In a move that brings together two publishers in New Age and related fields, Red Wheel/Weiser will take over distribution for New World Library from PGW September 1, 2026. New World is best known for publishing The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and other ... See more
Editor and literary agent Will Murphy died of a heart attack on February 1 at his home in New York City. He was 57. At the time of his death, Murphy was an agent specializing in nonfiction at Folio Literary Management, which he joined in September 2021. I... See more
The decision made this winter by ReaderLink to stop distributing mass market paperback books at the end of 2025 was the latest blow to a format that has seen its popularity decline for years. According to Circana BookScan, mass market unit sales plunged f... See more
Exploding sales in AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing business, led to a 14% increase in sales in the fourth quarter with revenue hitting $213.4 billion. Net income rose to $21.2 billion from $20.0 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024. AWS had its biggest inc... See more
The Association of American Publishers continued its fight this week to allow two of its members, Hachette Book Group and Cengage, to join a class action copyright infringement lawsuit against Google and its generative AI product Gemini. The lawsuit was f... See more
