Already estimated to hold some 17 percent of the Czech wholesale book market, Albatros Media this spring continues broadening its acquisitions portfolio by buying the country’s oldest publisher, gaining access to the adult nonfiction market in the process.
The Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlist Is Announced, as ‘Evolved’ Booker Debate Flares Again
In a contentious turn of events, the Rathbones Folio Prize shortlist announcement prompts criticism of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, while the Rathbones prize, itself, admits US entries, as the Booker does.
Wellcome Book Prize’s 2018 Shortlist: Five of Six Titles Are by Women
Themed on medical science and society’s relationship to it, the Wellcome Book Prize announces a shortlist for 2018 that includes four debuts. One title is a novel, one is a memoir, and four are nonfiction.
France’s Literature in Translation: The Shortlist From the French-American Foundation
Even as the National Book Foundation begins taking submissions for its first translation award this year, the French-American Foundation has announced shortlists in its 31st annual translation prizes.
Timelier Than Ever: Five Finalists for Excellence in Journalism Books
Amid political upheaval in both the States and Russia, with issues of environmentalism and inequality discussed in the news, the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism announces its shortlist.
2017 Bestselling Books in Germany: Translations Top the Fiction List
In 2017, the bestselling books in Germany show that readers are interested in translated fiction and thrillers. Nonfiction bestseller lists included more German authors than foreign authors.
Industry Notes: Angoulême Focus on Arab Comics; Scholastic’s New Nonfiction Imprint
In France, a new exhibition on Arab comics launches at the Angoulême Comics Festival. And in the States, Scholastic’s new nonfiction imprint will tackle history and social issues for children.
White Lion Publishing: Quarto Announces Reorganization of Its UK-Based Trade Imprints
With an aim of ‘breaking down silos and embracing new ways of communicating with our target readers,’ The Quarto Group consolidates three imprints into one master entity headed by Richard Green.
Russia’s Eksmo-AST Creates New Imprint To Capitalize on Growing Demand for Nonfiction
As sales of nonfiction books increase in Russia, the country’s largest publisher, Eksmo-AST, opens a new nonfiction imprint, Bombora, to meet this demand.
UK Historian Daniel Beer Wins Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize for ‘House of the Dead’
Moving past Christopher Goscha on Vietnam and Walter Scheidel’s explication of violence as an historical driver, the Cundill History Prize goes to Daniel Beer in the UK.