Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol (GeMS) has dominated Italy’s debut fiction market for years — with small and medium houses and imprints. Stefano Mauri. Image: Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri (UEM), Yuma Martellanz By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Family Sagas, ‘Just Old Enough To Be History’ When Giunti’s Leeann Bortolussi on Friday (July […]
The school-holiday reading lists change lists, as tourism and social media savvy shapes sales. Many Chinese tourists favor Lugu Lake as a summer destination, an alpine lake at 8,809 feet on the border between Yunnan Province’s Ninglang County and Sichuan Province’s Yanyuan County. Image – Getty: Yunpeng Li By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Another
As China’s school reading lists sell the classics, ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ is newly adapted in dance, museum shows, and on screens. A production still released from Mei Hu’s new film adaptation of the 18th-century classic ‘Dream of the Red Chamber,’ written in the released this month in China. Image: Artemple By Porter Anderson,
The Chinese bestseller lists in August showed an unusual level of interest in newer works as well as the traditionally favored classics. Bamboo rafting on the Li River in Yangshuo County at Xingping Town, Guilin, a popular tourist destination. Image – Getty: TK Kurikawa By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson More Than the Classics In
China Publishers Magazine has surveyed 100 of the country’s senior publishing executives to capture their outlook for China’s book market. Shopping for books in China, where a survey of publishing executives indicates that many feel they must reduce discounts passively in order to remain competitive in distribution channels. Image – Getty: Creative Family By Zhang
A look at China’s book market data shows signs of post-pandemic recovery, as well as new trends in book sales channels. Long a favorite of consumers and publishers, China’s e-commerce short-video platforms may be losing steam in book sales. Image – Getty: Qin PinLi From China Publishers Magazine Market Concentration: Potentially More Ahead In 2023
A bid for children’s success boosts ‘comic+’ and other books for kids among parents, as seen in the China’s September bestseller lists. The towers of Shanghai emerge above morning clouds. The 11th China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair — a collaboration with Bologna Children’s Book Fair and Bologna Book Plus — runs Novmeber 15 to
The Chinese readership in October honored the South Korean 2024 Nobel laureate Han Kang by placing ‘The Vegetarian’ on the fiction list. At the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair earlier this month, attendees peruse books in the Bologna Children’s Book Fair exhibition marking the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death. Image: CCBF By Porter
