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Authors Guild Reaches Agreement with Troubled TouchPoint Press
After hearing from dozens of authors about the poor business practices of TouchPoint Press, the Authors Guild has reached an agreement with founder Sheri Williams to pay authors overdue royalties, revert rights back to any author who has not yet received them, and close the press.
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The Freedom to Read Issue: All Our Coverage
We dig into the scope and scale of the historic wave of censorship attempts occurring today in the United States and talk with those who are doing the vital work of fighting back. Welcome to our Freedom to Read issue.
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Freedom to Read Advocates Look to Expand Efforts Beyond the Courtroom
As a key lawsuit in Llano County is set to be heard by the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, freedom to read advocates consider their next moves.
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Defending ‘Gender Queer’ from Book Bans
An inside look at how the team behind the most challenged book in America fought censorship and won.
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Algonquin Publisher Betsy Gleick, Other Staff Laid Off in HBG's Workman Reorg
The layoffs of Gleick, associate publisher Michael McKenzie, and "other staff" constitute what Little, Brown president and publisher Sally Kim called "the final part of the Workman reorganization." The Algonquin imprint was moved into Little, Brown in July.
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Oxford University Press Lays Off Two Teams
OUP has laid off its U.S./North America design team and U.S. content transformation and standards team, per a release from OUP USA Guild, which added that the layoffs included 13 members of its bargaining unit.
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Laurence King Partners with Met Museum on Games, Gifts
Laurence King Publishing and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have inked a brand partnership to publish a number of games and gifts, inspired by the Met's collection, over the next three years. The collaborative line will launch next month.
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Big Publishers Saw Earnings Rebound in the First Half of 2024
Cost cuts and higher sales led to rises in profits at HarperCollins, Lagardère Publishing, and Penguin Random House in the first half of this year.
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How ‘Slaveroad’ by John Edgar Wideman Got Made
An inside look at the PEN/Faulkner award–winning author’s latest book.
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HarperCollins Moves Harper Wave to Morrow Group; Diana Baroni to Lead Harvest, Wave
On October 7, Baroni will move from Harmony Books and Rodale Books at Penguin Random House to lead Harvest and Harper Wave, both now housed under the Morrow Group, as SVP and publisher.
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Page Street Makes First Foray into Adult Fiction with Horror Line
A new line of horror titles from the Salem, Mass.–based Page Street Publishing, set to launch in spring 2025 under the stewardship of editor Alexandra Murphy, will mark the publisher's first adult fiction program.
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Appeals Court Upholds Decision Against Internet Archive’s Book Scanning Program
The decision leaves only the Supreme Court left for the Internet Archive, suggesting the case may finally be winding down after years of contentious legal wrangling.
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Sean Manning Promoted to Publisher of Simon & Schuster Imprint
Manning joined S&S's flagship imprint in 2016 and was named VP and executive editor in 2022. He succeeds S&S CEO Jonathan Karp, who has held down the role since the 2022 departure of Dana Canedy.
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Two Decades After Shaking Up Hollywood, the Black List Sets Its Sights on Fiction
Franklin Leonard's unproduced screenplay platform is ready to shake up the slush pile, expanding eligibility to unpublished novel manuscripts as part of a new program led by Randy Winston, formerly of the Center for Fiction.
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Hanif Abdurraqib Joins University of Texas Press as Series Editor
The author, most recently, of 'There's Always This Year,' will join UT Press as editor of its American Music Series, of which his 2021 book on A Tribe Called Quest, 'Go Ahead in the Rain,' was a part.
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Sara Domville's Salty Days Debuts with 'Our American Dream Cookbook'
The inaugural title from Salty Days Media, a new partnership-driven publishing company from America's Test Kitchen vet Sara Domville, is slated for October 1. 'Our American Dream Cookbook' is a collaboration with Samuel Adams’ philanthropic program Brewing the American Dream.
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How ‘Taylor Swift (Spotlight on a Legend)’ Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the new Taylor Swift book from Hearst Home.
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Major Publishers, Authors Guild Sue Over New Florida Book Banning Law
The August 29 complaint over H.B. 1069 argues that the statute is vague and overbroad, and that it has led to the improper removal of hundreds of books from school and classroom libraries in the state.
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Two Shores Press Will Highlight South Asian Literature
Following his graduation from NYU’s Center for Publishing, Writing, and Media program this spring, Aananth Daksnamurthy turned his thesis on getting more worldwide attention for South Asian literature into a new small publisher.
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46 Years an Editor: PW Talks with Ann Regan
Ann Regan is retiring as editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Historical Society Press after 46 years with the press. We spoke with Regan about her long career, how publishing has and has not changed since 1978, and more.
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