After some time working in other media and cultural sectors, Morten Hesseldahl returns to the book industry as CEO of Denmark’s oldest publishing company, Gyldendal, with fresh observations.
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At Copenhagen’s Literary Festival Kbh Reads, Consumers See and Hear Editors at Work
Taking audiences behind the scenes of the editorial process, publishing house editors at the recent Kbh Reads festival showed how they handle their work—and an author’s.
Danish Publisher Rosinante Enters a Rights Partnership With the UK’s Rogers Coleridge & White
Looking for wider sales for its Danish authors in English-language markets, Copenhagen publisher Rosinante & Co. has inked a new partnership with the UK agency Rogers Coleridge & White.
Introducing Frankfurt Book Fair’s First International Publishing Distribution Forum
With distributors ‘expanding their services to cover a larger part of the value chain,’ the Frankfurter Buchmesse and IPDA inaugurate a new Distribution Forum.
Sweden’s Göteborg Book Fair Faces Down Protests With Respect for Dissent
With a boycott anticipated, organizers of Göteborg Book Fair say they’re confident that their decision to include hard-right exhibitor is correct.
Danish Postcard Books: ‘A Very Precise and Highly Compact’ Format
‘The readers feel the book was written to them,’ says one of two authors of ‘postcard books’ in Denmark, books ‘sent from somewhere unknown,’
The Danish Digitization Debate and Educational Publishers’ Dilemma
‘We need to leave the old distinction between analog and digital behind,’ says a Danish educational publisher. But is the new approach working?
All That’s Nordic Isn’t Noir, in Scandinavian Rights Action
Brisk springtime rights trading is reported from Scandinavia, with nonfiction hits as well as fiction highlighted in Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, and Norway.
Sweden’s Storytel Buys Denmark’s People’s Press: ‘Everybody in the Same Family’
‘Our digital services can easily be used as a platform for testing’ books, Morten Strunge tells Publishing Perspectives, on acquiring a new publisher.
Of Hype and Hygge: Those Books Aren’t Danish
As we near London Book Fair, the adult coloring book tide has receded, but these Danish hygge titles are plentiful. Who’s missing out? Danish publishers.