Publishers Weekly

06/04/2025

The full-service scouting agency combines the rosters of Rachel Hecht Children’s Scouting’s and Baker Literary Scouting, covering international publishing, film, and TV clients across the adult fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA genres.

06/04/2025

Rex Ogle is the author of more than 100 books, comics, graphic novels, and memoirs—some under the pseudonym Rey Terciero. Here, Ogle reflects on his forthcoming book, Dan in Green Gables, a graphic novel retelling of the beloved novel by L.M. Montgomery.

Rex Ogle reflects on his forthcoming book, 'Dan in Green Gables,' a graphic novel retelling of the children’s classic by L.M. Montgomery.

06/04/2025

The Penguin Random House acquisition machine continues to roll on, with the world’s largest trade publishing announcing it has bought one of the U.K.’s fastest-growing independent publishers, Wonderbly, which has used a direct-to-consumer business model to sell more than 11 million books in 140 countries.

The world’s largest trade publishing announcing it has bought one of the U.K.’s fastest-growing independent publishers, Wonderbly, which has used a direct-to-consumer business model to sell more than 11 million books in 140 countries.

06/04/2025

From copyright and marketing to audiobooks and literary translation, the incursion of artificial intelligence was a hot topic among industry leaders at this year’s U.S Book Show.

From copyright and marketing to audiobooks and literary translation, the incursion of artificial intelligence was a hot topic among industry leaders at this year’s U.S Book Show, held at the New York Academy of Medicine on June 3.

06/04/2025

Nearly 800 publishing professionals converged on the New York Academy of Medicine in Harlem on June 3 for PW’s fifth annual U.S. Book Show, a daylong event featuring panel discussions, breakout sessions, and industry mixers.

06/04/2025

★ “Page-turning, edge-of-the-seat” middle grade series opener THE SCHOOL FOR THIEVES by Peter Burns “will have readers clamoring for the next volume”

Orphaned 13-year-old Tom Morgan has spent years perfecting the art of thievery. With no knowledge of his parents beyond his moth...

06/03/2025

The New York Times Magazine staff writer’s The Gods of New York (Random House, Aug.) surveys the overlapping crises facing New York City in the last four years of the 1980s and profiles the power brokers who defined the era.

The ‘New York Times Magazine’ staff writer’s ‘The Gods of New York’ (Random House, Aug.) surveys the overlapping crises facing New York City in the last four years of the 1980s and profiles the power brokers who defined the era.

06/03/2025

The 11th annual Bay Area Book Festival took place May 31–June 1 in downtown Berkeley, Calif., and featured 275 speakers and 120 exhibitors. The event included author presentations, writing workshops, and the Bookworm Block Party, where exhibitors offered services and displayed wares.

The 11th annual Bay Area Book Festival took place May 31–June 1 in downtown Berkeley, Calif., and featured 275 speakers and 120 exhibitors.

06/03/2025

Belarusian publishers Nadia Kandrusevich, of Koska, and Dmitri Strotsev, of Hochroth Minsk, were jointly awarded the International Publishers Association’s 2025 Prix Voltaire at a ceremony at the World Expression Forum in Lillehammer, Norway, on June 2.

Belarusian publishers Nadia Kandrusevich, of Koska, and Dmitri Strotsev, of Hochroth Minsk, were jointly awarded the International Publishers Association’s 2025 Prix Voltaire at a ceremony at the World Expression Forum in Lillehammer, Norway, on June 2

06/03/2025

Employees of the Brooklyn bookstore and literary hub have won voluntary union recognition from management and will begin contract negotiations in the coming weeks, joining the growing number of booksellers organized under the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

Employees of the Brooklyn bookstore and literary hub have won voluntary union recognition from management and will begin contract negotiations in the coming weeks, joining the growing number of booksellers organized under the RWDSU.

06/03/2025

Ahead of this year’s U.S. Book Show, held at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem, take a tour of some of Harlem’s literary bastions, including one of the nation’s premier research libraries, the historical home of a trailblazing writer, and two mission-driven indie bookstores uplifting readers of all ages.

Ahead of this year’s U.S. Book Show, held at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem, take a tour of some of Harlem’s literary bastions, including one of the nation’s premier research libraries, the historical home of a trailblazing writer,

06/03/2025

Much has happened in Harlem since it first jumped to international literary acclaim in the 1920s. Yet as the stewards of the upper Manhattan neighborhood’s literary institutions look to preserve the past and embrace the future, they say there are plenty more stories to tell.