The first quarter of the year has seen strong performance in the US market, with print unit sales up 29.2 percent versus last year, according to NPD BookScan. Recently on the bestseller list: Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb, which sold 215,000 copies in its first week on sale, and Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man: Mothering Heights, selling 236,000 copies in its first week.
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.
