Sébastien Santuccio has joined Amsterdam editions as an editor and will also manage press relations for the organization, succeeding Lucien Perrin. Founded in 2003 by Jérôme Vidal and Charlotte Nordmann, Amsterdam editions publish essays on social criticism, humanities, and economics. The house has a pocket collection since 2023 and includes the works of the Institut La Boétie, a think tank linked to the movement La France insoumise. Laure Gallimard has taken over as head of Gallimard Jeunesse with a new team, succeeding Hedwige Pasquet. Vroum has acquired Éditions de l'Attente, an independent publishing house founded in Bordeaux in 1992 and specializing in contemporary literature and poetry. Garance Dor, editorial director of Vroum, also takes over the editorial direction of L'Attente, which will keep its name and location in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. A new programming is planned from 2027. ediSens has acquired Éditions Marie Romaine, founded late 2022. Focused on non-fiction, ediSens adds to its catalog a collection of "true stories," with three publications at the end of this year. The Californian publisher Insight Editions has launched Insight France, directed by Rodolphe Lachat and distributed by Hachette Livre. The new entity intends to mix French adaptations of the American catalog and original creations conceived with authors and artists based in France. Arnaud Labory has been appointed director of the press service of Albin Michel. Hachette Livre will evolve its international management from January 1, 2027: David Shelley will leave the operational direction of Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group to become Global Advisor - international strategic advisor to the group's general management - to the general management of the group, while taking the executive presidency of the two subsidiaries. Katie Espiner and Ben Sevier will respectively take charge of the British and American activities. The Éditions du Félin launch on October 16, 2026, a new collection, "Spotlight," designed to offer short books, composed of autonomous chapters and can be read in order or at random. The first volume, Spotlight on the Middle Ages, is signed by historian and novelist Laurent Decaux. The National Syndicate of Publishing provides French publishers with a calculator capable of establishing the balance of a print run, bringing it down to the unit and testing different choices before printing. A tool to measure, compare, and ultimately reduce. The Éditions Dangles celebrate their centenary, founded in 1926 in the backroom of a Parisian bookstore. Specialized for a long time in natural health and well-being, the house experienced spectacular growth from the 1970s, before several changes in direction. Now affiliated with the Piktos Editorial Group, it is entering its second century by renewing authors and themes. A new salary grid extended to the entire publishing industry regarding conventional minimums has been extended to all employers and all employees, by a decree of September 7. The salary grid now takes into account two increases in the minimum wage, which occurred in January and June last year. Valentin Bouvet takes, as of September 23, 2026, the direction of operations of the publishing group Editis. Returning to the group in May after having directed Lelivrescolaire.fr at Hachette Livre, he will oversee notably distribution, manufacturing, industrial purchasing, and several services for publishers. These activities are now grouped under a single direction. C’était ça ou mourir, one of the most prominent novels of the season, has been at the center of a debate on the use of artificial intelligence. With Libération, Thélyson Orélien categorically denies it. Grasset now provides its "absolute confidence." At the same time, franceinfo has multiplied tests and comparisons, and the results do not really favor the author. Force ouvrière is addressing the management of Editis and its shareholder on the cost of commuting for employees in Malesherbes and Tigery. The union is requesting specific help for those who have to use their car, even proposing TotalEnergies fuel cards. A request that comes at a time of rising prices at the pump, while several public devices already exist. The National Association of Book Publishers (ANEL) has revealed its board of administration for 2026-2027 following its annual general meeting, held on September 10. Geneviève Pigeon, from the editions L’Instant même, retains the presidency of the association. Published by Grasset on August 19, the first novel of Thélyson Orélien, C’était ça ou mourir, is among the most notable titles of the season, supported by a largely favorable critical reception. In this chronicle, Laurent LD Bonnet takes the opposite stance of this enthusiasm: starting from the writing of the book, he questions the mechanisms of prescription, the media frenzy and what he considers a gradual decline in editorial requirements, linked here to the effect of shifting baselines. On September 21, the 51st issue of Soutien à l’Ukraine résistante is released; it gathers testimonies, analyses, union texts, and contributions devoted to Ukrainian cultural life. Its publication takes place four and a half years after the start of the large-scale Russian invasion, in a conflict still deadly for civilians and without a global political resolution. Lonely