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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Ed Nawotka |Jim Milliot
The U.K. and U.S. book markets are symbiotic, with many authors, industry professionals, and publishers active on both sides of the Atlantic. This interconnection is evident at the highest levels of the book business: James Daunt is CEO of both Waterstones, the U.K.’s largest bookstore chain, and Barnes & Noble, America’s largest; David Shelley is CEO of Hachette U.K. in London and Hachette Book Group in New York City; J.K. Rowling and now American author Sarah J.
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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Ed Nawotka |Sophia Stewart
On June 3, 795 publishing professionals from across all sectors of the book business converged on the New York Academy of Medicine in Harlem for the fifth annual U.S. Book Show, hosted by Publishers Weekly. The daylong event featured panel discussions, breakout sessions, and industry mixers.
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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | John Maher |Ed Nawotka |Sophia Stewart
At the fifth annual U.S. Book Show on June 3, hosted by Publishers Weekly at the Academy of Medicine in Harlem for the fifth annual U.S. Book Show, experts from nearly every section of the business drilled down on the many ways the book business is changing in an era increasingly characterized by chasing big books with bigger audiences and the encroachment of artificial intelligence technologies.
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2 months ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Emma Kantor |Ed Nawotka |Diane Roback
The 62nd edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair opened to sunny skies on Monday, March 31, drawing an estimated 1,500 exhibitors from 90 countries and regions around the world. Many of the conversations among publishers and onstage in panels underscored the interconnectedness of children’s books and global politics. Francesco Sedita, president and publisher of Penguin Workshop, summed up the mood of the fair thus far: “Everyone here is in great spirits. We’re happy to talk about what we love.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ed Nawotka |John Maher
Global turmoil permeated the London Book Fair this week, but was mostly muted by the overall enthusiasm of the crowds thronging packed aisles, panels, and staircases at the London Olympia. "I've run a lot of trade shows in a lot of industries. I have never seen a show fill up so fast in my whole life," Adam Ridgway, director of the London Book Fair, told PW. "The thing that caught me out was that by 9:30 Tuesday morning we were full.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ed Nawotka
The first major rights fair of the year has expanded its programming (and its meeting space) and wooed back Chinese publishers for its March 11–13 run.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jim Milliot |Ed Nawotka
President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, as well as a 10% increase to tariffs on goods from China, went into effect on March 4—and although the tariffs had been delayed once before, the publishing and printing industries are still left with more questions than answers as they look for ways to navigate the new levies. While American publishers will now face higher costs, printers in the United States hope that the tariffs will lead to more business.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ed Nawotka |John Maher |Jim Milliot
On January 20, hours after President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, thousands of readers lined up for one of the 1,100 midnight release parties held across the country for Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. The book, which is the third in the TikTok-beloved Empyrean series, received a 2.5 million copy first print run, with one million copies preordered, according to the book’s publisher, Entangled Publishing. Today, many in the industry are wondering: will we see its like again?
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | John Maher |Jim Milliot |Ed Nawotka
When Donald J. Trump first took his seat in the Oval Office in 2017, book publishing had something of an idea of what to expect. The famously litigious real estate magnate and reality TV star’s exploits had been regular tabloidfodder in publishing’s hometown of New York City long before he plunged into politics. Now that Trump is returning to the White House, however, publishers have more than a hunch as to what’s coming—they have the whole road map.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ed Nawotka
Harlequin Trade Publishing, a division of HarperCollins, has announced a strategic reorganization that will consolidate its five imprints into three core imprints: Hanover Square Press, MIRA Books, and Park Row Books. Hanover Square Press will sustain its nonfiction program—covering biography, business, history, journalism, memoir, pop culture, psychology, science, and true crime—while adding horror and fantasy to its existing portfolio of crime, literary, and speculative fiction.
