Publishers Weekly

Independent bookstores across the Northeast reported robust holiday sales in December 2024, with many noting significant year-over-year growth despite weather disruptions and concerns about the economy.

Named PW’s Sales Rep of the Year in 2013 for his successful efforts to save the University of Missouri Press from closure, Miller represented university and indie presses in the Midwest for 45 years.

After a slow start to an already short holiday season, sales picked up for indie booksellers in December, resulting in a satisfying end to the year, with Percival Everett and Robin Wall Kimmerer's latest offerings flying off of bookstore shelves.

The religious press is celebrating a half century of bold, loving, and sensible publishing. (Sponsored)

The paperback publisher will reintroduce three of Dworkin's best-known works of radical feminist critique—all out of print for at least two decades—to readers on February 25.

After two years of declines, unit sales inched up last year.

'James' by Percival Everett tops our hardcover fiction list for the fourth week in a row. Plus Ramit Sethi's 'Money for Couples' debuts at #7 on our trade paperback list, and a trio of new books on our hardcover nonfiction list aim straight for the resolution-making crowd with bold subtitle come-ons.

A PEN Translation Prize winner signs two with HarperVia, Amy Jo Burns pens a novel as a paean to women songwriters for Celadon, and more in this week’s book deals.

An inside look at the publication process for the latest novel from the author of 'The Vegan.'

The owners of the independent publisher Ulysses Press and the creative content studio Spot Gloss Media have banded together to create Bluestone Books. The new company will release its first titles this summer and plans to do 25-30 books annually.

The Booker Prize winner and National Book Award nominee of the poetry and politics of two writers whose work inspired their own.

Among the former president's year-end shout-outs are novels that made the rounds on longlists for major awards, such as those by Martin MacInnes and Ayşegül Savaş and the Booker-winning Samantha Harvey, along with deep cuts from Dinaw Mengestu and Adam Moss.

A year ago, Wiley began increasing its investment in its trade publishing business and acquisitions. Those efforts are now paying off, as title output and sales have both posted solid gains.

Our reviews editors name eight new books publishing in 2025 that they're particularly excited about.

Our reviews editors name eight new books publishing in 2025 that they're particularly excited about.

The 'Today' show cohost and creator of the Read with Jenna book club has reached an agreement with the Random House Publishing Group through which books signed by Hager will be released by different RHPG imprints, beginning in October. Hager Bush told 'PW' that stepping into the role of publisher "has upped my reading even more."

Numerous bookstores and publishers in the Los Angeles metro area were closed and individuals evacuated on January 8 due to raging brush fires, power outages, and extreme winds. Others, such as Diesel Books in Brentwood, stayed open to serve displaced customers.

Simon & Schuster has announced a new audio-first imprint, Simon Maverick, focused on self-published authors. Former Polis Books publisher Jason Pinter is the imprint’s VP and editorial director.

The imprint, a collaboration between the Crown Publishing Group and merchandising company Storehouse In A Box, will include an online platform for prospective authors to share and submit work. Storehouse In A Box president and CEO Tamira Chapman (pictured) will serve as publisher.

Read with Jenna and Barnes & Noble spotlight Emma Knight's debut novel, Oprah's Book Club celebrates the 20th anniversary of Eckhart Tolle's 'A New Earth,' and more.