With a couple of summer themes, our entries here are from Italy, South Korea, Norway, Iceland, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Frankfurt Notes: Storytel’s Jonas Tellander Keynotes Audio Conference
The founding CEO of the 20-market Swedish subscription company is to speak on the fourth day of the Frankfurt Conference program.
Rights Roundup: Coming to a Trading Platform Near You
As Frankfurt Rights goes online, these titles are available for international rights deals from the UK, Norway, Germany, Sweden, and Spain.
Rights Roundup: The Frankfurt-Bound Rights World Revs Up
From Norway, Germany, USA, Iceland, Finland, Spain, and Poland, here are writings to watch for on the run-up to Frankfurter Buchmesse.
Rights Roundup: Debuts in the Dog Days of Summer
Titles in our latest Rights Roundup are by authors based in Sweden, Canada, the UAE, Iceland, the UK, Ecuador, and China’s Sichuan province.
Audiobooks: Sweden’s Storytel Sees Q2 Sales Jump 43 Percent over 2019
Stockholm-based Storytel saw a decided increase in its audio and ebook business during the pandemic second quarter, Jonas Tellander reports.
Rights Roundup: Critical Thinking in a Long, Hot Summer
From Sweden, Denmark, the UK, Australia, the USA, the Netherlands, and Norway, today’s titles include children’s books and an LGBT graphic novel.
Border Crossings: A Rights Roundup for a Stay-at-Home Season
Trending somewhat toward the noir this time, our deals come from France, Germany, Sweden, the UK, and the States–several titles are parts of series.
Highlights of Bookwire’s ‘All About Audio’: Podcasts, Audiobooks
Taking both audiobooks and podcasting together, the Bookwire ‘All About Audio’ program was a multifaceted tour of the issues with a final message to publishers: Streaming is inevitable.
Tales From Simon Stålenhag: The Artist-Author on His New Amazon Original Series
‘My collective seashell,’ as Simon Stålenhag puts it, ‘sounds like that’—his artwork, his texts, and the new cinematic treatment by Nathaniel Halpern.