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The World’s Largest Publishers, 2025
There’s a new #1 on our annual ranking of the planet’s biggest publishers.
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HarperCollins Launches Personal Growth Imprint
Harper Edge will debut next spring with Jim Collins’s What to Make of a Life and will be led by Hollis Heimbouch, SVP and publisher of the Harper Business imprint, with Kirby Sandmeyer, associate editor at Harper Business, acquiring titles.
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PW Close-Up: Zack Miller on Motorbooks at 60
For six decades, Motorbooks has been the go-to authority on transportation, creating books on motorcycles, cars, and motorsports at large. Now, on the eve of the imprint's 60th birthday, we spoke to publisher Zack Miller about branching out into new categories, what makes for a beautifully-designed book, and the key to publishing longevity. (Sponsored)
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Booksellers Ride the Horror Wave
At least four horror-themed bookstores have opened in 2025, with more to come.
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MIBA’s Future: PW Talks with Grace Hagen
The new executive director of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association spoke with PW about operations, decision-making, and inclusion.
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How ‘Best Offer Wins’ by Marisa Kashino Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the author’s debut novel.
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HarperCollins, Fox Strike Content-Sharing Deal
The companies, both controlled by Murdoch media conglomerates, have inked an IP trading partnership which will see Fox adapt titles from HarperCollins’s YA-adult crossover imprint Avon A for the screen and the publisher bring Fox originals to Avon A.
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Alloy Entertainment Repackages Book Division
Three longtime book division executives—Josh Bank, Lanie Davis, and Joelle Hobeika—have helped grow the presence of the company, which started primarily as a YA book packager, in the adult and page-to-screen markets. They have been promoted to senior creative advisor, SVP and co-editorial director, and SVP and co-editorial director, respectively.
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Bloomsbury Archer Unveils Inaugural Titles
The publisher’s new SFF imprint, which launched in March, has acquired its first three titles: Callum Broadway-Bennett’s Duskborn, Maren Chase’s We Have Hours Left Til Morning, and Laura Gubata’s A Divine Inheritance. The lineup is slated for 2027.
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Vintage to Reissue Toni Morrison’s Oeuvre
To counteract censorship efforts targeting the author’s work, the Penguin Random House imprint will repackage 11 novels by Morrison with new cover designs and introductions, starting this November.
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Oni Press Teams with Matt Kindt’s Flux House
The comics creator will bring his signature imprint from Dark Horse to Oni Press, with plans to launch three new series beginning summer 2026. Oni has also acquired film and TV rights for more than 20 Flux House properties.
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Redmayne Resigns from HC UK, Elton Named Interim CEO
In a major shakeup at HarperCollins UK, longtime CEO Charlie Redmayne has resigned and Kate Elton (pictured) has been appointed to take the helm on an interim basis. In its announcement, HC did not give a reason for Redmayne’s departure.
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Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar said that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.
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Mad Cave Unveils Digital Revamp
Amid recent challenges for comics distribution, the Miami-based graphic novel publisher is doubling down on direct-market sales, most recently by integrating all four of its imprints under one in-house digital reading and shopping platform.
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Berkley XO Wins Plumb’s Debut Romantasy for Inaugural List
Penguin’s YA-adult crossover imprint will launch its first slate of titles in October 2026, including Charlotte B. Plumb’s Reap & Sow, which the publisher called a “steamy, slow-burn romantasy full of illicit pacts and dark magic.”
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America’s Burgeoning Fleet of Book Bikes
A growing group of booksellers, librarians, and literary citizens is distributing books to the American reading public by bicycle.
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Behind the Podium: PW Talks with Victoria Gerken
Since being acquired by Presidio Investors in 2019, the digital-first publisher has exponentially increased its audiobooks and taken an interest in print retailers.
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How ‘Palaver’ by Bryan Washington Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest novel.
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Andrews and Wilson to Helm Blackstone Imprint, AWE
Author duo Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson will lead an eponymous imprint at Blackstone Publishing focused on military thrillers from established and emerging writers.
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