The latest on Amazon, book banning, AI, publishing trends and more.

Right on the heels of the TikTok and Barnes & Noble marketing partnership, TikTok and Amazon have announced that Amazon will now sponsor the TikTok Book Club.

The book club will feature five titles for adults annually—one for each season and one Pick of the Year.

With a backlist of about 1,000 titles and 25 new titles per season, the imprint will publish books on arts and crafts.

The author’s new hardcover book won’t be stocked by Barnes & Noble. She understands the business plight of the chain, but worries about collateral damage to authors and young readers alike.

The US chain plans to stock fewer hardcovers‚ especially children’s titles, which will force publishers and authors to re-evaluate their publishing and marketing strategies.

Comparable to the Authors Guild in the United States, the Society of Authors in the UK is the country’s leading union of professional authors.

It turns out that backlist is capturing most of the pandemic growth in the book market.

The White House changed a longstanding US policy, forcing publishers to make publicly funded research available immediately to the public.

While the case hinges on how the merger may affect a mere 1,200 authors earning advances over $250K, information presented during testimony offers rare insights for all authors

Why one freelancer believes that spending too much time at a computer holds writers back from producing their best work.

As writers, we often cling to certain myths that suck up emotional energy and reinforce practices that undermine the creative process.

The mass market paperback format has been slowly declining for years, affected by lower-price ebooks and the migration of authors and publishers to the trade paperback format.

The latest on #booktok, romance & erotica, culture & politics and more.

Author and restaurateur Ayesha Curry is Zando’s latest high-profile publishing partner and will acquire fiction and nonfiction.

Based in San Antonio, Trinity University Press has launched Tinta Books and Terra Firma, both nonfiction imprints.

With the backing of Podium, Bookstat looks to expand into additional territories.

Selling a book isn’t as simple as accepting the highest advance.

The unpredictable and subjective nature of publishing can look like incompetence to those outside the industry.

As of August 6, this year’s print book sales are 6 percent below 2021 levels, according to NPD BookScan.

Tor Publishing Group will include Tor, Forge Books, Nightfire, Tor Teen, Starscape, and Tordotcom Publishing.

Not long after book wholesaler/distributor Ingram announced its expansion into the UK market, the UK book wholesaler Gardners is launching operations in the US.

As self-publishing has proliferated, indie authors have increasingly become the target of illegitimate and fraudulent solicitations.

Tapas Media, which was recently acquired by a South Korean firm, has laid off staff in its original-content department.

When writing a prescriptive nonfiction book, anticipating doubts and objections lets your readers feel seen and keeps them on the page.