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Comic Relief
BookTok, Bibles, and bibliotherapy are among the biggest factors that contributed to a small but notable increase in book sales in 2024—and could lead to continued gains in the year ahead, according to one BookScan analyst. In this week’s magazine, we explored the world of comics retailing and the hottest titles at comics shops this season. And in other comics news, Joseph Montagne has been promoted to publisher of Abrams ComicArts. Workers at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn have ratified a new three-year contract, just one week after New York City Barnes & Noble employees did the same. We checked in with Scholastic about their ambitious plans for the rollout of Suzanne Collins’s new Hunger Games novel, and chatted with a group of children’s publishers keen to turn the tide on middle grade book sales. OpenAI has declared that the AI race is “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use, reports Ars Technica. Flatiron Books will continue to support and promote Careless People, the tell-all memoir by a former Meta employee, after the tech company demanded it be pulled, according to the Verge. Pan Macmillan is suing Russell Brand for £220,000 for failing to write two self-help books in a deal that was scrapped following sexual assault allegations against the author, per the Times of London. The Boston Review lays out the politics and publishing history of the “mad memoir.” And author and sportswriter John Feinstein has died at 69.
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Can Bibliotherapy Drive Book Sales?
In a presentation at the London Book Fair, a BookScan analyst said that many of the trends that led to a small sales increase in 2024—including BookTok and Bibles—remain in place in 2025. Also among those factors is the idea of “bibliotherapy,” the use of literature to help people improve their overall health or wellbeing. more »
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If You Build It, Comics Fans Will Come
In the 1980s, periodical comics made the leap from convenience store spinner racks to trade paperback collections at bookstore chains. Today, comics and graphic novels can be found wherever books are sold. How’s a smaller specialty shop to compete? These comics shop owners have some thoughts. more »
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Joseph Montagne Promoted to Publisher at Abrams ComicArts
Montagne, who previously served as associate publisher, joined ComicArts when it was established in 2023. In his new role, he’ll focus on growing the division’s presence in the graphic novel, manga, and comic book market. more »
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Greenlight Bookstore Ratifies New Union Contract
Union employees at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn have ratified a new contract that guarantees annual pay raises and provides more benefits that are designed to reduce turnover and reward skills developed on the job. The store’s employees unionized in 2021. more »
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A New Graphic Novel on the Story of Contemporary Art
How did a soup can become a work of art? Or a pickled shark? Or a banana taped to a wall? Blow Up! answers these questions, following the lives of seminal contemporary artists and telling the stories behind their groundbreaking works. Featured artists include Andy Warhol, Marina Abramović, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Yayoi Kusama, and more. (Sponsored) more »

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Stronger Together: Retailers Turn to ComicsPRO
ComicsPRO president Joe Murray talks to PW about how the national organization provides resources for direct market specialty stores, as the industry faces disruption in distribution. more »
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Scholastic Harnesses Buzz Around ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’
It’s no overstatement to say that Suzanne Collins’s Sunrise on the Reaping, her latest return to the world of the Hunger Games, is one of the most highly anticipated children’s book releases this year. As the series launches into a new era on March 18, Scholastic has plenty of plans to ensure that the rollout satisfies fans. more »
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Turning the Tide on Middle Grade
Movers and shakers behind five newish imprints are aiming to turn the tide on sales in the middle grade category. more »
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Harlequin to Open 2025 Mentorship Submissions
Submissions for the Romance Includes You Mentorship, which aims to support debut writers from “underrepresented communities,” will open on May 1. more »

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Just Announced: ‘We Fell Apart’ by E. Lockhart
Ten years after the release of her bestseller We Were Liars, which became a TikTok sensation, E. Lockhart returns to the same universe in her new YA psychological thriller We Fell Apart, out from Delacorte Press on November 4. more »
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Distribution Deals for the Week of March 10, 2025
SCB Distributors inks deal with Storm King Comics. more »
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Now Try This: 7 Titles Comics Retailers Love to Handsell
Booksellers share their favorite new graphic novels they’ve convinced picky fans to sample. more »
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Comics Shop Disaster Relief: PW Talks with Judey Kalchik at Binc
The charitable foundation helps comics retailers navigate all manner of crises, including the recent fires in L.A. more »


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Job Moves
  • Rachel Tockstein has been promoted to assistant director at Harmony Rodale Convergent.
  • Lulu Martinez has been promoted to senior director of brand marketing at Harmony Rodale Convergent.
  • Elizabeth Groening has been promoted to associate marketing manager at Harmony Rodale Convergent.
  • Danielle Kolodkin has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Harmony Rodale Convergent.
  • Julia Diaz-Young has been promoted to marketing associate at Harmony Rodale Convergent.
  • Hannah Dirgins has joined Harmony Rodale Convergent as publicist.
  • Claire Hendrix has joined Harmony Rodale Convergent as publicity assistant.
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Top 10 Overall Bestseller List
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins is #1 on our overall list this week. See the full list »
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Review of the Day: ‘Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America’ by Bridget Read
New York magazine journalist Read debuts with a penetrating exposé of multilevel marketing schemes.... Readers will be rapt.” more »

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Picture of the Day

Authors John Green (r.) and Emma Lockhart were honored at the annual Penguin Random House children’s sales conference on March 6 at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City. Both authors spoke about their new projects, Green’s Everything Is Tuberculosis (Crash Course Books) and Lockhart’s newly announced We Fell Apart (Delacorte Press).

Courtesy PRH
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