The Bologna Licensing Conference series of events is now listing programming details for its three days of special sessions. A conference session in the 2024 edition of Bologna Children’s Book Fair’s Bologna Licensing Trade Fair/Kids programming. Image: BCBF By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Three Days of Specialized Content Much has been written here in […]
Even as the publishing business in the Czech Republic has welcomed a zero-percent VAT, book sales continue dropping. The Charles Bridge on the Vitava, January 13. Image – Getty: Mirko Kuzmanovic By Jarosław Adamowksi | @JaroslawAdamows Book Sales Are Declining for a Third Year Members of the Czech Republic’s publishing industry say they still hope
The Women’s Prize for Fiction in London releases its 16-book longlist, which includes nine debut publications. Image: Women’s Prize for Fiction By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A Shortlist Is Expected on April 2 You’re not wrong in feeling that you just heard from the Women’s Prize in the United Kingdom. You did. That was
On Day One of the London Book Fair: Two transatlantic CEOS, James Daunt and David Shelley, deliver keynotes. James Daunt in interview with Publishing Perspectives in the 2025 Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri at Venice. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘This Is Not a Declining Industry’ The
Peirene Press and Two Lines Press are teaming up to produce and publish the winner of this year’s Stevns Translation Prize. From left are Adriana Hunter, Kate Briggs, and Amanda Quinn By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Deadline to Enter: April In a transatlantic partnership called, the United Kingdom’s Peirene Press and the United States’
The CEO of Macmillan Publishers talks about his personal experience of reading and the stark dangers of banning books. Jon Yaged. Image: Macmillan Publishers By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Macmillan’s Jon Yaged: ‘You Need Critical Thinking’ The news last week that the Big Five publishers plus Sourcebooks, the Authors Guild, and several other plaintiffs