Planet is preparing for 2027 the most extensive overhaul of its Pocket and Classic collections in a generation, at a time when the American market is contracting. The publisher claims about 28% of this sector in the United States, a level presented as unprecedented by its publisher Piers Pickard. Facing social networks, apps, and AI, paper changes its promise: less exhaustiveness, more selection. L’Histoire de Kullervo appears for the first time in French, published by Christian Bourgois editions since September 17. This unfinished narrative of J.R.R. Tolkien in an edition established by the American specialist Verlyn Flieger and translated from English by Aurélien Blanchard. The text of the winner of the very first Renaudot Prize in 1926, Nicolo-Peccavi or the Dreyfus Affair in Carpentras by Armand Lunel will reappear on September 24, at the request of his grandchildren. Jean Orizet, poet and co-founder of Cherche Midi, is dead at 89 years old. Zoos, care, and well-being: the books to understand the job of animal caretaker. The job dreams early. Lions, elephants, primates, birds, or reptiles often suffice to nourish the idea of a profession passed daily in contact with animals. The reality of the animal caretaker is however more demanding. The Spanish giant Grupo Planeta is preparing its direct return to the French book market. Éditions Planeta, a new house installed in Paris, will constitute its own catalog under the direction of Claire Do Sêrro, recruited from Robert Laffont. The first books will arrive in bookstores in August 2027, for the literary season, with Dilisco for distribution and distribution. Glénat launches "Glénat Signature" to attract companies and brands. The Glénat Group announces the creation of "Glénat Signature," a new structure dedicated to the design and publishing of customized books for companies, brands, and institutions, relying on the complementary expertise of Glénat and Hugo Publishing and entrusts its direction to Corinne Tran, appointed Director of Development and Delegated Editions. Annaïck Le Ru has taken up her position as general director of Ciclic Centre-Val de Loire this Monday, September 14. Appointed in the spring to succeed Philippe Germain, she will now direct the regional agency for books and images alongside her president, Julie Gayet, who confirms she will remain in her position. Dargaud France entrusts its editorial direction to Pauline Mermet, who has been in post since September 7, 2026. This promotion is accompanied by a several-month transition with François Le Bescond: after 37 years in the house, he will leave Dargaud at the end of April 2027, while retaining the follow-up of his authors and the editorial responsibility of Lucky Luke. Zulma takes its first steps in stationery. The publisher now intends to extend this first encounter with the reader. On October 1, 2026, the publisher will launch its first stationery collection, composed of notebooks reproducing several of its covers. After Bragelonne, Alain Névant bets on the "great ancients" of publishing. François Maspero, the publisher who published the books that France wanted to ban, could have sold cotton candy. He finally became a bookseller, then one of the most singular publishers of the postwar period. With Histoire (de) La Découverte, the house that succeeded him in 1983 prefers these bifurcations, these books and these crises to a solemn chronology. Albin Michel reorganizes its commercial direction with three effective moves since September 1, 2026. Daphné Esménard takes the direction, Sébastien Rouault joins the house as sales director and Marie Navarro is promoted to head of external distribution. Antoine Bellier was elected on Thursday, September 10, 2026, president of the Religion group of the National Syndicate of Publishing (SNE). He succeeds Jonathan Boulet, general director of Éditions Bibli’O and Éditions Scriptura, who held this position since 2022. Gründ Jeunesse generalizes USB-C to its children's sound books. The small screwdriver requested by the compartments for batteries can remain in the drawer. Starting with this school year, Gründ Jeunesse announces the switch to rechargeable USB-C for all its new sound books. A concrete evolution for families and a change of scale for "Mes premiers livres sonores," sold, according to its management, to more than 11 million copies. Maggie Doyle, who directed the foreign literature of Éditions Robert Laffont for more than 20 years, is deceased at the beginning of September. Irish woman based in France since the 1980s, first literary agent then publisher, she accompanied in French Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Michael Chabon, Ken Follett or Colm Tóibín, while overseeing the collection "Pavillons." Vega has appointed Nicolas Ducos to the position of general director as of September 1, 2026. Previously director of marketing and sales of Kana and Le Lombard, he takes the operational direction of the manga house, a joint venture of Kadokawa and Média-Participations. Nicolas Weber-Krebs remains president and retains the supervision of strategic orientations. Windows on Christmas is a collection of 24 stories, written by 24 authors, but created by 28 volunteers from the literary association Humain.e.s de Lettres. 