New additions to the upcoming London Book Fair’s Main Stage lineup include Michael Sheen, Julie Smith, and Steven Bartlett. At the 2023 London Book Fair at Olympia London. Image: LBF By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also:At London Book Fair: The International Publishers AssociationLondon’s Rights Seminar; Bologna’s New TV/Film Rights CenterUK: The Research and […]
The States’ book industry revenues were up 7.3 percent at $13.3 billion, January through November in 2024, per AAP’s StatShot. A November 2024 day on Carson River in Lyons County, Nevada. Image – Getty: Christopher Thienel By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Digital Audio, Year-to-Date, Up 25.0 Percent In its November 2024 StatShot report released
To ‘survey this year’s harvest,’ as jury chair Neil MacGregor puts it, the Booker Foundation announces its 2022 jurors. Neil MacGregor, the author and cultural historian who is international adviser to the J. Paul Getty Foundation in Los Angeles and Mumbai’s CSMVS Museum, chairs the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction jury. Image: Booker Prize Foundation
Widening its newly opened Scribd Audio program, the subscription service announces new Spanish-language audiobooks for Mexico. Image: Scribd By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Planned: 100 Spanish-Language Audiobooks This Year Continuing a busy spate of announcements, the San Francisco-based subscription service Scribd has announced that its new Scribd Audio brand—announced last month for its productions with
Scholastic’s 2023 World Read Aloud Day program has a new format, in which authors read aloud through the Storyvoice app and at events throughout the world. Image: Scholastic, LitWorld, 2023 By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson 24 Hours of Read-Aloud Activities on February 1 As far back as its 2019 Kids and Family Reading Report,
A conversation with the Italian culture ministry’s Paola Passarelli cheers the value of those translations that come from trade-show deals. (Sponsored.) A visit to Palermo’s La Stanza di Carta (The Paper Room), which carries rare books. Image – Getty: Alexander Farnsworth By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Recent and relevant to Frankfurt’s 2024 Guest of
The two-year ‘Inspire’ project report from the IPA highlights solidarity and a need for common reporting standards. A rowing team on the Narrando at Zumaia in Spain’s Basque country, June 12, 2019. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Yury Karamanenko By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Al Qasimi: ‘To Find Community’ Released on Friday (April 29), A
While details are limited, Bologna Book Plus at BCBF (March 31 to April 3) has announced an ‘AI Summit’ in its April 1 programming. A program produced by Bologna Book Plus in the 2023 Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Image: BCBF By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Copyright Protection’ Will Be ‘Central to the Discussion’ Almost
