The globe-trotting Sharjah Book Authority team appeared at Rio’s book fair to welcome the city to the World Book Capital ranks. At the 2025 Bienal do Livro in Rio de Janeiro, the Sharjah Book Authority and Sharjah World Book Capital stand. Image: SBA By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also:Rio Becomes UNESCO’s 2025 World […]
The 2024 edition of BookNet Canada’s 13th annual report reports 60-percent full-price buys. At the ‘Great Glebe Garage Sale in Ottawa’s Glebe neighborhood. Image – Getty: Paul McKinnon By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Buying ‘3.6 New Books a Month Last Year’ The 13th edition of BookNet Canada’s annual Canadian Book Consumer Study 2024 looks
Brazil’s Bienal do Livro is being redesigned as a ‘Book Park’ to be June’s centerpiece attraction of the UNESCO World Book Capital year. The UNESCO World Book Capital program in Rio de Janeiro is expected to create a ‘Book Park’ at June’s biennial Rio book fair, as prototyped by planners here. Image: World Book Capital
The Australian Publishers Association and Australia Reads have made a first large study of reading habits in their market. A ‘sequence of behavior’ for readers, as expressed in a graphic from ‘Understanding Australian Readers: Behavioral Insights Into Recreational Reading.’ Image: Australia Reads By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Burkey: Recreational Reading Is in Decline in
The French publishers’ association issues a statement of concern about cuts to funding for the ‘Pass Culture’ for young readers. Reading in the Tuileries. Image – Getty: Bruno Giuliani By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘A Halving of the Budgets Allocated’ For months, there has been a concern among many in France about economic pressure
At London Book Fair, IPA’s president, Gvantsa Jobava, will talk about the breadth of issues in sustainability, and books’ role in today’s issues. Gvantsa Jobava prepares to speak in a digital edition of the Tbilisi International Book Fair presented by the Georgian Publishers and Booksellers Association during the COVID-19 pandemic. Image: Guram Muradov By Porter
On Day One of the London Book Fair: Two transatlantic CEOS, James Daunt and David Shelley, deliver keynotes. James Daunt in interview with Publishing Perspectives in the 2025 Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri at Venice. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘This Is Not a Declining Industry’ The
Spanish publishers’ 2024 ‘Barometer of Reading and Book Purchasing Habits in Spain’ shows reading for pleasure on the rise. Reading in Spain is growing among young adults, led by college-educated urban young women, according to the FGEE’s new study. Image – Getty: Sana Grebinets By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Spain’s Typical Reader: The College
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 publishers and booksellers of Germany are calling for an urgent, coordinated ‘National Reading Plan’ to combat educational shortfalls. Image – Getty iStockphoto: LeManna By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Kraus vom Cleff: A ‘Downward Trend in Literacy’ Among many of the effects of the still-ongoing coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, educational systems in many, perhaps most
