The annual announcement of Amazon Literary Partnership funding names 66 nonprofit programs that support writers and their development.
Coronavirus Impact: Amid Losses, Poland Stages Its First Digital Book Fair
Trends reported by Polish publishers show downturns in sales of as much as 70 percent during the spring, and the cancellation of the Warsaw Book Fair has seen the market stage a digital effort, BookTarg.
Italian Publishers’ Coronavirus Update: €134 Million Lost in Four Months
More than 90 percent of planned book releases been stalled in Italy, and consumers seem to be making a sharp turn in favor of e-commerce.
Tuesday’s BookExpo Online Sessions Schedule: May 26
ReedPop’s trade show opens its digital events, which are available free of charge to the public. The weekend will feature a digital edition of BookCon.
Canada’s Cundill Prize Jurors: History, Urgency, Trump
‘It’s so easy now to turn the past into myth,’ says Pulitzer Prize -winning Cundill juror Anne Applebaum. She and her colleagues flag historical analysis amid a pathogen’s assault and leadership failures.
Coronavirus Worklife: Kalem Agency’s Şafak Tahmaz in Turkey: ‘Stay Sane’
Coronavirus Worklife: Amid the silenced streets of the pandemic in Istanbul, Kalem Agency’s fiction rights sales doubled in April, nonfiction broke its own record.
Rights Roundup: Tracking Strong Sales in International Deals
Today’s deals come from India, Sweden, the UK, Finland, Italy, and Norway and include art books, adult fiction, kids’ nonfiction–and historical train tales.
Digital Rights Trades: Brazilian Publishers Open an App With Matchmaking
First envisioned as a tool for publishers for trade shows has been adapted to the health-crisis needs of meeting arrangements to support rights deals.
Mapping Book and Publishing Policy in Africa and Latin America
In books and publishing industries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, a new study finds a wide disparity in public policy and awareness.
The Australian Book Industry Awards’ Digital Show: Undaunted by COVID-19
The transfer of the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards arrives as a slickly edited, expertly produced video evocation of the usual onstage event, full of personality and comedy.