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Canadian Publishing 2024: Can Canada's Bookselling Bellwether Weather the Storm?
Publishers in Canada hope changes at Indigo will revitalize the Canadian market.
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How ‘The Mighty Red’ by Louise Erdrich Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the Pulitzer winner’s latest novel.
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Washington State University Press Will Stay Open
The press had been slated for closure after officials voted to eliminate its annual funding, but WSU’s provost and interim dean of libraries opted to reverse course.
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IPG Spotlights Spanish-Language Books for Booksellers
IPG will showcase Spanish-language books in a virtual presentation targeting buyers and booksellers, covering best practices for selling Spanish-language titles. The event will also feature IPG-distributed Spanish-language publishers' top frontlist picks for spring 2025.
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PEN America Finds New State Laws Are Supercharging School Book Bans
In the 2023-2024 school year, state legislation was "particularly critical in accelerating book bans," the report states, "making it easier to remove books from schools without due process, or in some cases, without any formal process whatsoever.”
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Over 30 Years, 40% of Publishing Jobs Disappeared. What Happened?
Government data indicates that, in 1997, there were 91,100 traditional publishing jobs in the United States. As of last year, there were 54,822. Have those jobs moved to new parts of the industry—or vanished altogether?
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How ‘The Great When’ by Alan Moore Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the acclaimed author’s latest book and series starter.
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Academic Publishers Hit with Antitrust Suit over Peer Review
The suit accuses six major publishers of establishing a cartel through its international trade association, STM, and using the peer review process to "unlawfully divert billions of taxpayer dollars every year from science to the Publisher Defendants.”
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Authors Guild Reaches Agreement with Troubled TouchPoint Press
After hearing from dozens of authors about the poor business practices of TouchPoint Press, the Authors Guild has reached an agreement with founder Sheri Williams to pay authors overdue royalties, revert rights back to any author who has not yet received them, and close the press.
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The 2024 Freedom to Read Issue
We dig into the scope and scale of the historic wave of censorship attempts occurring today in the United States and talk with those who are doing the vital work of fighting back. Welcome to our Freedom to Read issue.
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Freedom to Read Advocates Look to Expand Efforts Beyond the Courtroom
As a key lawsuit in Llano County is set to be heard by the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, freedom to read advocates consider their next moves.
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Defending ‘Gender Queer’ from Book Bans
An inside look at how the team behind the most challenged book in America fought censorship and won.
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Algonquin Publisher Betsy Gleick, Other Staff Laid Off in HBG's Workman Reorg
The layoffs of Gleick, associate publisher Michael McKenzie, and "other staff" constitute what Little, Brown president and publisher Sally Kim called "the final part of the Workman reorganization." The Algonquin imprint was moved into Little, Brown in July.
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Oxford University Press Lays Off Two Teams
OUP has laid off its U.S./North America design team and U.S. content transformation and standards team, per a release from OUP USA Guild, which added that the layoffs included 13 members of its bargaining unit.
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Laurence King Partners with Met Museum on Games, Gifts
Laurence King Publishing and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have inked a brand partnership to publish a number of games and gifts, inspired by the Met's collection, over the next three years. The collaborative line will launch next month.
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Big Publishers Saw Earnings Rebound in the First Half of 2024
Cost cuts and higher sales led to rises in profits at HarperCollins, Lagardère Publishing, and Penguin Random House in the first half of this year.
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How ‘Slaveroad’ by John Edgar Wideman Got Made
An inside look at the PEN/Faulkner award–winning author’s latest book.
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HarperCollins Moves Harper Wave to Morrow Group; Diana Baroni to Lead Harvest, Wave
On October 7, Baroni will move from Harmony Books and Rodale Books at Penguin Random House to lead Harvest and Harper Wave, both now housed under the Morrow Group, as SVP and publisher.
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Page Street Makes First Foray into Adult Fiction with Horror Line
A new line of horror titles from the Salem, Mass.–based Page Street Publishing, set to launch in spring 2025 under the stewardship of editor Alexandra Murphy, will mark the publisher's first adult fiction program.
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Appeals Court Upholds Decision Against Internet Archive’s Book Scanning Program
The decision leaves only the Supreme Court left for the Internet Archive, suggesting the case may finally be winding down after years of contentious legal wrangling.
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