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Even as booksellers cheer added revenue from this year’s popularity of adult coloring books, many confuse their success with a rosy message about a “print surge” in books.

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“Since the smashing success of the first Harry Potter novel—which was a No. 1 bestseller in Germany in its English version at one point—we have evidence of English, as a reading language, to be a global phenomenon.”

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A new conference in London called Author Day is an event both for writers and publishing industry professionals—getting together to discuss divisive issues is the whole point.

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Examined at Frankfurt Book Fair in the context of Pan Macmillan’s digital marketing effort, the YouTube-author phenomenon and ‘booktube’ review-recommendation world may hold clues to book fandom for publishing’s future.

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As the digital tempest batters the publishing industry, a group of hardy navigators have taken up a call for “Manifestos For The Future Of The Book Business,” and their 500-word essays are beacons of potential in uncertain days.

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Amid discussion about the Authors Guild’s first research since 2009 on authors’ income in the United States, executive director Mary Rasenberger talks about the Guild’s interpretation of the results of the survey.

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Discussions around digital testing by Andrew Rhomberg’s Jellybooks reflect both a need for consumer metrics and the distrust many authors have when reaction to their work is quantified.

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Children’s book author and illustrator Sarah McIntyre is fighting a battle in the publishing industry to get artists credited just as writers are. She’s doing it with grace, persistence, and a whole lot of strange hats.

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Beached with a good ebook? Keep an eye on the surf. That e-reading you’re doing isn’t the worst of the digital disruption, a new report says. Thinking it’s all done now could be “extremely dangerous.” Warning flags are going up for something “insidious and often much harder” for publishing to fight.

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Five years after his introduction of ‘The Elements,’ digital book developer Theodore Gray’s Touchpress animates the principles he discussed in 2010. “Programmers,” he said then, “need to be treated as top talent, just like authors.”