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The shortlist for the prize for science books for under-14s covers evolution, space, pollination, chemistry and a move to Mars. Young readers in UK schools will pick the winner, due in June 2027.
The Canada Council named 69 finalist books across seven categories in English and French for the awards' 90th year. The 14 winners, who get $25,000 each, will be named Nov. 12.
HarperCollins plans to close its Buffalo, N.Y., warehouse early in 2028 and consolidate North American distribution at a new facility in Brownsburg, Indiana.
Charlotte Wood, Anna Funder and Markus Zusak joined the publishers' and authors' associations before Parliament's AI committee. They asked for opt-in licensing, not a looser copyright law.
On October 19 the Supreme Court said it lacks a quorum in BMG v. Vetter. Justices Sotomayor, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Jackson took no part, and the Fifth Circuit judgment is affirmed.
Tie-in editions of all seven books arrive in November, ahead of Greta Gerwig's Magician's Nephew film on February 12, 2027.
Seven categories honour the publishers, editors, agents, narrators, booksellers and librarians behind romantic fiction. Winners are named in London on November 4.
Higgs's unpublished novel, about a Polish refugee and her baby grand in 1978 Gilgandra, beat 300-plus entries for a $15,000 advance and a HarperCollins deal.
Malcolm Edwards, who published Neuromancer at Gollancz and A Game of Thrones at HarperCollins before two decades at Orion, died on October 3 at 76.
The Wilderness Society has named six winners of its 2026 children's nature book awards, from Tim Winton's Ningaloo to a collection by 28 Northern Territory students.
WIRED reports that HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette staff are using LLMs for publicity copy, agent emails and marketing, often at executives' urging.
Kin, Catch the Devil and Anger Is Only a Shadow win the $50,000 Kirkus Prizes for fiction, nonfiction and young readers' literature.
The National Book Foundation named 25 Finalists across five categories for the 2026 National Book Awards. Winners will be announced November 18 in New York.
Jeffrey Archer, whose novels including Kane and Abel sold more than 300 million copies, died at home on October 5, a day before his final novel, Adam and Eve, was published.
A magistrate judge has recommended certifying a class of more than 30 million Amazon ebook buyers. A less-redacted version of his report was refiled in early October, and Amazon has objected.
Patrick deWitt's Dodge City (Ecco, September 29, 2026) follows a 1967 UCLA dropout driving a Jaguar toward Canada to dodge the Vietnam draft. What the Guardian and Kirkus said.
The Authors Guild wants publishers to drop claims on long out-of-print books and to pay authors when a house failed to register the copyright in time.
Hachette has hired Michael Goldsmith as Little, Brown's vice president and executive director of publicity, a new role, effective October 13.
Two botched scam emails reveal the templates, plug-in fields and step-by-step scripts behind the flattering AI-written pitches flooding authors' inboxes.
The intersection of artificial intelligence and commercial publishing has created a complex landscape where traditional houses act as both eager adopters and fi…
The publishing industry has undergone massive digital transformation over the last decade. While platforms like [Amazon KDP](https://kdp.amazon.
The traditional publishing ecosystem has undergone a radical structural transformation.
The traditional publishing landscape has undergone a radical transformation. When major houses like Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster fo…
The retail battlefield between the traditional publishing conglomerates—Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster—and Amazon has evolved past si…
Large publishers have spent the past several years consolidating, restructuring and, at times, reducing staff. Over the same period, some of the industry's most senior figures have left those companies to build alternatives.
For most of their history, the best-known literary prizes have judged books that reached readers through traditional publishers.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, the first Latino writer to win the PEN/Faulkner and the author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, died in El Paso on July 28. He was 71.
The midlist — once the backbone of traditional publishing — is disappearing. Major publishers are concentrating advances on celebrity memoirs and proven bestsel…
Seven-figure advances, competitive auctions, and international co-publishing deals are shaping the 2026 publishing landscape.
The American publishing industry is, at its core, a story of family businesses that became cultural institutions, then corporate assets.
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