July 2026
The pre-order campaign — once the publisher’s digital marketing instrument, conducted on the platforms and counted in algorithms — has moved into the bookshop, and the independents who adopted it early are discovering that…
The crime writer’s second act has found its medium. Across the genre, established novelists are migrating — in many cases commuting — into true-story podcasting, adapting the narrative instincts that built their book careers…
The least visible cost in the book’s journey — the premium that insures its journey — is finally coming down. Supply-chain insurance rates, which spiked to levels that reshaped publisher economics during the convulsions…