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On January 20, hours after President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, thousands of readers lined up for one of the 1,100 midnight release parties held across the country for Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. The book, which is the third in the TikTok-beloved Empyrean series, received a 2.5 million copy first print run, with one million copies preordered, according to the book's publisher, Entangled Publishing. Today, many in the industry are wondering: will we see its like again?

When Donald J. Trump first took his seat in the Oval Office in 2017, book publishing had something of an idea of what to expect. The famously litigious real estate magnate and reality TV star's exploits had been regular tabloid fodder in publishing's hometown of New York City long before he plunged into politics.

Now that Trump is returning to the White House, however, publishers have more than a hunch as to what's coming—they have the whole road map.

Children's creators, publishers, and booksellers are looking for ways to bolster Los Angeles families, communities, and relief organizations after the wildfires of the past week, especially after digesting the news of schools destroyed in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas.

After a long investigation and hundreds of complaints, a grand jury in San Diego has charged three people involved in a publishing scam that the government contends defrauded elderly authors across the U.S. of almost $44 million.

Diamond Comic Distributors, a linchpin in the distribution of comics to comics shops since it was founded in 1982, has made a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland.

According to the filing, Diamond has received $41 million in debtor-in-possession financing from JP Morgan Chase that will be used to fund operating expenses and to meet its working capital needs. The filing also states that Diamond has received a stalking horse bid from an affiliate of Universal Distribution to acquire Diamond's Alliance Game Distributors division for $39 million.

Booker longlisted author Colin Barrett has won the Nero book award for debut fiction for his novel Wild Houses.

Meanwhile Adam S Leslie has won in the fiction category for Lost in the Garden, while Guardian Long Reads contributor Sophie Elmhirst's Maurice and Maralyn was named nonfiction winner. Liz Hyder was awarded the prize in the children's fiction category for The Twelve, illustrated by Tom De Freston.

Kate Mosse and Richard Osman have hit back at Labour's plan to give artificial intelligence companies broad freedoms to mine artistic works for data, saying it could destroy growth in creative fields and amount to theft.

Bookstores and publishers located in the Los Angeles metro area were among those closed or evacuated on January 8 due to uncontained brush fires, power outages, and extreme winds that have devastated the region.

Park & Fine Literary and Media and Brower Literary & Management have merged to form Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management. The new agency represents more than 300 authors of all genres and in all stages of their careers, with Park & Fine cofounder Celeste Fine and Brower founder Kimberly Brower serving as co-CEOs.

Louisiana librarian and freedom to read advocate Amanda Jones is ending 2024 with a major legal victory. On December 27, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that Jones's 2022 defamation case against two local men who accused her of pushing pornography to children can continue. In a 4-2 ruling, the court found that an appeals court erred in denying Jones's appeal based on an apparently missed deadline.