This week we look back at our 2001 interview with Jason Epstein.

Midwest publishers are optimistic that sales gains in 2021 will carry into 2022 despite supply chain issues.

When Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians founded Melville House 20 years ago, they had no idea their small press would eventually become one of the country’s most respected independent publishers. Yet here they are.

In February 1918, Little, Brown touted the success of a new book about WWI—in spite of freight delays and other supply chain problems.

The dawn of AI-enabled audiobook narration has led to fierce industry debate.

The 3rd Thing, a small press in Olympia, Wash., was set up to be a “publisher of necessary alternatives,” and in that, its list delivers.

The trends most likely to impact book publishers in 2022 include higher costs resulting from supply chain disruptions, and book consumers continuing to shift toward online shopping and digital content consumption.

Penguin Random House has reorganized and expanded its independent bookselling sales teams and created a new sales group to sell adult titles from PRH distribution clients to indie accounts. The change is being made, the publisher said, to deepen its relationships with independent booksellers.

Andy Hunter, one of the book business's foremost jacks of all trades, will step down from his position as publisher of Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press on February 18, with COO Alyson Forbes set to step into the role of interim publisher.

As Penguin Random House and the Department of Justice continue to prepare for an August trial in which PRH hopes to block the government’s effort to kill its acquisition of Simon & Schuster, professionals throughout the industry are finding themselves pulled into the legal fray.

In May 2021, Penguin Random House launched a new marketing effort under the hashtag #AllWaysBlack. Over 26.3K followers and nearly a year later, the channel will expand in a number of ways.

This week we’ve got a 1921 cover advertisement from Alfred A. Knopf, thanking the industry for its support of his then-new Borzoi Books.

The AAP reports gains in all publishing categories last year.

Jamie Raab has stepped down as president of Celadon Books to become publisher-at-large at Macmillan. Deb Futter will be Celadon's new president and publisher. Raab and Futter launched Celadon together in 2017.

Michael Pietsch, CEO of Hachette Book Group, has been elected as chairman of the board of the Association of American Publishers for the 2022-2023 term.

One hundred years ago, the establishment of the John Newbery Medal was announced in 'PW.'

The FSG Poetry Anthology, which pubbed in November, looks back at the press’s formidable poetry list.

Publishers discuss how their new and upcoming titles consider the needs of women and girls.

In the first installment of our yearlong weekly series presenting articles from the 'PW' archive, we have the first page of the first story in the first issue of 'Publishers Weekly,' from Jan. 18, 1872.

Looking back on PW’s adult lists in 2021 finds shifts among the Big Five and some gains for indie presses.