Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is a weekly trade publication in the United States that caters to publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Founded in 1872, it has maintained the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling." With 51 issues released annually, the magazine primarily focuses on providing book reviews.

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Layoffs Hit Edelweiss

20 hours ago | publishersweekly.com | Claire Kirch

Approximately six months after the Montreal-based Valsoft Corporation acquired Above the Treeline, the parent company of the digital platform Edelweiss, 15% of the Edelweiss workforce has been laid off.
Four Questions for Calista Brill

1 day ago | publishersweekly.com | Amanda Ramirez

Calista Brill—picture book author and editorial director at First Second Books—makes her graphic novel debut with middle grade comic Creaky Acres, illustrated by Nilah Magruder. Star equestrian Nora is sad to leave behind her friends upon moving to the rural town of Greenville. There, she butts heads with the owner of Creaky Acres, the rundown barn where she houses her horse, Hay Fever. And as the only Black kid in her new class, she’s bombarded with microaggressions from her peers.
Between the Covers at 50: PW Talks with Jennifer Ball

5 days ago | publishersweekly.com | Claire Kirch

How did you come to own the store? I was a school librarian and teacher for years in Nashville, Tenn. Our sons moved to Telluride after college, and my husband noticed that the bookstore and coffee shop next to it, in the same building, were for sale. We asked our sons what they thought about us buying them and moving here, and they were like, do it. It was really sweet, because it’s a small town, and they’re in their 20s. So we moved out here, and bought both shops in 2021.
What’s a Bookseller to Do with BISAC Codes?

5 days ago | publishersweekly.com | Claire Kirch

To wrap up 2024, the Book Industry Study Group updated its list of Book Industry Standards and Communications (BISAC) codes, used to standardize subject categories for books in the North American market, by adding 223 new headings and adjusting 129 existing codes.
Book Deals: Week of April 21, 2025

5 days ago | publishersweekly.com | John Maher

Eric Chinski and Alex Star at Farrar, Straus and Giroux bought world English rights, at auction, to The AGI Chronicles by New York Times tech columnist and Hard Fork podcast cohost Kevin Roose (pictured l.) from Sloan Harris and Kari Stuart at CAA.
The Irresistible Allure of Books About Bookstores

5 days ago | publishersweekly.com | Claire Kirch

Earlier this year, American Booksellers Association CEO Allison Hill praised independent booksellers for “providing space for readers to discover books, passionate championing of debut and diverse authors, authentic third-place experiences, personal book recommendations, and character and personality in neighborhoods.” What she didn’t mention is that indies are inspiring authors, too—as a spate of new books across categories about bookstores and their impact can attest.
André Aciman: Hopeless Romantic

5 days ago | publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk

André Aciman is a romantic—if a reluctant one—who writes about the joy of finding love and the fleeting nature of amorous entanglements. “I’m a very cruel person, don’t be fooled, but by and large I am romantic,” Aciman says over Zoom from his Manhattan dining room, where he occasionally works. “There is something magical that can happen between two individuals.
A New Bookseller Celebrates Her Bookstore’s 50th Anniversary

5 days ago | publishersweekly.com | Claire Kirch

How did you come to own the store? I was a school librarian and teacher for years in Nashville, Tenn. Our sons moved to Telluride after college, and my husband noticed that the bookstore and coffee shop next to it, in the same building, were for sale. We asked our sons what they thought about us buying them and moving here, and they were like, do it. It was really sweet, because it’s a small town, and they’re in their 20s. So we moved out here, and bought both shops in 2021.
PW Bookstore of the Year 2025: Source Booksellers

5 days ago | publishersweekly.com | Claire Kirch

Introducing the four bookstore owners participating in a keynote presentation on Black bookselling at Winter Institute 2025 in Denver, Donya Craddock, co-owner of Dock Bookshop in Fort Worth, Tex., introduced panelist Janet Webster Jones by proclaiming, “All hail to the queen, Ms. Janet.” Jones, widely admired in the bookselling world, is the owner with her daughter, Alyson Jones Turner, of Source Booksellers in Detroit—which is PW’s Bookstore of The Year.
A Trio of Middle Grade Novels Morph into Picture Books

6 days ago | publishersweekly.com | Sally Lodge |Peter Little

Familiar characters from three acclaimed middle grade novels will soon make return appearances, this time in the pages of picture books. Katherine Applegate revives her spunky aquatic mammal in Odder: An Otter’s Story, featuring art by Charles Santoso, due from Feiwel and Friends on April 29. Introduced in Lynda Mullaly Hunt’s Fish in a Tree, neurodiverse fourth grader Oliver stars in Wish in a Tree, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter, which Nancy Paulsen Books will release on May 20.