Publishers Weekly

Tom Woll worked at Wiley, Storey Communications, and Rodale before forming Cross River Publishing Consultants in 1993. His book 'Publishing for Profit' went through five editions and was translated into 10 languages.

Erin Entrada Kelly was already cozy in bed, in her jammies, on Sunday night, all set to do some writing, when the phone rang. "I thought, 'There’s no way this is going to be 'the call,' but I answered it, and sure enough, it was the committee”; she had won the Newbery Medal for her middle grade novel 'The First State of Being.'

Artist Rebecca Lee Kunz's three daughters—ages 11, 14, and 17—were making art on the family’s kitchen table when she received the call that her debut picture book, 'Chooch Helped,' had won the Caldecott Medal. “At first, I wasn’t sure what was going on—it was surreal,” she told PW.

When Samuel Teer and Mar Julia, author and illustrator of 'Brownstone', received word on Sunday that their graphic novel had won the 2025 Michael L. Printz Award, neither was anticipating the call.

The annual Youth Media Awards were announced on January 27 during the American Library Association’s final LibLearnX conference. See our interviews with the winners of the three top prizes.

Looking to capitalize on the books-as-objects trend, Sourcebooks has formed a bespoke publishing operations team and appointed Carolyn Telesca to head the new unit.

The online bookseller, which offers a profit-sharing model to independent bookstore partners, launched its long-anticipated e-book platform on January 28, allowing indies to sell e-books directly to customers.

Digital borrowing of e-books, audiobooks, and digital magazines rose to more than 739 million checkouts at the libraries and schools who use OverDrive's Libby and Sora apps.

Two acquisitions and the continuing growth of the audiobook market led to another good year for the audiobook publishing giant.

The multitalented cartoonist and writer, known for a caustic wit that earned him an Academy Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and a place in the Comic Book Hall of Fame, died on January 17, just shy of his 96th birthday.

Percival Everett's 'James' took home this year’s fiction medal, and 'A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon' by Kevin Fedarko received this year’s nonfiction award.

The indie publisher hopes to get ‘The Tulsa Race Massacre: The Department of Justice Review and Evaluation,’ which was released as a federal report on January 17, into bookstores by mid February.

In the U.K., subscription box company FairyLoot and Transworld Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House U.K., are launching a new fantasy publishing imprint this fall.

The Department of Education has reversed course in its efforts to stem the tide of what it now describes as "so-called" school book bans, eliminating the role of book ban coordinator at the Office of Civil Rights and dismissing 11 outstanding complaints filed with the DOE.

Following the publication, in ‘New York’ magazine, of a piece detailing accusations of sexual assault and misconduct made against Gaiman by nine women, HarperCollins and Marvel said they currently have no new books by the author planned, and W.W. Norton confirmed that it “will not have projects with the author going forward.”

Horror writer Grady Hendrix’s latest novel, 'Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,' debuts at the top of our hardcover fiction list. Plus Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings land at #2 on our hardcover nonfiction list with 'You Deserve to Be Rich,' and in her own words, 'Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old.'

The queen of the home and garden category sells her first gardening guide in 30 years, a former Viking Penguin editor brings a “tale of betrayal and revenge” to Zando, and more in this week’s book deals.

An inside look at the publication process for the mother-daughter team’s latest book.

Horror writer Grady Hendrix’s latest novel, 'Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,' debuts at the top of our hardcover fiction list. Plus Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings land at #2 on our hardcover nonfiction list with 'You Deserve to Be Rich,' and in her own words, 'Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old.'

This year, longtime Macmillan graphic novel imprint First Second Books will roll out a sister imprint, the adult-focused 23rd Street Books. We spoke with Siegel, who founded both, about the market for graphic novels for adults and why now was the time, data be damned.