Publishing Industry Reporting

This monumental effort is the work of Thad McIlroy in partnership with Publishers Weekly.

This year’s holiday print book sales in the US are lining up closely with 2020, according to NPD BookScan.

Kobo is expanding their Kobo Plus subscription service in Canada to include an option for unlimited use of over 100,000 audiobooks.

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

A judge ruled that Penguin Random House cannot acquire Simon & Schuster, opening the door to similar government cases that can prove harm to workers rather than consumers.

In our last issue, you might recall our write-up of Yonder, a new serialized literature app from the Wattpad–Webtoon family.

Freedom Fire is a new middle-grade imprint that will feature stories written by Black creators about Black resilience and Black joy.

According to NPD BookScan, the holiday season this year is taking a less prosperous path than 2021 in the US book market.

Tyndale Elevate will focus on apologetics: arguments and justifications for Christian beliefs.

After 12 years with Idea Architects, Lara Love Hardin is launching True Literary Agency.

Executives from Wattpad Webtoon Studios and Rakuten Kobo discuss the hard-to-measure but growing audience for independently published ebooks and digital serializations.

Marketing your book to bookstores—like marketing your book anywhere else—requires research and shoe leather.

Through the first three quarters of 2022, NPD BookScan reports that US print book sales are 5 percent down compared to 2021.

Textbook publisher McGraw Hill is hoping to appeal to the TikTok generation with its new learning app, Sharpen.

Andrea Fleck-Nisbet will become IBPA’s new CEO effective November 1, 2022.

The Golden Notebook bookstore in Woodstock, New York, is launching Golden Notebook Press.

Little, Brown Ink will be a graphic novel imprint at Hachette publishing about 20 titles a year, both fiction and nonfiction.

Yonder will attempt to reach a more diverse audience by serializing multiple genres, including some publishers’ backlist.

Regalo Press is a new imprint at Post Hill Press (distributed by Simon & Schuster) that will publish a broad list of fiction and nonfiction.

Print book sales in the US are holding steady overall, now tracking at 5 percent lower than 2021, according to NPD BookScan.

Earlier this month, the Association of American Publishers released its 2021 sales figures.

Thesis will publish “urgent idea-driven nonfiction by thought leaders, journalists, and experts with a strong point of view,” starting spring 2023.

Editor and critic Ann Kjellberg has written an article discussing how the romance genre was largely written off or ignored during the anti-trust trial.

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The big dogs will remain the big dogs. Mega advances will still be paid, and it will remain challenging to make a living if you’re the average author (as it has been throughout history if you depend on book sales alone).