Year-to-date, the United States’ industry’s trade revenues were down 1.8 percent, at US$4.8 billion for the first seven months of the year.
Mexico: Government Textbooks Spur Nationwide Criticism
Allegations of political indoctrination, distorted history, and flagrant errors are greeting Mexico’s new government-made textbooks.
Italy’s Publishers Ask Rome to Raise Family Schoolbook Funding
The Italian Publishers Association and the market’s booksellers are appealing for more government funding for poorer students’ books.
Canadian University Presses Have a De Gruyter Distribution Partnership
The University Press Library platform at Germany’s De Gruyter now hosts scholarly content from all 17 Canadian university presses.
IPA’s Karine Pansa in Portugal: Publishing Must Be ‘Tough and Smart’
The International Publishers Association’s Karine Pansa in Portugal speaks of rising threats to publishing’s framework of protections.
Switzerland’s Karger and Kortext: Research for England’s National Health
The Basel-based Karger, founded in 1890, has partnered with the UK’s Kortext on an NHS-England digital publishing program.
In Brazilian Educational Publishing: A Crisis Averted
The Brazilian state of São Paulo’s educational publishers went to court this month to turn around a state school-content program.
AAP StatShot: US Book Sales Up 1.2 Percent in First Half of 2023
The year’s first half showed US book sales up, but June revenue was down 0.9%, at $4.1 billion; children’s and YA were down 6.3%.
Canada: A Nationwide Coalition Demands a Copyright Fix
‘Canada is an international embarrassment’: A consortium of English- and French-language copyright advocates take the fight to Parliament Hill.
AAP StatShot Shows the US Book Market Flat in May
In the US, sales of books for adults and education were up in May, as children’s books slid again, per AAP’s StatShot.