Publishers Weekly

In The Anti-Greed Gospel: Exposing Greed as the True Root of Racism, Rev. Malcolm Foley investigates investigates the historic relationship between money and race.

The series, which will be developed along the lines of Bloomsbury's popular 33 1/3 series of music books, will examine Marvel's 85-year comics history.

The Publishers Cooperative aims at leveraging collective buying power and sharing resources. Founding members include AdventureKEEN, C&T Publishing, Gibbs-Smith, Mango Publishing, Mixed Media Resources, Mountaineers Books, Schiffer Publishing, and Ulysses Press.

The new imprint will look to acquire horror content that can work as both books and films. Forthcoming projects include the second novel by Marcus Kliewer, whose debut was acquired by Netflix, with Blake Lively set to star and produce.

With two booksellers remaining under house arrest in Jerusalem, a coalition of publishers, booksellers, authors, industry professionals, and activists are marking #BooksellingIsNotACrime Day, on February 22, to raise awareness of their plight.

Former Boom! executives Megan Christopher, Allyson Gronowtiz, and Elyse Raimo have been named to top spots at Oni, among other hires and promotions at a time when some competitors in the comics space are downsizing their workforces.

Chris Gruener and Keith Riegert have launched Stable Book Group. The company brings together four extant independent publishers—She Writes Press, Trafalgar Square Books, Ulysses Press, and VeloPress—with the newly established Galpón Press and Mountain Gazette Books.

Ali Hazelwood tops our trade paperback list with ‘Deep End,’ a kinky, character-driven new adult romance. Plus TJ Klune reintroduces fans to ‘The Bones Beneath My Skin,’ and Rick Steves and the Points Guy hit the road (but not together).

An inside look at the publication process for the author’s debut novel.

A big-name picture book adaptation of a classic Grimm fairy tale goes to HarperCollins, Margaret Atwood brings a memoir to Doubleday, Sourcebooks picks up the memoir of the daughter of Gisele Pelicot, and more in this week’s book deals.

A new book about the history of women-led small presses shows that women have long been—and still are—at the forefront of the business.

With his Black Privilege Publishing imprint at Atria Books celebrating its fifth anniversary, the radio host and bestselling author talked with PW about his longtime love of reading and what's next for the imprint.

The imprint is a reincarnation of Da Capo Press, the longtime music imprint acquired as part of Hachette Book Group’s 2016 acquisition of the Perseus Book Group. Brant Rumble and Ben Schafer will lead the imprint, which aims to release 12 books a year.

Bay Area indie company Books Inc., which filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January, launched a one-month, $100,000 fundraising campaign to support its nonprofit wing, Reading Bridge.

Sales at HBG rose 7% last year, marking the strongest performance among Lagardère’s worldwide publishing businesses. The Paris-based publishing giant posted total sales of €2.87 billion, a 2.2% increase over 2023, while profits jumped 35%.

Faber, the storied U.K. independent publisher, has launched a new division, Faber US, in the United States. The move comes a decade after Faber first nodded to plans to enter the American market.

The 1991 collaboration between Sarah Byam and the late comics artist Tim Sale has been reissued with the help of a crowdfunding campaign and San Diego–based indie publisher Clover Press. PW talked with Byam about returning to ‘Billi 99’ and working with Sale, who died in 2022.

The moody, stylishly crafted graphic novel, about a young woman of mixed race who struggles to make sense of the course of her life in 1970s America, is forthcoming from Iron Circus Comics in March.

In his second collection, Loud & Smart & in Color (Silver Sprocket, Feb.), the cartoonist and his signature animal avatar return with a collection that toggles between the absurd and the mundane—this time, in full color.

Oprah’s Book Club selects an introspective drama set in near-future Montana, Reese's Book Club picks Allegra Goodman's latest novel, and more.