Publishing Industry Reporting

Are they worth the investment, both financial and emotional? Yes—if the contest is legitimate and the prize offers value to the writer.

The winner receives a book deal with Hachette UK with a £30,000 advance and £20,000 towards the marketing of the finished book.

The podcast is for publishing professionals and meant to “answer all the questions you might have about the industry we all love.”

Like in the US, adult fiction was strong while nonfiction declined and showed its lowest performance since 2018.

According to Circana BookScan, overall print unit sales were up just barely, 0.3 percent, in 2025 versus the prior year.

Marble Press has acquired CamCat Books from B&T; their catalog includes more than 100 adult and YA titles across multiple categories.

Skylight will publish commercial fiction.

These are the news stories and topics I’ll be following closely this year, from growth in AI translation to ad-supported Substack and more.

Deals for adult fiction saw 9.3 percent growth, nonfiction deals were down 1.6 percent versus 2024, and children’s deals were flat.

We looked at an app which claims to retell popular books via brief animated chapters, and the results range from absurd to possibly infringing.

For 2026, works from the year 1930 enter the public domain, including the first four Nancy Drew novels, The Maltese Falcon, and many more.

Each issue of this newsletter contains dozens of links. Here’s what caught readers’ interest in 2025, in order of popularity.

The deal is set to close in January 2026. The new owners include Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX.

Nonfiction sales will likely continue to decline in the years ahead due to competing sources of information and entertainment.

In 2026 the publishing business will be moved into WEBTOON Entertainment. The entertainment business will be moved into WEBTOON Productions.

Poetry Corp is an informal collective of five New York–based small presses.

The year's biggest stories in publishing, from the Anthropic settlement to the demise of NaNoWriMo and more.

If you receive solicitous emails from book clubs or famous authors, follow these simple steps before replying or clicking on any links.

PRH is collaborating with Netflix, which streams KPop Demon Hunters, to publish “fan-forward” titles about the show.

The Dublin-based publisher will focus on current affairs and business titles with a global focus.

The headline finding is that personal recommendation is the top source of book discovery, surpassing social media and platforms like Amazon.

The majority of book awards are pay-to-play deals. Some do little harm, others are genuinely useful, but most make no difference to your career or sales.

A deep dive with three traditional publishers who remain active in the coloring book market, each of them with a different approach.

We remember the late Porter Anderson, who in 2015 co-founded (with Jane) The Hot Sheet email newsletter known today as The Bottom Line.

This excerpt from the new book Digital Inc. by Richard Curtis examines why ebooks failed to supplant print as many tech pioneers expected.