Books

AI companies like ElevenLabs and Spoken are angling for the fast-growing audiobook market. It remains to be seen if consumers will buy in.

Indie booksellers are booming, and Barnes & Noble has been taking notes.

Pamela Paul, writer at large for the Wall Street Journal, talks about the decline of “serious” nonfiction titles — from biographies to books about the economy.

Despite the entertainment industry slowing, major players like Netflix and Amazon are spending big on short stories, sometimes by unknown writers.

After nearly 200 years, Baker & Taylor, a major distributor of shelf-ready library books, will be closing in early January.

“[Librarians], in some cases, are shipping books with the understanding that they might not get them back on a normal timetable,” said Emanuel Maiberg, co-founder and journalist at 404 Media.

“Romance print sales last year actually pulled the entire industry into the black,” said writer and journalist Rebecca Ackermann.

For Ola Akinmowo, libraries have always been a place of community care. Her library is no exception.

As a college counselor in Houston, Texas, Khadyajah Jenkins witnesses students’ lack of access to books first-hand.

A book critic explains how book blurbing works and why it’s become a source of debate in the publishing industry.