In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Nathan Harris's Amity, which follows a formerly enslaved brother and sister in the tumultuous aftermath of the Civil War. In its review, PW ...

A strong first half for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 helped HarperCollins overcome softening conditions in the fourth quarter to post a 3% increase in sales in the year, to $2.15 billion ...

IPG has laid off approximately 15 employees last week to, its CEO, Joe Matthews says to re-strategize what to publish and how to promote its list. Group publisher Cynthia Sherry, who oversaw ...

Barnes & Noble Education disclosed late last week that it received a notice from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 4 notifying the company that it could be dropped from the exchange if ...

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California may have the most bookstores, but Montana is tops on a per-capita basis.

Pine & Cedar Books plans to publish “compulsively readable, story-driven novels,” starting next summer, with the first title in a three-book with the 'All the Sinners Bleed' author. Christine ...

Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between Joseph Osmundson. Norton, $16.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-88136-3 ...

With sales of romantasy cooling and adult nonfiction remaining soft, unit sales of print books fell by just over 1% in the first six months of 2025 compared to a year ago.

Onyx Storm was the biggest bestseller in the first six months of 2025 as the standard and deluxe editions of the newest book by Rebecca Yarros combined to sell more than 2 million copies.

E.L. James’s irresistibly salacious novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which morphed from web-published fan fiction into a blockbuster book and movie franchise, is the bestselling book in the U.S. book ...

A year marred by a deadly pandemic that battered the economy and by extraordinary political and racial strife nonetheless saw book sales soar, especially for a handful of major titles.