IMLS Opens to FY26 Grant Applications
After almost a year in existential limbo, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has opened its discretionary grant funding cycle for fiscal year 2026, allowing institutions to submit project proposals. more...Wiley Names Inaugural AI Chief
To accelerate its efforts to make more licensing deals with AI developers and other tech companies, Wiley has named Armughan Rafat to the newly created position of chief AI and data services officer. more...
Independent Publishers Caucus Launches Bestseller List with ABA
The Independent Press Top 40 is a new weekly bestseller list that ranks the most popular fiction and nonfiction titles from indie publishers, as sold by American Booksellers Association member stores. more...
Folio Literary Management Acquires Greenhouse Literary Agency
The deal, which Folio said reinforces its commitment to children’s and YA books, will see Greenhouse’s list and team join the agency’s children’s division, Folio Jr., with director Chelsea Eberly taking the role of VP and agent. more...and more.
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Publisher NewsFighting Book Bans, Coast to Coast
Legal teams fan out to the north, south, east, and west for the freedom to read.
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Bookselling
This Week’s Bestsellers: January 19, 2026
Reese’s Book Club fave Laura Dave lands at #2 on our hardcover fiction list with The First Time I Saw Him. Plus Ben Markovits’s Booker-shortlisted The Rest of Our Lives gets B&N’s imprimatur, and Rosie Grant collects recipes To Die For.
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Publisher News
How ‘This Book Made Me Think of You’ by Libby Page Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the bestselling author’s latest novel
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Book Deals
Book Deals: Week of January 19, 2026
Viking lands New York Times reporter Ruth Graham’s exploration of young men’s growing interest in Christianity, Tiny Reparations takes Phoebe Robinson’s latest collection of comedic essays, and more.
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Bookselling
Twin Cities Bookstores Contend With ICE
As ICE agents descend on their cities, several Minneapolis and St. Paul booksellers are reporting decreased foot traffic and sales at their stores amid an atmosphere of fear—and defiance.
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Publisher News
One World, Little Free Library Partner on Book-Sharing Boxes
In honor of the new One World Essentials series, which features 12 of the Random House imprint’s foundational backlist titles, a dozen boxes will be placed in communities with “meaningful ties” to each Essentials book.
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Page to Screen
Rachel Reid’s ‘Heated Rivalry’ Feels the Love
Sales of the gay ice-hockey romance have shot up nearly 1,000% between the weeks ended November 29, 2025—when the TV adaptation of the novel premiered on HBO—and January 10, 2026, according to Circana BookScan.
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Libraries
Ingram Teams with Backstage to Improve Library Service
In the hopes of speeding up its processing of shelf-ready library materials, Ingram Library Services is partnering with Backstage Library Works, a cataloging and metadata provider with facilities in Utah and Pennsylvania.
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Publisher News
Scrappy Do: PW Talks with Asterism’s Joshua Rothes
After seeing exponential growth over the past five years, the founder and co-owner of the Seattle-based distributor and online bookstore wants to try something new.
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Publisher News
Publishers Seek to Join Class Action Against Google
Two members of the Association of American Publishers, Cengage and Hachette Book Group, have asked a court to allow them to join an ongoing class action lawsuit first brought over Google’s AI product Gemini by illustrators and authors in 2023.
