Main Stage keynotes at the 2025 London Book Fair are to include transatlantic CEOs David Shelley and James Daunt. The United Nations’ Sherri Addis and Elsevier’s Rachel Martin in the Main Stage seminar series at the 2024 London Book Fair. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: London Book Fair […]
The seminar of the Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri at Venice explores ‘Constants and Variables of the Publishing Profession.’ A winter morning’s fog on the dome of the Basilica Santa Maria della Salute on Venice’s Grand Canal. Image – Getty: Ekaterina Longinova By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson On the Site of the
Open Road’s David Steinberger cites big gains in its 2024 performance and progress ‘on both sides of the Atlantic.’ E-reading on a tablet. Image – Getty: Oleg Elkov By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson An Intenational Angle: ‘Both Sides of the Atlantic’ According to a statement from Open Road Integrated Media executive chair and CEO David
In audiobooks in 2024, ‘ We saw more listeners than ever before for our authors’ titles,’ Hachette’s David Shelley says in a memo. Hachette Book Group and Hachette UK CEO David Shelley in conversation in the Publishing Perspectives Forum at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024. Image: FBM, Marc Jacquemin By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘An Extremely
The acquisition of Libreka by Denmark’s WeDoBooks means ‘the right combination of price models,’ according to WeDoBooks’ Lasse Nyrup. E-reading in Copenhagen. Image – Getty: Media Lens King By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘A Massive Catalogue of International Content’ Denmark’s WeDoBooks announced on January 29 that it has acquired Libreka, a German B2B ebook
A pre-London-Book-Fair report assesses research writers’ interest in using artificial intelligence responsibly and transparently. Image – Getty: Giorgio Morara By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Jay Flynn: ‘We’ve Heard Researchers Loud and Clear’ The latest in a steady shower of AI-related studies and reports from academic publishing arrives this week from Wiley, which has used
The arrival of the Year of the Snake coincides with an upturn in sales impact from Web novels in China’s fiction lists. The Year of the Snake arrived on January 20 in pre-new-year celebrations at Shanghai. Spring Festival continues through the first week of February. Image – Getty: Yanjf By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
The change to Italy’s ’18App’ ‘culture voucher’ reportedly cost Italy’s book business some €62.7 million, per AIE. Innocenza Cipolletta, second speaker from left and president of the Association of Italian Publishers, listens to a remembrance of the late Luciano Mauri after giving a report on the Italian market to the Scuola per Librai seated at
In US publishing, AAP StatShot figures show digital audio in October accounted for 15 percent of adult book sales. An October afternoon in New York’s Central Park. Image – Getty: Edichen Photo By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson October Year-to-Date US Revenues: Up 7.1 Percent The Association of American Publishers (AAP) released its October 2024
This year, Frankfurt’s ‘Translation Stage’ evolves to the ‘Centre of Words’: as Eleonora Di Blasio says, ‘a broader space of exchange.’ Audience interaction with speakers on the 2023 ‘Translation Stage’ at Frankfurter Buchmesse, a space this year called the ‘Centre of Words.’ Image: FBM, Marc Jacquemin By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: Rights Roundup:
