‘I believe we will surprise you,’ said Canada FBM2020 president Caroline Fortin, as the Frankfurt Guest of Honor scroll passed to her from NORLA director Margit Walsø.
Canada Previews the ‘Colorful Fabric’ of its Frankfurt 2020 Guest of Honor Program
A delegation of Canadian publishers, creatives, and officials offered a preview of the country’s plans for its turn as Frankfurt’s Guest of Honor in 2020.
Publishing Perspectives Talks: Executive Women on Pay and Bias in the Book Business
Amid what Amazon Publishing’s Mikyla Bruder describes as ‘the unconscious bias you’re confronted with every day,’ panelists call for equal pay for women.
Frankfurt Notes: Spain’s New Translation Funds; Germany’s Book Prize Broadcasts
Frankfurt 2021 Guest of Honor Spain roklls out €230,000 (US$252,383) in translation funding this week, and the German Book Prize announces live streaming.
Mexican-American Author Wins 2019 Top Watty Award
A novel about a young woman whose mother is deported from the United States has won Wattpad’s first ‘Top Award’ and a publication contract.
Industry Notes: Jesseca Salky Opens New Agency; Wattpad Partners in Latin America
Literary Agent Jesseca Salky opens her own literary management company in New York, and Toronto’s Wattpad announces a deal with Wise in Rio.
Frankfurt’s Publishing Perspectives Talks: Climate, Women’s Leadership, Blockchain
Our 2019 Publishing Perspectives Talks at Frankfurt will explore how climate crisis, women and executive leadership, and blockchain affect book publishing.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names Its Shortlist in New York City
Five women and three men make the shortlist for the 2019 Cundill Prize, which stresses history for non-historians and internationalism.
Canada’s Greystone Books Announces Issue-Driven Kids’ List in the UK
‘Topics of inclusion, global issues, science, the environment, and nature themes’ are the focus of Greystone’s new line of books for children.
BookNet Canada’s First ‘State of Independent Bookselling’ Report: Print Revenue Up
Citing 37 percent of revenue from frontlist titles, 63 independent bookstores with 80 locations respond to BookNet Canada’s new report.