OpenBook shares their insight into the top books on their fiction, nonfiction, and children’s bestseller lists from November, plus a look at what international authors are selling well in China.
Association of American Publishers Announces This Month’s Revenue Report
The Association of American Publishers released October 2025 StatShot report noting revenue is up 6.7% over October 2024 and 0.4% so far this year.
The Value Rubric: Do Book Bloggers Really Matter?
Author Beth Kephart discusses the impact bloggers have had on her career, propelling her most recent novel into a third printing and foreign rights sales.
Can Books Bridge Political and Religious Divides?
There is simply no better way to bridge a cultural divide than through books, a wide variety translations from around the world
Hayya Naqra! (Let’s Read!) Brings Books to Palestine’s Neediest
American organization ANERA encourages reading among parents and children of the West Bank
Latest Best Books Lists from Brazil
Three sources for the best books in Brazil: literature, children’s and short stories.
#BEA11: “What’s Next?” A Chance Encounter with Jan Brett
By Kathleen Sweeney As a BEA newbie, I hadn’t counted on being starstruck by a children’s book celebrity siting. I was strolling through the Penguin Books pavilion scanning books when there she was, Jan Brett, the author and illustrator extraordinaire, no less than a legend on my daughters’ bookshelves, passing out swag bags emblazoned with her book covers for Home …
#PubNewsCheat: Bologna’s iPad Obsession, Amazon’s Bid on Hocking
By Edward Nawotka Our cheat sheet to some of last week’s notable publishing news from around the world… Children’s publishers descended on Bologna last week for the Book Fair where -– aside from the usual rights deals –- all talk focused on developing books for the iPad and the iPad alone. A debate ensued about whether it was better to …
Has Apple’s iPad Cornered the Market for Children’s E-Books?
By Edward Nawotka When will a viable competitor to the iPad emerge? Today’s feature story discusses the Tools of Change conference at the Bologna Book Fair, where nearly all the talk developing apps and e-books for the iPad. The simple fact is, up until now, nothing has been able to compete with the iPad when it comes to the readability …
Storytime Goes Digital: Assessing the Children’s E-Book and App Market at TOC Bologna
O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair focused on apps vs. e-books, legacy publishers vs. start-ups, and adapting to this digital world. By Sophie Rochester The children’s market is a huge opportunity within the digital publishing arena, but for the first time, computer and tech publishing giant O’Reilly Media took it’s “Tools of Change” conference on …