Publishing Industry Reporting

Developed in partnership with Tamira Chapman, Storehouse Voices is committed to elevating Black voices in fiction and nonfiction.

Simon Maverick will mostly work with self-published authors to produce original audiobooks and is planning 50 titles in its first year.

A team has compiled a dataset of every recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts’ fellowship for creative writing from 1965 to 2024.

According to Circana BookScan, 2024 US print book sales ended up 0.56 percent ahead of 2023.

Jenna Bush Hager’s media company, Thousand Voices, has partnered with Random House to publish emerging authors across the group’s imprints.

Independent publisher Ulysses Press and book packager Spot Gloss Media have joined to launch a new publishing company.

The new independent nonprofit publisher, Joyland, will publish two novellas annually in addition to its existing magazine.

With a late surge in book sales at year end, it’s possible that 2024 print sales will outperform 2023.

From my paid newsletter, here's a recap of the book industry issues and trends I find most notable and meaningful as we move into 2025.

Sophia Coppola has partnered with UK publisher Mack to launch Important Flowers, a photo book imprint.

Here’s what caught your interest in 2024, in order of popularity.

Harper Pop will focus on licensed publications, popular culture, and trend-driven publishing for adults and children.

LEAP will publish across nonfiction categories, including memoir, psychology, parenting, cookery, soft business, activism, and more.

The imprint will publish three nonfiction books each year with select fiction and classics.

Sourcebooks has launched Stonefruit Studio, a new imprint for children’s books—all ages and formats, fiction and nonfiction.

Oprah will announce her new monthly book selections on a new companion podcast sponsored by Starbucks.

Next year, the streaming service Mubi is launching Mubi Editions, a publishing arm dedicated to cinema and the arts.

Evermore will publish romance for the “younger voracious romance reader.”

Circana BookScan predicts a strong holiday season that may leave the industry with better sales than it enjoyed in 2023.

Hachette launched two new imprints: Basic Venture, for business and economics titles, and Basic Liberty, for conservative titles.

Authors of each year’s list at the Brooklyn-based publisher will acquire the titles to be published by the press in the following year.

Publishing industry vet Mike Shatzkin passed away on November 7.

Microsoft has launched 8080 Books, an imprint for “original research, ideas, and insights at the intersection of science, technology, and business.”

Kindle Vella, Amazon’s in-house attempt to build a serialization platform for authors, is shutting down after not even four years

The line launches with Green’s own book, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, to be published on March 18.