Last year, Spotify pulled many comedians from its service after a dispute over royalties…and now Pandora’s in similarly hot water.

On Feb. 6, Sourcebooks editor Mary Altman tweeted her position on word count, which led to blowback from writers.

Defining your why, who, what, and how is the start of writing a powerful thought leadership book that conveys your vision and impacts lives.

For freelancers, forgoing social media can mean giving up crucial visibility. But it can also provide time to focus on being a better writer.

If you’ve been seeking external solutions to your writing problems, these internal shifts might have a more profound effect on your progress.

Writing about trauma isn’t like ripping off a Band-Aid. Here are some strategies for assessing whether you’re ready and proceeding gently.

Imbuing a character’s story with your own life experience—the good, bad, ugly and transformational—unleashes your book’s full emotional power.

Publishers Weekly recently tabulated US bestselling books according to publisher.

Traditional Publishing Publishers and agents are grumbling about subpoenas in the antitrust case against Penguin Random House. As part of

The UK’s Channel 4 is airing a TV series called The Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver.

A weekly column from The Ankler (a Substack newsletter) will tout forthcoming releases still available for film/TV options.

The former head of publishing at Historic England has set up his own company focused on the history of settlements, buildings, and landscapes.

Sourcebooks has announced an Ebony Magazine Publishing imprint that will focus on Black authors and celebrate Black stories.

Tim Moore was most recently an editor at Cookt.

Epic fantasy—marked by a grand scale of events and complex story structures—has seen a resurgence in growth since the pandemic.

Authors contributing to Vella hope Amazon will use its marketing power to boost its new serial reading platform.

According to NPD BookScan, while overall print book sales year to date have declined versus 2021, fiction categories are outperforming.

After a month in his position, CEO David Steinberger sent a letter to colleagues noting the company’s recent accomplishments.

Follett, which distributes to schools and libraries, has announced the sale of its book fair business to Literati, a book subscription startup.

Consumer book sales were up, but digital sales were flat.

US deals were up 9.4 percent overall, which is on top of an 8 percent gain from 2020.

Book discovery and book buying continue their shift to online channels, which tends to benefit older titles and means more power in the hands of Amazon

One key to compelling fiction is in how details are conveyed. Not everything warrants description—only details that matter to the character.

When an author’s death leaves a manuscript unfinished, her husband tries to put together the pieces and complete the book.

One author considers the power that writing conferences have to inspire—and to discourage—their audiences.