24 stories around the end-of-year festivities are to be discovered, which will take the reader from one emotion to another, positive or more somber. A project with a philanthropic aim, since a part of the profits from the Ulule campaign, which began on August 15, will be donated to the association SOS Préma. At Editis, the big "clean-up" continues: Télémaque regains its independence. The editions Télémaque return under the control of their founder, Stéphane Watelet, seven years after their entry into Editis. The sale, revealed this Monday by La Lettre, takes place at a time when the second French publishing group continues to reorganize its perimeter. But for Télémaque, no commercial rupture: the house will continue to be distributed and distributed by Interforum. A library organizes a petting zoo with rare books. This October 1, the Frazar Memorial Library of McNeese State University, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, opens part of its special collections under a rather unacademic title: "Rare Book Petting Zoo." For four hours, the public can approach first editions, books with painted spines, art portfolios, and other bibliographic curiosities, including a volume dating back to the 16th century. Behind the wink, the library mainly intends to give access to funds usually consulted by appointment. The Lamp-Post: a new Anglophone bookstore will soon open in Paris. Destiny Promise Ellis and Jameson Workman, the co-founders, wish to make this address a landmark of "literary hospitality," where one would find rare editions, second-hand books, new titles, but also various artifacts. And a touch of soul as well. In Yemen, publishing no longer consists only of finding an editor. Paper, printing, transport, distribution, payments: each stage has become more complicated due to a war lasting more than ten years and a fragmented economy. An investigation by Al-Araby Al-Jadeed describes a sector that continues to produce, but often through Yemeni houses established abroad. Emma Tesson has joined the team of Livre et lecture en Bretagne since September 1, last year. She joins Sara Mammad de Beauregart in the Culture-Lecture-Justice mission entrusted to Livre et lecture en Bretagne since 2023 by the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (Drac) of Brittany, the Interregional Directorate of Prison Services, and the Juvenile Protection Services (PJJ). Read and encourage reading mobilizes its volunteers with science shared. From September 24 to October 8, Read and encourage reading relaunches its volunteer mobilization campaign on social networks. Created in 1999, the association relies on readers and readers over 50 years old who intervene with small groups of children, aged 0 to 12, in educational, cultural, and social structures. The program includes: reading sessions aloud, with a double objective of transmitting the taste for books and meeting between generations. The Ultimate Fight: the hero condemned to be Free. Nicolas Zago, an independent French author, launches The Ultimate Fight Volume 1 via Ulule. This dark and philosophical light novel reached 129% of funding in three days (775€), revealing a real appetite for stories that question control and freedom. Inspired by Byung-Chul Han and Sartre's criticism, the light novel follows Hiro, a hero trapped in a reality where an omniscient Presenter orchestrates every moment. Between time loops and illusions of choice, Volume 1 offers a dark reflection on what it really means to be free in a world where everything is entertainment. A novel to tell May 68 to Generation Z. With Le Joli Moi de Mai, François Betz returns to May 68 through a fiction born during the confinement. After a book dedicated to the history of the artistic and literary magazine Le Point, he changes register and mixes investigation, comedy, love story, and alternate history to confront France in 1968 with today's France. In this text, he recounts the birth of the project, first thought as a series, then completely rewritten to become his first novel. United States: Trump's anti-terrorism policy, a threat to bookstores? Eight independent American bookstores address the American Booksellers Association (ABA) on the consequences they fear from a presidential memorandum on domestic terrorism and political violence. Argentina: bookstores in "emergency" after a 41.5% drop. In Argentina, selling fewer books is no longer the only problem. Between the first eight months of 2023 and the same period in 2026, the independent stores studied by their federation sold 25% fewer copies, while their actual turnover fell by 41.5%. FALPA now demands a "bookstore emergency" nationally and asks the political power to intervene, according to La Nación. Say no to name dropping, prefer nominite. To conceal the gaps in a demonstration or to showcase one's culture, name dropping can have several functions, rarely positive. The French Language Enrichment Commission, instead of banning it, provides it with an equivalent in French, the nominite. The term appears in a new list related to the vocabulary of economics and finance. Bookstore: negotiations stall, administrative authority requested. The annual mandatory negotiations of the Bookstore branch, between the Syndicat de la librairie française (SLF) and the employee unions, are at a standstill, learns ActuaLitté. The proposals from the employer's union have been far from satisfying the CGT, Force ouvrière, and SUD Culture Solidaires, who now request the intervention of the Direction générale du