Book publishing job opening: the Frankfurt Book Fair’s New York office is hiring a Key Account Manager to work with customers in the US and Canada.
The 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Longlist Is Announced in London
‘Slavery, ecology, missing persons, inner-city violence, young love, prisons, trauma, and race’ all are said to figure into the Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist, as the award starts its second 50 years of competition.
Canadian Publishers Issue Statement on Access Copyright Counterclaim to Education Lawsuit
In Canada’s long struggle over copyright protection and ‘fair dealing,’ Access Copyright responds to the education sector’s lawsuit, while the Parliamentary review of the Copyright Moderniztion Act is ongoing.
Sourcing Content: Sara Sargent of HarperCollins Children’s Books on Working With Wattpad
HarperCollins Children’s Books’ executive editor Sara Sargent says she’s ‘combining a non-traditional way of sourcing books with traditional storytelling’ with Wattpad.
France’s Biennial Festival America Takes a Canadian Focus to the UK This Year
The long-running biennial Festival America, originating in France, announces its first London installation, a four-day event with political and international social issues at the forefront.
Kids Can Press Will Distribute New Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
The four-volume ‘Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada’ will be sold and distributed by Kids Can Press and Canadian Geographic—and resulted from a conversation between two publishers in China.
Copyright in Canada: Publishers Cheer Settlement of Copibec’s Laval University Lawsuit in Québec
The Association of Canadian Publishers welcomes the settlement in French-language Canada, as the country’s 2012 Copyright Modernization Act’s parliamentary review is ongoing.
Looking for the Next Hit in Germany: Wattpad Announces a Partnership With Bavaria Fiction
German-language users spend an average 10 million minutes on Wattpad daily. That may soon pay off for both the platform in Toronto and for Munich’s Bavaria Fiction in a new partnership.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize 2018 Jurors: Five Historians in Search of Contemporary Insights
The five-person jury of history experts on why history writing is important and how they will choose this year’s winner of the Cundill History Prize.
Audiobooks in the Headlines: Wooing Guys in the UK, Winning Over Publishers in Canada
The UK reports that audiobooks are most popular with men 25 to 44, and in Canada, there’s a big jump from 2016 to 2017 in publishers producing audiobooks.