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DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Red Wheel to Distribute New World Library Mind‑body press Red Wheel/Weiser will take over distribution of New World Library’s roughly 600‑title catalogue from PGW on 1 September. The move aligns two New Age publishers – New World’s list includes Eckhart...

Publishing Industry News Around the Book World: Monday, February 16, 2026 – Publishing Perspectives Publishing Perspectives’ international round‑up spotlighted anti‑piracy crackdowns in India and Italy, Taiwan’s rapid shift towards audiobook streaming and France’s free digital training sessions...

Hard work continues on this ground-breaking innovation that is oh-so-close to release :) A few screenshots to tantalize you… Here’s the default view that your readers will initially see… Before you’ve started to apply some very exciting themes to it… One thing to note is the absence of the...

Publishing Industry News Book Deals: Week of February 16 2026 Publishers Weekly reports that Grand Central preempted world rights to **Blair**, Cecily von Ziegesar’s novel imagining a grown‑up Blair from *Gossip Girl*, while Crown preempted a three‑book series reinventing Nancy Drew as a...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Grand Central preempts Cecily von Ziegesar’s 20‑years‑later Gossip Girl novel The week’s biggest deal saw Grand Central preempt world rights to Blair, a novel by Cecily von Ziegesar set twenty years after the original Gossip Girl series, with publication...

Publishing Industry News Crown, Grand Central Snag Novels Revisiting Beloved Characters as Adults Grand Central pre‑empted world rights to Cecily von Ziegesar’s “Blair”, a novel that imagines the Gossip Girl characters as adults, while Crown acquired a new trilogy by E. Lockhart and...

Daily Book News Thursday, 12th February 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Liate Stehlik promoted to CEO of HarperCollins U.S. Trade HarperCollins elevated Liate Stehlik from running the Morrow Group and children’s division to CEO and publisher of its U.S. trade arm, expanding her...

Daily Book News Wednesday, 11th February 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Trade sales mixed in 2025 while religion sales rose The Association of American Publishers’ StatShot report showed that US trade revenue edged up about 1.1% in 2025 despite adult book sales declining...

Publishing Industry News Study reveals books boost dating appeal among Dutch singles A Dutch survey found that young adults increasingly judge potential partners by the contents of their bookshelves, with more than half associating reading with intelligence and attractiveness. The report...

Just a quick comment. Short answer – No, don't give up - but you do have other options now. Litopia is “destination agnostic”. We’re not here to push one or other alternatives onto writers. We will help you towards whichever destination is right for you. Longer answer… “Misunderstanding the...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Danish students will soon face lawsuits for pirating digital textbooks A Danish anti‑piracy group says it will sue students caught sharing illicit digital textbooks but refused to say how many it plans to target or which platforms it is monitoring. The...

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Last night the Book club spent a fabulous evening with Annie Summerlee… if you were there, I think you’ll agree it was an excellent event. Annie was incredibly open and helpful to everyone. We all left with a smile on our faces, Annie is very inspirational. Success couldn’t happen to a nicer...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Manga publishing looks east as Japan courts India Japanese publishers deployed manga creator Yoshitoki Ōima on a January tour of the New Delhi World Book Fair and Jaipur Literature Festival, positioning India not as a sideline but as the next big manga...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Amazon posts record results Amazon’s latest earnings report showed its AWS cloud division powering a 14% jump in Q4 revenue to $213.4 billion, with overall sales hitting $716.9 billion for 2025 and net income surging to $77.7 billion; CEO Andy Jassy...