Welcome back to The Edit, our monthly column about the galleys everyone in publishing is talking about. All the big summer previews are out by now, including lists from New York Times, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and Literary Hub, and people are already looking ahead to the next season. This month, we’re highlighting picks from the staff of Publishers Lunch. Our Buzz Books Fall/Winter anthology came out yesterday, so we’ve all spent the last several months reading for fall. Here are some of our favorites. The PL staff is excited for Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel Exit Party […]
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ABA Added Over 500 New Members In 2025
ABA CEO Allison Hill wrote in her annual letter to members that membership grew by 19% in 2025, with the addition of 605 brick-and-mortar, pop-up, and mobile stores. The AP breaks it down further as 3,417 members (up 554 members from a year ago), operating at 3,783 locations. The organization has grown 151% over the last six years. Hill writes, “the majority of stores also reported year-over-year increases in sales for 2025 over 2024.” She continues: “2025 was also the most challenging year for indies on record as our members faced rising costs, tariffs, the impact of ICE and the […]
Today: Join Us for Buzz Books Official Day
Today, Thursday, May 28, is our second Buzz Books Official Day, and we are thrilled to bring you this event, which we hope will become seasonal. Please join us tonight for our first Authors & Editors Panel of the season cohosted by Leigh Haber and Mary Ann Naples—the fiction panel with Chloe Benjamin, Joseph Fink, Lydia Millet, Chad Harbach, and Wayétu Moore. Sign up here. We’ll be giving away copies of all the panel titles. We’ve also got a full day of book programming to enjoy. Here’s the schedule: 12:00 EST Live with Ali Rosen | The Apparent Trap 1:00 […]