Way back at the end of January, we wrote a little ditty about the new kids on the online retail block, Bookshop.org. Back then they were taking it step by step,… Read more »

The headline says it all—Harper Lee once wrote (or at least tried to write) a crime novel. Or at least attempted to. In the recently released Furious Hours, the immaculate… Read more »

We are bearing witness to the rise of the bookstore as “cultural department store.” You’ve seen this phenomenon: in the age of Amazon, bookstores, especially the bigger chains, cannot thrive on selling books alone,… Read more »

According to reporting by Alexandra Alter and Michael Paulson for The New York Times, dozens of community theater productions of Christopher Sergel’s 1990 stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill… Read more »

First reported by Rachel Deahl for Publishers Weekly, Penguin Random House announced last Friday its imprint Spiegel & Grau “is being shuttered” after 14 years of publishing such bestselling authors as… Read more »

Announced last Friday morning, two of Penguin Random House’s (PRH) most successful publishing groups, Crown Publishing Group and Random House, are merging. For the New York Times, Alexandra Alter reports… Read more »

M.I.T. has joined the Boston Review in clearing Junot Díaz of allegations of sexual misconduct, Alexandra Alter reports for the New York Times. Both institutions will keep the author on their staff—as… Read more »

The expanding audiobook market feels a bit like the wild west. It shouldn’t, really — audiobooks have been around for a while, and I thought we had agreed that they… Read more »

As we noted earlier this week, James Comey’s memoir A Higher Loyalty had an historic opening weeks of sales, with more than 600,000 units sold across all formats, and more than… Read more »

Last week, we wrote about Jennifer Calfas’s maybe-not-so-obvious finding that Donald Trump is the “surprising thing” that the top three bestselling books this year have in common. Ryan Teague Beckwith… Read more »