Finland and Germany were the first markets added Nextory, the Stockholm-based unlimited-subscription service for ebooks and audiobooks.
Prompted by a Memoir: Author Christina Rickardsson’s Coelho Growth Foundation
Influenced by her childhood in the caves of Brazil, author Christina Rickardsson oversees the work of the Coelho Growth Foundation for children at risk.
Foreign Rights: Do YouTube Celebrity Books Travel?
Publishers are becoming ‘increasingly selective’ as some rights directors say offshore interest in YouTube celebrity books may be waning.
Bonnier’s New Self-Publishing Platform, Type & Tell: Authors Keep 100 Percent of Royalties
Called Type & Tell, Bonnier’s new self-publishing platform has been quietly tested in Sweden. Its English edition launches during London Book Fair.
At Singapore’s StoryDrive Asia: Proud Publishers, Digital Demands
From Stockholm’s internationally situated Bonnier with its history to the new Canelo from the UK and 10-year-old Wattpad, innovation is the quest at StoryDrive Asia in Singapore.
Bonnier Books CEO Jacob Dalborg: ‘Digitization Is Not Necessarily Evil’
The book business hasn’t experienced disruption as dramatic as that of industries, says Jacob Dalborg. The ‘core publishing activities of acquiring, editing and publishing stories’ are resilient.
Germany’s Publishers’ Forum: Bedeviled by Data
A reluctant industry? At Publishers’ Forum in Berlin, a first day of sessions has exposed what some see to be a surprisingly entrenched reluctance to embrace data’s centricity in a new and critical relationship with consumers.
Manilla: New Home for International Fiction
Ullstein and Bonnier UK are launching a new digital imprint called Manilla that will publish English ebook editions of bestselling German fiction.
Adichie’s Feminism Essay Given to Every 16-Year-Old in Sweden
A copy of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay, We Should All Be Feminists, will be given out for free to every 16-year-old in Sweden.
German-language Authors Join in Battle Against Amazon
Austrian, Swiss and German authors have sent an open letter of protest to Amazon, protesting the use of ‘authors and their books as a bargaining chip to exact deeper discounts.’
- Page 1 of 2
- 1
- 2