12+ hour ago  (165+ words) How did you make the leap to publishing? What drew you to doujinshi? The diversity of stories. A lot of artists aren't thinking about how the book will appear in a bookstore, because in Japan, it often won't be. So…...

12+ hour ago  (629+ words) Publishers of manga, manhwa, manhua, and other global pop comics with East Asian influence are leaning into thrills and chills. Horror has been an increasingly popular genre across the industry, with many editors citing the current political climate as a…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (757+ words) Several hundred booksellers from across Europe and the Americas gathered in Verona, Italy, April 1920 for the annual RISE Bookselling Conference, organized by the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) and co-funded by the European Union's Creative Europe program. The conference'which…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1154+ words) Publishers Weekly Bologna Children's Book Fair 2026: Agents, Matchmaking, and the Human Pulse of Publishing Amid discussions of AI at this year's Bologna Fair, the importance of in-person connection and community-building remained front and center. Held at the Illustrators Survival Corner…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (641+ words) publishersweekly. com Yen Press Launches New Translation Imprint, Avocado House Yen Press has announced the creation of Avocado House, a new imprint dedicated to fiction and nonfiction in translation, curated by publisher and editor-in-chief Ju Youn Lee. The imprint aims…...

1+ mon, 21+ hour ago  (223+ words) Publishers Weekly Tokyo Pop Launches Educational Imprint Tokyo Pop, the publisher known for introducing manga to the North American market, has announced a new comics and children's book imprint. Tokyo Pop Learning will focus on books and learning materials for…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (164+ words) Anime NYC, New York City's anime convention, has partnered with Scholastic to create Anime NYC Family Zone, a new space dedicated to kid-friendly anime and manga experiences. MK Goodwin, VP at the convention's organizer Left Field Media, said in a…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (254+ words) Penguin Random House divisions Random House Children's Books, Random House Worlds, and Penguin Young Readers have announced a new collection of KPop Demon Hunters books in collaboration with Netflix, which streams the hit animated film. The program, a collaboration between…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (405+ words) Though tweens and teens remain the core manga demographic, more adults are reading manga, and Fantagraphics isn't the only publisher to discover that mature manga is selling better than before. "People don't seem to be aging out of manga at…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (207+ words) The Random House Worlds imprint has acquired world English rights to the official manhua adaptation of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's hit web novel series Heaven Official's Blessing. The first book in the series is slated for this fall. Inklore to…...