Publishing Industry Reporting

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Vignette has been founded by UK author and broadcaster Liz Fraser, specializing in travel writing, short stories, and memoir.

The business book publisher is launching the Works in Progress series, a series of handbooks for people in the early stage of their careers.

Fiction sales were up 8 percent, children’s titles up 7 percent, and nonfiction declined 3 percent.

The partnership with a game company will release a series of works set in the world of the popular party game Blood on the Clocktower.

Everand (formerly Scribd) subscribers will get access to Fable at the $11.99 level, syncing activity from Everand to Fable.

The University of Florida Press is launching Warrington Press in partnership with the university’s college of business.

The fellowship is intended to support writers whose projects engage with the collections of the NYPL flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

The publishing imprint will focus on debut literary fiction by emerging writers with strong ties to Texas.

Audio consumption is the big winner. With adults, fiction is up and nonfiction is down, while the children’s/YA market is just the opposite.

Believing the book-to-screen pipeline is missing what’s worth finding, UK-based author Arianna Reiche has launched a page-to-screen IP scouting service.

Pine State Literary is led by Zoe-Aline Howard and focuses on literary fiction and narrative nonfiction that speaks to rural and middle America.

The imprint will tackle existential questions for readers wherever they are on the spirituality spectrum.

3AM Books will be PRH’s first dedicated horror imprint. The first title, FAWN by debut author and journalist CN Vair, will release this August.

The imprint is the second to be announced by Putman Publishing, run by Pete Selby and Doug Putman, owner of music retailer HMV UK.

A bookseller in Houston has launched Grave Empire, a one-man publishing operation dedicated to horror fiction.

The imprint will publish titles across sports, health, autobiography, and business.

The Minneapolis-based nonprofit publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from underrepresented writers.

I attempt to clarify the claim that half of all books sell fewer than a dozen copies—a statistic for which I am partially responsible.

Skyhorse Publishing has launched new cookbook imprint Golden Grove Publishing with Culinary Book Creations CEO James O. Fraioli.

Faire is a tech wholesale B2B marketplace built for the gift, jewelry, and home goods market, but increasingly used by publishers and bookstores.

It will focus on English-language originals with previously unpublished English translations of successful German titles.

Abrams Well will publish five to six wellness titles annually with its inaugural releases beginning next year.

Three nonprofit publishers discuss the importance of their subscription programs: McSweeney’s, Open Letter, and Archipelago Books.

The operation will adapt the company’s IP into books and develop new original stories that might reach the screen.