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03/02/2026
AAP Announces 2026 PROSE Award Winners
02/26/2026
Harper Influence Takes ‘Conversations with My Rabbi’
Spotify Launches Audiobook Charts in U.S., U.K.
02/25/2026
Coach Releases Bag-Charm Editions of Six PRH Titles
02/23/2026
PRH Launches New Acquisition Unit
Queer Liberation Network to Hold Bookish Auction
IMLS Promises Funding to HBCUs
Wondery’s Marshall Lewy Joins Audible
02/20/2026
HarperVia Snags Sakamoto Memoir
Collective Book Studio Transitions to S-Corp
Romania To Take Star Turn at Frankfurt in 2029
02/19/2026
PRH Inks Distribution Deal With Drawn & Quarterly
Poets & Writers Offers Grants For Literary Events
Barbara Kingsolver Returns to Harper With New Novel
02/18/2026
Matt Friberg Appointed Parallax Press Publisher
IMLS Relocates to Labor Department Building
02/17/2026
S&S Bets Big on H.M. Wolfe’s Crossover Romance
Verso Books Guild Secures Second Contract
02/13/2026
PEN America Officially Appoints Co-CEOs
Random House Takes Two More from George Saunders
Bible Study Guide Tops January BLK Bestsellers List
02/12/2026
Crown, Grand Central Snag Novels Revisiting Beloved Characters as Adults
02/11/2026
Tiffany Babb Launches the ‘Comics Staple’
02/10/2026
Angelou Heirs Join Utah Book Removal Suit
02/06/2026
Oregon State UP Director Tom Booth to Retire
Distribution Deals for the Week of February 2, 2026
02/05/2026
Libro.fm to Fundraise for Binc
Whiting Foundation Appoints First-Ever Resident Directors
Joy Gorman to Advise Rise Literary on Page-to-Screen
02/04/2026
Ingram Adding Printing to Oregon Facility
02/03/2026
Aya Elamroussi Named HBG Comms Director
Ukrainian Awards Proceed Amid Blackout
02/02/2026
Cara O’Neil to Head Up Marketing at Mad Cave
AALA Appoints First-Ever Executive Director
01/30/2026
Hanover Square Takes ‘Time Traveler’s Wife’ Sequel
TokyoPop Forays into Audiobooks
01/29/2026
Tyrrell Mahoney Elected AAP Chair
NYPL’s Schomburg Center Unveils ‘100 Black Voices’
Collective Book Studio Starts Children’s Imprint
ABA Relaunches Indie Booksellers Awards
01/28/2026
Judge Named in New Anthropic Suit, Settlement Deadline Pushed
Bloomsbury Opens Academic Office in Singapore
LBF to Move to Excel in 2027
House Reps Reintroduce Prison Libraries Act
akaStory Nets Three Romance Titles for Inaugural List
01/27/2026
IMLS Announces Grant Funding to ‘Combat Antisemitism’
Academy of American Poets Adds New Chancellors
NYPL Offers Instant Access to Game Changers Books
01/26/2026
Will Eisner Week to Return This March
Ingram, Pearson Back AI Licensing Company
01/23/2026
Cassandra Pelham Fulton Elevated to Graphix Associate Publisher
Folio Names Ex-PRH Exec to Lead Acquisitions
New Voices New Rooms 2026 Sets Date, Venue
Distribution Deals for the Week of January 19, 2026
01/22/2026
IMLS Opens Grant Programs for Native Libraries
Will Schwalbe Announces Retirement
We Need Diverse Books Announces ‘Unbanned’ Initiative
MoCCA Arts Festival Set for March
01/16/2026
Morrow Scores Kelce Brothers’ ‘No Dumb Questions’
ILP Secures $100 Million Bank Debt Financing
Distribution Deals for the Week of January 12, 2026
Kelley Ragland, Catherine Richards Up at Minotaur
01/15/2026
Laura Keefe to Join RHPG
IPA Opens Nominations for Prix Voltaire
Cardinal to Publish New Novel by Min Jin Lee
01/14/2026
Jamie Raab to Step Down at Macmillan
Klopotek Makes Two C-Suite Appointments
01/13/2026
Danny Yanez Takes the Helm at Franklin Siegal & Yanez
01/12/2026
Craig Petersen Named CEO of Lulu Press
Binc Adds New Board Members
Robert Casper Tapped to Lead Academy of American Poets
01/09/2026
Distribution Deals for the Week of January 5, 2026
RBmedia’s Audiobook Offerings Reach Milestone
01/07/2026
James Patterson Signs with UTA
Book Aid International Tallies 2025 Donations
Library Applicants Sought for Pulitzer Exhibition
01/05/2026
Kim Dayman to Head Up Little, Brown Backlist
Jeffrey Mathews to Head Scholastic Education
Crossed Hearts Launches Girls’ Love–Focused Imprint
Andrew Albanese Named Editor-in-Chief of ‘Publishing Perspectives’
New Judge to Preside Over Anthropic Copyright Suit

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