On April 23, the Georgian Publishers and Booksellers Association expects to stream a busy World Book and Copyright Day program online.
Coronavirus: France’s Scientific Publishers Mobilize; Canada’s Access Copyright Funds Authors
French publishers working in the scientific and scholarly journal sector are responding to ministry calls for open content, as Canada’s copyright agency makes another donation to authors losing income in the pandemic.
US Senate IP Chief Questions Internet Archive’s ‘National Emergency Library’
Capping cries of foul from publishing players, the Internet Archive gets a letter from Thom Tillis, the Senate’s intellectual property chair: No user ‘ can unilaterally create an emergency copyright act.’
Coronavirus Worklife: Spanish Author Javier Castillo Meets 60,000 Fans Online During COVID-19 Lockdown
The Snow Girl by bestselling author Javier Castillo came out two days before Spain’s coronavirus lockdown. So his publisher Suma took his 30-city book tour online—where thousands of fans were waiting.
Spain’s PRH Grupo Editorial Runs a D2C Promotion To Support Spain’s Bookstores
While some skepticism has greeted Penguin Random House’s discount-and-coupon offers on print copies, others see a useful exercise in D2C sales.
Coronavirus Updates: German-Language US Neue Literatur Fest Canceled
The translations commissioned as part of this year’s Festival Neue Literatur are available, even as the 2020 iteration of the event is canceled.
The UAE’s Sheikh Zayed Book Award Names 2020 Winners
Writers from Tunisia, Palestine, Iraq, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States are among those honored today by the world’s most lucrative awards program for Arabic literature.
BookCon, Still Planned for July, Announces a Virtual ‘Read-a-Thon’
The public-facing ReedPop program, now postponed from May to late July, is producing a fund-raising Saturday afternoon program to help booksellers.
Federation of European Publishers: ‘How Terribly Our Sector Has Been Hit’
The FEP is stressing to a meeting of EU culture ministers that publishing industries face ‘a cumulative loss of some 25 percent’ in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Words Without Borders April: Into the Woods of Translated Children’s Stories
Drawn from French, Polish, Arabic, German, Norwegian, Japanese, and Italian, Daniel Hahn’s cauldron of young readers’ work in translation may remind you ‘what children’s stories are capable of.’