In what NPD’s Kristen McLean calls ‘a remarkable year’ for US book sales, Publishers Lunch reports a decline in 2020 of translation rights deals.
UK: Welbeck Acquires Australian Illustrator Robert Ingpen’s Backlist
en titles from illustrator Robert Ingpen now form the basis of a new UK children’s book publishing imprint, Welbeck Children’s Classics.
Rights Roundup: Nature, Climate, Environment and Politics
Our titles come from the United States, Canada, Finland, Norway, Belgium, and Sweden and include environmentally cognizant writings.
NPD: 2020 Was the US’ Bestselling Year for Print in a Decade
One-third of 2020 growth in US print book sales was driven by juvenile fiction, NPD BookScan reports, with overall sales of 751 million units.
Richard Charkin: ‘Thank Goodness for the Rule-Breakers’
‘Maybe there are lessons to be learned from rule-breaking,’ writes Richard Charkin, with a new memoir as his case in point.
Year’s End Surprise: Spiegel & Grau, a Once-and-Future Publisher
Two of the best-known publishers of New York’s Big Five scene are promising a media-spanning concept at their new independent press.
Douglas Stuart’s ‘Extraordinary Year’: ‘Shuggie Bain’ Rights Sales Are Soaring
The Scottish-American winner of the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction writes in Broad Scots and says he’s fascinated with translators’ work.
Rights Roundup: Don’t All Finns Have Reindeer?
Our featured titles were first published in Swedish, Spanish, Norwegian, Catalan, German, and Dutch–and they include a diet book.
The Polish Book Institute’s New Video: ‘To Lure Attention’ to Available Rights
Filmmaker Grzegorz Jankowski’s new video for the Polish Book Institute introduces New Books from Poland to international book publishers. (Sponsored)
Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ Breaks NPD BookScan’s Nonfiction Records
Year’s End: An already exceptionally busy year for nonfiction gets even hotter as US adult nonfiction print sales move 257 million units.