Our pre-London Book Fair Rights Roundup brings together work originating in Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Québec. In Haugesund, Jon Fosse’s hometown. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Anastasia Yakovleva By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Kåre Conradi Reads Five Jon Fosse Audiobooks If you’re headed to London Book Fair (March 12 to 14) and […]
US backlist sales continued to grow in share in January, Kristen McLean reports, adult fiction helping to offset sagging adult nonfiction. On Elliott Bay at Puget Sound, Washington State, January 23. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Randall Williams By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Juvenile Categories Are Soft’ In her first month’s coverage period of the
Canada’s Valsoft says that ‘customers of Edelweiss and Klopotek will benefit’ from its acquisitions of both companies. Seasonal decor on Montreal’s Crescent Street. Image – Getty: CIIO By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Shared Values’ At mid-month, the publishing-software company Klopotek in Berlin is expressing its support for its owner, Montreal-based Valsoft, in its acquisition
Ruth Ozeki, based in Massachusetts, wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her fourth novel, ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness.’ Ruth Ozeki at the Women’s Prize for Fiction award ceremony in London. The ‘Bessie’ is the Grizel Niven limited-edition bronze presented to winners of the prize, along with £30,000. Image: Women’s Prize for Fiction
Four videos are shortlisted for the Book Trailer Awards in this year’s FuturePublish conference from Literaturtest. At the 2019 FuturePublish conference in Berlin. Image: Literaturtest By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A Two-Day Digital Conference As last year, Berlin’s upcoming FuturePublish program will once more be rendered digitally, and the 2022 edition is set for
Expenditures made by young Germans on the new KulturPass have generated more than €3.2 million in revenue in two months. In Munich. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Wirestock By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson In Unit Sales, Cinema and Concert Events Trail Books In roughly two months, Germany has seen more than €3.2 million in revenue
The Connecting Emerging Literary Artists program in Europe has selected emerging writer and translators for its third annual program. A group of participants in one of the first two iterations of the Connecting Emerging Literary Artists program. Image: CELA, Gaby Jongenelen By Jarosław Adamowksi | @JaroslawAdamows A Third Iteration Starts in January The pan-European project Connecting
The new arrangement for Usborne’s children’s books sees Harper taking over distribution functions in the US by February 1. Four of Usborne’s international catalogues. From left, French, German, Italian, and Korean. Find them all here. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Handling Trade Sales, Distribution, by Fall 2023 A new distribution agreement has been announced
In a Frankfurt Book Fair discussion moderated by publisher Mercy Kirui, two authors are ‘putting Africa at the center’ of their work. From left: Scholastica Moraa, Mercy Kirui, and Emmanuel Ngwainmbi at the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Johannes Minkus By Brianna Robles | @breesharraine On Wednesday, October 16, authors Scholastica Moraa and
The first outing for this Nielsen BookData-GfK study sees revenue up in many book markets, but rising prices contributing to that 2023 trend. In a first — a joint annual report from GfK Entertainment and Nielsen BookData — 12 of 16 international markets studied report rises in revenue growth for 2023. Image: Nielsen BookData By
