Here are the best publishing news and resource websites as identified in the 28th Annual 101 Best Websites from the May/June 2026 issue of Writer's Digest.

Schmidt, who writes the widely read industry newsletter Publishing Confidential, will bring her classes for authors to Agate’s Publishing Academy next year. Agate also acquired Schmidt’s untitled guid...

Things can't go on like this.

The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer of his reliance on AI.

Is Nonfiction in trouble?

The total number of books published in the U.S. in 2025 jumped 32.5% over 2024, according to statistics compiled by Bowker, led by a boom in self-published titles. The number of traditionally publishe...

If they can't get it right, they should stop publishing it.

Sarah Ferguson had hoped to turn her life story into a lucrative publishing deal in the United States, but insiders claim the plan has hit a firm wall in the American book market.The 66-year-old forme...

The publisher is turning to an industry outsider as expanded entertainment options squeeze the book business.

And what will Coach's book charms do for the industry?

'How to Not Die in Prison' will be published in June by Simon & Schuster, which used to be owned by Paramount.

Plus, an update about Publishing Confidential

ABC's 'The View' is currently under investigation over an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico, after which it didn't meet FCC requirements that would've allowed his opponents equal time.

The book review landscape has been diminishing for a decade. It's time to be realistic about what's truly possible for a book.

Not all publicity is good publicity.

Plus, a personal story from me. Book Therapy will resume next Friday.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Belle Burden's book 'Strangers' is #1 on the NYT Nonfiction Hardcover Bestseller List. Other bestseller lists tell a different story.

Independent bookstore in Linden Hills, Minneapolis, offering fiction, nonfiction, young adult, and Minnesota-made gifts

A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

Podcast Episode · Otherppl with Brad Listi · 01/13/2026 · 1h 21m

Authors often ask me about paying for ads. The truth is, book ad campaigns rarely translate into sales.

America First Legal, founded by Stephen Miller, has asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate Penguin Random House’s DEI policies and programs, which it called “apparent ra...

Terry Finley, the CEO of Books-A-Million, was nice enough to answer some questions.

Things are not always merry and bright for some people during the holidays. Here's what NOT to say to them.

Vanity Fair plans to run an abstract nude portrait of Olivia Nuzzi in its upcoming issue along with an excerpt of Nuzzi's forthcoming book <em>American Canto</em>

PR experts rate responses to DC's latest sex scandal. How are Olivia Nuzzi, Ryan Lizza, RFK Jr., Cheryl Hines, Mark Sanford, and Keith Olbermann handling it?

John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...

When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

A 6-week program to get you and your book ready for publication.

Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...

Ahead of the holiday shopping season, the used books retailer will offer more than 100,000 book titles across a variety of genres, as well as “affordable textbooks,” through Shein’s U.S. marketplace.