‘In the last year, we’ve really seen the importance of reliable digital products’ amid the constraints of the pandemic, says David Clark.
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Melinda Gates Donates US$250,000 to New Carol Shields Prize for Fiction by Women
Women ‘are routinely overlooked for awards,’ says Melinda Gates as she backs the forthcoming Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
Reflections on the 2020 American Market in Sales and Deals
In what NPD’s Kristen McLean calls ‘a remarkable year’ for US book sales, Publishers Lunch reports a decline in 2020 of translation rights deals.
UK: Welbeck Acquires Australian Illustrator Robert Ingpen’s Backlist
en titles from illustrator Robert Ingpen now form the basis of a new UK children’s book publishing imprint, Welbeck Children’s Classics.
CBC’s 20th Season of ‘Canada Reads’: Five Books and Their ‘Champions’
Discovering ‘which books matter most to Canadians’ is a goal of the annual ‘Canada Reads’ program, now opening its new season.
Industry Notes: Short Story Awards in Spain and the United Kingdom
The Madrid-based Desperate Literature program and the BBC National Short Story Award open submissions and name their 2021 jurors.
Costa Book Awards Names Its Three Short Story Finalists
Three writers who work in literature and screenwriting are behind the shortlisted trio of works in the Costa honors’ 2020 cycle.
Industry Notes: Midas Buys BKS Literary Agency; Audio Publishers Sets Conference
One of London’s leading PR firms in publishing accounts buys a literary agency, and APAC 2021 is announced as a digital conference.
Book Aid International’s Year: 867,567 Books to 19 Countries
Solar lamps as well as hundreds of thousands of books were in play in 2020 for Book Aid International’s logistics team and donor-publishers.
Springer Nature CEO Vrancken Peeters: Case for Gold Open Access
In his address to the APE conference, the Springer Nature CEO makes a determined case for gold over green open access.