Lagardere Publishing plans to grow through international acquisitions, according to the Bookseller and Livres Hebdo, based on a press conference Hachette Livre deputy ceo Jean-Christophe Thiery gave last week. The company hopes to expand in Latin America and Africa, focusing on French, English and Spanish language markets. Thiery noted that Africa’s population is growing, and “if residents of the continent write books that appeal to them, ‘our intuition is that the book market in Africa will take off’.” “Electronic and audio versions will be used to overcome logistical constraints facing print,’ the Bookseller notes. The company doesn’t foresee acquisitions in […]
Archives for March 2026
New Books Publishing March 17
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Mieko Kawakami, Elle Kennedy, Sandra Brown, and Tara Menon, while nonfiction includes work by Ibram X. Kendi and Demi Lovato’s cookbook. 27 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-17 9 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-17 Also publishing this week are books by Michael A. Singer and Annabelle Gurwitch, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2026: Spring/Summer anthology. We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out March‘s 142 fiction releases, 61 works of […]
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Tracy Wolff Did Not Plagiarize ‘Crave’ Series, Court Finds
Yesterday, a judge in the Southern District of New York ruled that Tracy Wolff did not plagiarize her bestselling Crave series. The long-running lawsuit, first brought in 2022 by writer Lynne Freeman, claimed that Crave was “substantially similar” to Freeman’s manuscript “Blue Moon Rising,” which was represented by Wolff’s agent Emily Sylvan Kim—and ultimately unpublished. The suit also named Kim, Crave publisher Entangled Books, distributor Macmillan, and Universal City Studios, which optioned Crave for film. After reading six drafts of “Blue Moon Rising” and the four Crave novels, Judge Colleen McMahon concludes that many of the similarities in the works […]