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SDCC 2025: Comics Reclaim the Spotlight in Hollywood’s Absence

By Heidi MacDonald | 07/30/2025 @ 02:00PM

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.
20 Years In, ThrillerFest Mixes Escapism with Engagement

By Lenny Picker | 06/25/2025 @ 10:55AM

International Thriller Writers wrapped up its 20th ThrillerFest in New York on June 21 with their annual Thriller Awards ceremony. After the show, ITW’s cofounders spoke with PW about two decades of thrills and chills.
Can San Diego Comic-Con 2025 Escape Uncertain Times?

by Heidi Macdonald | 06/20/2025 @ 07:00PM

In a tumultuous world, Comic-Con still offers some escape. But in 2025, even the ultimate pop culture festival is going ahead under the shadow of economic uncertainty, immigration crackdowns, and tariffs.
Who We Really Are Inside: PW Talks with Chip Kidd

by John Maher | 06/20/2025 @ 07:00PM

The VP and art director at Knopf and three-time Eisner Award winner puckishly breaks the fourth wall with his second graphic novel, The Avengers in the Veracity Trap! (Abrams ComicArts, Aug.), illustrated by Michael Cho.
BookCon Will Return in 2026

By Jim Milliot | 06/18/2025 @ 05:00PM

Five years after its discontinuation, BookCon has been revived by event organizer ReedPop. The consumer-facing show is set to return next April to its old home at New York City’s Javits Center.
ALA 2025: Program Picks

Compiled by Nathalie op de Beeck | 06/13/2025 @ 07:00PM

Presidents’ programs, unmissable panels, and essential through lines bind the education sessions at the American Library Associations’s 2025 Annual Convention
ALA 2025: Librarians Converge on the Cradle of Liberty

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 06/13/2025 @ 07:00PM

Not far from the Liberty Bell, librarians prepare to assemble for ALA’s Annual Conference, which will bring upward of 10,000 library professionals to the Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center June 26–30.
The First ‘TCAF on Ice’ Was a Beauty

By Chris Burkhalter | 06/11/2025 @ 10:00AM

The 2025 Toronto Comic Arts Festival mounted its biggest weekend since before the pandemic, overcoming logistical and geopolitical uncertainty to draw an estimated 28,000 attendees June 6–8 to the former home of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
U.S. Book Show 2025: AI Looms Large Across Publishing Sectors

By John Maher, Ed Nawotka, and Sophia Stewart | 06/04/2025 @ 10:00AM

From copyright and marketing to audiobooks and literary translation, the incursion of artificial intelligence was a hot topic among industry leaders at this year’s U.S. Book Show, held at the New York Academy of Medicine on June 3.
Bay Area Book Festival Draws Book Lovers to Berkeley

By Claire Kirch | 06/03/2025 @ 09:00AM

The 11th annual Bay Area Book Festival took place May 31–June 1 in downtown Berkeley, Calif., and featured 275 speakers and 120 exhibitors.
IBPA’s PubU 2025 Confronts Challenges Facing Industry

By Claire Kirch | 05/19/2025 @ 11:00AM

Over the weekend, the 325 attendees of the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Publishing University conference in St. Paul, Minn., discussed how to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing industry impacted by the current political climate and recent technological advances.
BISG Wants to Revolutionize the Book Business Supply Chain

By Jim Milliot | 04/29/2025 @ 09:00AM

Creating an industrywide system that can make better use of digital communications while preparing publishing for the challenges and opportunities of AI will require new approaches and renewed commitments, speakers at BISG's annual meeting stressed.
Politicians Assert U.S. Constitution Mandates Protecting Creativity

By Ed Nawotka | 04/09/2025 @ 09:00AM

At an April 8 summit on AI, Vermont senator Peter Welch and former Virginia representative Bob Goodlatte, among others, stressed that copyright protections should not be dismantled to accelerate AI development.
Publishers, Nonprofits Raise Funds to Back Freedom to Read, Free Speech

By Jim Milliot | 03/26/2025 @ 10:00AM

As challenges to free expression show no signs of abating, Penguin Random House and the National Coalition Against Censorship have announced separate fundraising initiatives to counter the threat.
TLA 2025: A Library Renaissance Roundup

by Nathalie Op de Beeck | 03/21/2025 @ 07:00PM

Presentations from household-name authors and professional panels for light-bulb moments are on the schedule in Dallas.
TLA 2025: Librarians Saddle Up for Dallas

by Nathalie op de Beeck | 03/21/2025 @ 07:00PM

The biggest library show in Texas hightails it to Big D, with a theme of ‘Library Renaissance: The Quest for Renewal’
2025 SI MoCCA Fest Mixes Celebration with Politics

By Meg Lemke | 03/18/2025 @ 10:00AM

The environment at this year’s bustling Society of Illustrators’ Museum of Comics and Cartoon Arts Festival felt celebratory and welcoming in spite of the looming shadow of increasingly fraught global politics.
PEN America's World Voices Festival, Literary Awards to Return

by Sophia Stewart | 03/17/2025 @ 10:00AM

The free expression organization’s tentpole spring events were canceled last year after a number of authors withdrew in protest of PEN’s response to the war in Gaza.
Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Welcoming the Guest of Honor, Estonia

By Ed Nawotka | 03/14/2025 @ 07:00PM

The Baltic republic is serving as Guest of Honor at the 2025 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, marking its first time in this prominent role at the world’s largest children’s publishing event.
Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Expanding the Book Fair Tent

By Ed Nawotka | 03/14/2025 @ 07:00PM

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which kicked off this morning and runs through Thursday, once again brings the book world to Italy as it continues to grow beyond its traditional remit focused on children’s books.

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