Barnes & Noble Education finally filed a correct 10-K annual report with the SEC, restating prior and financial results for their fiscal year ending May 3. That filing marks the completion of their “internal investigation and related restatement work,” following the discovery of “unsupported manual journal entries that improperly reduced cost of sales.” Now the company says it “expects to file its quarterly reports for the quarters ended August 2, 2025, and November 1, 2025, in the next four to five weeks.” To a large extent the final topline results for fiscal 2025 match the company’s preliminary report from a […]
2025: The Year In Legal News, Part 2
Part two of our year-end legal round-up compiles all the major stories not involving AI. The cases we followed in 2025 concerned book bans; the botched auction of Diamond Comics’ assets; the sexual assault case against Neil Gaiman; a certain “tedious” filing from the president of the United States; and more. Book Bans Book bans were once again a big topic this year. Some of the many legal headlines included: a US District Court ruling that Texas’s “READER Act” is unconstitutional; a Missouri book banning law being struck down; and SCOTUS’s decision not to hear an appeal in the Texas […]
The Edit: 2026 Most Anticipated
Welcome back to The Edit our column about buzzy forthcoming titles. This will be the last edition of 2025. As best of the year lists wind down, 2026 most anticipated lists are just getting started. Time Magazine released one of the first, naming titles by Colson Whitehead, George Saunders, Colleen Hoover, and more. PW put out its spring Fiction & Nonfiction Preview. Other early lists can be found at Oprah Daily, People, and Debutiful. Medaya Ocher, editor-in-chief of Los Angeles Review of Books and host of LARB Radio Hour, told PL she is looking forward to On the Calculation of […]
Some New Names on the Fiction Bestseller Lists
The NYT highlights five novels from “lesser known and first time writers” that “found unexpectedly broad readerships this year.” Virginia Evans’ THE CORRESPONDENT may be the biggest true sleeper of the year, building readership slowly and progressively over the summer. Circana Bookscan analyst Brenna Connor observers, “This sales trajectory is unusual for any book and almost unheard-of for a debut fiction title.” SenLinYu’s ALCHEMISED, adapted from her hit fan fiction, and Allen Levi’s originally self-published THEO OF GOLDEN both came to traditional publishing with built-in audiences, but both have fulfilled that promise and more. In a different, more modest league […]
Distribution: Nine Ten Publications, Generous Press, Bobby Dazzler
Microcosm Publishing will now distribute Nine Ten Publications, Generous Press, and Bobby Dazzle.