Open Road Integrated Media’s Ignition program has substantially increased since the start of the pandemic, and profits for its partner publishers are on the rise. (Sponsored)

Blackstone will publish 50 books under the Weird Tales Presents brand over the course of five years, including original novels, anthologies, and compilations.

The behind-the-scenes specialists have never been in higher demand—nor have there ever been so many trying to do the job.

Publisher Chelsea Green and the authors of a controversial book claim that a letter Warren sent to Amazon expressing concern over the company's role in spreading Covid-19 misinformation violates their First Amendment rights.

McCrae, who during her 27-year tenure as director and publisher built the Minneapolis literary nonprofit press into an independent publishing powerhouse, announced that she will retire in June 2022.

Bestselling author Anna Todd’s Frayed Pages multimedia company will team with Wattpad Books to launch Frayed Pages x Wattpad Books, a new cobranded publishing imprint under the recently formed Wattpad Webtoon Book Group.

The audio producer, founded in 2018 by author Malcolm Gladwell and former Slate Group chairman and editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg, has built a slate of more than 25 podcasts since its launch, and is ramping up audiobook production.

In a deal that closed on November 1, Sourcebooks acquired B.E.S. Publishing from Peterson’s Publishing, gaining over 800 titles in the process.

The relaunch will comprise a series of reissued backlist titles and the publication of frontlist fiction.

The Department of Justice has sued to block Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster, arguing that it "would result in substantial harm to authors." Lawyers for PRH said that they expect the case to go to trial sometime in 2022.

Grub Street, Boston’s largest nonprofit writing organization, is taking steps to address community concerns following the recent publication of the 'New York Times Magazine' article “Who is the Bad Art Friend?”

Startups are making automated text-to-speech conversion a reality.

The American publishing arm of Beijing-based publishing conglomerate Thinkingdom Media Group was established last year as that rare thing: a new, literary-minded, well-funded publishing house in the US.

Mitzi Angel, currently senior v-p and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, will succeed Jonathan Galassi as president of the imprint on January 1. Galassi will remain with the imprint as chairman and executive editor.

The 'Believer' will publish its final issue next spring, parent institution the Black Mountain Institute, which is hosted by the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, has announced—six months after the magazine's editor-in-chief resigned amid controversy.

A magistrate judged has denied a bid by Amazon and the Big Five publishers to temporarily stay discovery in a lawsuit that alleges a conspiracy to fix e-book prices. But a new dispute has now arisen over a proposed discovery schedule.

The cosmetic company Mary Kay Inc. has filed a lawsuit against author Jennifer Bickel Cook, alleging that she misappropriated copyrighted material in writing her recent book about the company and its founder, Mary Kay Ash.

'PW' is tracking book publication dates that are changing as a result of recent supply chain issues.

Mango Publishing Group will acquire exclusive rights to publish certain books from White Star in English, while the Italian publisher will acquire identical rights to translate and sell a selection of Mango books in Italian, German, and French.