Youngsuk ‘YS’ Chi, the 2024 winner of London Book Fair’s Lifetime Achievement Award, chairs the AAP and Elsevier, and is director of corporate affairs for RELX. Youngsuk ‘YS’ Chi. Image: LBF By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘I’ve Been Incredibly Fortunate’ Less than two weeks after being announced the new chair of the board of […]
On International Women’s Day, the Women’s Prize for Fiction names 16 novels to its £30,000 longlist. Image: Women’s Prize for Fiction By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: International Women’s Day: ‘The Female Publisher’ Sponsors This Year: Baileys and Audible Calling itself “the greatest international celebration of women’s creativity,” the United Kingdom’s Women’s Prize
Business in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East is touched by adjustments in PRH’s international sales and marketing leadership, as Taylor & Francis partners with Jisc in the UK on open access. In Shanghai, January 12, one of the Japanese Tsutaya Books locations. Image – iStockphoto: Robert Way By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
The EC’s first ‘Day of European Authors’ has been welcomed and co-organized in at least 27 European member-states, led by Brussels. Image: European Union, artwork for the 2023 inaugural ‘Day of European Authors’ initiative By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Levi: ‘Fostering Reading in Schools’ Today (March 27), the European Commission’s new “Day of European
The 2024 Firecracker Awards from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), recognize three books and two magazines. Fireworks for Festa del Redentore on Guidecca Island in Venice, July 20. Image – Getty: Damiano Pesaresi By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Three Books, Two Magazines Honored As we work our way through a backlog
BookBeat and RBMedia see English-language audiobooks as a leading edge in international audio markets and brand expansion. Listeners among users of an outdoor co-working site in Tbilisi, June 1. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Dima Berlin By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson An ‘Ambition for Expansion’ Stockholm’s BookBeat streaming service for ebooks and audiobooks has announced
This month, a ‘Thrills & Chills Book Club’ social media program from Tandem Collective begins promoting Amazon Publishing titles. Authors whose work is involved in the Tandem Collective Thomas & Mercer promotion for Amazon Publishing are, clockwise from upper left, Claire McGowan; TM Payne; Ryan Carter and Dreda Say Mitchell; John Marrs (image: R. Gershinson);
The newly created Gemini Books Group precedes its first London Book Fair stand with three executive appointments. Titles pictured by the new Gemini Books Group on its London Book Fair stand listing. Images: LBF By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Rights, Sales, and Publishing Appointments Our readers will remember that Marcus Leaver told the news
In young people’s self-help, a November trend was spotted in specialized guidance for male and female teens in China’s market. Formerly pegged as ‘short-video’ platforms, market-influencing social media channels driving book sales in China now are being referred to as “content e-commerce channels,’ a reflection of a broadening of formats used to catch consumer attention.
The German book market ‘remains extremely tense,’ according to officials in their initial 2024 Börsenverein report. In Freiburg im Breisgau’s city center. Image – Getty: Manuel Vinuesa By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘The Situation in Many Companies Remains Tense’ As Publishing Perspectives readers know, the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Germany’s publishers and booksellers association, annually
