Publishing industry

Have you read Victoria Helen Stone's False Step? No? Surprising, given that it's a best seller, and that you clicked on an article about books and publishing-I thought you were more widely read. Surely you've at least gotten through Loreth Anne White's The Dark Bones? Julianne MacLean's A Fire Sparkling? Claire McGowan's What You Did?  Read more

Five members of the book publishing and bookselling industry appeared Tuesday at hearings being conducted by the U.S. Trade Representative over the Trump administration's proposal to impose a 25% tariff on $300 billion of goods imported from China, including books.  Read more

Last October here at Publishing Perspectives, I wrote about starting my new publishing house-actually more like a publishing room - Mensch Publishing.  Read more

Mystery author Kellye Garrett found out that her publisher, Midnight Ink, an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide, would be closing to new author submissions next year on the same day the news was announced publicly in October, when she received an email from the publisher.

Walking the halls of the Frankfurt Book FairWorld's largest trade fair for books; held annually mid-October at Frankfurt Trade Fair, Germany; First three days exclusively for trade visitors; general public can attend last two. is always a mixed experience. The sheer size of the industry is daunting, as is the unbridled optimism of so many publishers that their stands will attract the business they need to survive. It's also a tad depressing to realize that most of the books on display will probably prove to be unprofitable.  Read more