Publishing Industry Reporting

The new independent publisher will begin releasing titles in summer 2026. The effort is led by former executives from Bonnier Books UK.

UK comics publisher Time Bomb has launched two new imprints, WestWords and Comic Scene.

The competition is a partnership between Good Housekeeping and the Rachel Mills Literary Agency.

BookCon is a reader-facing convention that launched in 2014 as part of BookExpo, then turned into a standalone event that lasted until 2019.

The imprint is under County Highway, whose mission is to publish new writing about America in the form of a 19th-century newspaper.

Fiction sales revenue grew by 18 percent in 2024 (driven by fantasy and romance), and audiobook revenue grew 31 percent.

It looks like a chunky pair of sunglasses. The tagline: “Get lost in a good book again.” It connects to your existing Kindle library.

Now that 8th Note Press is closing, some authors are coming out and telling their stories of working with the publisher.

Just as secular publishers are launching Christian-living imprints, Christian publishers are launching their own crossover efforts.

Bookmarked with Danielle Robay will “bring together celebrities, tastemakers, influencers and authors from Reese’s Book Club and beyond.”

Stable Book Group, in partnership with Hachette, has announced the formation of a new distribution company for independent publishers.

Alyssa Morris has joined Trellis.

According to a recent press release from Circana BookScan, print sales for romance books are up 24 percent versus last

The progressive magazine The Nation is partnering with OR Books to launch Nation Books.

Authors Alliance and Internet Archive have launched a podcast, Future Knowledge.

The subscription reading app Everand (formerly known as Scribd) has acquired Fable.

Victoria Strauss at Writer Beware offers excellent insights into what’s happening with the bankruptcies of Albert Whitman & Co and Unbound (now operated as Boundless).

This content-farming model has been around for a long time, only now it’s AI powered.

It “aims to reimagine what literary fiction can achieve, publishing novels that resonate across generations, transcend genres, and break convention.”

No source would go on the record, but at least some agents and authors are in the process of securing rights reversions.

They are inevitably blamed on “marketing errors,” which are becoming a new, sad fact of AI-driven marketing.

BLK Bestsellers is a new monthly resource from the African American Literature Book Club for identifying bestselling books.

The startup publisher partners with influencers to breakout new authors, combining traditional marketing with influencer-driven promotion.

The latest sales report from the AAP shows a book sales increase of 1 percent for the first quarter of 2025 compared to last year.

Somesuch plans to publish six or seven titles per year starting this summer.