- BookTok, Bibles, and bibliotherapy: These drove a 1 percent increase in book sales last year and may help sales in 2025. Bible sales alone grew 22 percent last year; they’ve been on an upward trend since 2015. Sales for Christian-living books grew nearly 3 percent, the highest increase of any adult nonfiction category in 2024. Learn more in Publishers Weekly.
- Fiction sales are growing internationally, while nonfiction struggles. What holds true globally also holds true in the US market. Learn more in Publishers Weekly.
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.