travail, attached to the Ministry of Labor. si loin si proche, Pamir: at the edge of the visible and what is silenced. si loin si proche, Pamir is a book where photographs and poems build a sensitive passage through a constrained territory, at the edge of the visible and what is silenced. Realized by photographer François Pache with poet Pamiri Sashi Zaifi, now in exile, the work explores a region of Tajikistan where the brilliance of the mountains and the shadow of power shape the territories and lives they house, and where one experiences the welcome, doubt, and fragile strength of human bonds. The texts dialogue with the images like mnemonic counterpoints. They open a space that the reader discovers and explores at their own pace. De Saxus: Bragelonne, Dupuis and Univers poche ready to buy De Saxus (Eilean Books). The judicial restructuring procedure for the company Eilean Books will very likely result in a buyout. According to ActuaLitté, four buyers are presenting themselves for the acquisition. On the menu, Hachette Livre, Média Participations, and Editis, whose approaches differ significantly. Disappeared for 160 years, an imperial Ethiopian manuscript reappears at 250,000 €. Nearly 160 years after the British army's pillage of Maqdala, an Ethiopian gospel that belonged to Emperor Tewodros II has resurfaced on the antiquities market. Presented by the Viennese antiquarian Inlibris with an indicative price of 250,000 €, the manuscript was withdrawn from sale after the intervention of the Ethiopian Heritage Authority. Its return to Ethiopia, however, is not yet secured. When Fontenelle meets NASA. The editions Invenit reissue the Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes of Fontenelle (1686), bestseller of the Grand Siècle included in the French baccalaureate until 2027, by illuminating it with images from NASA chosen by astrophysicist Sylvie Cabrit. Born in 2020 at the École Estienne du travail of Claire Capone, this project makes dialogue between classical text and contemporary astrophysics, offering an original educational tool. Janine Boissard, a major figure of French popular literature, is no longer. The French novelist Janine Boissard has died at the age of 93, announced this Monday, September 28, by Éditions Fayard. Author of more than fifty books and a major figure of French popular literature, she leaves behind nearly 70 years of writing, marked notably by the success of the L'Esprit de famille saga. Director of collection paid in authors' royalties: the editions Allary definitely condemned. The Court of Cassation rendered its decision on September 24, confirming the judgment of the Court of Appeal from January 2024: the editions Allary have violated the Social Security Code by remunerating a collection director according to the regime of artists authors. And not just any: Guillaume Allary himself, the founder of the structure, who worked alongside a certain Riad Sattouf on the series L'Arabe du futur. Presidential election in Brazil: publishers and bookstores demand a state policy for books. Less than a week before the first round of the Brazilian presidential election, the book enters the campaign. Abrelivros, the Câmara Brasileira do Livro (CBL), and the Sindicato Nacional dos Editores de Livros (SNEL) address the candidates: secure the major purchasing programs, fund libraries and mediation, support publishers and bookstores, but also regulate the use of works by artificial intelligences. A roadmap aimed at the power that will come out of the ballot boxes on October 4. Peter May, author of the famous Lewis trilogy, is dead at 74 years old. The Scottish writer Peter May is dead at the age of 74, we announce the Éditions du Rouergue, which have published his work in French for more than 20 years. Established for a long time in the Lot and naturalized French in 2016, the novelist leaves behind an important police work, particularly popular in France. Small War Stories: World War I. We think we know World War I. The mud, the trenches, the barbed wire horizon. But this war has engulfed the world, and the image we have of it holds on a single trench. With Small War Stories - World War I, the independent author Mi-rage tells it differently: ten stories, ten fictional characters based on documented facts, who have in common neither the side, nor the continent, nor the language. In 2027, will the Drac Normandie change its direction? As of January 1, 2027, the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Normandy may change its director, announces the Ministry of Culture in a notice of vacancy. Jean-Michel Knop has held the post since 2024. Mexico: five book reforms requested from President Claudia Sheinbaum. Starting from a patrimonial house constrained to reduce its activities, the alert now spreads throughout the entire book chain. The Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana (CANIEM) asks Claudia Sheinbaum for a meeting and advances five measures: real application of a single price, direct dialogue with the profession, zero VAT for bookstores and distributors, resumption of library acquisitions, and reinforced reading policy. To help local publishers, Córdoba orders 50,000 books. In Argentina, the province of Córdoba returns the public order to the service of the book. Its government has invested 550 million pesos in books published locally, with 27 small and medium-sized houses. The