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Difficult. A rough ride. Harder than ever. Prepared for the worst. Cautiously optimistic. Those are the buzz words and phrases bandied about by credit-crunched and recession-hit publishers as they look [...]

Replacing Richard & Judy In the past few years, the media's biggest influence on the book trade boiled down to two names: Richard & Judy. The duo's Book Club phenomenon [...]

Preramble Every line we succeed in publishing today--no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it--is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.--WALTER BENJAMIN For about five [...]

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 [...]

My grandmother, who was an Appleton from Ipswich, Massachusetts, always said, 'A lady should never talk about money.' I have always had an aversion to money, but as a publisher [...]

Byline: Matthew Shaer On a warm Tuesday in late April, brothers Scott and Daniel Stedman, publishers of The L and Brooklyn magazines and the organizers of the annual Northside Festival--probably [...]

My father, a third-generation newspaper publisher, warned of the industry's demise. None of us listened. Sometimes, being right hurts the most. I imagine that's how my father, Barry Bingham Jr., [...]

It was in the late '70s that I, like many people, heard about the 40-pound cabbages and gargantuan tomatoes grown in arid soil by a bunch of hippies in Scotland. [...]

Byline: Jeff Bercovici So much for that hoped-for second half rebound in single-copy sales. A report from the International Periodical Distributors Association to its members suggests that publishers fared no [...]

Byline: MATTHEW SCHWARTZ Rob Frais, recently named publisher of Cadalyst, has exceptional insight into the computer design market. ``I started on a drawing board,'' said Frais, who has a degree [...]

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 [...]

Many of us have had the good fortune to be born into the safest, most cosseted, wealthiest generation that has ever lived. There have been wars, but they have been [...]

Will more and more authors take advantage of new technology to short circuit the supply chain and go directly to their readers? Danuta Kean explores the pros and cons of [...]

Joan Aiken once wrote, 'I do not think it is possible to exercise any control over what a creative artist produces, without the risk of wrecking the product. The only [...]

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 [...]

Thirty years ago that question was posed. Publisher and editor Earl G. Graves Sr. provides the answer by sharing the mission of the magazine. Lacking capital, managerial and technical knowledge [...]

February 7, 2000 From time to time I read the Drucker Foundation News. It's a quarterly publication of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. According to a statement [...]

While the rest of the publishing world prophesises credit crunch doom and newspapers hatter on about e-books and iPods, there is one sector that is quietly returning to form away [...]

If ever the trade had the chance to 'sex up' the audiobook market it is now. An industry-wide promotion, run by the Audiobook Publishers Association (APA) and the Book Marketing [...]

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 [...]

Gail Pirkis left is the founder of Slightly Foxed, a quarterly dedicated to books that publishing hype might overshadow. On Radio 4's 'Today' last week, she discussed why these Books [...]

Orson Welles was many things to many people. To almost everyone, he was a brilliant writer and director, probably the United States' most extraordinary filmmaker. To gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, [...]

The position taken by 'a small cadre of London publishers, agents and the British Publishers Association' toward European Community market rights appears to be 'a breathtakingly cynical sham,' according to [...]

Advances for some literary fiction debuts have dropped to as little as [pounds sterling]500, according to agents and publishers. Advances of [pounds sterling]1,000 or [pounds sterling]2,000 are becoming increasingly common [...]

Thank you for your full page review (IWR October 2009) of Gale's State Papers Online. I would like to respond to the reviewer's comment in the penultimate paragraph: 'It's a [...]

Publishers are turning down titles they would previously have published because of increasing numbers of highly expensive 'no win, no fee' legal claims. The development, particularly strong over the past [...]

Publishers have voiced concerns over ongoing delivery issues at Waterstone's hub, with some deeming them 'catastrophic'. It has emerged that Jamie Oliver's latest title, heavily supported by the chain, was [...]

Clive Malcher, digital publisher, HarperCollins Clive Malcher sees his "renaissance" background as key to his career in digital publishing. Coming from a technical engineering base, he has worked his way [...]

Authors have seen their advances drop over the past year, with some facing cuts of as much as 50% on new book deals. But deals for bestselling authors are 'bigger [...]

How should we interpret the comments made by Hachette Livre's chief Arnaud Nourry over the weekend? The Financial Times, which conducted the interview with Nourry in Paris, certainly wasn't sure. [...]

While you are reading this I am actually on holiday, holed up with the family in a remote cottage in North Wales for a couple of weeks. Looks like it [...]

Children's publishers have backed a call made by Andersen Press m.d. Klaus Flugge to make more hardback picture books available in the high street. Writing to The Bookseller last month [...]

This time last year, the publishing industry--like every other--was bracing itself for rocky times, although the amount of floor space taken up with stands had gone up by a significant [...]

New authors will find it harder to break onto the scene, believe publishers, but they could be helped out with some of the creative marketing being developed. Publishers reported strong [...]

IT LOOKS like the bull market for Bernie Madoff books is over. Of the eight reported to be in the offing, only five are now signed up. The Journal's Robert [...]

'This is not working,' Walter E. Hussman Jr. told a room full of editorial writers--nearly all of whose newspapers offer their print content online at no cost. The publisher of [...]

Publisher 'Is a small or large retailer or supplier to supermarkets going to run into trouble in the new year? You have to revisit payment terms and make sure you [...]

International rights territories were back on the agenda this Frankfurt. The Commonwealth countries Canada, Australia and New Zealand kicked off the fair with a standing-room only summit, where about 120 [...]

Borders UK c.e.o. Philip Downer has given a bullish assessment of the retailer's performance in the first six months of 2008. Meanwhile, publishers have expressed concerns about buying team changes. [...]

British audiobook publishers have welcomed a proposed European Union directive to reduce the rate of VAT charged on audiobooks, saying it could breath new life into the sector by bringing [...]

BookExpo America in Los Angeles has come and gone. For most making the trek, the exotic palms, magnificent jacarandas and perfect weather were lovely. The cost in both time and [...]

Microsoft's shock decision this week to wind down its Live Search Books programme has left a host of UK publishers in the lurch, with many having signed up to the [...]

US publishers are attempting to capitalise on the booming 250m ** English-language market in India, demanding that the territory is separated out of the 'UK and Commonwealth' rights traditionally bought [...]

A great deal has been written about The Friday Project in recent months, both in the press and online. Much of it is inaccurate, plenty of it is conjecture and [...]

Scottish publishers have reacted with dismay after grants totalling 100,000 £ were axed by the Scottish Arts Council. The SAC said the grants have been 'temporarily suspended' for this financial [...]