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'A huge focus of mine is to try to search people out who have a different point of view than what we're hearing from everybody else,' says Street Noise Books [...]

Few in children's publishing were sorry to see the end of 2023. The year was marked by a record level of book bans, softening sales, and concerns over the number [...]

With apologies to Heraclitus, no person ever visits the same destination twice. Travel publishers are taking this sentiment to heart, revamping existing guides and offering new perspectives on favorite locales. [...]

Any aspiring publisher knows that launching a small press is a gamble. But they don't always know when they've played their last hand. Jason Pinter said that in retrospect, the [...]

Those who tell and sell stories for a living are familiar with the three-act dramatic structure, in its most basic form a distinct arc: inciting incident, conflict, resolution. The start [...]

The central importance of immigration to the American experience is evident in the heated and polarizing debates over immigration and refugee policy today. The complex issues behind such topics as [...]

Long before the #MeToo movement gave voice to women fed up with a culture of sexual predation and harassment, titles focused on the real issues facing women were finding publishers [...]

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 [...]

Shortly after the great editor Robert Giroux arrived, in 1955, at the publisherthen known as Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, some of the best American poets of the time--and, as it [...]

Ask educators or editors, or even some parents, what constitutes the trickiest writing assignment in children's literature, and a lot of them will say the same thing: the humble chapter [...]

I think only an insider like myself--and my team--can really disrupt the industry,' said Collective Book Studio publisher Angela Engel, who has previously held senior sales and marketing positions at [...]

It is a strange thing, but the pandemic helped to save Biblioasis's bookshop. During fall 2019 I had decided that it was probably time to close the store. We had [...]

As e-books sales soften at the large trade houses, some independent digital (or mostly digital) publishers continue to see their e-book sales grow. Interviews with five independent publishers show a [...]

Crime fiction's many subcategories--legal and medical thrillers, police procedurals, traditional whodunits, etc.--typically involve splashy, high-stakes conflict. Will the serial killer get caught? The thief brought to justice? Then there's psychological [...]

Celebration is in the air this fall, as several children's publishing ventures mark their 10th anniversaries (and one prepares for an early-2014 milestone). We spoke with a number of publishers [...]

Book series are ubiquitous in MBS, and there are reasons. 'Series work on several levels,' says Joel Fotinos, v-p, editorial director, and publisher of the St. Martin's Essentials imprint. 'They [...]

In a polarized landscape where the giants slug it out, huge tracts of territory are won or lost in the Christmas Big Push, and winners, increasingly, take all. Yet nipping [...]

Publisher Cardinal Rule Press 'Realistic fiction picture books that make a difference, while reflecting modern-day diversity,' is how Rob Broder at Ripple Grove Press (a former Star Watch honoree) describes [...]

Editor One Signal Publishers Ciani, who's been in publishing for a little over a decade, has long been drawn to writing. Growing up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., he says, he [...]

OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS, African-American publishing has seen its longest period of sustained growth ever. Independent presses and many corporate divisions, including six imprints specifically dedicated to black books--Amistad, [...]

Michael Cunningham Author The Revolution Is Working Although the world knows him as a writer who happens to be a gay man, Michael Cunningham claims no particular insight about this [...]

AUDIENCES ALWAYS WANT something new. They don't want to eat at the same restaurant every night,' says Kensington editorial director Kate Duffy, evoking an apt metaphor to describe the biggest [...]

As a publisher of children's books, I sometimes get asked, 'Hasn't every story for kids already been written?' Of course there are always new stories, if you know where and [...]

Following last year's Frankfurt Book Fair, a slim, hand-stitched chapbook slowly but surely began circulating among independent booksellers. Against Amazon, a critical essay written by Spanish author Jorge Carrion, has [...]

Canongate, an Edinburgh-based publisher, has tried a number of approaches to establish a meaningful presence in the U.S. Perhaps its most ambitious effort was in 2006, when Canongate publisher Jamie [...]

THE JOY of handselling is the flypaper of publishing. It's what keeps folks who thrive on books sticking around. Handselling, as we know and love it best, results when one [...]

Consolidation in our industry suddenly seems to have reached a tipping point. We begin the new year with just one main wholesaler for the book trade and another for libraries, [...]

Bad housing market or good--according to the Commerce Department, figures for sales of new homes were worse in summer 2010 than they have been in 50 years, though September did [...]

Cristobal Pera, publishing director at Vintage Espanol, says that although the house will not have a booth at FIL, he has a full agenda. 'With the growth of the rights [...]

It would be hard for a new imprint to get off to a better start with its first book than Simon & Schuster's Avid Reader Press did with the release [...]

A great deal of investment, not to mention a wide network of contacts and plenty of chutzpah, was required to launch Within Pictures and Beyond Texts, a quarterly publication that [...]

For Li Xin, vice president and general editor of the children's book division at Thinkingdom Children's Books, Leo Lionni's Swimmy is that book. 'In the story, Swimmy teaches a school [...]

As the annual trade show for the book publishing industry, BookExpo America serves many constituencies: large and small publishers; large and small booksellers; wholesalers and distributors; authors; and the media. [...]

In March of this year, a few weeks after I left Soft Skull Press--the independent publishing company I revived in 2001 and ran for six years before selling and semirunning [...]

Los Angeles publisher Moppet Books will launch a new line of books in October, despite the fact that a federal judge ruled in late July that the company is liable [...]

TRADE PUBLISHERS MUST NOT only understand the needs of consumers better, they need to have a better idea of what works best at their own companies. So said Kosmo Kalliarekos, [...]

When former Atria Publishing Group head Judith Curr was named president and publisher of HarperOne on April 2, she was also named to those roles for HC's Amistad and Rayo [...]

Some worry about future shape of book retailing: What will it be like if the giants prevail? IN A BOOK MARKET where sales via bookstores are actually shrinking as a [...]

Anne Schwartz, V-p and publisher, Schwartz & Wade Books, Random House Sharing Vera B. Williams's gem of a picture book, Cherries and Cherry Pits, with my daughter, Molly, was an [...]

It's hard to name a more rapidly evolving religious issue than attitudes toward homosexuality. Congregations have split, denominations have approached schism, and, in April, in a move sure to have [...]

PW's Children's Forecasts editors choose the year's most distinguished titles Picture Books Milo's Hat Trick Jon Agee (Hyperion/di Capua) Agee scores big with clever line drawings and a gently humorous [...]

Authors and publishers discuss the (often subtle) distinctions between romance and women's fiction Leslie Gelbman After Adirondack Chairs, What? Leslie Gelbman, president and publisher of the Berkley Group, has worked [...]

A publishing veteran looks to the backlist for quality e-books Focusing on acquiring the electronic rights to quality backlist titles and offering advances extensive online marketing and distribution, a group [...]

No book fair would be complete without the publishers who discover authors and their work and who mould the confusion of a manuscript into a book. As Sharjah and the [...]

Canada-based Robert Kennedy Publishing's parent company has filed for bankruptcy, putting the future of its book operations in doubt. Health and fitness guru Tosca Reno, widow of Robert Kennedy, the [...]

For nearly a decade, some say even longer, people in the publishing industry have been decrying the death of the midlist. As the story goes, the industry consolidated--smaller and midsize [...]

Amazon has given the international publishing community plenty to ponder as it gathered this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair. The pending (Oct. 19) release of a $279 Kindle that [...]

Five years ago hip-hop books didn't take up much shelf space in most bookstores. The perception among publishers was that books about rappers, and rap itself, couldn't sell, but that's [...]

Once an industry staple, in recent years picture book sales have begun to slip, pushed out of the way by a certain boy wizard and teen angst. Gone are the [...]