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MoCCA 2024 Makes a Splash
This year's MoCCA Arts Fest, an annual indie comics and graphic novel festival held March 16-17, drew large and enthusiastic crowds to New York City's Metropolitan Pavilion.
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'PW' Partners with AALA on 2024 U.S. Book Show
'Publishers Weekly' and the Association of American Literary Agents will copresent the 2024 U.S. Book Show, a one-day in-person educational conference for agents, editors, marketers, and book publishing professionals, at NYU's Kimmel Center in New York City on May 22.
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Asian American Book Club Launches with Lunar New Year Party
The organization held its soft launch party last night in Brooklyn, N.Y., which event coproduced by Hachette Book Group and Kundiman and featured six authors, including Curtis Chin and Kat Chow.
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Winter Institute 2024: Doris Kearns Goodwin Turns the Lens of History on Herself
During Winter Institute's closing keynote in Cincinnati, author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin praised indie booksellers and discussed her deeply personal new book, 'An Unfinished Love Story.'
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Michele Norris Explores Race and Identity In a New Book on the Race Card Project
The journalist spoke to the 951 booksellers attending Winter Institute about the Race Card Project, which she launched 14 years ago, and how it has evolved into a much-needed dialogue about both race and identity in the U.S.—and a new book, 'Our Hidden Conversations.'
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PubWest Highlights Nontraditional Retail Success, Addresses A.I.
At this year's PubWest Conference, several publishing professionals noted ways they have found to amplify sales by partnering with more nontraditional book retailers, while for others, discussions of A.I. and the future of the industry remained front and center.
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Winter Institute 2024: Booksellers Discuss Building Indie Brands and Bridges
The first day of the ABA's annual conference tackled topics including the basics of bookselling, marketing and media strategies for booksellers in the digital age, and how publishers can make booksellers' lives easier.
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Winter Institute 2024: Keynote Speakers Share Business World Wisdom
Private equity investor James Rhee, author of 'Red Helicopter,' suggested ways to amplify a bookstore or brand’s intangible qualities, and conflict resolution specialist William Ury, author of 'Possible,' advised booksellers on how to deal with people's differences "constructively."
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Winter Institute 2024: Hanif Abdurraqib Celebrates Indie Presses at IPC Summit
During his keynote presentation at the Indie Press Summit at Winter Institute 2024 in Cincinnati, Hanif Abdurraqib critiqued the consolidation of the big houses and emphasized the importance of indie presses in the book publishing ecosystem.
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WAWOG Protestors Disrupt PEN America Event with Mayim Bialik
Protesters from Writers Against the War on Gaza disrupted a PEN America event featuring actor and outspoken Israel supporter Mayim Bialik in Los Angeles on January 31. One protestor, author Randa Jarrar, was physically removed from the scene.
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Winter Institute 2024: Cincinnati Caters to Readers
Bricks-and-mortar bookshops anchor neighborhoods, while a book bus and pop-ups take their shelves on the road.
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The American Booksellers Association's Winter Institute 2024: All Our Coverage
Booksellers and authors prepare to gather in Ohio’s Queen City for the 2024 ABA Winter Institute.
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Publishers Weekly’s 2024 Book Business Events Calendar
Our 2024 Google calendar, updated throughout the year and to which readers can subscribe, keeps track of the dates of dozens of book business events of interest.
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2023 Shanghai Children's Book Fair in Photos
The fair celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, hosting 478 exhibitors from 25 countries and territories, including 127 from overseas, and 42,733 visitors—making CCBF the biggest event dedicated to kids' books and content in Asia.
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2023 Texas Book Festival Delights Literati
This year's Texas Book Festival ran on Veterans Day weekend, November 11 and 12, in Austin. The event was well attended, drawing tens of thousands of people for talks and panel discussions with more than 300 authors.
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Zibby Media Withdraws National Book Award Sponsorship over Potential for 'Hate Speech'
With several National Book Awards finalists planning to call for a ceasefire in Gaza at this year's ceremony, Zibby Media has withdrawn its sponsorship of the event over what CEO Zibby Owens called the "inappropriate conduct and collusion of its nominees."
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Texas Book Fest Expands Spanish-Language Programs
The Texas Book Festival, running November 11 and 12 in Austin, will feature more Spanish-language programming, including a dozen Spanish-language authors among the more than 300 authors participating.
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The Brooklyn Book Festival Enters a New Era
Following the departure of cofounder and coproducer Carolyn Greer, this year Liz Koch took the festival's helm solo, spearheading New York City's largest free literary celebration as it returned to its pre-pandemic size.
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Lit & Luz Is a Bilingual Celebration of Books
The annual literary festival bridges readers in the U.S. and Mexico.
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Bigger Trade Shows, More Nontraditional Booksellers
This year’s regional bookseller shows were upbeat and exciting gatherings, where both traditional and nontraditional booksellers networked, met authors, and discovered the hottest new releases.
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