Publishing Industry Reporting

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.

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.

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

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.

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

They say they will be working with both “debut authors and those with established fandoms,” starting with romance.

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.

Doug Putman, owner of music retailer HMV UK, is launching a publishing company. The first imprint will publish music and pop culture books.

Despite the decline of mass-market paperbacks, HarperVia is launching a line of pocket-sized paperbacks under the Nomad Editions imprint.

The press launched by ByteDance hasn’t yet had a national bestseller or viral hit within the BookTok community.

Horror is experiencing a boom like it hasn’t seen since the 1980s.

The longtime essayist and literary commentator is partnering with independent bookstore McNally Jackson to launch Marginalian Editions.

The Bee has been established in response to what its founders see as the “class crisis in the UK writing industries.”

Starting this fall, Authors Equity will bring a number of bestselling LYX Books to North American readers on an expedited schedule.

More often, businesses are starting a Substack on the side to push discoverability of their offerings outside of the Substack ecosystem.

Entrants must be a resident of Great Britain and be able to qualify themselves as coming from a minority ethnic background.

The new tool at the BISG website helps locate contacts for rights and permissions. It is free for everyone.

NetGalley members will be able to send NetGalley EPUB files to Kobo e-readers or to the Kobo app, no side-loading required.