PRH Buys U.K.-Based Wonderbly
The Penguin Random House acquisition machine continues to roll on, with the world’s largest trade publishing announcing it has bought one of the U.K.’s fastest-growing independent publishers, Wonderbly, which has used a direct-to-consumer business model to sell more than 11 million books in 140 countries. more...Revenue Shortfall Prompts the New Press to Cut Staff, Launch Fundraiser
Confronted by a one-two punch of soft sales and declines in funding, the New Press has implemented austerity measures that include downsizing the press by about nine positions and starting a new fundraising campaign. more...
U.S. Book Show 2025: AI Looms Large Across Publishing Sectors
From copyright and marketing to audiobooks and literary translation, the incursion of artificial intelligence was a hot topic among industry leaders at this year’s U.S. Book Show, held at the New York Academy of Medicine on June 3. more...
Audiobook Sales Rose 13% in 2024, to $2.2 Billion
The Audio Publishers Association’s annual report of sales of the format found that consumer interest in audiobooks remains strong, though an increase in piracy is cause for concern. more...and more.
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BooksellingThis Week’s Bestsellers: June 16, 2025
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere sits atop our hardcover fiction list. Plus Molly Jong-Fast’s staggering new memoir explains How to Lose Your Mother, and our children’s fiction list welcomes several new YA releases.
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Libraries
BookBreak Offers Authors on Demand
Via a subscription model, BookBreak brings livestreamed interview-style talks by top authors to K–12 schools.
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Libraries
In the Field: Teachers Fuel Advocacy, Activism
We spoke with Erin Ruggiero and Melissa Costantino-Poruben, classroom teachers and active players in the Pennsylvania State Education Association, about their pathways to activism and why they believe it’s important.
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Comics
Drawing Up Community for Comics in Libraries
Comics librarians partner with nonprofits and retailers to support patrons and artists in this challenging era.
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Shows & Events
ALA 2025: Program Picks
Presidents’ programs, unmissable panels, and essential through lines bind the education sessions at the American Library Associations’s 2025 Annual Convention
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Shows & Events
ALA 2025: Librarians Converge on the Cradle of Liberty
Not far from the Liberty Bell, librarians prepare to assemble for ALA’s Annual Conference, which will bring upward of 10,000 library professionals to the Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center June 26–July 1.
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Book Deals
Book Deals: Week of June 16, 2025
The author of We Have Never Been Woke brings a follow-up to Princeton University Press, a Black chef cooks up a book on Chinese American cuisine for AUWA, and more in this week’s book deals.
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Libraries
Carla Hayden to Speak at 2025 ALA Conference
The former Librarian of Congress will be in conversation with author Kwame Alexander at this year’s American Library Association conference, held June 26–30 in Philadelphia.
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PW Picks
Celebrating the Later Work of Edmund White
The late author’s long and prolific career was capped by a remarkable late-career run of four excellent books in the past five years.
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Awards & Prizes
Young Lions Fiction Award Celebrates 25 Years
The annual award, founded in 2001 and presented by the New York Public Library’s Young Lions, a membership organization for library supporters in their 20s and 30s, celebrates works of fiction by authors ages 35 and younger. At a ceremony last night at the NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, this year’s prize went to Alexander Sammartino’s Last Acts.
