The Frankfurt Book Fair has begun, with—as everywhere—continuing conversations around generative AI in the publishing industry. At the opening press conference, outgoing director of Frankfurter Buchmesse Juergen Boos highlighted publishers’ conflicting feelings about AI: adoption for workflows versus rejection due to copyright issues. “This tension is key to the technical program of the book fair this year,” he said. “How does the industry use AI for better publishing? How does it, on the other hand, protect its works?” Chair of the German publishers association Sebastian Guggolz largely took the latter view, calling AI “a dual raid—a raid of our books […]
October Book Club Picks
Financial Times Business Book of the Year Shortlist
New Books Publishing October 6
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Barbara Kingsolver, V. E. Schwab, Imbolo Mbue, Jeffrey Archer, and Tessa Bailey, while nonfiction includes work by Michael Lewis, David Byrne, Nathaniel Philbrick, Justice Samuel Alito, Michael Douglas, and Franny Choi. October’s children’s releases include books by Renée Watson, Marie Lu, E L James, and Josh Galarza. 45 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-6 39 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-6 21 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/october-2026-children-s-releases Also publishing this week are new books by Wm. Paul Young, Melissa R. Collings, Heather Gay, Lydia Millet, Meg Anderson, Madison Tyler Nelson, and Freida McFadden, all […]
Obituary: Jeffrey Archer
Politician and bestselling thriller author, Jeffrey Archer, 86, died on October 5 at his home in London. Archer published more than 40 books, with first novel Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less published in 1976, and his latest book Adam and Eve publishing today. Kate Elton, HarperCollins UK CEO and Jeffrey’s editor, said in a release, “It has been one of the great privileges of my publishing life to have been Jeffrey Archer’s editor. He was the master storyteller and an editor’s dream – phenomenally hard-working, utterly committed to completing draft after draft to get every word as perfect […]
Distribution: Five Publishers To IPG
IPG will distribute: Pegasus Books in the US and Canada starting January 1, 2027; Pop Icons in the US and Canada starting January 1, 2027; Cassava Republic Press in the US and Canada starting November 1, 2027; Rhiza Press in the US and Canada starting January 1, 2027; and Erickson International in the US and Canada starting May 1, 2027.