Every story, in chronological order.
The small press’s answer to the blockbuster economy is not to get bigger; it is to get together. Across the independent publishing landscape, a new species of imprint is multiplying: the joint imprint, co-owned…
The subscription box, publishing’s gift-economy darling, has hit the wall that every subscription economy eventually hits: the customer who already has too many subscriptions. After a decade of growth that saw book boxes multiply…
The humblest object in the book — the page — has quietly acquired a radio. Near-field communication tags, the same technology that lets a phone act as a wallet, are being embedded in commercial…
The fastest-growing rights market in the United States speaks Spanish. Rights deals for Spanish-language books — fiction, nonfiction, children’s — into the US market have grown at a pace that has outstripped every other…
The London Book Fair’s announcement of its next edition’s professional programme confirms what the rights market’s drift has been signalling for two seasons: the fair that built its reputation on translation rights is rebalancing…
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…
