Publishing covers books and magazines as businesses: advances and royalty structures, print runs and returns, distribution terms, backlist and catalog value, and subsidiary rights across audio, translation and screen. Guides explain where margin actually accumulates in a title's life. Written for publishers, agents and authors negotiating their own contracts.
The warehouse, the returns reserve, and the capital tied up in unsold copies all shape when a print run stops making sense.
Gabriela Montoya · September 16, 2026
Bundling news with Games, Cooking, Audio and The Athletic pushed The New York Times past 12.5 million digital subscribers — but the company's own numbers show the easy gains are already behind it.
Gabriela Montoya · August 21, 2026
The May 2024 deal — reported at over $250 million over five years — created the template every publisher–AI negotiation since has worked from; here is what is actually in these agreements.
Gabriela Montoya · July 23, 2026