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The 2025 National Book Critics Circle finalists

Jan 23 2025: The National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists and special award winners for this year’s awards cycle, its 50th, honoring books published in 2024. A total of 31 publishers are represented across 42 finalists. Winners of the eight competitive categories ...

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TikTok uncertainty prompts the book business to envision an even better future

Jan 21 2025: On January 20, hours after President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, thousands of readers lined up for one of the 1,100 midnight release parties held across the country for Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. The book, which is the third in the TikTok-beloved Empyrean series...

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What should book publishing expect under a second Trump administration?

Jan 17 2025: When Donald J. Trump first took his seat in the Oval Office in 2017, book publishing had something of an idea of what to expect. The famously litigious real estate magnate and reality TV star’s exploits had been regular tabloid fodder in publishing’s hometown of New ...

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Children's lit community hosts fundraisers and book drives for L.A. wildfire relief

Jan 16 2025: Children’s creators, publishers, and booksellers are looking for ways to bolster Los Angeles families, communities, and relief organizations after the wildfires of the past week, especially after digesting the news of schools destroyed in the Pacific Palisades and ...

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Government charges three people in publishing scam

Jan 16 2025: After a long investigation and hundreds of complaints, a grand jury in San Diego has charged three people involved in a publishing scam that the government contends defrauded elderly authors across the U.S. of almost $44 million.

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Diamond Comic Distributors files for bankruptcy

Jan 15 2025: Diamond Comic Distributors, a linchpin in the distribution of comics to comics shops since it was founded in 1982, has made a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland.

According to the filing, Diamond has received $41 ...

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British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’

Jan 14 2025: Kate Mosse and Richard Osman have hit back at Labour’s plan to give artificial intelligence companies broad freedoms to mine artistic works for data, saying it could destroy growth in creative fields and amount to theft.

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Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses among winners of Nero book awards

Jan 14 2025: Booker longlisted author Colin Barrett has won the Nero book award for debut fiction for his novel Wild Houses.

Meanwhile Adam S Leslie has won in the fiction category for Lost in the Garden, while Guardian Long Reads contributor Sophie Elmhirst’s Maurice and Maralyn...

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