Barnes & Noble acquires Levenger, Wattpad has become a global entertainment powerhouse, and more recent news.

Yates & Yates offers representation and paid services to authors of Christian nonfiction.

Crime and thriller publisher Bitter Lemon Press has launched Labyrinth Press, dedicated to international literary fiction, largely in translation.

In the gap between email and social media lie tools that let publishers and authors engage with readers without an algorithm in the way.

Common causes include purchasing or trading reviews, sharing KDP credentials, and inadvertent triggering of an Amazon automated lockout.

The Association of American Publishers released its monthly StatShot report for July 2026, showing 14 percent growth versus July 2025.

Novelist Vauhini Vara has done her own informal testing on Pangram and found she could not trick the system.

Their policy is a strong model but also one of the strictest I’ve seen, banning generative AI for brainstorming or an editing pass.

OpenAI, like Anthropic, created an internal library of books from the pirate website LibGen and even shared those works with outsiders.

Given the number of errors occurring in Anthropic claims, rights holders now have 60 days instead of 30 to submit information to support their claim.

Podium is one of the biggest US audiobook publishers, and it actively buys rights from self-published authors.

Amazon started setting upload limits in fall 2023 due to the widespread use of generative AI.

The essay is like any other literary genre: There are guidelines worth following, and style choice dictates different points of view and structures.

A standout writing voice is a mixture of your natural style and sentence-level decisions that bring who you are to life.

Jon Malysiak seeks narrative nonfiction, memoir, current affairs, wellbeing, entrepreneurship and culture.

A new app called iLands allows the creation of autonomous AI agents that not only write articles but pitch their work to media outlets.

What to do if your Amazon KDP account is terminated, a closer look at people who use AI to write custom fiction, and more.

Three Dragons Press is a no-advance, revenue-sharing publisher that relies on print-on-demand and digital distribution.

The transatlantic publisher is focused on books by Jewish and Israeli writers as well as nonfiction titles that shape public conversation.

The imprint, DUSK, targets readers who move between YA, new adult, and adult fiction, with romance at the heart of the stories.

The identical twins—one a science nerd, the other a comic book geek—are bestselling authors who have written 34 novels together.

GEO is generative engine optimization: trying to influence whether your name or product appears in AI overviews or in chatbot conversations.

A debut nonfiction author examines the path by which an initial idea was honed through beta readers and proposal writing into a contracted book.

Conference attendees have many questions about AI, and organizers best serve their audience by engaging with intent and clarity.

The panic that’s expressed online bears little resemblance to what’s happening at literary agencies and publishing houses.