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When PW convened a roundtable discussion with several prominent players in the independent publishing scene last month, a lot of industry chatter was about the recent launch of Authors Equity, [...]

After unexpected sales increases in 2020 and 2021, the past two years have brought falling revenue and rising costs for many in the publishing industry. The eight indie presses that [...]

Based at the Book Farm in Atglen, Pa., Schiffer Publishing has largely flown under the industry radar since it was launched in 1974 by wife-and-husband team Nancy and Peter Schiffer. [...]

Thanksgiving is over and Black Friday has passed: the holiday season is in full swing. It's been a year of ups and downs for publishers, and PW reached out to [...]

Like most workers in the U.S., employees at publishing houses had difficulty keeping up with inflation last year. The median raise reported by the 618 respondents to PW's annual salary [...]

At the end of 2023, industry observers told PW they expected 2024 to be an active year for mergers and acquisitions. So far, those predictions have been accurate, with seven [...]

TokyoPop was founded in Los Angeles in 1997 by Stu Levy and was responsible for introducing manga into the U.S. market. The publisher had a near-death experience in 201 1 [...]

The PW-produced U.S. Book Show completed its run last week, Monday-Thursday, May 22-25, and though this was the third edition of the event, it was the first to feature in-person [...]

There have been many incarnations of Simon & Schuster since the publisher was formedin 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster. And as the company celebrates its 100th anniversary this [...]

Total sales at the 1,277 publishers that report results to the Association of American Publishers' StatShot program inched up 0.2% for the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same [...]

Helped by a 1.7% increase in the fourth quarter, unit sales of print books fell only 2.6% in 2023 from 2022 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. The dip [...]

As Lightning Source wraps up its 25th anniversary, the Ingram Content Group company has entered a new stage of life. When it was born, Lightning Source found its greatest acceptance [...]

Two billion-dollar deals and more consolidation in the book printing segment were highlights of publishing's merger and acquisition action in 2023. The private equity firm KKR was involved in both [...]

It's been an eventful two years since Baker & Taylor CEO Aman Kochar added a new title to his job description: owner. On Nov. 4, 2021, Kochar completed his acquisition [...]

Neither the pandemic nor more industry consolidation among the biggest players resulted in a shake-up in the order of the world's largest publishers in 2022, according to PW's global annual [...]

The private equity firm KKR completed its $1.62 billion acquisition of Simon & Schuster, the nation's third-largest trade publisher, on October 30. KKR emerged as the winning bidder in early [...]

When book sales spiked in 2020 and 2021, publishers believed one reason for the increase was that more people had turned to reading during the pandemic, and they were hopeful [...]

After a threeyear hiatus caused by the pandemic, PWs annual salary and jobs survey is back, albeit later in the year than usual. This year's survey gathers data on 2021 [...]

The publishing industry spent much of last week digesting the news that Judge Florence Y. Pan had ruled in favor of the Department of Justice in its lawsuit to block [...]

The publishing industry made it through 2020in much better shape than most thought it would when the pandemic first emerged nearly two years ago. Though there were many challenges and [...]

With little hope that the leadership of Small Press Distribution will emerge to help sort through the chaos caused by its abrupt closure at the end of March, other organizations [...]

It's been quite a run for indie press Entangled Publishing. The first two books in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series, Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, took the publishing world by storm, [...]

The abrupt closure onMarch 28 of Small Press Distribution, which provided distribution to about 400 publishers, has its former clients seeking answers about the status of their books, while also [...]

Worldwide sales for the four large trade publishers that publicly report their financial results were all up by double digits in 2023 over 2019, the last prepandemic year. Overall unit [...]

HarperCollins has begun its international rollout for Life: My Story Through History, the highly anticipated new book by Pope Francis. The book hit shelves last week in theU.S. and Canada [...]

The publishing industry is mourning the loss of longtime Publishers Weekly editor Sybil Steinberg, who died March 17 at age 90. Steinberg served as a PW editor for 25 years, [...]

