Print sales have been stable this year, but fiction has been performing better than nonfiction—unless it’s YA fiction, where sales have declined by 12 percent compared to last year, according to Circana BookScan. Of the year’s top 10 bestselling print nonfiction titles, only one was published in 2025: Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir, 107 Days. Everything else was a backlist title. Learn more (gift link).
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
