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In Focus: Immigration in Book Publishing
Publishers discuss immigration and the role of book publishing in understanding the American experience.
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It's Official: Book Publishing Sales Held at $25 Billion in 2020
The Association of American Publishers released its final report on 2020 industry sales today and the figures show another flat year, with sales down 0.2% compared to 2019, slipping to $25.71 billion.
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New and Forthcoming Immigration-Focused Titles
We've compiled a list of new and forthcoming adult and children’s titles on the issues surrounding immigration and its impact on the American experience.
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Melinda French Gates Launches Imprint with Flatiron
Melinda French Gates will launch Moment of Lift Books, a new nonfiction imprint, at Flatiron Books. The imprint's first three titles are due in 2023.
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The Asian American Writers Workshop Turns 30
The Asian American Writers Workshop is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a series of signature digital events and a three-month fundraising campaign.
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The Expanse Saga Takes Its Final Space Flight
The bestselling, Hugo Award–winning science fiction series, which has reimagined the space opera and spawned an acclaimed television series, will wrap up this November with 'Leviathan Falls.'
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Where Have All the Midsize Book Publishers Gone?
The ever-consolidating U.S. trade publishing market is increasingly characterized by five dominant publishers, scores of small presses, and few midsize players.
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PRH Offers No Minimum, Two-Day Shipping for Indie Bookstores
Penguin Random House is offering enhanced two-day shipping for independent booksellers starting October 1 and running through March 1, 2022. The company is waiving the minimum-retail-value requirement for orders.
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Grupo Planeta Is Relaunching U.S. Publishing Division
Planeta, the largest Spanish-language publisher in the world, is relaunching its publishing program in the U.S. The new division will be based in Miami and led by Cristóbal Pera, formerly editorial director of Vintage Español.
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Educational Publishers Win Another Injunction Against Pirate Sites
The injunction is the fourth successful action in two years for the group, known as the Educational Publishers Enforcement Group, which consists of Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Pearson.
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CAA to Acquire ICM Partners
In a deal that will see two of Hollywood's most powerful talent agencies come together, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has agreed to purchase ICM Partners.
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Simon & Schuster Takes a New Recruiting Program Online
Simon & Schuster's Publishing Prologue program, which launched this summer, is aimed at reaching and recruiting young people interested in publishing.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard's 'The Morning Star' Reaches the U.S.
The My Struggle series author's first full novel since 2004’s 'A Time for Everything' has hit American shelves—and Knausgaard, his translator, and his publisher are all hoping it'll make a splash.
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Print Book Sales Fell 3.6% Last Week
Unit sales of print books fell 3.6% last week compared to 2020. The pattern was a familiar one—higher fiction sales offset by declines in nonfiction.
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HBG Delays Office Return Until 2022
Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch told employees yesterday that employees will not be required to return to its offices until 2022. No official return date has been chosen.
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Zando Taps First 'Publishing Partners'
'Gone Girl' author Gillian Flynn and screenwriter/producer Lena Waithe have agreed to work on their own imprints for former Crown publisher Molly Stern's new Zando publishing house.
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Dohle Promises Competitive Bidding Between PRH, S&S
In a Zoom chat with agents, Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle said that, following the approval of PRH's purchase of Simon & Schuster, editors at the two houses will be able to bid for the same book—even if they are the only publishers interested in the title.
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Chuck Palahniuk to Serialize a Novel on Substack
The 'Fight Club' author will serialize a new novel, 'Greener Pastures,' in addition to short-form content exclusive to his newsletter, via the platform.
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Publishers, Amazon Ask Court to Dismiss ‘Illogical’ E-book Price-Fixing Suit
In separate filings, lawyers for Amazon and the Big Five publishers insist that there is no evidence of any coordination or agreement to fix prices, and, more to the point, that the alleged conspiracy itself—in which the five largest American trade publishers are alleged to have banded together to give Amazon monopoly power—simply makes no sense.
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Will ‘The Quiet Tenant’ Make a Loud Noise?
Though Knopf is renowned for publishing literary fiction, the publisher has a long tradition of publishing commercial fiction and crime novels—and the publisher believes it has another bestseller in a recently acquired novel about a serial killer, the English-language debut of journalist Clémence Michallon.
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