The third edition of Lee & Low Books' quadrennial Diversity Baseline Survey found that the publishing industry has made modest gains in broadening its workforce since the survey began in [...]

Penguin Random House US is working with colleagues at PRH UK to retrofit the latter's Grantham Book Services warehouse into a new operational hub for PRH US to fulfill orders [...]

In a recent webinar, Circana BookScan books analyst Kristen McLean said she sees reasons for optimism about book sales in 2024, based on an unexpectedly strong fourth quarter and indications [...]

Independent Publishers Group has faced challenges since it bought U.K.-based United Independent Distributors (UID) in 2021, IPG CEO Joe Matthews acknowledged in an interview with PW. After a record 2021, [...]

Penguin Random House is the perennial leader among publishers on PW's picture book bestseller lists, and in 2023 it strengthened its grip, nabbing 40% of total available list positions, up [...]

The turmoil caused by the global pandemic was not enough to unseat the RELX Group as the world's largest book publisher in 2021. Though sales fell 3% from 2020, the [...]

No matter which way you look at it, sales of mass market paperbacks have been in steady decline since 2017. NPD BookScan data shows that unit sales fell 31.5% in [...]

The Federal Trade Commission, supported by 17 state attorneys general, filed its long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon on September 26. In a 172-page complaint, the government alleged that the e-tailer [...]

A new author income study released by the Authors Guild provides a dizzying array of numbers and breakdowns about how all types of authors--traditionally published and self-published, full-time and part-time--fared [...]

Questions surrounding the future of book printing drew a capacity crowd of 155 publishing professionals to the BMI (Book Manufacturers Institute) Book Manufacturing Mastered conference, held September 14 at Penguin [...]

With the adult fiction and nonfiction categories posting declines of 9% and 6%, respectively, unit sales of print books fell 6.1% in the week ended Aug. 26, 2023, from the [...]

Simon & Schuster was the only one of the country's four largest trade publishers to show an improved profit margin in the first half of 2023 compared to last year. [...]

Adult fiction has been publishing's steadiest-selling category for the past 1 8 months. Unit sales of print adult fiction books were up 8.5% in 2022 over 2021 at outlets that [...]

Last week's announcement that Paramount Global had agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to the private equity firm KKR all but answered the question of who the new owner of [...]

The second annual U.S. Book Show mixed book presentations with discussions of how the industry can cope with new challenges Though trade book sales did surprisingly well during the pandemic, [...]

The impact of the pandemic and other headline-grabbing events are the topics of some of fall's most compelling business titles. TOP 10 The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze True [...]

The Big Five's grip on the hardcover bestseller lists continued in 2023, as 84.8% of the 2,080 positions on PW's weekly hardcover lists were occupied by titles published by major [...]

Women authors fared very well on PW's overall bestseller list for 2023. Colleen Hoover, who reigned supreme in 2022, also had a stellar year last year: It Ends with Us [...]

Launched in 2013 to publish digital editions of out-of-print genre fiction from the 1960s and '70s, Las Vegas's Wolf pack Publishing reports that while revenue growth was steady in its [...]

After working through rwo years of Covid-19, a group of independent publishers interviewed by PW were pleasantly surprised to find that they are in better shape in 2022 than they [...]

Ever since I joined P\V in April 1993, my objective has been to write and publish articles that would help everyone in the publishing industry succeed. Leveling the playing field [...]

Led by huge numbers for two Rebecca Yarros titles, unit sales of print books rose 3.9% in the week ended Nov. 11, 2023, over the comparable week in 2022, at [...]

Unit sales of print books fell 8% in the week ended Nov. 4, 2023, from the comparable week in 2022, at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. Britney Spears's The [...]

Recent financial results from Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster showed three of the Big Five publishers struggling through the first nine months of 2023, as the industry [...]