The winter months are typically a lull on the publishing calendar, but not this year.

In the world of the Violet Thorne, alliances are made and broken, and the imaginary becomes real. And just like the game, indie publishing turns out to require creativity, collaboration, and commitment to a shared world.

The Macmillan CEO insisted the embargo wasn’t designed to ‘punish’ libraries but was an honest effort to correct an ‘imbalance in the publishing ecosystem.’

“In a saturated marketplace, there’s not that much new white space – it’s really about being smarter, working faster, and looking for opportunities. Companies that have the most appetite for exploration are doing the best right now.”

Free speech advocates and librarians sounded the alarm over a bill proposed in Missouri that seeks to establish ‘parental library review boards’ as a condition of state library funding.

“There’s almost literally nothing in a modern library that doesn’t involve technology in some sense.”

The AI Age for publishers is officially underway, says PW’s Andrew Albanese. Online tools are available that can do for free what Captions does – create an AI-generated transcript of a book or TV show.

If you’re wondering who is the insurgent publisher, then maybe you should ask Alexa.

Booksellers are, ‘in the business of community,’ says Allison Hill, ABA’s new CEO.

The app watches [students’] preferences for different kinds of materials, different kinds of resources, and we map that back to our understanding about where you might need more conceptual help or where you might need more computational help.