Publishing Industry Reporting

Storytide will publish fiction for middle-grade and teenage readers.

Digital audio now beats ebooks in terms of dollars earned for AAP-reporting publishers.

After fizzling out in the mid-2010s, the new-adult category is receiving renewed attention from traditional publishers.

David Moldawer has joined to represent nonfiction authors. He previously held editorial positions at Amazon Publishing and Portfolio.

Auteur is a series of books that combine film criticism and personal narrative. Each title will examine a single movie.

The imprint is called Outsider Editions; it will focus on underappreciated literary work of all genres.

The publisher will focus on underrepresented voices in fiction and nonfiction, with Ingram distributing and RBmedia as its audiobook partner.

Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette, is launching the Cardinal imprint this fall, which will publish fiction and nonfiction.

The home of Rebecca Yarros has announced Mischief Books and Mayhem Books.

Recently, two new collectives of independent publishers were announced: The Stable Book Group and the Publishers Cooperative.

Da Capo Press was once an independent publisher in Boston; it was acquired by Hachette in 2016.

On the rise: romance sales in Canada, sales at Hachette, and subscription figures at Storytel.

The imprint is a partnership with the founder and producer of 12:01 Films and Emily Bestler Books.

The two companies will look for books that have “cinematic roots” and partner on film and TV adaptations.

Independent publisher Grove Atlantic has launched Atlantic Crime, a new imprint that will release 18–24 titles per year.

SXSW has partnered with Advantage Media, a hybrid publishing company, to establish SXSW Books. Distribution is through Ingram’s Two River.

Within hours of an essay by S&S’s Sean Manning, major media outlets started calling up industry insiders to get their reactions.

Why is the industry attributing sales so directly to BookTok when it has never done so with other social media?

The mission: “publish books that illuminate and elucidate the central questions and fundamental ideas of modern science for readers.”

The Deep South Convening on the Future Success of American Writers will take place on May 24 at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

Books by Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, and George Orwell enjoyed increased sales after President Trump was inaugurated for the second time.

Adult fiction was the strongest segment of the book market in 2024, with BookTok continuing to be a key factor in discovery.

Subscription box company FairyLoot will launch a fantasy publishing imprint in partnership with a division of Penguin Random House UK.

2024 set a record for the most deal reports logged at the site, with six-figure deals up by 17 percent over 2023.

They will publish “heavyweight” nonfiction books written by academics, journalists, or writers who have developed a strong brand identity.