The Atlantic finds more diversity in what books get published—but will it last?
Despite the foreboding headline, there’s good news to be found in the latest diversity counts among the biggest New York publishers.
Despite the foreboding headline, there’s good news to be found in the latest diversity counts among the biggest New York publishers.
Collective licensing for AI training received heightened visibility last week when the co-founder of Scribd launched a licensing platform.
May 2024 was a very good month for print book sales, making it the third straight month of increased sales versus last year.
Fans are willing to spend on special editions of their favorite authors and series.
The New York Times reports that Costco will stop stocking books regularly in January 2025, except for the holiday season.
Romance author CD Reiss has filed suit, claiming that Audible/ACX terms have eliminated competition and hurt self-published authors’ earnings.
The list looks at new releases only across four categories: hardcover fiction, hardcover nonfiction, trade paperback fiction, and children’s books.
Circana BookScan reports strong May 2024 print book sales that put 2024 sales on par with 2023 thus far.
What does it take to place a book on shelves nationwide? A panel at the US Book Show offered insights.
Experts discuss the evolving issue of what constitutes ethical use of AI in writing and publishing processes.
Hafsah Faizal is the number-one New York Times and international bestselling, award-winning author of We Hunt the Flame.
Kait Feldmann has joined KT Literary as an agent. Previously she worked at Scholastic and HarperCollins.
The imprint is described as “commercial, voice-driven fiction with a focus on fantasy, speculative fiction, romance and genre-adjacent fiction.”
Disney will designate three to four children’s books annually as Disney Planet Possible titles.
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The National Music Publishers’ Association has filed an FTC complaint against Spotify over a recent move to bundle music and audiobooks.
Self-publishing authors were shocked to find that B&N had removed some, and sometimes all, of their print editions for sale through BN.com.
For years, conservatives (among others) have complained that the New York Times list is biased against them.
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.
The ABA now has 2,433 members, which is 200 more than the previous year and double the number of 2016.
Webtoon’s filing to become a publicly traded company reveals some interesting stats about their platform.
According to the Audio Publishers Association, revenue increased 9 percent in 2023 for the 27 publishers surveyed.
An expert on the history of romance writing over the last 40 years discusses how and why the RWA no longer serves as the central pillar for the writing community.
While some encourage using AI to boost efficiency, concerns remain over how AI is trained and its effect on creative professions.
Doctorow added nuance and case studies to his discussion of copyright law and the creative class.
Headline Press is a nonfiction imprint with a focus on politics, current affairs, history, personal development, popular science, and memoir.
Harper Influence is a new, general nonfiction imprint that will begin releasing titles this fall.
Business writing expert Josh Bernoff, along with several sponsors, are fielding a comprehensive survey of business authors.
Alex Brown represents adult, YA, and children’s fiction authors. She is a Locus Award finalist who used to work on the CW show Supernatural.
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Some authors have expressed anger and frustration that what they consider private information is now being made public by Amazon.
Both editors were high-profile hires and fairly new to the Big Five publisher.
OpenAI announced their new generative AI model that can accept (as prompts) and generate multiple types of media, all from one interface.
Three of the Big Five publishers are adding contract language that prohibits the publisher from training AI models on the contracted work.
In April 2024, print book sales declined by 4 percent versus 2023, according to Circana BookScan.
In a word: romance. Stories are highly dramatic, romantic, sexually explicit and frequently feature werewolves, aliens, and cryptids.
The genre that’s home to Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros holds continued growth opportunity for all kinds of publishers and authors.
Emily P. Freeman is the host of the Next Right Thing podcast, and the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of six books.
Lori Steel has founded SteelWorks Literary; she was previously at Red Fox Literary.
Emma Fulenwider has joined as literary agent with a focus on adult nonfiction books in the general and Christian markets.
The Firebrand Group (which runs Firebrand Technologies, NetGalley, and Supadu) will host the three-day event in Nashville this September.
Shimmr is an automated book advertising service based in the UK; Pix is a chatbot that offers book recommendations.
Spotify’s new audiobook subscription service already includes all of the Big Five publishers.
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Recently, the FTC in the United States announced a rule banning non-competes nationwide, making noncompetes no longer enforceable.
Kindle Vella is Amazon’s serialization platform where readers must pay to keep reading new installments.
PRH has made an internal generative AI tool available to its employees as an alternative to the public version of ChatGPT.