Exclusive: Transit Books to publish more works from Nobel laureate Jon Fosse

Oct 10, 2024
The independent press run by a husband and wife team has grown its revenue and staff since Fosse won the Nobel in 2023.
Adam Levy and Ashley Nelson Levy started Transit Books out of their home in the Bay area in 2015.
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Exclusive: Authors Guild to offer "Human Authored" label on books to compete with AI

Oct 7, 2024
The Authors Guild will offer its 15,000 members a new certificate to place book covers: one that shows a book is written by humans and not artificial intelligence.
Coming soon to a bookstore near you? Labels that distinguish books written by humans.
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Celebrity book clubs are "extremely influential" in the publishing world

Aug 1, 2024
"I saw such a shift to having some of those more traditional media sources become less influential in sales," said journalist Sophie Vershbow. "Ultimately, a lot of these book clubs have taken that place and started selling a lot of books."
Books selected by "Reese's Book Club" on display at an event in Los Angeles.
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The Internet Archive lawsuit highlights the tricky economics of e-books and libraries

Mar 30, 2023
Public libraries have to pay more for e-books than physical copies, while academic libraries say that journal subscription prices are rising.
A view of the Rose Main Reading Room at the New York Public Library.
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What is it about cookbooks?

Jan 31, 2023
You can get pretty much any recipe you want online. But cookbooks still sell. A lot.
Leslie Gray Streeter, prepping to cook mushroom risotto, has 47 cookbooks in her kitchen. This year, her goal is to make something from every single one.
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Why book publishers will scramble to reprint the Jan. 6 report

Oct 12, 2022
Public reports can be bestsellers or duds, but either way they're not risky financial bets.
Whatever day the House Jan. 6 committee's report is released will be a busy one for book publishers. Above, the panel shows a clip from Fox News during its July 21 hearing.
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How are booksellers doing after last year's supply chain snags?

Sep 23, 2022
Backlogs hurt the holiday sales season in 2021. In some cases, shops still have to tell customers to wait for their favorite reads.
Last year, some books pegged to the holiday season didn't make it to the shelves in time for the shopping rush.
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Library e-book checkouts soar during the pandemic

Dec 24, 2020
Publishers may want to turn the page on this moment, though, to get back to more store sales of books after COVID-19.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, library checkouts of electronic books have shot up by more than 50%. And libraries expect the demand to last.
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Agatha Christie mysteries are still raking in the cash a century on

Sep 28, 2020
The writer’s first detective novel was published 100 years ago in October. Her books still sell in the millions every year.
British mystery author Agatha Christie autographing French editions of her books, circa 1950.
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Book publishing has a tight calendar, even in a pandemic

Apr 2, 2020
Publishing can't easily go on hold until the fall — which is when publishers tend to release the year's biggest titles.
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