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Today’s Book News Thursday, 18th December 2025 People 12/17 Publishers Marketplace’s People column reported a slate of promotions across Macmillan Audio, where Jennifer Donovan became director of editorial, Emily Dyer was promoted to marketing...

Today’s Book News Wednesday, 17th December 2025 Little, Brown buys Annie Barrows’s Ghost Guild Publishers Weekly reported that Little, Brown acquired world rights to Annie Barrows’s new middle‑grade series Ghost Guild. The first book, The Lost...

What a nightmare! Hope you’re all better. Bet it feels so great to be well after being so sick.

Today’s Book News Tuesday, 16th December 2025 French Publishers Association seeks compensation for used book sales French publishers’ association SNE reported that used books make up roughly 20 % of the French market—about €351 million...

so glad you're better now xxx

Thank you so much, everyone, for your good thoughts! Really meant a lot. The bug has gone now, here are my afterthoughts; (1) it’s damnably infectious. If someone in your household gets it, everyone else will too, unless you impose drastic...

I think Jack had this back in September. It may have let him with some longterm effects. Pancreatititis? But he's off to Italy anyway. The town that built a set for his game wants him to design a tourist interface. C heck your DM;s for a lot of...

First quick thoughts… It’s probably in part a pre-emptive move by Amazon to forestall anti-competitive (EU?) lawsuits. Not entirely sure about this, but it’s probably a factor, i.e. consumer “lock-in”. They have a nice, tidy Kindle monopoly and...

It’s about all I was capable of doing :) Thanks, KE! Yes, the death of the mass-market paperback, eh? Pulls you up short, doesn’t it.

For those wondering how to pronounce the name Blathnaid (Full Set - Dublin based publishing house), it is Blo (as in blossom or blonde) - nid.

Today’s Book News Monday, 15th December 2025 Amazon loosens download rules for DRM‑free KDP e‑books From January 2026 Amazon will allow customers who buy Kindle books without digital rights management (DRM) to download files in EPUB or PDF...

Today’s Book News Saturday, 13th December 2025 Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks Mass‑market paperbacks are set to largely vanish from the US trade as ReaderLink will stop distributing them at the end of 2025. Publishers Weekly notes that...

Today’s Book News Friday, 12th December 2025 Amazon Is Loosening Its DRM Policy for Kindle Starting January 20, Amazon will allow Kindle Direct Publishing authors to make their titles DRM‑free and offer downloads in EPUB or PDF format. This...

I thought I’d avoided it, actually - everyone else in the house came down with I but I didn’t… until I did. It’s extraordinarily infectious! The manic-expulsive phase is over, thank the gods, but it’s left me weak as a kitten. Send me a small...