Working to support the international rights business throughout the year, the Frankfurt Rights platform assists with rights discovery, contacts and licensing activity year-round, and even automates smaller transactions.
A Challenge and an Opportunity: A Book Festival Opens the Door to Mozambique
A new book fair in Mozambique seeks to ‘help create the infrastructure, skills, relationships, and commercial opportunities’ for local publishers, writers, and readers.
Spotlight on Translation Funding: The Icelandic Literature Center
This is a series highlighting international funding opportunities for books in translation. The Icelandic Literature Center Translation Grants has a special emphasis on translations of Children’s and YA books in 2026.
Why Rights Holder Transparency Is Becoming Non-Negotiable
As AI licensing, microdeals, and expansion into new territories and formats proliferate, it is essential for publishers to maintain trust with creators. (Sponsored)
This French Graphic Novel Is Headed to the Moon. Literally.
Albin Michel’s Astro Allan will be etched onto a sapphire disc bound for the lunar surface in 2030, becoming the first comic book ever ‘distributed’ on the Moon.
A Quarter of a Manuscript, 20 Deals: France’s Publishing Sensation of the Summer
Sold in 20 countries within four weeks, Le Monde de Noé is the latest proof point for City Éditions’ strategy of pairing selective list-building with an increasingly close partnership with agency BAM.
(Film) Rights Roundup: Inaugural ‘Book-to-Screen at KVIFF’ Event a Success
This month’s roundup has a book-to-screen focus, featuring books that were pitched earlier this month at the first book-to-screen program at The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czechia.
Spotlight on Translation Funding: Sheikh Zayed Book Award
The first in a series highlighting international funding opportunities publishing books in translation. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award started their Translation Grant in 2018 with a goal to expand the reach of Arabic literature around the world.
Around the Book World: Monday, July 13th, 2026
Publishing analyst Carlo Carrenho kicks off the week with a review of the headlines from across the international publishing world.
In France, Publishers Confront Broad Market Challenges as Revenue Slides for a Third Consecutive Year
The Syndicat national de l’édition reported a 0.6% decline in publisher revenues to €2.88 billion in 2025, with the unchecked expansion of the secondhand book market and questions over AI posing deep structural concerns.