Publishers Weekly is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, and an important factor in its longevity has been its ability to serve all aspects of the publishing community.

That community has changed over the years and in many ways has broadened. One reason the publication was originally called The Publishers’ and Stationers’ Weekly Trade Circular was because it featured a listing of the books that publishers were preparing to release either on their own or through book dealers.

Publishers, if not stationers, remain key players in a publishing community that now also includes bricks-and-mortar bookstores (both independents and a few chains), online bookstores, distributors, authors, agents, libraries, book manufacturers, fair organizers, and digital vendors, not to mention international counterparts for whom the U.S. market is important. It is indeed a big tent. So how does a 150-year-old company fit in?.

By Jim Milliot is editorial director of Publishers Weekly.

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