2024

Ingram Adds POD Capability to Its Chambersburg Site

Ingram Content Group brings together another of its print-on-demand installations with its book-distribution network hub in Pennsylvania. Ingram’s Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, facility, now with its print-on-demand installation in place. Image: Ingram Content Group By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Co-Locating Print-on-Demand with Automated Distribution In its media messaging today (August 28) from its Nashville international headquarters, […]

The US National Book Awards’ 2024 Shortlists

The United States’ National Book Foundation releases its 2024 slate of five shortlists for the 75th National Book Awards cycle. Image: National Book Foundation By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also:US National Book Award 2024 Longlists: Translated LiteratureUS National Book Award 2024 Longlists: FictionUS National Book Award 2024 Longlists: NonfictionUS National Book Award 2024

A Nationwide Reading Competition Offers New Advice

From Germany’s Reading Monitor 2023: Families read aloud together more when children ask their parents for it. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Carpinxo By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Children Are the Key to Encouraging Parents To Read Aloud’ As Publishing Perspectives readers know, the German book industry has been particularly prompt in assessing and addressing

TikTok and Frankfurter Buchmesse Open a Collaboration

Frankfurt’s Agora is the setting for a TikTok stage this year, emphasis on #BookTok and its community of book fans and readers. At the 2013 Frankfurter Buchmesse, an “Open Stage” in the Agora. This year, TikTok will have a stage in the open-air space, with a spot for users to record and stream their videos.

Funding for Nine Translations Into Five Languages

Nine newly announced translations of supported by the UAE’s Sheikh Zayed Book Award have taken six Arabic books into five languages. The stage for the 2016 Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners’ ceremony in Abu Dhabi. Image: Sheikh Zayed Book Award By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Three Books Have Two Translations Each Among announcements made

US Book Trade Was ‘High-Performing’ in April

The April 2024 StatShot report from the Association of American Publishers tracks especially strong performance in digital audio. Listening to audio at Pacific Beach, San Diego. Image – Getty iStockphoto Sandro Montefusco By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson US Digital Audio Sales Are Up 29 Percent Year-To-Date In its October 2021 StatShot report released this

London Book Fair Thursday: ‘A Trinity of Freedoms’

London Book Fair is the launch point for a new five-organization international statement on freedom of expression and publishing. The International Rights Center at the 2024 London Book Fair, Olympia London Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘To Give Full Meaning to the Freedom to Read’ At 2:30 p.m. today

Frankfurt Fellowships: Karla Kutzner, Germany’s InterKontinental

A Frankfurt-Paris Fellow, Karla Kutzner is the founder of Berlin’s InterKontinental publishing house with a bookstore and festival. Karla Kutzner. Image: Jörg Kandziora By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson The Paris-Frankfurt Fellowship As many Publishing Perspectives readers know, Frankfurter Buchmesse each year welcomes participants in grant and fellowship programs, all designed to encourage international collegiality, professionalism, and perspective

Arabic Literary Translation: Ghobash Banipal 2024 Longlist

The 19th edition of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation has announced a longlist of 19 entries for 2024. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A Shortlist Is Scheduled for December 1 In England, the 19th edition of the London-based Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, has drawn the same number

Germany’s Brandenburg, Börsenverein Offers Book Vouchers

The state of Brandenburg’s ‘Reading Is Life’ campaign is providing some €3 million in book and workbook vouchers to schools. A Brandenburg Bücherscheck, a ‘books check,’ which a school can use to buy books and workbooks in physical bookstores to support the needs of students — who are allowed to keep their reading materials By

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