Publishers Weekly

HarperVia will publish 'The Last Dream,' the debut collection of short stories by Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar, translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne, on September 24, in print and audiobook formats.

Bookstore workers at San Francisco’s City Lights Booksellers and Publishers have agreed to unionize, with the City Lights Workers Union joining the Industrial Workers of the World Local 660. City Lights management has voluntarily recognized the union.

Audiobook publisher RBmedia has acquired Berrett-Koehler’s audiobook publishing business, including its backlist, and will publish audiobook editions of new Berrett-Koehler titles under its business audiobook brand, Ascent Audio, beginning this year.

The Bookseller Oral History Project aims to preserve the often-hidden history of bookselling in America.

Bricks-and-mortar bookshops anchor neighborhoods, while a book bus and pop-ups take their shelves on the road.

Booksellers and authors prepare to gather in Ohio’s Queen City for the 2024 ABA Winter Institute.

Alex Michaelides has the #6 book in the country with ‘The Fury.’ Plus Jamie Lee Curtis extols the rewards of patience in her latest picture book, and Heather Fawcett charts with ‘Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands.’

The state is home to the U.S.’s top podcast focusing on Hispanophone women writers and the only PhD in creative writing in Spanish in the country.

An look at the publication process for a behind-the-scenes account of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.

PRH buys the latest from Israeli global bestseller Yuval Noah Harari, Karen Tei Yamashita sells a book about Japanese American identity to Graywolf, and more.

An email sent from a PR firm cofounded by author J.D. Barker invited BookTok influencers—all of them young women—to make sponsored content promoting Barker's forthcoming novel and included ideas for making "racy" videos, which the author would "personally review." Barker has said that he "never approved" the marketing campaign.

Among the week's headlines: LibLearnX 2024 is in the books; Oklahoma appoints a conservative media provocateur to a key post; and new bills emerge to defend libraries and the freedom to read.

Womb House Books owner Jessica Ferri's carefully curated listings have turned her online storefront into the favorite bookseller of Emma Roberts, Natalie Portman, and thousands of Etsy customers.

On January 25, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance hosted a streaming award ceremony honoring “the most distinguished books written and illustrated by creators who have made California their home.”

From racism in dating to sexual dry spells, these four new books take an, ahem, intimate look at all facets of love and relationships.

From the southern border of the U.S. to the lithium mines of China, the island nation of Haiti to the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia, these four new explore how geopolitics shape history and conflict throughout the world.

The organization, which has had offices in the New York City metro area since its formation in 1900, confirmed this week that it will become a “permanently remote organization” at the end of February. CEO Allison Hill said that the closure “doesn’t change the way we've been working.”

Gungnir, a new publisher helmed by comics veterans Jim Krueger and Steve Orlando, will launch in April. Named after the staff of the Norse god Odin, which always hit its target, Gungnir will publish a mix of graphic novels, prose novels, and art books in the sci-fi/fantasy categories.

The NBCC has named its 30 finalists in six categories for this year's awards, which recognize books from the publishing year 2023. ‘Washington Post’ critic Becca Rothfeld, author Judy Blume, and the American Library Association have also won special awards.

Object Lessons is a beautifully designed book series—published by Bloomsbury Academic—that explores the hidden lives of ordinary things. PW spoke to the series' editors, author and scholar Chris Schaberg, Bloomsbury US's Director of Scholarly and Student Publishing Haaris Naqvi, and author and game designer Ian Bogost about how the series was born, how it's changed their perspectives on the world around them, and what's ahead for Object Lessons in 2024. (Sponsored)