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Culture and News
Publishers Weekly: Baker & Taylor's Chapter 11 filing lays out huge unsecured debts
Culture and News
Publishers Weekly: Independent Bookstore Day 2026 aims for the biggest turnout yet
Culture and News
Publishers Weekly: Hachette Book Group sales rose 2% in the first quarter
Culture and News
Publishers Weekly: BookCon is back at the Javits Center after a long hiatus
Culture and News
Literary Hub: the Center for the Art of Translation secures a permanent San Francisco home
Culture and News
Kirkus News: Mahreen Sohail wins the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Small Scale Sinners
Writing
Scriptnotes 731 asks what characters are running from (not just what they want)
Writing
Kill Zone guest post: cause and effect as story momentum (not bead-on-a-string plotting)
Rights and Policy
International Thriller Writers announces 2026 Thriller Award finalists
Writing
Clarion West introduces 2026 featured artist Michelle Zhuang
Publishing
Jane Friedman guest post: ghosting your own book when publication terrifies you
Writing
Writer's Digest April PAD Challenge day 18: write a reconsideration poem
Publishing
ALLi's Self-Publishing Advice Center highlights new podcast on legacy Kindles and scam emails
Culture and News
Publishers Weekly: Bookshop.org revenue jumps 55% in 2025, with romance and ebooks leading
Culture and News
Publishers Weekly: National Book Foundation outlines a five-year plan to lean into literacy work
Culture and News
Publishers Weekly: more than 130 groups sign on against federal H.R. 7661 school-library restrictions
Culture and News
Publishing Perspectives: Penguin Random House's Skip Dye urges Congress to reject H.R. 7661
Publishing
Nathan Bransford: beware the anti-A.I. stampede (and the false-positive problem)
Rights and Policy
ALCS: V.S. Pritchett Prize winner Hannah Webb on short fiction and bookselling
Culture and News
Publishers Weekly: Catapult Book Group workers file for a union election with UAW Local 2110
Culture and News
Book Riot: Spotify now sells physical books via Bookshop.org in the US and UK
Writing
Reedsy publishes a practical speculative-fiction primer with subgenre examples
Culture and News
Publishers Weekly: Dial Books for Young Readers closes under Penguin Young Readers
Culture and News
Publishing Perspectives: Grasset leadership change sparks author exodus threat in France
Culture and News
Literary Hub: Maris Kreizman on why AI detection is breaking editors
Writing
FundsforWriters: how to raise rates with long-standing freelance clients
Culture and News
Book Riot's weekly roundup tracks censorship, library funding, prizes, and adaptation news
Culture and News
Kirkus reports Harper's upcoming release of JD Vance's faith memoir
Culture and News
Books+Publishing covers Adam Oliver's 2026 Moth Poetry Prize win
Culture and News
Book Riot reports ALA settlement in IMLS dismantling litigation
Culture and News
Book Riot reports new film adaptation plans for Parable of the Sower
Culture and News
Book Riot tracks Indies Choice winners and the new James Patterson + Bookshop prize
Culture and News
Kirkus reports Jaclyn Smith memoir deal tied to Charlie's Angels anniversary
Culture and News
Books+Publishing reports new lifetime achievement award from Australian Booksellers Association
Rights and Policy
100+ grassroots groups urge Congress to reject a bill they say would mandate school book censorship
Culture and News
Penguin Random House sends Congress a letter opposing H.R. 7661
Culture and News
National Book Foundation names 2026 5 Under 35 honorees and sets a Brooklyn ceremony
Culture and News
Charlie Jane Anders: Why Locus matters more than ever
Writing
Cause and effect: The story chain reaction (guest post by Lindsey Hughes)
Culture and News
Shelf Awareness latest news: trade notes from bookstores, awards, and media heat
Culture and News
PEN America launches a US safety program for authors facing harassment
Rights and Policy
Albert Whitman & Company Bankruptcy: Plan of Reorganization
Rights and Policy
Authors Guild Launches Expanded Human Authored Certification Program
Rights and Policy
Authors Guild Files Brief Detailing DOGE's Role in Unlawful NEH Terminations
Rights and Policy
Authors Guild Applauds Publishers' Lawsuit Against Pirate Site Anna's Archive
Culture and News
Is AI the greatest art heist in history?
Publishing
Teach Your Book: Designing a Class Around Your Memoir
Publishing
New translation imprint: Avocado House
Publishing
Beventi adds ticket ordering for bookstores
Writing
Poets & Writers Daily News roundup
Culture and News
Around the Book World: Monday, April 13, 2026
Culture and News
US appeals court deals a blow to the freedom to read
Culture and News
Windham-Campbell Prizes announces 2026 recipients
Culture and News
Southeast Europe audiobook and ebook platform secures expansion funding
Culture and News
Book Industry Unites to Back Authors
Culture and News
She Reads Truth Joins PRH Christian
Culture and News
A New Generation of LGBTQ+ Bookstores Is Popping Up Across the US
Culture and News
PW Bookstore of the Year 2026 Finalist: Greedy Reads
Culture and News
In Europe's translation markets, English dominates, Japanese grows, AI disrupts
Culture and News
ALA, AFSCME defend IMLS and reach settlement with federal government
Culture and News
NPR: Forgotten Souls and the Tuskegee Airmen still not found
Culture and News
NPR: Tim Blake Nelson on acting, Tulsa, and the novel Superhero
Technology
Send to Kindle will not work on unsupported Kindle e-readers
Technology
Will discontinued Kindles become Kobo's gain?
Technology
Kindle Scribe and Colorsoft now available in Germany and UK
Technology
Audible will open Story House, a bookless bookstore
Technology
Google Play Books AI integration debate
Culture and News
Writing in the interim language: Jhumpa Lahiri and Chiara Barzini in conversation
Culture and News
What knitting has taught me about writing
Culture and News
Lit Hub asks: five authors, seven questions (April 2026)
Culture and News
Announcing the winners of the 2026 O. Henry Prize for short fiction
Culture and News
How an animators' strike helped produce Disney's Song of the South
Culture and News
Stick Season (poetry)
Culture and News
Electric Literature belongs to all of us (community statement)
Culture and News
James Wolff on why espionage is impossibly messy
Culture and News
R.M. Caldwell on a Regency-era Fast & Furious and neurodivergence
Culture and News
Southern noir and narrative therapy with Heather Harper Ellett
Culture and News
The celebrity compound as contemporary gothic mansion
Culture and News
2026 Xingyun Awards finalists
Culture and News
2026 Locus Award top ten finalists
Culture and News
2026 TAFF winner
Culture and News
McSweeney's receives Windham-Campbell Prize
Culture and News
Anathema: Spec from the Margins relaunches
Marketing
How to use short-form video to market your book
Marketing
Debut author strategy: breaking out with a Featured Deal
Marketing
Ask an editor: BookBub Featured Deals questions answered
Marketing
Day in the life of a six-figure indie author
Marketing
Beginner's guide to low-budget book ad testing
Marketing
Book marketing longevity and a seven-figure author business
Publishing
Inspirational indie author interview: Darnnell Reese
Publishing
Substack as a marketing tool for indie authors
Culture and News
Alesha Dixon backs a Walsall free book scheme
Culture and News
PW Sales Rep of the Year 2026 finalist: Doris Allen
Culture and News
National Black Bookstore Day (April 7) declared by NABB
Culture and News
Hive Mind seeks to acquire a landmark queer Manhattan bookstore
Culture and News
PEN America: literary translators are underpaid and underappreciated
Culture and News
The Bookseller: Michael Rosen and Cai Gao win 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award