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HarperCollins Sales President Ed Spade to Depart
Spade, who has served as president of sales at HarperCollins Publishers since 2023, will step down on August 15 after four years with the company. During his tenure, Spade oversaw a reorganization of the sales team and a return to profitability in 2024.
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Former Unbound Staffers Launch U.K. Publishing Agency
Former Unbound head of rights Ilona Chavasse, publicity director Rina Gill, and marketing manager Divia Kainth have teamed to launch Tiger Team Creative. Unbound, a U.K.-based crowdfunding publisher, filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.
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Backlist Books on Tyranny See a Trump Bump
Nonfiction titles exploring and explaining authoritarianism—especially Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny—are surging at independent booksellers nationwide.
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How ‘Seduction Theory’ by Emily Adrian Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest novel.
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Scholastic’s Earnings Growth Outpaced Sales Gains in Fiscal 2025
Cost controls at the children’s publisher boosted profits for the company despite sluggish sales in the trade and book fair divisions and a sales decline in educational solutions.
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PEN America Backs Bill to Limit Use of Creative Works as Criminal Evidence
The free speech organization has joined the Free Our Art coalition in supporting the reintroduction of federal legislation that would restrict the use of artistic works—including literature and poetry—as evidence in criminal and civil court proceedings.
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New Directions Promotions Usher in Next Chapter
Following the retirement of longtime EVP Laurie Callahan, New Directions has named Tynan Kogane editor-in-chief along with a number of other high-level promotions.
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Open Road to Reissue ‘The Fox and the Hound’
Re-Discovery Lit, the company’s imprint for out-of-print and reverted titles, will rerelease Daniel P. Mannix’s 1967 novel next month. The publisher described the book as “notably darker” than the Disney classic it inspired.
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TwoMorrows Finds a Place for Books on Comics
The Raleigh, N.C.–based house has found success through publishing both books and magazines covering comics history.
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2025
This fall’s hottest debut fiction is all about location, location, location, whether in stories about crazed house hunters, Upstate New York politics, hypocrisy in the Deep South, or finance in the Middle East.
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How ‘Grommets’ Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the latest graphic novel from Rick Remender, Brian Posehn, and Brett Parson.
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Harper Influence Announces Gordon Ramsay Cookbook Imprint
The HarperCollins imprint has launched Bite Books, a partnership with Fox’s Studio Ramsay Global, and announced the imprint’s first title, Gordon Ramsay’s Idiot Sandwich: 100+ Recipes to Elevate Your Sandwich Game, slated for publication September 30.
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HarperCollins Acquires Crunchyroll’s Publishing Operations in France, Germany
HarperCollins Publishers has announced that it will acquire the manga publishing operations of global anime brand Crunchyroll in France and Germany. The purchase marks HarperCollins’s latest expansion in the manga market.
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Vault Comics and Aethon Books Expand Their Print Offerings
The genre-heavy indie publishers, one focused on print and the other on digital, have joined forces on a new imprint that will release print books from indie and Aethon authors whose works have only been published in e-book or audio formats.
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University of Minnesota Press Marks a Century of Success
The press, which was founded in July 1925 to publish pamphlets and bulletins, is celebrating its centennial as both its scholarly publishing and its trade and regional lists continue to thrive in a competitive marketplace.
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How ‘The Scammer’ by Tiffany D. Jackson Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest novel.
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Agate and Northwestern J-School Form New Imprint
Medill Books, a collaboration between the Chicago-based Agate Publishing and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, will publish nonfiction books by journalists. The imprint’s debut title is scheduled for release in late 2026.
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Limited Editions of ‘Fourth Wing’ Come to Market
As consumers increasingly seek out books that double as objets d’art, Fablelistik, Macmillan’s fine press brand unit, has opened pre-orders for its fourth title, Rebecca Yarros’s bestselling romantasy Fourth Wing, with editions ranging from $185 to $3,600.
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Berkley, Penguin Young Readers Team Up on New Imprint
Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin, will join forces with Penguin Young Readers to launch Berkley XO, a new imprint for fiction with crossover appeal for both adult and YA readers.
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Amsterdam Publishers Amplifies Holocaust History
Since 2014, Liesbeth Heenk has published 115 Holocaust memoirs and nonfiction narratives in English, and she continues to search for stories that recount the experiences people lived through during that low point in history.
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