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Today’s Book News Tuesday, 25th November 2025 (London date) Lakeside Book Company buys B&T distribution arm Lakeside Book Company has acquired the distribution arm of Baker & Taylor Publisher Services, including a print‑on‑demand facility in Ashland, Ohio. The company said the deal adds...

Today’s Book News Monday, 24th November 2025 N.Y.C. Presses Come Together for the ‘Labor of Poetry’ Five New York City small presses—Belladonna* Collaborative, Futurepoem, Litmus Press, Winter Editions and World Poetry—formed Poetry Corp., an “informal mutual‑aid” cooperative, to share...

In the most recent Huddle (you should have been there…!) our doughty Huddlers took part in a live, creative challenge: to finish sentences first crafted by distinguished authors… and them we compared the human-produced results with those generated by… a bot! The point is this: I’m hearing a...

We’re playing Beat The Bot in today’s Huddle… Yes, it’s going to be a great game, but also… the future of writing itself may depend on… you…!

Today’s Book News Saturday, 22nd November 2025 (London date) This Week’s Bestsellers: November 24, 2025 James Islington’s epic fantasy follow‑up **The Strength of the Few** debuted at #1 on the hardcover fiction list after selling more than 30 times as many print copies as his first book...

Yeah, I’m still adjusting the sites we crawl to get as full and useful representation of today’s important publishing news as we can, in one overview. I may have overdone it with scholarly publishing, quite a few of the news items aren’t really relevant to us. On the other hand, Irish...

No, these are “film scouts” , not literary agents. Also, “streaming’ means the likes of Netflix, i.e. where there’s a production company involved.

Today’s Book News Friday, 21st November 2025 Reading Is Entertainment: PW Talks with Lissette Mendez Miami Book Fair director Lissette Mendez told *Publishers Weekly* that this year’s fair expected more than sixty thousand attendees and aimed to treat reading as entertainment. She highlighted...

Today’s Book News Thursday, 20th November 2025 Politics Loom Large at 2025 National Book Awards At the 76th National Book Awards in New York, winners including fiction honoree Rabih Alameddine and nonfiction winner Omar El Akkad used their acceptance speeches to address social injustice and...

Today’s Book News Wednesday, 19th November 2025 (London date) Publishing in Color Stays the Course Publishers Weekly reports that the seven‑year‑old Publishing in Color organization remains committed to bringing diverse voices into Christian publishing. Its recent virtual conference drew...

Today’s Book News Tuesday, 18th November 2025 (London date) Stable Distribution adds McSweeney’s and four others Stable Book Group’s joint venture with Hachette Book Group has signed McSweeney’s, Pigna, Gloo Books, Marble Press and Amber Books to its distribution programme. The new clients...

Today's Book News Monday, 17th November, 2025 The Sheikh Zayed Book Award Celebrates its 20th anniversary Publishing Perspectives marks two decades of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, highlighting how the Abu Dhabi-based prize has become a major global platform for Arabic literature, scholarship...

Today's Book News Friday, 14th November, 2025 Webtoon Posts $11 Million Q3 Loss Webtoon Entertainment, which owns Wattpad, reported that third‑quarter revenue rose 8.7% year‑on‑year to $378 million, but higher costs for marketing, personnel and content pushed the company to a net loss of $11.1...

Globe Pequot Adds Another Publisher Globe Pequot Publishing Group acquired nearly all titles from Tucson‑based Rio Nuevo Publishers, known for books on Southwestern arts, crafts, cooking, history and architecture. The purchase, which includes a children’s imprint, turns Rio Nuevo into a Globe...