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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 [...]

A MECHANICAL RUCKUS. Oiled metal clattering hard and loose. A room astounding in its clutter, alive with spinning gears, reciprocating arms, rattling chains. A single man at the controls, coaxing [...]

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 [...]

When James Joyce and his family turned up in Paris in the summer of 1920, the writer had with him the sprawling manuscript-in-progress that would, by all accounts, become a [...]

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 [...]

Audio-exclusive and audio-original titles are being published with increasing frequency. Why are publishers foregoing print for some of their hottest authors, and how are audio-originals changing the way we hear [...]

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 [...]

Persephone Books is both a publisher and a bookshop, an increasingly popular and valuable niche on the indie scene. Run by Nicola Beauman, who founded the company in 1988, it [...]

Retailers say they are set for 'pleasing' paperback sales this summer, with a strong appetite for reading thanks to BookTok and the resurgence of romance and cosy crime, but there [...]

'The beauty of brevity is something that cannot be understated,' says Amanda Boachie, founder of new micropress Forty-Four Words, which aims to create personalised, hand-made books that share meaningful messages [...]

This year is a busy one for writer and now-publisher Rebecca F John, with three of her own books being released as well as the first titles from her newly [...]

The word 'luck' comes up several times during my conversation with Peter Blackstock, vice-president and deputy publisher at Grove Atlantic in the US and now also publisher for the company's [...]

As the Frankfurt Book Fair draws nearer and a frenzy of pre-Christmas activity kindles the publishing and bookselling world, The Bookseller invited a selection of UK indie publishers to recommend [...]

In the summer of 1963, Walter Bgoya, then 20 years old, set off from Kansas for Chicago. Midway, in Carrollton, Missouri, the 0.85 litre Renault Dauphin broke down, and so [...]

Sheffield-based independent And Other Stories is celebrating its 10th anniversary this autumn with a redesign as well as physical and digital events. Founder and publisher Stefan Tobler says that the [...]

PORTLAND, ORE * Two months after the U.S. bishops' conference said it would halt Catholic News Service operations in the United States, Our Sunday Visitor on July 6 announced it [...]

Educational publishers have welcomed the UK government's announcement that it will not develop a full programme arounds its Letters and Sounds handbook, which comes after lobbying from the sector. Letters [...]

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 [...]

IN 1991, at 'SPEW: The Homographic Convergence'-a showcase of queer zines, T-shirts, videotapes, and performance that took place at the Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago--Robert Ford described Thing as a [...]

'We were at the start of something that London just caught up with,' Mick Felton, the publisher of Seren Books, tells me. He, along with deputy publisher Sarah Johnson, is [...]

Just 10 years on from the children's indie's inception, the list has stonking TCM sales and a flurry of awards to its name. Its three co-founders reveal the key to [...]

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 [...]

ON A CLEAR WINTER MORNING THE Brentwood headquarters of Truthdig.com is a refuge of serene natural beauty. Floor-to-ceiling glass affords panoramic views of the oaks and sycamores of Mandeville Canyon, [...]

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 [...]

They straddle the line between author and publisher; PR and production; and marketers and booksellers. Tom Tivnan and Felicity Wood meet the people behind some of the industry's new hybrid [...]

The shock of The London Book Fair 2019 was not a big name author shifting houses, but Lee Brackstone leaving Faber to set up his own Orion imprint. This was [...]