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Daily Book News Thursday, 8th January 2026 Publishing Industry News B&T Liquidation Firm Holds Closeout Sale The GA Group is selling more than 465,000 books left from Baker & Taylor’s liquidation, with the stock valued at roughly $7.8 million; offers were due by the end of 7 Jan, signalling...

Daily Book News Wednesday, 7th January 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Religion publishers snap up suspense, midlife and parenting books HarperCollins Christian Publishing acquired a romantic‑suspense trilogy, WaterBrook signed a two‑book project on navigating midlife...

Daily Book News Tuesday, 6th January 2026 Publishing Industry News Book Deals: Week of January 5, 2026 The latest deal round‑up sees Ibram X. Kendi’s nonfiction manifesto Chain of Ideas picked up by One World, Emma Donoghue’s dystopian Blaze snapped up by Summit, Dell preempting Lilly Lu’s...

Daily Book News Monday, 5th January 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Book Deals: Week of January 5, 2026 One World bought Ibram X. Kendi’s “Chain of Ideas” on the spread of Great Replacement theory, Summit pre‑empted Emma Donoghue’s dystopian pigeon‑narrated novel “Blaze,” and...

Daily Book News Sunday, 4th January 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Post-B&T, Vendors Jostle for the Library Market After wholesaler Baker & Taylor’s closure left libraries scrambling, vendors like Amazon Business, Barnes & Noble, Ingram and Libraria rushed to fill the gap...

Daily Book News Monday, 28th December 2025 Copymight Coalition Forms to Tackle AI Copyright Challenges A group dubbed the Copymight Coalition launched to pursue litigation and collective licensing deals against generative‑AI firms that scrape copyrighted work. It aims to help independent...

From ‘Mona’s Eyes’ to ‘Theo of Golden’: This Year’s Surprise Hit Novels These days, most best sellers are written by authors with household names. Not these five breakout books...

Today’s Book News Saturday, 27th December 2025 PublisHer and Sharjah Publishing City unite to advance women publishers PublisHer signed a memorandum of understanding with Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone to support women‑owned publishing companies. The deal offers incentives like streamlined...

Today’s Book News Tuesday, 23rd December 2025 Book industry M&A in 2025: key deals and trends A Publishers Weekly report on mergers and acquisitions noted that 2025 saw significant deals such as Lakeside Book Company’s purchase of Baker & Taylor Publisher Services after ReaderLink abandoned...

Today’s Book News Monday, 22nd December 2025 Mary Anne Carter returns to lead the National Endowment for the Arts The U.S. Senate confirmed Mary Anne Carter to a second term as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. Carter previously led the NEA and championed programs such as Big Read...

Today’s Book News Sunday, 21st December 2025 Unseen Tennessee Williams radio play published in literary magazine Tennessee Williams wrote a horror radio play called **The Strangers** during his college years; the tale is filled with stormy weather and spectral figures. The play has been...

Today’s Book News Saturday, 20th December 2025 HarperCollins drops David Walliams following misconduct investigation The Guardian reported that HarperCollins decided it would not publish further titles by David Walliams after an internal investigation into allegations he harassed junior female...

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 director and Samantha Edelson moved up to...

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...

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...