New UK agent at Madeleine Milburn Agency
Callen Martin has joined the agency and will represent children’s and YA science fiction and fantasy fiction.
Callen Martin has joined the agency and will represent children’s and YA science fiction and fantasy fiction.
The winner receives a book deal with Hachette UK with a £30,000 advance and £20,000 towards the marketing of the finished book.
In a break from industry norms, an appeals court ruling that says authors and artists can recapture their rights globally upon reversion.
There’s a twist: the author says sales of his books on Amazon have gone up as a result of the unauthorized YouTube recordings.
It’s based on the fiction and nonfiction that’s selling at independent bookstores and includes only small and independent publishers.
According to Circana BookScan, overall print unit sales were up just barely, 0.3 percent, in 2025 versus the prior year.
Like in the US, adult fiction was strong while nonfiction declined and showed its lowest performance since 2018.
Policies that prohibit AI use are easy enough to create, but they are not necessarily easy to enforce.
Author Justina Ireland has joined as an agent, seeking both adult and children’s fiction. She is currently closed to queries.
Marble Press has acquired CamCat Books from B&T; their catalog includes more than 100 adult and YA titles across multiple categories.
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Previously a scout and book-to-film agent, Phoebe Schmidt is primarily interested in upmarket science fiction and fantasy.
Charlie Serabian represents genre fiction and select nonfiction; Jess Taylor represents primarily YA and new adult.
Storm Literary Agency founder Essie White has launched a new agency representing authors and illustrators.
Bond Literary Agency and Copps Literary Services have merged to form Confluence Literary Agency.
The tool, by software company Trilogy, helps agents and publishers evaluate unsolicited manuscripts—but are any likely to admit to using it?
Deals for adult fiction saw 9.3 percent growth, nonfiction deals were down 1.6 percent versus 2024, and children’s deals were flat.
We looked at an app which claims to retell popular books via brief animated chapters, and the results range from absurd to possibly infringing.
These are the news stories and topics I’ll be following closely this year, from growth in AI translation to ad-supported Substack and more.
The Guild argues that interactive chatbots represent a new format for books, with rights that must be negotiated and paid for.
For 2026, works from the year 1930 enter the public domain, including the first four Nancy Drew novels, The Maltese Falcon, and many more.
Human translators will still be involved but only to edit the machine output in French.
Of the year’s top 10 bestselling print nonfiction titles, only one was published in 2025; everything else was a backlist title.
Each issue of this newsletter contains dozens of links. Here’s what caught readers’ interest in 2025, in order of popularity.
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The deal is set to close in January 2026. The new owners include Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX.
These policies ultimately invite writers to lie about using LLMs if they believe their own use can’t be detected.
Timing for an IPO would likely be summer 2026 or later, after parent company Elliott Investment’s fiscal year ends in April.
In 2026 the publishing business will be moved into WEBTOON Entertainment. The entertainment business will be moved into WEBTOON Productions.
Nonfiction sales will likely continue to decline in the years ahead due to competing sources of information and entertainment.
Bill Ames was previously an acquiring editor at Triumph Books, where he focused on sports publishing.
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The new bestseller discusses how to bring your climate or energy startup to life, using the authors’ 24-step framework.
Customers can ask questions about the Kindle book they’re reading and receive AI-generated answers—and authors & publishers can’t opt out.
Some authors are now choosing to apply DRM to their titles moving forward, as they don’t want their books downloaded as PDFs.
The companies have struck a three-year licensing agreement that allows users to create AI videos using more than 200 licensed characters.
Poetry Corp is an informal collective of five New York–based small presses.
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As of Feb. 1, 2026, IngramSpark is increasing their pricing in two different ways: distribution fees and production costs.
The lawsuits accuse Perplexity of retrieving information in real time from paywalled sites without licensing.
For the first time, the personalized data story that recaps a user’s listening habits throughout the year includes audiobooks.
YouTube is the second-biggest search engine, and I spoke with three savvy authors for whom it’s a key driver of readership growth and revenue.
The headline finding is that personal recommendation is the top source of book discovery, surpassing social media and platforms like Amazon.
The Dublin-based publisher will focus on current affairs and business titles with a global focus.
PRH is collaborating with Netflix, which streams KPop Demon Hunters, to publish “fan-forward” titles about the show.
Brian King is seeking YA and adult fantasy and romantasy. He has years of experience writing and working for Barnes & Noble.