Policies that prohibit AI use are easy enough to create, but they are not necessarily easy to enforce.

Like in the US, adult fiction was strong while nonfiction declined and showed its lowest performance since 2018.

According to Circana BookScan, overall print unit sales were up just barely, 0.3 percent, in 2025 versus the prior year.

It’s based on the fiction and nonfiction that’s selling at independent bookstores and includes only small and independent publishers.

There's a twist: the author says sales of his books on Amazon have gone up as a result of the unauthorized YouTube recordings.

To encourage transparency among creators and audience, one writer suggests a simple, two-category system for labeling AI use in works of art.

A memoirist who began writing with the goal of helping others was surprised by how the process healed old wounds and reframed her self-image.

The author’s historical novel, Finding Flora, was an instant number-one bestseller in Canada which led to rerelease of two previous novels.

The latest in bookselling, AI, and culture & politics.

The tool, by software company Trilogy, helps agents and publishers evaluate unsolicited manuscripts—but are any likely to admit to using it?

Bond Literary Agency and Copps Literary Services have merged to form Confluence Literary Agency.

Storm Literary Agency founder Essie White has launched a new agency representing authors and illustrators.

Charlie Serabian represents genre fiction and select nonfiction; Jess Taylor represents primarily YA and new adult.

Previously a scout and book-to-film agent, Phoebe Schmidt is primarily interested in upmarket science fiction and fantasy.

These are the news stories and topics I’ll be following closely this year, from growth in AI translation to ad-supported Substack and more.

We looked at an app which claims to retell popular books via brief animated chapters, and the results range from absurd to possibly infringing.

Deals for adult fiction saw 9.3 percent growth, nonfiction deals were down 1.6 percent versus 2024, and children’s deals were flat.

If you’re hearing that your story lacks structure or impact, you might be missing the interconnected cohesion of plot, stakes, and character.

Needing to build audience for a new book, one author examines her avoidance of creating video content in favor of face-to-face connections.

This excerpt from Nina Amir’s Change the World One Book at a Time examines how nonfiction authors can best effect change in readers.

The latest in traditional publishing, audiobooks, and marketing & promotion.

Each issue of this newsletter contains dozens of links. Here’s what caught readers’ interest in 2025, in order of popularity.

Of the year’s top 10 bestselling print nonfiction titles, only one was published in 2025; everything else was a backlist title.

Human translators will still be involved but only to edit the machine output in French.

For 2026, works from the year 1930 enter the public domain, including the first four Nancy Drew novels, The Maltese Falcon, and many more.