Hugo Setzer’s Manual Moderno publishes some 40 new titles per year and has an active catalogue of around 400 books in Mexico, a market in which, he says, censorship “is coming very close.”
Germany’s Bertelsmann Reports a Half-Year Decline at PRH; Dohle Messages Staff
‘Underlying operating revenue and profit numbers for Penguin Random House in US dollars have been stable year-over-year,’ Markus Dohle tells PRH staff, following the half-year report from Bertelsmann.
Rights Roundup: Crises, Confidence, Correspondence for Sale
What can happen in ‘180 Seconds’? That’ the crux of one of the titles in our rights roundup, which gathers the work of Spanish, American, French, Finnish, Swedish, Polish, and Greek authors.
Industry Notes: Indonesia Named London’s 2019 Market Focus; McIntosh Is CEO of PRH US
Indonesia will be the Market Focus at London Book Fair in 2019. And in New York City, Markus Dohle names Madeline McIntosh as CEO of Penguin Random House US.
The Netherlands’ Sweek Adds a Spanish-Language Contest With PRH Grupo Editorial
Now with more than 100 contests as part of its writing-and-reading mix, the Dutch platform Sweek is working a Spanish-language competition, #Soytalento, into the program.
Agency Rights Update: Madrid’s CBQ Agencia Literaria
A good agency’s character is ‘built with many authors, not single ones.’ CBQ’s Claudia Bernaldo di Quiros offers five titles making rights sales.
Agency Rights Roundup: Barcelona’s VicLit Agency and Its Latin American Novels
Focusing on debut Latin American talent, Victor Hurtado’s agency’s rights sales are promoting new voices from the Spanish-language markets.
Rights Updates from Agencies: Berlin, Istanbul, Cologne, London
‘June is bustin’ out all over’ in rights deals, it seems, and we look at some of them here, as part of our monthly Rights Edition.
Jerusalem International Book Fair Announces Zev Birger Fellows
This year’s group of Zev Birger Fellows for the Jerusalem International Book Fair will see the event coincide for the first time with Hebrew Book Week.
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Is Acquiring Spain’s Ediciones B
Penguin Random House widens its footprint in Spanish-language markets with the acquisition of Ediciones B, which is based in Spain and has imprints across Latin America.