PubWest as a model of a successful regional trade group
By Michele Cobb, Executive Director, PubWest The Case for Regional Trade Groups There are thousands of publishers in the U.S., many of them small- to mid-sized shops, with anywhere from 1-100 emplo...
Broaden your publishing knowledge by reading some of these industry-specific books, hand-picked by a publishing expert. From the history of books, to the future of digital publishing, you will have...
BookTok - is this craze here to stay?
From the virtual depths of TikTok, a new community of booklovers has emerged through the hashtag BookTok. BookTok is a growing circle of bibliophiles who post videos recommending and reviewing book...
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Stay on top of the most important industry developments and news updates by signing up for these free newsletters. This list was selectively collated by an industry professional to give a breadth o...
Angela Bole in the Publisher’s Chair
Angela Bole is Chief Executive Officer of Firebrand Group. Prior to this, she was Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), a position she held for 9 years. Wit...
Linda Bennett in the Publisher's Chair
Linda Bennett founded Gold Leaf twenty-one years ago, to provide market research and business development support for the publishing industry. Clients include publishers, booksellers, technological...
From dazzling new debuts to long-awaited returns from bestselling authors, there are a number of brilliant books coming out in 2022. We’ve picked out some of our most-anticipated fiction and non-fi...
Davida Breier in The Publishers Chair
Davida G. Breier was born in Miami, FL. She's spent the last two decades in various roles within the book industry and currently works for Johns Hopkins University Press. Davida lives in Maryland w...
Print-on-demand and the backlist
Publishers are always looking for ways to keep older titles in circulation and make them available to a wider audience. One way they can do this is by using print-on-demand technology, which allows...
The Booker Prize Longlist 2022
The longlist for the Booker Prize 2022 has been announced! The books are: Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo Trust by Hernan Diaz The Trees by Percival Everett Booth by Karen Joy Fowler Treacle Walker b...
BookTok - London Book Fair’s hottest topic!
Supadu had a great week at London Book Fair, meeting new publishers and members of the community as well as seeing old colleagues again for the first time in years - a true breath of fresh air! See...
Lucy Myers in the Publishing Chair
Lucy Myers is Managing Director of visual arts publishers Lund Humphries, where she has worked since 1991. Following a degree in Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge, she cut her teeth i...
Louisa Symington in the Publisher’s Chair
Louisa Symington worked for Penguin Books for 16 years as a Publicist, working with authors such as Alec Guinness, Paul Theroux, John Mortimer and Pat Barker. She now co-runs Books at the Barn, a s...
Lucy McCarraher in the Publisher’s Chair
LUCY McCARRAHER started her first publishing company while she was still at university and has worked in publishing and the media ever since. She is the Founder of Rethink Press, the UK’s premier h...
Influencers and the rise of online book clubs
If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that people like to read. Today, it is estimated that there are more than 5 million book club members in the U.S. alone. However, with the post-p...
Bookshop.org - what is it and should you be using it?
Overview Bookshop.org is a UK based corporation with the mission to “financially support local, independent bookstores”. The company gives almost all profits from online book sales (+/- 30% of cove...
Nick Newlin in the Publisher's Chair
Nick Newlin has been entertaining children of all ages for 30 years with a comedy juggling act. He spent 20 years as a Teaching Artist with Folger Shakespeare Library in DC, which led to his book s...
Glowing book sales in Nielsen's 2021 report
Nielsen’s 2021 BookScan report brings an encouraging sigh of relief and renewed hope for publishers as book sales soared across the UK and other parts of the world. UK bookshops re-opened in April ...