Until Next Year

We’re wrapping up our retrospective of the year with the biggest stories about the U.S. book business, libraries, and children’s and YA publishing. We also remember some of the children’s book creators and publishers we lost in 2024. Plus, literary agent Richard Curtis hangs up his hat as the bard of trade book publishing, concluding four decades of chronicling industry trends and transformations through poetry with a compilation of past verses and a final poem for this year. Scholastic’s sales and profits took a tumble in Q2 due mainly to the timing of the publication of its biggest titles, with the company still expecting a bump in revenues over fiscal 2024. The New York Times profiled Bloom Books, the scrappy new romance publisher that churned out more than two dozen bestsellers in 2024. Camila Sosa Villada’s novel Bad Girls will be adapted into a Spanish-language film starring Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón, per the Hollywood Reporter. The Cut dishes on the Dionysian publishing office holiday parties of yore, and Slate reevaluates one of the biggest novels of the year. Book Riot unpacks drama in the world of adult coloring books. And the Drift insists that literary categories are bunk.

This is the final issue of PW Daily of the year—we’ll return on Monday, January 6, 2025. We wish you a restful holiday, and a happy new year!