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1 week ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jim Milliot
In a filing handed down late on April 10, the judge overseeing the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy case appears to have sided with Alliance Entertainment in its battle with Universal Distribution and Ad Populum for ownership of the giant distribution company. After initially agreeing to sell its assets to Alliance, Diamond owners abruptly terminated the deal in favor of a lower bid by Universal/Ad Populum, an action that prompted Alliance to sue.
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2 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jim Milliot
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2 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jim Milliot
Days before a court hearing was set to take place April 7 to move ahead with the sale of most of Diamond Comic Distributors assets to Alliance Entertainment (AENT), Diamond owners had a change of heart and are now favoring a new, smaller joint bid by Canadian comics distributor Universal Entertainment and pop culture manufacturer and licensor Ad Populum.
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2 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Claire Kirch |Jim Milliot
On Monday, the United Auto Workers, Local 2110 petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to allow employees at Abrams Books to vote on whether to unionize. Employees who would be eligible to vote include editors, publicists, marketers, production managers, designers, and managing editors, as well as sales, distribution, mailroom, IT, and finance staffers at the publisher.
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2 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jim Milliot
The Trump Administration has imposed a range of tariffs on different countries and goods—but at least for now, books have fared well. Since Trump's executive order implementing the new tariffs was issued under the Cold War–era International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA), numerous categories were eligible for exemptions, including books.
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2 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jim Milliot
The launch of Molly Stern’s Zando has all gone according to plan—or at least to her financial plan. Announced in 2020 and releasing its first books in 2021, the independent publisher ended last year as a profitable company. “We hit my financial projections right on the nose,” Stern told PW. “And they were ambitious.”How the company got there, however, was a bit surprising.
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2 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jim Milliot |Sophia Stewart
On April 2, a number of letters from the National Endowment for the Humanities were sent to arts and culture organizations across the country ending their previously awarded grants.
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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jim Milliot
Unit sales of print books fell 0.9% in the first quarter ended March 29, 2025 from last year at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. Total unit sales were 169.8 million, down from 168.3 million in the first quarter of 2024. Last year’s first quarter was given a boost by an early Easter, which this year doesn’t take place until April 20.
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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jim Milliot
Ingram Content Group has officially launched MediaScout, a new database designed to facilitate book-to-screen adaptations. The tool, which aims to connect film and television industry professionals with books available for screen adaptation, was initially introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair where Ingram was showing a beta version of the platform.
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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jim Milliot
Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder by Dav Pilkey topped the English-language print book charts in Canada last year, according to a research report released by BookNet Canada this week. The retail sales volume as tracked by BNC SalesData, the national sales tracking service for the print English-language trade market in Canada, fell 1.9% in the year, to about C$1.1 billion, and unit sales slipped 3.7%, to just under 48 million copies sold.
