As if coping with the ravages of a global pandemic hasn’t made life unpleasant enough, now we’ve all got to talk about Woody Allen. Again. Truer words could not have… Read more »

The “Big Five” publishers dominate the US book market. Together, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan total over 80% of the trade publishing market. Now it… Read more »

Remember way back in that innocent time of September 2018, when an unidentified Trump administration official published a New York Times op-ed titled “I Am Part of the Resistance”? Does… Read more »

Hello! We have returned from our August hiatus. Sun drunk and blissed out, we’re so relaxed that we have nothing to report about the conquering tide of Amazon washing into new… Read more »

All around the world / we’ll go marching / who’s the leader of the club / that’s made for you and me / M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Yes, capitalism’s favorite anthropomorphic mouse continues… Read more »

One of the latest shocks in the #MeToo movement has been the sexual harassment allegations against Sherman Alexie, the National Book Award–winning author of beloved classics The Absolutely True Diary… Read more »

It’s been ten years since Amazon’s Kindle introduced e-books as a major component of the publishing market, and four-ish years since Hachette and Simon & Schuster successfully negotiated with Amazon… Read more »

In a development surprising literally none people, Weinstein Books is officially shitcanned. Hachette Book Group announced in a statement last week that Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s eponymous imprint was terminated… Read more »

While writers and agents and publishers and scouts and readers and booksellers flocked to the Javits Center for BookExpo earlier this month, a petition signed by more than 100 authors… Read more »

The publisher Hachette is suing Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, for breach of contract. According to Ashley Cullins at the Hollywood Reporter, the lawsuit “can… Read more »