Publishing Industry Reporting

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.

They seek work that addresses “overlooked” issues, such as fatherhood, masculinity, working-class male experience, and sex and relationships.

One of the company’s core offerings to start will be in-person interviews with authors and fans at romance conventions.

The Bookseller has announced a new award for the fiction category of new adult, which focuses on the transitional years after young adulthood.

The West Coast Christian Writers conference will take place in Fullerton, California later this year.

Austin-based startup PanelFly allows comics publishers to handle their own shipping through third-party providers or in-house fulfillment.

Anne Trubek of Belt Publishing has an insightful article discussing what we might see unfold for four categories of publisher.

According to the latest figures from Circana BookScan, US print sales declined by 1 percent versus last year in the first quarter.

These subscription services have built a meaningful fanbase and may understand and serve specific readerships better than some publishers.

Two Dollar Radio will keep ownership of its headquarters and bookstore it opened in Columbus in 2017.

Selected as a 2020 Publishers Weekly Star Watch honoree, Shelly Romero has joined as an associate agent at Azantian Literary Agency.

US publishing has escaped the worst of the tariffs, but that doesn’t mean publishing is unaffected by the tariffs that remain.

Amen Editions will release eight to 10 nonfiction titles per year, including inspirational, self-care, gift, and activity books.

Publishing industry professionals disagree on the definition of "women's fiction" but acknowledge its marketing value for readers.