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At PoP, Publishing’s Finance Minds Share How Strategy Drives Acquisitions
The inaugural People of Publishing conference, hosted by the Association of American Literary Agents at the New York Academy of Medicine on September 17, convened a panel of financial decision-makers to unpack the calculations behind every book deal.
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PublisHer Brings Together Women Entrepeneurs
At a September 15 panel at NYU, Madeline McIntosh of Authors Equity, Dominique Raccah of Sourcebooks, and Chantal Restivo-Alessi of HarperCollins recounted how they forged paths to leadership in the book business.
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Brooklyn Book Festival Celebrates 20 Years
BKBF, scheduled to run this year from September 14-22, has expanded its literary programming far beyond its namesake borough in the last two decades.
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National Book Festival Crowds Out Troubling Times
The Library of Congress’s 25th annual event on Saturday enlightened and entertained tens of thousands of book lovers, perhaps distracting momentarily from the political pressures facing the world’s largest library.
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LOC Cues Up the 25th National Book Festival
In a tumultuous year for the nation and federal agencies, the Library of Congress is getting ready to host its 25th annual National Book Festival, taking place in Washington, D.C., on September 6.
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Fall Regionals 2025: Programming Highlights for Booksellers
The programming at this year’s fall regional bookselling association conferences offers something for everybody.
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Fall Regionals 2025: Welcome to Bookselling Season
This fall’s regional bookselling conferences emphasize education and community-building.
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Record-Setting NVNR Kicks Off Fall Regional Book Shows
NAIBA and SIBA’s New Voices New Rooms inaugurated the fall bookselling trade show season this week, bringing more than 300 booksellers across the two regional associations to Atlanta.
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SDCC 2025: Comics Reclaim the Spotlight in Hollywood’s Absence
At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, held July 23–27, comics took back their top spot in the Con’s pecking order thanks in part to fewer movie stars visiting Hall H.
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20 Years In, ThrillerFest Mixes Escapism with Engagement
International Thriller Writers wrapped up its 20th ThrillerFest in New York on June 21 with their annual Thriller Awards ceremony. After the show, ITW’s cofounders spoke with PW about two decades of thrills and chills.
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Can San Diego Comic-Con 2025 Escape Uncertain Times?
In a tumultuous world, Comic-Con still offers some escape. But in 2025, even the ultimate pop culture festival is going ahead under the shadow of economic uncertainty, immigration crackdowns, and tariffs.
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Who We Really Are Inside: PW Talks with Chip Kidd
The VP and art director at Knopf and three-time Eisner Award winner puckishly breaks the fourth wall with his second graphic novel, The Avengers in the Veracity Trap! (Abrams ComicArts, Aug.), illustrated by Michael Cho.
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BookCon Will Return in 2026
Five years after its discontinuation, BookCon has been revived by event organizer ReedPop. The consumer-facing show is set to return next April to its old home at New York City’s Javits Center.
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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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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 26–30.
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The First ‘TCAF on Ice’ Was a Beauty
The 2025 Toronto Comic Arts Festival mounted its biggest weekend since before the pandemic, overcoming logistical and geopolitical uncertainty to draw an estimated 28,000 attendees June 6–8 to the former home of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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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.
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Bay Area Book Festival Draws Book Lovers to Berkeley
The 11th annual Bay Area Book Festival took place May 31–June 1 in downtown Berkeley, Calif., and featured 275 speakers and 120 exhibitors.
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IBPA’s PubU 2025 Confronts Challenges Facing Industry
Over the weekend, the 325 attendees of the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Publishing University conference in St. Paul, Minn., discussed how to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing industry impacted by the current political climate and recent technological advances.
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BISG Wants to Revolutionize the Book Business Supply Chain
Creating an industrywide system that can make better use of digital communications while preparing publishing for the challenges and opportunities of AI will require new approaches and renewed commitments, speakers at BISG's annual meeting stressed.