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Within hours of an essay by S&S’s Sean Manning, major media outlets started calling up industry insiders to get their reactions.

Developed in partnership with Tamira Chapman, Storehouse Voices is committed to elevating Black voices in fiction and nonfiction.

Simon Maverick will mostly work with self-published authors to produce original audiobooks and is planning 50 titles in its first year.

Jenna Bush Hager’s media company, Thousand Voices, has partnered with Random House to publish emerging authors across the group’s imprints.

Harper Pop will focus on licensed publications, popular culture, and trend-driven publishing for adults and children.

The imprint will publish three nonfiction books each year with select fiction and classics.

Now, subscribers to Everand will be moved next year to a credit-based model for digital book consumption.

Macmillan has launched Fablelistik Editions, a new imprint that “creates bespoke renditions of contemporary and classic stories.”

HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Lagardère have all seen increased profits in the first half of 2024, partly due to job cuts.

The biggest of the Big Five, Penguin Random House, has reported that sales were up by 8.5 percent during the first half of 2024.

Flatiron Books, a division of Big Five publisher Macmillan, will launch Pine & Cedar Books next year.

After a challenging 2023, Big Five publisher HarperCollins is enjoying a more successful fiscal 2024.

Orbit (Hachette) has launched Run for It, an imprint that will publish current Orbit horror authors as well as new ones, starting in 2025.

The HarperCollins imprint HarperAlley, which publishes comics and graphic novels for the children’s market, will start publishing for adults.

Perfect Bound is a company that helps match small publishers with printers to create faster and cheaper printing runs.

Five publisher Macmillan is launching 23rd Street Books to “deliver graphic novels that span styles and genres.”

The imprint is described as “commercial, voice-driven fiction with a focus on fantasy, speculative fiction, romance and genre-adjacent fiction.”

Keila Shaheen, the self-published author who has sold more than a million copies of her book, is now working with a Big Five publisher.

Harper Influence is a new, general nonfiction imprint that will begin releasing titles this fall.

Three of the Big Five publishers are adding contract language that prohibits the publisher from training AI models on the contracted work.

Both editors were high-profile hires and fairly new to the Big Five publisher.

Driving results: good audiobook sales as well as good performance at Orbit and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

PRH has made an internal generative AI tool available to its employees as an alternative to the public version of ChatGPT.

Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK) has been acquired by Simon & Schuster, one of the Big Five publishers in the US.