The founders included Simon de Jocas, the publisher at Montreal children’s illustrated book publisher Éditions Les 400 Coups; Emma House, a U.K. publishing consultant; and Prashant Pathak, the ...

Getting to the top in book publishing has traditionally been a plodding and prolonged climb — and once you got there, you didn’t leave. Knopf has had four publishers in its 105-year history.

2022 was the second biggest year for book sales in the US since 2004, per data from US book-sales tracker NPD BookScan. About 780 million copies of books were sold last year, a 5.8% dip from 2021.