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A deep dive with three traditional publishers who remain active in the coloring book market, each of them with a different approach.

Lakeside, a book manufacturer which spun out of RR Donnelly five years ago, already serves 250 small publishers who handle their own sales.

The venture promises to identify an unpublished novel that will receive a $25,000 contract from Blackstone—but there’s a price.

James Patterson and Bookshop.org are partnering on a $15,000 literary prize for debut books. Nominations open on January 5, 2026.

That would put Big Five publisher Macmillan in sixth place in terms of sales volume, but not dollars.

In 2024, UK’s Nielsen reports that the science fiction and fantasy category secured its biggest year since they began keeping records.

The partnership between the two companies is meant to take the guesswork and endless quoting out of special editions.

Pricing increases on books have masked an overall decline in the volume of sales in Europe—more than 5 percent from 2021 to 2024.

Rachel Swyer has launched the Swyer Agency in New York City, representing fiction and nonfiction.

The adult market accounted for 80 percent of the most recent quarter’s declines. Romance and thrillers are the categories hardest hit.

A coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund in the United States.

Year-to-date sales are so strong that the CEO says the company has moved from number four to become the number three publisher.

Baking cookbooks have seen 80 percent growth this year over last year, and Bible sales grew by 36 percent in the month of September.

According to Circana BookScan, print book sales are down about 1 percent versus last year due to declining sales in adult fiction.