Using advanced language processing Trajectory adds nuanced detail to book metadata, offering analytics for intensity and sentiment, among other qualities.
Wales’ Hay Festival Announces Julie Finch as New CEO
As its 35th season approaches, Hay Festival gets its second chief executive. Julie Finch is scheduled to join the team in August.
Venice’s 39th Mauri School, Part One: A ‘New Future’
The 2022 Mauri School conference commentary from booksellers and publishers was a deep look at ‘The New Future’ ahead for books.
Rights Edition: Foreign Rights Sold to 12 Percent of Italy’s New Books
Positioning itself for its turn in 2024 as Frankfurter Buchmesse’s guest of honor, the Italian market celebrates its rights sales.
South Africa’s Damon Galgut Wins the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction
Calling himself ‘a writer fascinated by the edge of the map,’ South Africa’s Damon Galgut finally wins the Booker on his third shortlisting.
Beijing International Book Fair: More Than Half Its Exhibitors From Overseas
Delayed by three weeks amid COVID-19 spread-mitigation measures. the Beijing International Book Fair held its five-day run last week.
NPD Sees the US Print Market Up in July, ‘Momentum Slowing’
The September reopening plan for Hachette Book Group is postponed, even as NPD Books charts a good July in US print–but questions ahead.
AAP’s StatShot: US Trade Revenues Climb 27.6 Percent Year-to-Date
The downturns of April 2020 lead to strong comparative showings by the US industry in April 2021 in the new StatShot report from AAP.
PEN America To Honor Five Career Achievement Prize Recipients
In Thursday’s program, special honorees are George C. Wolfe, Anne Carson, Daniel Alexander Jones, Kwame Dawes, and Pierre Joris.
China Bestsellers: November’s Big Sales Rule the Charts
Major seasonal sales impacted the bestseller charts in China in November, as illustrated books saw strong performances from two children’s book series.