The Indie Bestseller List – Published Wednesday, January 11, 2023 (for the sales week ended Sunday, January 8, 2023). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.
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PRH-S&S Merger Hurts Authors, DOJ Suit Says
A planned merger between Bertelsmann’s Penguin Random House (PRH) and Simon & Schuster has been blocked by the Department of Justice antitrust division as harmful to authors. On November 2, The DOJ filed a civil suit in the U.S. District Court of Columbia to stop...
News: Open Road Marketer for Authors Posts Profits
NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Road Integrated Media (OR/M), the leading marketing company that provides content discovery and delivers digital experiences through its tech-enabled, data-focused platform, announced results through July 2021,...
Frankfurt Book Fair Shaping Up for October 2021
In-person exhibition on the fairgrounds / Hybrid programme As the leading trade fair for the international publishing and content industry, Frankfurter Buchmesse (20-24 October 2021) is further developing its in-person events and digital offerings. The 73rd edition of...
Indie Bestseller List
The Indie Bestseller List Published Wednesday, August 4, 2021 (for the sales week ended Sunday, August 1, 2021). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org....
Indie Bestseller List
The Indie Bestseller List Published Wednesday, July 28, 2021 (for the sales week ended Sunday, July 25, 2021). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org....
National Book Festival to Kick Off in September
The Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held September 17-26, 2021 with the theme, "Open a Book, Open the World." The festival, featuring both online and in-person events, is an annual literary conference that brings together best-selling authors and...
Word Guild Announces 2021 Awards Short List
MARKHAM, ON, July 9, 2021 – The Word Guild released The 2021 Word Awards Shortlist on Wednesday, honouring the best of Canadian Christian writing. Novelists, columnists, poets and theologians were among the nominees whose names were announced at the live online show....
Scribner to Publish Pulitzer Winner Egan’s New Candy House
NEW YORK – WEBWIRE – Monday, July 5, 2021--Scribner will publish Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Jennifer Egan’s new novel The Candy House on April 5, 2022. The Candy House is the long-rumored and hotly anticipated sibling novel to Egan’s...
UK Investigates Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster Merger
The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.K.’s competition regulator is investigating Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of rival publisher Simon & Schuster, a deal that would create a behemoth in the book industry. The Competition and Markets Authority...
