After working for two corporate publishers, de La Martinière started his own house in 1992. Five years later, he acquired Abrams Books, and in 1998 merged his company with Média-Participations to form one of France's largest book publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
Speakers at the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting on May 8 agreed that preventing tech companies from using copyrighted material to train AI is essential to the industry’s future. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
Speakers at the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting on May 8 agreed that preventing tech companies from pirating copyrighted material to train AI is essential to the industry’s future. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Thessaloniki International Book Fair had programming and exhibition contributions from its sister book fair in Bologna. The post Bologna Book Fair’s ‘Nearby Horizons’ at Thessaloniki appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-05-12 02:31:46 UTC ]
A Zora Neale Hurston classic, an award-winning YA, a Reese Witherspoon book club pick, domestic suspense, and more of today's best book deals Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-05-10 11:30:00 UTC ]
Acclaimed author Jill Bialosky examines the messy house of memoir, including how important the structure is to the story memoirists tell. The post The Messy House of Memoir appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2025-05-09 16:26:53 UTC ]
William Stout bookstore is a legendary home to design and architecture books. Now, it’s revealing an updated brand courtesy of Jony Ive’s firm LoveFrom. Since 1974, William Stout Architectural Books in San Francisco’s Jackson Square has been one of the city’s most iconic destinations for its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-05-09 13:00:00 UTC ]
In The Lilac People, my debut novel about trans people in Weimar Berlin and Nazi Germany, I have a side character so small, they’re downright tertiary. Dora Richter has no speaking role, nor does she have any impact on the plot. And yet she’s included because she’s important, and she was real.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2025-05-09 11:10:00 UTC ]
“Sleep,” the debut novel by Honor Jones, moves back and forth in time between a 35-year-old mother’s present and her disturbing, unresolved past. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-05-09 09:00:05 UTC ]
In 1859, Harriet Wilson published Our Nig. This forgotten novel was the first book published by a Black woman in the United States. Wilson’s main character, Frado, is parentified too young and then becomes a mother too soon. This traumatic experience is widely caricatured in global literature,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-05-09 08:58:35 UTC ]
In 1987, I got a job at the famous Strand bookstore in Union Square. My ska band, the Boilers, rehearsed down the block at a place called Giant Studios, and I stopped in the Strand one day with every intention to steal a book but instead decided to ask if any positions were open. Every […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-05-09 08:58:29 UTC ]
Publishing execs pushed back on tariff and macroeconomic climate fears in Q1 2025 earnings calls, expressing confidence that their businesses would grow this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2025-05-09 04:01:00 UTC ]
An inside look at the publication process for the National Book Award winner’s latest novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Virginia Library Association’s fierce former leader has big plans for her new role as associate executive director of the American Library Association’s Office of Public Policy and Advocacy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins Christian Publishing has moved Melinda Bouma and Philip Nation up its executive leadership ladder as it readies for the retirement of SVP and group publisher John Kramp in December. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Ana Huang tops our trade paperback list and has the #1 book in the country with King of Envy, book five in her spicy Kings of Sin billionaire romance series. Plus Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures, a handsell favorite, gets its paperback release, and Natasha Wing’s Night Before... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
There are no biographic books—yet—on the first American to be named pope, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost. But Catholic publishers and journalists practiced at on-the-spot papal biographies are already racing to research and write those first books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
“Tonight, the White House informed Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden that she has been relieved of her position,” a spokesperson confirmed in an email to PW on May 8. Hayden was the first woman and first Black person to head the nation’s library. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Maureen O’Brien, who worked as an editor at Publishers Weekly from 1987 to 1996, died on April 12. Her colleagues remember her as a force of nature who loved nothing more than chasing a good story. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
In her latest novel, the bestselling author examines the relationship between money and morals while satirizing an affluent social set with which she’s very familiar Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]