Publishers Weekly

The We Need Diverse Books Walter Awards Judging Committee has selected the winners and honorees for the sixth Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children's Literature.

This month, Reese Witherspoon and Emma Roberts's tastes overlap as Reese's Book Club and Belletrist pick the same novel.

With 'On Tyranny' and '1984' both selling more than 24,000 copies last week, unit sales of print books rose 22.7% over the comparable week in 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.

A list of canceled events, closed facilities, impacted industry functions and policies, and more to help book business professionals navigate the new coronavirus and its impact on the industry.

Amanda Gorman, who wrote and recited this year's inaugural poem, and Brayden Harrington, the teen who spoke at the Democratic National Convention about bonding with Biden over stuttering, have both landed book deals.

Tim Fielder’s new graphic novel Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale is a meta-fictional tale of survival and an epic adventure that celebrates the presence of the Black man and Black woman in genre storytelling from the beginning of time until the end of the universe. A five-page excerpt.

Digital comics delivered via mobile devices are attracting impressive traffic and generating revenue for artists and publishers. Tapas, a small U.S.-based mobile comics startup, reported impressive recent growth, and announced plans to partner with traditional print publishers like Scholastic.

A church historian looks at the religious, institutional, and social challenges ahead for Joe Biden—America's second Catholic president—and how they parallel those faced by Pope Francis.

Prolific children’s book author and former editor Kathleen Krull died on January 15 following a brief illness; she was 68.

An Anti-racist graphic novel reading list, the impact of the pandemic on comics retail, the loss of comics conventions and festivals, and the rise in popularity of digital comics for the mobile generation, are among the topics covered in PW's most-read comics stories of 2020

James and Nora Joyce's first date, erotic letters, itinerant lifestyle, and more.

Bookstore sales were $485 million in November, down from $618 million in November 2019, according to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. The 21.5% decline was the smallest monthly drop since spring.

The labor union representing employees of Powell's Books in Portland, Ore., said the decision to sell conservative author Andy Ngô book 'Unmasked' online was regrettable, but the store's decision "alone to make." PEN America said selling the book did not "equal endorsement" and supported the store's decision.

Peter McGuigan, the cofounder of Foundry Literary + Media, filed a lawsuit against his former business partner, Yfat Reiss Gendell, on Friday. The suit claims that Gendell made illegal withdrawals of more than $860,000 from the former partners' literary agency.

The January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has renewed interest in 'Wilmington Lie,' a historical account of a coup in Wilmington, N.C., in 1898. The book was released by Grove in paperback on January 19.

Regnery Publishing has acquired Missouri senator Josh Hawley’s 'The Tyranny of Big Tech' after the book was dropped by Simon & Schuster shortly after the riot that took place at the nation's Capitol on January 6.

In a ruling last week, a federal judge said he will allow the former Trump National Security Advisor to conduct discovery on whether Trump administration officials acted in bad faith in holding up the pre-publication review of Bolton's memoir 'The Room Where It Happened.'

Anna North lands at #20 in hardcover fiction with ‘Outlawed,’ a feminist Western parable. Plus novels by a pair of first-timers make their debuts, and ‘Eyes That Kiss in the Corners’ sees its way clear to our children’s picture book list.

Sally Rooney sells a new novel to FSG, Jeffrey Archer returns to HarperCollins, and more.

In a rare occurrence, independent publishers gained ground with adult hardcover and paperback bestsellers last year, disrupting the Big Five's iron grip on the lists.