Kobo is expanding their Kobo Plus subscription service in Canada to include an option for unlimited use of over 100,000 audiobooks.

Red Tower Books will be a new adult commercial-fiction imprint focused on romantic fantasy and science fiction genres.

This monumental effort is the work of Thad McIlroy in partnership with Publishers Weekly.

Editors and authors agree it’s okay to write outside your lived experience, as long as you do your homework.

Mastodon is becoming a popular choice for those leaving Twitter as well as those seeking conversation and community.

Successful #BookTok marketing requires knowing both what works and what works for you.

This year’s holiday print book sales in the US are lining up closely with 2020, according to NPD BookScan.

The site is known as Z-Library, and it was especially popular among TikTok users.

TikTok in the UK is now selling books directly through TikTok—which isn’t a surprise, given their recent investment in fulfillment centers.

Tor announced release dates for “commercial editions” of the four novels that Sanderson first offered through his Kickstarter campaign.

During the pandemic, Amazon hired more than 800,000 employees, mostly at its warehouses. Now there is a hiring freeze.

Amazon is tightening its belt by laying off workers, pulling back on expansion of its fulfillment network, and closing some warehouses.

The strike began Nov. 10 and continues as of this writing. About 250 workers belong to the HarperCollins union; the publisher employs about 4,000 globally.

Simon & Schuster sold 900 copies of a collector’s edition of Dylan’s new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, for $599.

PRH’s journey to acquire Simon & Schuster has come to an end.

Central to most of Michael Lewis’ works are larger-than-life characters who find themselves at the center of major industry or societal shifts.

When completing a readable draft left one author exhausted and overwhelmed, these three steps helped him start writing again.

Good editors are expensive, so the best time for a full manuscript review is when you’re pretty sure your book is ready for publication.

If your subject already has a large existing fandom, how can you quantify that audience, using the data to impress agents, publishers, and editors?

Whether you’re a planner or a pantser, this brainstorming document can take your story to places it might not have gone otherwise.

A prologue can open the door to your story and entice the reader in, or throw up a barrier that delays or prevents their engagement.

A great villain character should have complex motivations and be able to evoke sympathy from readers.

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Hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri, If Books Could Kill focuses on “airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.”

ASH Literary is a children’s- and YA-focused agency established in 2020.