Judge Rules Class Action Suit Against Anthropic Can Proceed
The AI company is believed to have copied up to seven million books from the pirate sites LibGen and PiLiMi. Experts said if the authors win the class action, Anthropic could be facing a billion-dollar settlement. more...McGraw Hill Files for Public Offering
With total revenue topping $2 billion and digital sales accounting for 65% of sales in the fiscal year ended in March, the education company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay a portion of the outstanding borrowings under its term loan. more...
Senate Hearing Debates AI Training on Copyrighted Works
After hearing testimony from five witnesses, including author David Baldacci, Senator Josh Hawley concluded that if the way tech companies collect content to train their AI models isn’t copyright infringement, then “we need to change the law.” more...
HarperCollins Acquires Crunchyroll’s Publishing Operations in France, Germany
HarperCollins Publishers has announced that it will acquire the manga publishing operations of global anime brand Crunchyroll in France and Germany. The purchase marks HarperCollins’s latest expansion in the manga market. more...and more.
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Publisher NewsKensington Publishing Keeps It In the Family
At 50, the family– owned and run company has shifted away from its longtime focus on mass market paperbacks and continues to expand past its romance roots.
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Bookselling
This Week’s Bestsellers: August 4, 2025
YA thriller author Holly Jackson’s adult debut, Not Quite Dead Yet, is this month’s Good Morning America Book Club pick and #1 on our hardcover fiction list. Plus journalist Sophie Elmhirst recounts A Marriage at Sea, and success is in the cards for Elise Kova’s Arcana Academy.
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Publisher News
Mexico Awaits an Audiobook Boom of Its Own
In the world’s largest Spanish-speaking country, the growth of audiobooks lags far behind Spain and the U.S.—but potential solutions abound.
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Publisher News
Cracking Decodable Books
Publishers are taking literacy tools for beginning readers in new directions.
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Publisher News
How ‘Moderation’ by Elaine Castillo Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest novel.
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Book Deals
Book Deals: Week of August 4, 2025
Random House nets a debut novel of exile and complex relationships, Requited and Harper Voyager pick up two new titles in the still-hot romantasy category, Democratic senator John Fetterman’s memoir finds a home at Crown, and more in this week’s book deals.
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Financial Reporting
Amazon’s Online Sales Grow Amid AI Push
Despite concerns about consumer spending, Amazon’s online sales rose 11% in the second quarter thanks in part to what the retailer called its biggest Prime Day yet. But industry analysts made it clear they see the company’s future in the booming AI market.
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Libraries
IBPA Approved as ALA Affiliate
The American Library Association announced July 30 that the Independent Book Publishers Association is now an ALA affiliate. ALA president Sam Helmick and IBPA CEO Andrea Fleck-Nisbet talked with PW about the significance of the alliance.
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Comics
SDCC 2025: Comics Reclaim the Spotlight in Hollywood’s Absence
At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, held July 23–27, comics took back their top spot in the Con’s pecking order thanks in part to fewer movie stars visiting Hall H.
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Comics
Panel Mania: ‘Meat Eaters’ by Meredith McClaren
This grisly teen drama about a college town full of horrific shape-shifting monsters hiding in plain sight delivers brisk, comic banter alongside bold, stylized linework.
