Archives for October 2025
Reese’s Book of the Year
People 10/20
FBF Attendance Up 3 Percent
Though many attendees felt like the Frankfurt Book Fair was quieter than last year, FBF reports that trade attendance for Wednesday and Thursday, the industry days of the fair, was up 3 percent. Visitors also increased on Friday and the fair was sold out on Saturday, both days that were open to the public. FBF counted 118,000 trade badge scans and 120,000 private visitor badge scans over the course of four days, up from 115,000 for each visitor type in 2024. (A reminder; FBF counts daily badges scanned, rather than tracking unique individuals attending.)
Erin Somers and The Ten Year Affair Live Today at Noon
Join us today at noon for the very first Substack Live episode of the Buzz Books Official Monday Interview, as we interview Publishers Marketplace’s own Erin Somers on the eve of the publication of her brilliant The Ten Year Affair.
Trump Refiles Defamation Suit Against Penguin Random House and NYT
After Florida District Court Judge Steven D. Merryday rejected Donald Trump’s initial $15 billion defamation suit against Penguin Random House, the New York Times, and New York Times reporters on the grounds that it was too long and “tedious,” Trump filed a new version that meets the judge’s limit of no more than 40 pages. The new complaint more prominently leads the “allegations” by quoting 22 statements from Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner’s book LUCKY LOSER: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success, claiming that the work “published many false, malicious, and defamatory statements.” […]