Publishers Lunchcast

LeVar Burton to replace Drew Barrymore as NBA ceremony host

The Kirkus Prize announced its winners; The Scotiabank Giller Prize announced its shortlist

Forthcoming: KNIFE by Salman Rushdie

Third Quarter Deals Ebb Overall, Gain At the Highest Level; Fosse Wins Nobel Prize for Literature; PRH UK Buys Hardie Grant UK

National Book Award Shortlists; GMA Book Club October Pick

October Bookseller Picks; Obituary: Ed Young

Literary Agents Face Low Pay, Supplement With Side Gigs; Managers to Decide on S&S's Return to Office Policies

People News

Bomb Threat at The King's English Bookstore in Salt Lake City; Project Gutenberg Refines Automated Audiobook Creation

Sales fall at Scholastic, Booker shortlist announced

Publishers Test AI Tools for In-House Processes; Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlist

Still Another Lawsuit: Authors Guild Sues OpenAI In New York; Scribd Will Move eBooks and Audiobooks To New App

National Book Awards Fiction and Nonfiction Longlists

Murphy to Leave Harper; Stehlik to Add Oversight of Children's Division; National Book Awards Translated Literature and Poetry Longlists Announced

The National Book Awards Rescinds Drew Barrymore's Invitation To Host, NBA Longlist for Young People's Literature

CorreX In Real Time; Authors Guild Helps Authors Demand Takedown from IA

Canadian Indigo leadership in shambles, Amazon issues artificial intelligence guidelines for KDP

Suzanne Herz to Leave PRH; Anchor to be Phased Out; Wiley's Q1 Sales Were "As Expected" After Reorganization; BAM Offers Same and Next-Day Delivery

Powell's Closed Monday as Workers Strike; Obituaries for Robert Abrams, Edith Grossman, Sarah Young; Acquisitions: Harriman House, and Scala

Judge Enjoins Texas book ban law

Amy Einhorn Leaves Holt to Become Publisher of Crown Fiction; Scribe Media Resumes Operations Amid Multiple Lawsuits

PRH Results for the First Six Months; Quarto Sales and Earnings Fall; Appeals Court Strikes Down "Mandatory Deposit" of Books with the LOC

BNED Adds Two to Board for Corporate Transformation; Union Workers Stage Walkout at Barnes & Noble In Hadley, MA

People News

Bookselling: More Barnes & Noble Changes

June Adult Sales Made Up for Declines in Children's; New Books Publishing August 22; Forthcoming: 'The Fall' by Michael Wolff

Your Books Trained Those Large Language Models

Several People Moves

September LibraryReads; Obituary: Christopher Carduff

Judge Approves Internet Archive Permanent Injunction, Limits It to Works That Have eBook Editions

Another Day Another Suit: Music Companies Sue Internet Archive Over Their Infringement

Proposed Internet Archive Judgment Would Bring Down Infringing Files Right Away; Harper sales and earnings fall after a tough year

Diesel Bookstores Up for Sale

Backman Signs with UTA; Klopotek Sells Majority Stake to Aspire Software Owner

KKR To Acquire S&S For $1.62 Billion; Simon & Schuster Maintains Sales, Grows Income In Second Quarter; Online Book Analyzer Taken Down After Backlash

Bloomsbury, AAP Mark the Death of Vaughan; Schroders Joins with FT As Business Book of the Year Award Sponsor

KKR Tipped As Likely Acquirer of Simon & Schuster For "About $1.65 Billion"; Bloomsbury USA President Adrienne Vaughan Dies In Boating Accident In Italy

August Auguries: The S Stands for Sale, Good Omens Graphic Novel Funded on Kickstarter; Penzler Publishers is launching Crime Ink

Paul Reubens Said to Leave Behind Memoir Manuscript; Reese's Book Club Pick

Lenders Keep Barnes & Noble Education Alive For Now, Require Board to Examine Sale or New Capital; Higher Ed Sales Continue To Decline at Pearson

Partners Endorse BISG's Campaign Against Metadata Pollution; Xoxopublishing Shuts Down for the "Indefinite Future"; Solid State Books Reaches Union Contract

Vivendi Investigated For Allegations of Premature Involvement with Lagardere

Lagardere Publishing Continues Slight Gains, Despite Weakness at HBG; KKR Selling RBmedia to H.I.G. Capital; Acquisitions: Norwood House Press; Initiatives: Binc Incubator Pilot Program; August Library Reads

November's National Book Awards Ceremony to Feature Drew Barrymore, Oprah Winfrey; HC Union Files Grievance Over Termination of Unit Chair

Abrams Restructures Marketing and Publicity Departments; Draft2Digital Acquires Pre-Made Book Cover Site; Imprints: Harper Enfoque

Scholastic earnings, McGraw Hill ends business book publication

Harper to Close Inkyard Press; Six New Publishers To IPG For Distribution

AAP Trade Sales Were Flat in May, Despite Losses in Children's; IPG Trims Staff on Publishing and Distribution Sides; Open Road Launches Metadata Service

Layoffs at Penguin Random House Follow Their Retirement Offer; Bloomsbury Grows 9 Percent in First Quarter

BNED Delays Earnings Report As It Renegotiates Loans, Faces Possible Going Concern Warning; More B&Ns Relocate to Smaller Spaces