The International Rights Center at London Book Fair is ‘slightly’ bigger than last year, and returns to the ground floor for 2024. In the 2023 London Book Fair International Rights Center. Image: LBF By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A Total 276 Companies Are in the Rights Center With many of us in the last […]
The newly released ‘Audiobooks and Public Libraries’ report shows US libraries’ community sizes playing a role in audio circulation. Image – Getty: Kerkez By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: AI-Voiced Audiobooks: Guidance for Consumer LabelingAAP’s October StatShot: Digital Audio Accounts for 15 Percent of Adult Book Sales A 9.2-Percent Year-over-Year Increase in Digital
The winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award will be honored in May at a ceremony parallel to the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The late Prof. Jaroslav Stetkevych and his wife Prof. Suzanne Stetkevych cross the stage during the 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Awards ceremony in Abu Dhabi to accept their joint award as
US industry notes: Wiley acquires peer-review specialist J&J Editorial, and Open Road announces first-half revenue gains in 2021. Light subway traffic in Manhattan’s West 4th Street station, September 28. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Chain Gang Pictures By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Jay Flynn: ‘Creating More Choices’ The international research and education publisher Wiley has
The RISE Bookselling / EIBF project assesses the value of Europe’s four ‘culture pass’ programs for young consumers – and the industry. The new report’s analysis graphic of the Germany KulturPass, just introduced in June. Image: RISE Bookselling By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Stimulating ‘Cultural Spending Habits’ Co-funded by the European Union, Resilience, Innovation,
Established in 2018, the US National Book Awards’ newest category, Translated Literature, this year drew 141 submissions. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also:US 2024 National Book Award Longlists: Young People’s BooksUS 2024 Distinguished Contribution Medalist: Barbara KingsolverPublisher Paul Coates Wins the US 2024 Literarian Award The Second of Five Categories’ 2024 Longlists With
‘Every mobile can become a pocket library,’ according to digital book distributor Juan Pirlot de Corbion at YouScribe. A billboard in Senegal advertises YouScribe. Image: YouScribe By Olivia Snaije | @OliviaSnaije ‘You Have To Have a Wide Offer’ The story of the French-language library and book-streaming platform YouScribe is one of a start-up that nearly failed—until
Amid Frankfurt discussions of France’s book market, a number of French titles have editors buzzing about bestseller potential. There are 167 publishers represented on the BIEF stand from France at Frankfurt this week. Image: FBM, Eric Dupuy By Eric Dupuy | @duperico A View From the French With 167 publishing houses represented, Bureau International de
