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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 Three, follows siblings whose botched transition...

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 annually—and that second‑hand purchases have jumped from...

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 don’t want the boat rocked. How will it affect...

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.

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 formats and transfer them across devices. The change...

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 unit sales have plunged from about 131 million in...

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 policy change comes after the company removed USB...

Today’s Book News Thursday, 11th December 2025 Kindle to Offer Downloads for DRM‑Free Titles Starting 20 January 2026, Amazon’s Kindle store will let readers download DRM‑free books in EPUB or PDF formats, making it easier to read purchased titles on different devices. Publishers with existing...

Today’s Book News Wednesday, 10th December 2025 SCOTUS declines to hear Texas library book banning case The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in the case challenging Llano County’s removal of library books, leaving in place a Fifth Circuit ruling that allowed the removals...

I can tell you with great authority – norovirus is no fun :(

Today’s Book News Tuesday, 9th December 2025 DAILY SUMMARY: bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-detail/inclusive-books-for-children-reveals-outstanding-longlist Inclusive Books for Children unveiled its 2025 awards longlist, describing it as “outstanding”; the list features authors including Alex...

Today’s Book News Sunday, 7th December 2025 DAILY SUMMARY: Sophie Kossakowski to head Hachette’s global sales and marketing Kossakowski, formerly with Sourcebooks and HarperCollins, will join Hachette Book Group as senior manager of international sales and marketing on 18 December. Publishers...

I would also love to know who the lawyers were. The press usually doesn’t print that sort of info, tho. I have a feeling I might know who it was. I had dinner with a lawyer friend who made a pile of money out of sometimes very contentious litigation for his clients… I asked him what all that...