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Fast-Growing Independent Publishers, 2022
Microcosm Publishing, of Portland, Ore., makes its debut on our list of fast-growing independent publishers, landing with a bang at #1: net revenue spiked 106% in 2021 over 2020 and was up 207% over 2019.
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From the Archive: April 27, 1970
Fifty-two years ago, the American Book Publishers Council and the American Educational Publishers Institute finalized plans for the merger that created the Association of American Publishers.
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Authors Guild Launches a Banned Book Club
In response to the surge in book-banning efforts across the country, the Authors Guild has teamed with the book club app Fable to launch the virtual monthly Banned Books Club.
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Macmillan Learning Lands Funding for New Equity Research
Macmillan Learning has announced receipt of a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to research and test how digital courseware can help close equity gaps in course completion for underserved students.
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Letter from the Editor: ‘Publishers Weekly’ Turns 150
Editorial director Jim Milliot introduces the 150th anniversary issue of ‘Publishers Weekly.’
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Midsize Publishing Takes a Mix of Whimsy, Risk, Luck, and Vision
Jack Jensen of Chronicle Books reflects on how midsize publishers must navigate the current trade publishing landscape not just to survive, but to thrive.
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The Years and Their Books: A Century of Bestsellers
Occasionally, bestselling books show a remarkable connection to current events. Here's a sampling of some of the most fascinating juxtapositions between title and time since ‘PW’ started tracking bestsellers.
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‘Publishers Weekly’ at 150: Anatomy of a Magazine, 1872-2022
How ‘The Publishers’ and Stationers’ Weekly Trade Circular’ became ‘Publishers Weekly’—one section at a time, a quarter century at a time.
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Publishing's Big Five Today (But Do Stay Tuned)
A steady flurry of mergers and acquisitions has dominated the book publishing sector since the 1990s, although for the moment, the next big M&A move—PRH purchasing S&S—is on pause.
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Over the Past 25 Years, the Big Publishers Got Bigger—and Fewer
Consolidation in the book business, despite challenges, has continued unabated over the past quarter of a century.
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Our 125th Anniversary Class: The Book Business Change Makers of Yore
Remembering the roster of people who were deemed to have “shaped publishing” during the first 125 years of our magazine's existence.
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The Recent Change Makers at ‘Publishers Weekly’
Honoring a handful of ‘PW’ stalwarts who became significant forces in the industry they served.
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They Made a Difference: 25 Book Business Change Makers
Turning the spotlight onto 25 seriously consequential individuals whose mark on the industry as we know it today is indelible.
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Letter from the Editor: ‘PW’ Is 150, and It's a Long Story
Michael Coffey, editor-in-chief of our 150th anniversary issue, introduces the many, many pages you're about to read.
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‘Mistah Perkins’ Revisited: Gerald Howard Looks Back at a Seminal Essay
Consolidation in 1989, and consolidation in 2022, is not as bad as one man once thought, the recently-retired publishing veteran writes.
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What’s Left in Publishing These Days?
Diane Wachtell, executive director of prominent progressive publisher the New Press, reflects on how the press carved out a place for itself in publishing.
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How Free Is Free Expression?
For 150 years, publishing has been the site where this question is vigorously debated, writes ‘PW’ veteran Gayle Feldman.
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Diversity in the House: The State of Diversity in Publishing
Four voices on the challenge of making publishing less white and more representative of the world at large.
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Black Lives Matter Spurs a Publishing Awakening
David Unger, director of the Publishing Certificate Program at the City College of New York, highlights how Black Lives Matter woke up the publishing industry.
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Black Publishing in High Cotton
Tracy Sherrod, the former v-p and editorial director of Amistad, on Black books, discourse, commerce, and the American racial reckoning.
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