Publishing Industry Reporting

Independent publisher Page Street plans to double its number of YA titles to 24 new titles per year and house them under a dedicated imprint.

The imprint will “develop and acquire works from underrepresented voices across multiple genres, fiction and nonfiction,” and for all ages.

Third State Books, based in San Francisco, will release its first titles in 2024.

It’s official: Spare by Prince Harry is the fastest-selling nonfiction book of all time in the UK.

BookBub, Open Road Media, and Ingram all offered presentations on selling books via email advertising.

One author builds profitable direct sales using Shopify, ThriveCart, and BookFunnel.

According to year-end figures, here’s how major print categories performed in 2022 versus 2021, with romance in the lead.

Mayo Clinic Press Kids will publish “engaging mental and physical wellness content for children” for both the trade and educational market

Featured takeaways from the conference (part one).

Colleen Hoover claims six of the top ten spots.

Wattpad–Webtoon’s new serialization app, Yonder, has announced another round of publishing partners

According to NPD BookScan, print unit sales were down 1 percent from 2022 for the first week of the year.

2022 came in 5.8 percent below 2021 in terms of print unit sales, and the children’s market made up half of that decline.

Spare is the UK’s fastest selling nonfiction book—it sold 400,000 copies across all formats on its first day on sale.

An early look at book publishing sales data.

According to OverDrive, which distributes digital materials to 22,000 libraries in 45 countries, these were the most popular titles globally.

Good news: The final week of holiday sales in 2022 outpaced the same week from 2021.

After a few years of extraordinary growth, the creator economy, AI, BookTok, and Amazon may be poised for a fall.

A roundup of new publishers, agents, and other book-related ventures announced in 2022.

Michelle Obama’s most recent book had less than one quarter of the first-week print sales of her 2018 memoir, Becoming.

A survey looking at the reading habits and preferences of Gen Z show that they are more likely to read on phones and embrace more genres.

According to NPD BookScan, this holiday season is underperforming compared to 2021.

Parent company Paramount may seek or prefer a buyer that doesn’t require yet another review by the Department of Justice.

PRH’s journey to acquire Simon & Schuster has come to an end.

Red Tower Books will be a new adult commercial-fiction imprint focused on romantic fantasy and science fiction genres.