Publishers Weekly

10/16/2025

The Emmy-winning actor and author will host the 76th annual ceremony, set for November 19. Grammy winner Corinne Bailey Rae will be the featured musical guest.

10/16/2025

Cullen, who worked at the American Booksellers Association for 35 years before retiring in January 2022, died at 69 earlier this month. His memorial service will be held on November 2 at the Katonah Village Library in New York.

Cullen, who worked at the American Booksellers Association for 35 years before retiring in January 2022, died at 69 earlier this month. His memorial service will be held on November 2 at the Katonah Village Library in N.Y.

10/16/2025

Author Paul Young revisits the scene of his 2007 blockbuster novel with Return to the Shack: A Journey into Redemption coming out October 2026 from Worthy, an imprint of Hachette.

10/16/2025

Hottel, who has worked at Washington, D.C.–based indie bookstores since 2012, is the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association’s incoming executive director, succeeding Eileen Dengler. She starts her new role in 2026.

10/16/2025

The two companies have long histories serving the school library market and are now gearing up to expand their services to the public library sector following the collapse of Baker & Taylor. Follett CEO Britten Follett called public libraries “the perfect space for us to grow and a natural extension of our business.”

The two companies have long histories serving the school library market and are now gearing up to expand their services to the public library sector following the collapse of Baker & Taylor.

10/16/2025

The French comics publisher, best known for its SFF graphic novels, will liquidate its assets and eventually cease its U.S. operations, after celebrating its 50th anniversary last year.

10/16/2025

The third annual Frankfurt Kids Conference, held October 15, addressed the importance of engaging young readers in times of global unrest. Lawrence Schimel, author and literary translator, reprised his role as moderator. “We want to show that children’s book publishing is an important part of citizenship,” he told PW ahead of the event.

This year’s Frankfurt Kids Conference will address the importance of engaging young readers in times of global unrest.

10/16/2025

Núria Cabutí of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial and Chantal Restivo-Alessi of HarperCollins International discussed how the two publishing giants are addressing the industry’s evolving landscape, from acquisitions to AI.

10/16/2025

The Newbery Honoree ventures onto chilling territory in her latest middle grade novel, Outside, in which a girl being raised inside a walled compound doesn’t realize how isolated and abnormal her life is until she encounters the outside world for the first time.

In the latest middle grade novel by Jennifer L. Holm, a girl being raised inside a walled compound doesn’t realize how isolated and abnormal her life is until she encounters the outside world for the first time.

10/16/2025

Yezanira Venecia at Atria bought North American rights, at auction, to Ron’s Face to Face duology from Johanna Castillo at Writers House. The two novels, about an heiress and her bodyguard, will be released in fall 2026 and spring 2027, respectively.

10/16/2025

Rachael Davis-Featherstone “explores different types of discrimination at play within college application processes” in her YA novel OXFORD BLOOD, a “dark academia thriller set against the backdrop of a fictional institution”

Davis-Featherstone (I Am Not a Prince) explores different types of discrimination at play within college application processes i...