Sophia Stewart

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Sophia Stewart

Business is booming at Bloomsbury Publishing, the largest independent trade house in the U.K. For several years running, the London-based publisher had notched double-digit revenue gains, hitting nearly half a billion dollars for the most recent fiscal year. The primary engine behind this precipitous rise? Bloomsbury’s once-modest U.S. division, now a powerhouse all its own.

3 weeks ago | buff.ly | Sophia Stewart

Business is booming at Bloomsbury Publishing, the largest independent trade house in the U.K. For several years running, the London-based publisher had notched double-digit revenue gains, hitting nearly half a billion dollars for the most recent fiscal year. The primary engine behind this precipitous rise? Bloomsbury’s once-modest U.S. division, now a powerhouse all its own.

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.

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.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Sophia Stewart

Over the past few years, Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo, cofounders of the Brooklyn-based editorial studio and small press Hagfish, have been building a spreadsheet of what they call “under-published women”—writers who have been unduly neglected by contemporary publishers. That list is now something of a lodestar for these literary entrepreneurs.