Baker & Taylor will be closing their business, after a planned acquisition of their assets by Readerlink fell through last month. Operations will cease by January 1, according to online posts from for...

Harper UK ceo since 2013 Charlie Redmayne has resigned his position. No further details were provided about his abrupt departure. Group managing director for the Adult Commercial Divisions Kate Elton ...

Quirk Productions, which has been on an acquisitions pause since early this summer after “facing marketplace and operational challenges for the past few years,” has been acquired by Andrews McMeel Pub...

Lawyer Robert Barnett, 79, died on September 26 in Washington, D.C. Barnett represented many politicians and other high-profile authors for book deals, including James Patterson, Hillary Rodham Clinto...

The Booker Prize named its shortlist, with the winner to be announced on November 10. Two of the titles have not been published in the US yet. THE LAND IN WINTER is currently scheduled for 11/4, but Europa is talking to printers to see if it can be moved up. THE REST OF OUR LIVES is schedule to be published 1/13/26.

In keeping with the court’s deadlines, plaintiffs’ counsel and Anthropic filed numerous additional materials on Tuesday. The attachments here show the proposed Claim Form and the proposed Long-Form No...

Longtime children’s book agent Elizabeth Harding has acquired Curtis Brown from Tim Knowlton and Ginger Knowlton. Tim Knowlton will “step away from full-time work… sometime soon” to serve as chairman ...

Following the letter posted online by the Archway Editions team announcing that they have all left the imprint, Daniel Power who owns the imprint through powerHouse Books in Brooklyn told Publishers L...

Writ large, the Anthropic settlement is a huge win for creators, comprising both the largest copyright infringement settlement ever as well as a rare victory over the marauding tech companies that hav...

Further to Monday’s surprise hearing, when Northern California District Court Judge William Alsup declined to provide preliminary approval for the Anthropic copyright infringement settlement due in pa...

Copyright Office director Shira Perlmutter, who was removed by the Trump administration in May, will have her job reinstated while her lawsuit over her firing moves forward. In July, a district court ...

Following the unveiling of expanded Dealmakers lists targeting publishers of different size and the people who do business with them, we continue our big feature launch week with “Top Deals,” another ...

On Sunday District Court Judge William Alsup told the attorneys in a letter he was “disappointed that counsel have left important questions to be answered in the future,” expressing broad concern abou...