Essays, reporting, and overheard wisdom about the publishing industry — written by editors who actually publish books.
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Vauban Books' edition of Raspail was delisted in April 2026 and back within hours. The policy is reactive, inconsistent, and a real risk.
Jen Hatmaker's Awake and Ian Harber's Walking Through Deconstruction sit on opposite sides of the same conversation. Both sold.
Big Five publishers raised library e-book prices and shortened lending terms. The contrarian play is a perpetual-access deal.
Founders giving away 5,000 hardcovers at a conference are running paid acquisition. The math now beats a $30 LinkedIn lead.
Stricter enforcement means authors who used Sudowrite, ChatGPT, or Midjourney for any asset need disclosure-ready records.
Commute-time listening built the Christian audiobook market. AI narration just made the 365-day devotional format commercially viable.
Indie podcast hosts arrive with hundreds of thousands of preorder-ready listeners. Hybrid presses can move faster than DW Books on niche commentary.
Romantasy hardcovers with sprayed edges are outselling paperbacks of the same title. The production economics now favor short luxury runs.
Disclosed collaboration is the new signal of professional production. The Association of Ghostwriters' 2025 trend report told us where this was going.
Spotify pays audiobook royalties only after a listener crosses 10% of the book. Whether your share is per-book or pooled depends on your distributor.
Top executive ghostwriters are bundling LinkedIn content into book proposals. CEOs hiring post writers should ask up front whether the manuscript is the deliverable.
Tracy Fredrychowski, Mindy Steele, and Patricia Johns are pushing the genre past Beverly Lewis's template.
Look Again hit the New York Times list after a year of prayer-first marketing. The new Christian book launch starts on someone else's mic.
The Stable Book Group's 2025 launch made it harder to call hybrid publishing 'vanity press.' Here's what authors should ask now.
Business-travel readers in 500-plus locations don't get to your book unless you negotiated Ingram wholesale terms.
The 0.375-point distribution-fee bump on Feb 1 sounds small on paper. On a 5,000-copy run, it's a four-figure decision.
The Stephen Wolfe and Doug Wilson titles are banned at some retailers and selling strongly through direct-to-reader. That's a genre Liberty Hill can serve.
AAP StatShot shows religious books leading all print categories. Daily devotionals and discipleship resources are doing the work.
A Big Five conservative imprint launched in 2025 over employee protest. The internal pushback maps the corporate appetite better than any press release.
StoryGraph's mood-and-pace metadata rewards specific tagging that Goodreads' five-star model ignores.
Edelman/LinkedIn's 2025 thought-leadership study tied long-form storytelling to pricing power. The economics aren't subtle.
Skyhorse pushed Joel Pollak's The Agenda into stores within weeks of the 2024 election. IngramSpark Lightning makes that timeline accessible to indie authors.
Romantasy and romance-only stores are growing fastest. IngramSpark wholesale terms now matter again for indie authors.
Diagrams, sidebars, and pull quotes can't be done well in Vellum. Custom interior design is what earns the multiple.
Angela Hunt's The Daughter of Rome and a wave of Roman-era titles ride discovery from Dallas Jenkins's series.
For business books used as gifts, conference giveaways, and lobby coffee tables, paperback hurts the author.
Lifeway closed all 170 of its retail locations. Christian fiction authors who depended on those vetted shelves face a new map.
Amazon shuttered Vella in 2025. The migration to Substack, Royal Road, and Patreon revealed something the platform's economics had been hiding.
KDP's free ISBN names Amazon as publisher of record. If your imprint is the brand, that line in the metadata costs more than $125.
The three myths that keep writers from finishing their books, and what actually separates the authors who do.
Why having 'more options' is actually slowing you down, and how to pick the right publishing path for your book.
Understanding the difference between Traditional, DIY, and the Author Services Model.
The truth about Intellectual Property and why we believe creators should keep what they create.
5 Red Flags to watch out for when choosing a publisher.
Why your cookbook, your thriller, and your business guide need different strategies.
