Publishers Weekly

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.”

As of 10.30 p.m. GMT on January 23, Amazon and Bloomsbury reached an agreement in principle on a new contract following a threat by the e-tail giant to no longer sell Bloomsbury UK's titles in its online stores in select markets should the two parties fail to reach a deal by midnight on Jan. 24.

During Metzger’s six-year tenure, the St. Paul, Minn.–based nonprofit saw its network of book-sharing boxes double. A national search for his successor will be conducted prior to his retirement in June 2025.

'How We Learn to Be Brave,' the 2023 book by Episcopal Bishop of Washington Marianne Budde, sold out its first printing after she confronted President Trump from the pulpit on Tuesday.

The press is marking the 10th anniversary of its Murty Classical Library of India with the release of 'Ten Indian Classics,' a new anthology showcasing the breadth of South Asian literary traditions spanning 2,500 years.

Hachette Book Group has laid off an unspecified number of employees who joined the company at the end of last year following HBG’s purchase of Union Square & Co. from Barnes & Noble.

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.