These books are essential American reads, according to Publishers Weekly

Publisher’s Weekly has spoken. The weekly trade news magazine for publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents has ...
Forbes

National Library Week Arrives As Book Publishers Mount Legal Defense Of Libraries

It’s National Library Week. This year’s theme is “Drawn to the Library,” and the American Library Association’s website declares, "Stories and art draw us together, inspiring all of us to discover our ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Book reviews are an endangered species. So this independent bookstore decided to start publishing its own.

When The Washington Post’s management axed Book World in February, it wasn’t just one casualty among hundreds of layoffs; it ...
USA Today

I spent $65 on two books. Is reading becoming a luxury?

While book prices have risen, they have historically not kept pace with inflation compared to other goods. Publishers receive a small fraction of a book's cover price after retailers, distribution, ...
New York Magazine

Nonfiction Book Publishers Aren’t Remotely Ready for AI

Steven Rosenbaum started writing his book The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality in 2022, around when ChatGPT launched. Initially he didn’t use it at all, “But as the writing moved forward into ...
CNN

The five biggest book publishers in the US are suing Iowa over its book ban law

Several publishing houses joined bestselling authors and Penguin Random House this week in a federal lawsuit challenging an Iowa state law that bans certain books in schools and limits teachings on ...