operation accompanies the availability of 50,000 copies in secondary schools, teacher training institutes, and various educational spaces. Enough to fill the shelves while giving a bit of air to the territory's publishing. Scotland: 200 £ for young people aged 18, bookstores want their share. The birthday gift had initially all the makings of an electoral promise, well known: 200 £ to spend on culture for each Scottish person reaching 18. Re-elected in spring, the SNP of John Swinney has now included the Youth Culture Pass in its government program for 2026-2031. Remains a detail that is not quite one: although bookstores were among the beneficiaries envisioned before the election, the modalities must still be finalized. And the book professionals are watching carefully. This publisher seduces self-publishing by offering 50% of the revenues. Barely two months after its launch, Simon Stream begins to fill its shelves. The digital structure of Simon & Schuster UK and International welcomes Allie Moffatt and Joy Wood alongside Jack Gatland, already announced in July. The profile of the recruits enlightens the strategy: writers experienced in independent publishing, genres very read online, and to convince them to change scale, 50% of royalties on the ebook, paid each month. With a counterpart: no advance. Russia: up to 70% of municipal funds could be removed from general access. The figure comes from the Russian Ministry of Digital: if a recent practice of control were generalized, municipal libraries could have to remove 50 to 70% of their collections from general access. Cause, books published with the support of organizations now "undesirable." Moscow is now trying to avoid that a status attributed years later catches up with books already on the shelves. Archaeologists find the "class" where Aristotle taught Alexander. There were the texts. Remained to find the walls. At Miéza, in northern Greece, excavations of a vast royal gymnasium of the fourth century BCE reveal study spaces, stone benches, styluses, and mosaics. For the Greek Ministry of Culture, these discoveries reinforce a rather vertiginous hypothesis: Aristotle would have taught here to the young Alexander the Great and to other sons of the Macedonian aristocracy. An identification now strongly supported, but not yet definitively proven. Romance: the Lille bookstore Aya Books exports to Marseille. Opened in June 2025, the Lille-based bookstore Aya Books, specialized in romance, from dark romance to romantic fantasy, will expand its brand to Marseille by the end of the year. The shop will take the bookstore-café model, but on a much larger surface than in Lille. In La Rochelle, "the first French bookstore specialized in Anglophone romance." A bookstore-café almost entirely dedicated to Anglophone romance is set to open its doors in La Rochelle this autumn. Behind Books’ Apothecary, Angela Ieffi and Floriane, friends and former colleagues, prepare a place mixing books, coffee, meetings, and book clubs. The Del Duca Prize for youth and 50,000 € for the association Dulala. The Del Duca Prize for youth, awarded each year to support initiatives carrying values of transmission and solidarity, was awarded to the association Dulala for its multilingual Kamishibaï competition project. It is accompanied by a grant of 50,000 €. Three rare polars of Sergio Toppi gathered in a limited edition. The eternal return is the third and last title of the detective series drawn by master Sergio Toppi, after Traces of blood and Without breath. The print runs are limited and will not be reprinted. A box has been made for this occasion and gathers the 3 polars, accompanied by a collector's ex-libris. Council of the EU: Xenia Fedorova sanctioned, a Russian publisher acquitted. Two personalities were targeted by decisions of the European Union, in a similar context: that of the aggression of Ukraine by Russia. The Council of the European Union has thus frozen the assets of the pro-Russian author and commentator Xenia Fedorova, while the Court of Justice of the European Union annulled one of its previous decisions, relating to a Russian publisher, Oleg Polikarpovich Tkach. Marvel in mourning: the illustrator Joshua Cassara is dead at 46 years old. Joshua Cassara, American illustrator notably known for his work on X-Force, X-Men, and Deadpool/Wolverine at Marvel, is dead on September 22, 2026, at the age of 46. His wife, Martha Cassara, announced his death the next day on social networks, mentioning cardiac complications. AI: the Court of Audit urges Culture to take action. Charts, working groups, 62 actions and now a project director: the Ministry of Culture no longer discovers artificial intelligence. But the Court of Audit now asks it to turn the page. In the book, it notes that at the time of its control, the CNL had neither specific budget nor staff assigned to AI, while the BnF had already committed several million euros. Book in Quebec: behind the growth, bookstores are fracturing. In Quebec, the book market continues its growth, but not all bookstores benefit from it in the same way. The complete data published on September 24 by the Institut de la statistique du Québec reveal a striking gap: sales of accredited bookstores declined by 2.9% in 2025, while those of non-accredited ones surged by 10%. Behind a market returned to its highest level since 2010, the balances are shifting.