Publishing Industry Reporting

Two Shores Press focuses on South Asian literature and is founded by Aananth Daksnamurthy, a graduate of NYU’s Center for Publishing.

Written Word Media surveys authors to understand what works, what doesn’t, and how we can share best business practices.

The founders don’t describe 831 Stories as a publisher. Rather, it’s “an entertainment company with books at the foundation.”

Mango, a Florida-based independent publisher known for nonfiction, is launching an imprint called Books Save Lives.

The Association of American Publishers recently released its final sales estimates for 2023 and also improved its data from prior years.

Writers started getting anxious when the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association started losing paid staff and board members.

It seeks books that are “anti-monarchist, post-capitalist, decolonized, and anti-authoritarian in general.”

Flatiron Books, a division of Big Five publisher Macmillan, will launch Pine & Cedar Books next year.

Gallery Books (Simon & Schuster) is launching Lemonada Books to publish books based on podcasts coming out of Lemonada Media.

The HarperCollins imprint HarperAlley, which publishes comics and graphic novels for the children’s market, will start publishing for adults.

Colin Kaepernick, who founded his own publishing company in 2020, has now launched Lumi.

Orbit (Hachette) has launched Run for It, an imprint that will publish current Orbit horror authors as well as new ones, starting in 2025.

Circana BookScan’s half-year report shows that print book sales are down just a half percent versus last year.

Panick Entertainment will focus on publishing comics and graphic novels that can be turned into films, TV, games, and other media.

Romantasy books by Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros are keeping US print sales on par with last year.

Five publisher Macmillan is launching 23rd Street Books to “deliver graphic novels that span styles and genres.”

Unnamed Press has launched Smith & Taylor Classics, devoted to publishing trade paperback editions of lesser-known public-domain novels.

Before long, every major publisher will be earning money from AI training, whether through collective licensing or directly with tech companies.

Doug Seibold, the founder of Evanston-based Agate Publishing, is doing his part to foster publishing careers in America’s heartland.

Re-Lit will re-issue out-of-print works from creators from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds.

May 2024 was a very good month for print book sales, making it the third straight month of increased sales versus last year.

More than 1,500 authors, illustrators, audiobook narrators, and translators have launched Authors against Book Bans in the US.

DK Red will focus on lifestyle publishing and narrative nonfiction and is part of DK’s recently renamed adult division, DK Living.

An excerpt from Michael Castleman’s The Untold Story of Books details the origin of copyright, and how paper innovations created pulp fiction.

Circana BookScan reports strong May 2024 print book sales that put 2024 sales on par with 2023 thus far.