Just as booksellers are inundated with AI slop and publishing is reckoning with suspicions of AI-written books, academic publishing is facing similar issues—and their approaches to the problem, includ...

The Hachette Workers Coalition, the body of workers unionizing Hachette Book Group, says the publisher has denied voluntary recognition. The Coalition will proceed with an election, a yes or no vote o...

After multiple lawsuits brought by coalitions of authors against AI companies, now a coalition of book publishers has brought a suit as well. Five publishers, joined by one author, have filed a lawsui...

After a longer than expected search, Simon & Schuster has hired Greg Greeley, 62, as their new ceo, effective immediately. Jonathan Karp remains with the company as publisher of the new Simon Six impr...

Penguin Press founder, president and editor-in-chief Ann Godoff died on Tuesday evening, from complications of bone cancer. She was 76. Penguin Press publisher Scott Moyers wrote, “Ann’s impact on Ame...

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Authors have been fighting diligently to limit the encroachment of generative AI in courts and in contracts and now there is a new front in those battles as Amazon has quietly helped themselves to tho...

Lakeside Book Company announced Friday afternoon that it has acquired Baker & Taylor Publisher Services. The company notes, “Lakeside Book expands its service offering to include distribution and orde...

For the first time in decades, there’s a challenge to the hegemony of the biggest trade publishers in the US. As Sourcebooks continues to grow, it is now the fifth largest publisher in the country by ...

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The full filing of journalist and author Michael Wolff’s lawsuit again first lady Melania Trump is now available. He seeks declaratory judgement that statements Mrs. Trump threatened to sue him over —...

Baker & Taylor will be closing their business, after a planned acquisition of their assets by Readerlink fell through last month. Operations will cease by January 1, according to online posts from for...

Harper UK ceo since 2013 Charlie Redmayne has resigned his position. No further details were provided about his abrupt departure. Group managing director for the Adult Commercial Divisions Kate Elton ...

Quirk Productions, which has been on an acquisitions pause since early this summer after “facing marketplace and operational challenges for the past few years,” has been acquired by Andrews McMeel Pub...

Lawyer Robert Barnett, 79, died on September 26 in Washington, D.C. Barnett represented many politicians and other high-profile authors for book deals, including James Patterson, Hillary Rodham Clinto...

The Booker Prize named its shortlist, with the winner to be announced on November 10. Two of the titles have not been published in the US yet. THE LAND IN WINTER is currently scheduled for 11/4, but Europa is talking to printers to see if it can be moved up. THE REST OF OUR LIVES is schedule to be published 1/13/26.

In keeping with the court’s deadlines, plaintiffs’ counsel and Anthropic filed numerous additional materials on Tuesday. The attachments here show the proposed Claim Form and the proposed Long-Form No...

Longtime children’s book agent Elizabeth Harding has acquired Curtis Brown from Tim Knowlton and Ginger Knowlton. Tim Knowlton will “step away from full-time work… sometime soon” to serve as chairman ...

Following the letter posted online by the Archway Editions team announcing that they have all left the imprint, Daniel Power who owns the imprint through powerHouse Books in Brooklyn told Publishers L...

Writ large, the Anthropic settlement is a huge win for creators, comprising both the largest copyright infringement settlement ever as well as a rare victory over the marauding tech companies that hav...

Further to Monday’s surprise hearing, when Northern California District Court Judge William Alsup declined to provide preliminary approval for the Anthropic copyright infringement settlement due in pa...

Copyright Office director Shira Perlmutter, who was removed by the Trump administration in May, will have her job reinstated while her lawsuit over her firing moves forward. In July, a district court ...

Following the unveiling of expanded Dealmakers lists targeting publishers of different size and the people who do business with them, we continue our big feature launch week with “Top Deals,” another ...

On Sunday District Court Judge William Alsup told the attorneys in a letter he was “disappointed that counsel have left important questions to be answered in the future,” expressing broad concern abou...

Our development team has been busy all year and as hinted earlier this summer, we are excited to announce our biggest single-week ever of new feature launches at Publishers Marketplace. First up is th...

Anthropic has settled the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by a class of authors for at least $1.5 billion, plus interest. The proposed settlement, once approved by the court, will be split amon...

Authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson have filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California against Apple for copyright infringement using their books to train its LLM. The la...

On social media, a rash of authors have reported an initial finding that their publishers may not have formally registered copyright for their books with the US Copyright Office as stipulated by contr...

Bertelsmann reported results for the first half of 2025 on Thursday morning, with sales at Penguin Random House of €2.322 billion up €46 million, or 2 percent, lifted by the company’s continuing acqui...

Simon & Schuster CEO for the past five years Jonathan Karp will step down from his leadership position once a replacement is selected, when he will become publisher of a new Simon Six imprint. He says...

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Viewers of Tuesday night’s Buzz Books Romance panel got an early peek at five swoon-worthy forthcoming books via lively discussions between their authors and editors. It was a diverse group of titles ...

There’s still time to register to attend our Buzz Books Romance online panel event, happening tomorrow night (Tuesday, August 12) at 7pm Eastern. You’ll hear from the following authors discussing thei...

Last week the Associated Press alerted its freelance book reviewers that the outlet would be ending its weekly reviews, starting September 1. The AP will “continue covering books as stories” which wil...

Enjoy, at least for a brief moment, that AI company Anthropic’s legal posturing expressing outright existential panic, as it filed a petition in early August with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fo...

James Patterson and investigative journalist Vicky Ward (his co-author on THE IDAHO FOUR) are writing a new book on the “polarizing case of Luigi Mangione,” who murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Tho...