Print Book Sales Dipped 0.9% This Winter
Big sales numbers for Onyx Storm and Sunrise on the Reaping couldn’t offset the impact of last year's early Easter, resulting in a small decline in unit sales of print books in the first quarter of 2025 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. more...
Niko Pfund Named Director of Yale University Press
Pfund comes to Yale University Press from Oxford University Press, where he most recently served as global academic publisher and president of its U.S. division. He succeeds the retiring John Donatich, who has led Yale UP since 2003. more...
Publishers Ask Congress to Defend Libraries as Federal Library Grant Funding Ends
Four of the Big Five publishers and Sourcebooks sent a letter to Congress on April 3 expressing “deep concern” for the nation’s libraries following a week of unprecedented turmoil orchestrated by the Trump administration at the Institute of Museum and Library Services. more...Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Spring Brings Hope for Sustainability and Solidarity
The 62nd edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair opened to sunny skies on Monday, March 31. Many of the conversations among publishers and onstage in panels underscored the interconnectedness of children’s books and global politics. more...and more. Sign up here!
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LibrariesPublishers Ask Congress to Defend Libraries as Federal Library Grant Funding Ends
Four of the Big Five publishers and Sourcebooks sent a letter to Congress on April 3 expressing “deep concern” for the nation’s libraries following a week of unprecedented turmoil orchestrated by the Trump administration at the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Libraries
IMLS Staff Furloughed, Prompting Questions from ‘Disappointed’ Board
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on 90-day administrative leave on March 31. A letter sent to acting director Keith Sonderling three days later by the institute’s 19-member advisory board identified some big questions.
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Financial Reporting
Print Book Sales Dipped 0.9% This Winter
Big sales numbers for Onyx Storm and Sunrise on the Reaping couldn’t offset the impact of last year's early Easter, resulting in a small decline in unit sales of print books in the first quarter of 2025 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan.
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Book Deals
Crown to Publish True Crime Book Cowritten by Dwayne Johnson
The currently untitled book, by actor and professional wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and journalist Nick Bilton, will chronicle “the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of Hawaii’s most notorious crime syndicate.”
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Publisher News
Picador to Reissue More than 100 Novels by Georges Simenon
The paperback arm of Farrar, Straus and Giroux will reissue all 75 novels in Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret series, published between 1931 and 1972, as well as 30 of his standalone psychological novels.
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Awards & Prizes
AAP Announces 2025 Hawkins, PROSE Award Winners
Ieva Jusionyte’s Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border, published by University of California Press, took home the top prize at the Association of American Publishers’ 2025 PROSE Awards.
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Book Deals
One World Nets Three-Book Deal with Steph Curry
Chris Jackson, publisher and editor-in-chief at the Penguin Random House imprint, has picked up three books by Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry. The first, Shot Ready, hits shelves on September 9.
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Publisher News
NaNoWriMo Nonprofit Shutters
The nonprofit behind National Novel Writing Month, the annual novel-writing challenge launched in 1999, has announced that it will cease operations due to financial challenges.
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Religion
Laura Barker to Leave Penguin Random House Christian
A longtime leader at Waterbrook & Multnomah, Barker will leave the company effective April 15, with recently hired editorial director Madison Trammel taking oversight of adult fiction and nonfiction editorial at the division.
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Page to Screen
Ingram’s MediaScout Goes Live
MediaScout, which the Ingram Content Group introduced at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, is designed to facilitate book-to-screen adaptations for some 2.5 million titles.
