december

Today’s Book News Monday, 15th December 2025 Amazon loosens download rules for DRM‑free KDP e‑books From January 2026 Amazon will allow customers who buy Kindle books without digital rights management (DRM) to download files in EPUB or PDF formats and transfer them across devices. The change...

Today’s Book News Saturday, 13th December 2025 Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks Mass‑market paperbacks are set to largely vanish from the US trade as ReaderLink will stop distributing them at the end of 2025. Publishers Weekly notes that unit sales have plunged from about 131 million in...

Today’s Book News Friday, 12th December 2025 Amazon Is Loosening Its DRM Policy for Kindle Starting January 20, Amazon will allow Kindle Direct Publishing authors to make their titles DRM‑free and offer downloads in EPUB or PDF format. This policy change comes after the company removed USB...

Today’s Book News Thursday, 11th December 2025 Kindle to Offer Downloads for DRM‑Free Titles Starting 20 January 2026, Amazon’s Kindle store will let readers download DRM‑free books in EPUB or PDF formats, making it easier to read purchased titles on different devices. Publishers with existing...

Today’s Book News Sunday, 7th December 2025 DAILY SUMMARY: Sophie Kossakowski to head Hachette’s global sales and marketing Kossakowski, formerly with Sourcebooks and HarperCollins, will join Hachette Book Group as senior manager of international sales and marketing on 18 December. Publishers...

Today’s Book News Saturday, 6th December 2025 (London date) A Mixed Holiday Weekend for Booksellers Publishers Weekly reports that independent bookstores experienced a mixed Thanksgiving weekend. Some shops saw strong turnout from locals, while others suffered steep sales declines due to...

Title: Today’s Book News Friday, 5th December 2025 (London date) Epic Dream Sequence: PW Talks with Shane McCrae Publishers Weekly interviewed poet and editor Shane McCrae about Only Sing, his collection of 152 previously unpublished Dream Songs by John Berryman. McCrae said the 18‑line poems...

The Great Litopia YuleWrite Huddle Party It’s time to wrap up a weird sort of year year with something… well, maybe even weirder…! We’re hosting an extended, fully festive Christmas Huddle packed with writer-friendly games, puzzles, brain-twisters and a generous dose of creative mischief...

Today's Book News Thursday, 4th December 2025 (London date) Choosing Holiday Books for Children of Interfaith Families Families with parents of different faiths often struggle to find holiday books that speak to both traditions. A senior editor explained that reading stories from multiple...

Today’s Book News Wednesday, 3rd December 2025 (London date) Publishing Sales Recover in September After slumping during July and August, U.S. publishing sales jumped 14.4% in September at 1,324 reporting publishers. Religious books rose 21.2%, children’s and YA fiction climbed 9.2%, adult...

Saturday afternoons at 5.00pm (UK) is the time for our weekly Writers' Huddle And as ever, you are invited to submit your WiPs for discussion and feedback from Pete and the collective. But not only WiPs. Query letters, book proposals, synopses and blurbs are all welcome. Also, anything you've...

Some of these calls are very niche. Unidentified funny objects, speculative fiction starring animals, stories about airports and airline workers and much much more. I laughed at a similarly weird and specific anthology sub call a couple of months ago, then ended up writing something for the...

New blog post by mickleinapickle – discussions in this thread, please --- In August, he smiled at the memories of 65 Decembers, and put away his razor. . The ruddy complexion, jovial disposition, and expanded waistline where already his by right of genes, a penchant for English ale...

Here in the Northern hemisphere the feeble light is ever darkening and, quicker than you can say Jack Frost, it will be St Lucie’s Day; the moment in the calendar when the world's whole sap is sunk. I love that poem, I always return to it at this time of year. There is something atavistic about...