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Audiobooks Keep Growing While Ebooks Slide
AAP's first-quarter StatShot has digital audio up 15.9 percent and ebooks down 5 — the format story that keeps rewriting authors' rights sheets.
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The daily book trade file: reported deals, imprint launches and shutdowns, editorial and agency personnel changes, prize announcements and policy shifts on submissions. Short entries, dated and sourced. For authors, agents and publishing staff tracking where the industry moved this week.
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What a Book Publicist Actually Does
An imprint publicist carries twenty or more titles a season and buys none of the coverage — the profession, minus the mythology on both sides.
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Pulitzer 2026: Angel Down Takes Fiction
Daniel Kraus's World War I novel — by a writer rooted in horror — wins the fiction Pulitzer, with Jill Lepore, Yiyun Li, and Amanda Vaill among the letters honorees.
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Spring's Literary Awards Land in New York
PEN America handed out its 62nd awards on March 31 and the National Book Critics Circle followed on March 26 — a compressed season that already shapes the year's lists.
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Barnes & Noble's 60-Store Year Is Underway
The chain's 2026 expansion — announced at 60 new stores — is opening across the map, and the shelf space is the story for writers.
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London Book Fair 2026: The Last Olympia Edition
The fair runs 10–12 March at Olympia London — its final year in Kensington before the move to ExCeL, and a working writer's guide to what actually happens there.
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The Anthropic Settlement, for Writers
A $1.5 billion copyright settlement, an open claims window, and AI clauses arriving in book contracts — the working writer's short version.
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How Publishers Decide Print Runs
A first printing is a bet placed months before publication — on pre-orders, comparison titles, and how hard the imprint is willing to push.