ABA Goes into Damage Control Mode After Contentious WI2025 Community Forum
The American Booksellers Association used a dedicated issue of its weekly Bookselling This Week newsletter to address a host of issues raised during a contentious community forum during Winter Institute last week. more...B&N Workers Ratify First Union Contracts at NYC Stores
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union announced that Barnes & Noble employees at three New York City locations have ratified their first union contracts. The agreements, which include wage increases and new safety provisions, cover more than 200 workers. more...
London Book Fair 2025: Rights Center Central
At this year’s London Book Fair, U.S. agents will feature works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jinwoo Chong, Laila Lalami, Patricia Lockwood, and Brandon Stanton, among others. more...The Book Business Prepares for Tariff Turmoil
New Trump Administration tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China have been delayed yet again, only adding to uncertainty among publishers and printers about what the levies could mean for their businesses. more...and more.
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PeopleJulia Sommerfeld Named Worldwide Publisher at Amazon Publishing
The head of Amazon Publishing's U.S. business has been put in charge of its worldwide publishing operation. Her goal: "to mint international best sellers across languages and formats."
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Religion
The Dalai Lama's Look-Ahead Memoir
In his new book, Voice for the Voiceless, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader details his lifetime of futile negotiations with China and predicts his reincarnation will be found someday in the free world.
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Bookselling
Book Club Picks for March 2025
Read with Jenna selects the latest novel by Laila Lalami, Barnes & Noble and Reese Witherspoon both highlight Clare Leslie Hall's U.S. debut, and more.
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Page to Screen
Martin Scorsese to Adapt Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Home’
The Academy Award–winning director is set to helm the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s 2008 novel as a feature film for Apple, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Apple also plans to develop the other three novels in Robinson's Gilead series, with Scorsese and Todd Field attached to write, direct, and produce.
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Libraries
Library Futures Investigates Content Bans in Research Databases
The nonprofit’s new report, Neo-Censorship in U.S. Libraries: An Investigation Into Digital Content Suppression, details the targeting of educational databases and the rise of legal challenges against libraries.
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Business Deals
Zando Acquires Tin House
The respected literary press, founded in 2002, will become an imprint of the expanding independent publisher Zando, which was launched by former Crown publisher Molly Stern in 2020.
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Bookselling
This Week’s Bestsellers: March 10, 2025
C.J. Box’s 25th Joe Pickett novel, Battle Mountain, gets its start this week at the peak of our hardcover fiction list, while Samantha Shannon looks into The Dark Mirror.
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Comics
Now Try This: 7 Titles Comics Retailers Love to Handsell
Booksellers share their favorite new graphic novels they’ve convinced picky fans to sample.
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Comics
Stronger Together: Retailers Turn to ComicsPRO
ComicsPRO president Joe Murray talks to PW about how the national organization provides resources for direct market specialty stores, as the industry faces disruption in distribution.
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Comics
If You Build It, Comic Book Fans Will Come
Comics shop owners shore up customer loyalty with events, clubs, and personalized service, helping small shops thrive in hard times.
