagonism, and how your hero reacted.

Before spending time on a story that doesn’t work, ensure you’ve addressed the critical questions of character, plot, goals and motivations.

If you have reason to suspect your story is not quite “there” yet, a professional edit may be what’s needed to push you across the finish line.

A roundup of new publishers, agents, and other book-related ventures announced in 2022.

The latest in traditional publishing, celebrities, artificial intelligence, legal issues, and culture & politics.

Indie author Nicholas Erik calls it “nothing short of a marketing gamechanger.”

Former Hodder & Stoughton CEO and former John Murray sales and strategy director have launched Bedford Square Publishers.

In our last issue, we discussed limitations Amazon has made to how many categories a book can rank in simultaneously.

What you couldn’t resist reading more about.

The brightest sparks of the year.

Michelle Obama’s most recent book had less than one quarter of the first-week print sales of her 2018 memoir, Becoming.

The goal: hear from diverse writers of commercial fiction.

Amazon has announced it’s ending magazine and newspaper subscriptions for Kindle next year along with print textbook rentals.

A survey looking at the reading habits and preferences of Gen Z show that they are more likely to read on phones and embrace more genres.

Aerio allowed anyone anywhere to immediately become an online bookseller at no cost, using the power of Ingram to fulfill orders.

In a move likely related to PRH’s failure to acquire Simon & Schuster, Markus Dohle will step down from his position as CEO of Penguin Random House.