July 2025 - Publishing Perspectives
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The Association of American Publishers' 23-year-old International Freedom to Publish award toes to Georgy Urushadze.| Publishing Perspectives
'Proliferating piracy' and AI-training on copyrighted content: The AAP reports a possible settlement in the California case.| Publishing Perspectives
The British-Egyptian writer and blogger highlighted last year by English PEN and Arundhati Roy, was pardoned and released Monday.| Publishing Perspectives
Urgently essential 'higher-level reading' and a new construct built on democracy and literacy, 'Dem Read,' came into focus at WEXFO.| Publishing Perspectives
The leading message of this year's PEN America 'Banned in the USA' report is about an insidious rise in 'normalization' of censorship.| Publishing Perspectives
Handing out copies of books banned by right-wing censorship efforts, the PRH 'Banned Wagon' is in its third tour of duty.| Publishing Perspectives
The Association of American Publishers' StatShot sees trade revenues in the US book market down 2.7 percent in April.| Publishing Perspectives
Selected publishers are working with an early release of Audible's AI-voiced audiobook production, with translation and accents to follow.| Publishing Perspectives
In February, trade paperback and hardback formats declined 1.4 percent and 4.9 percent respectively over the same month last year.| Publishing Perspectives
After the mild slide of February's StatShot, the Association of American Publishers' March report sees the trade up 4.4 percent over March 2024.| Publishing Perspectives
The American book trade industry's digital audio sector was up 6.1 percent in this year's January StatShot report from the AAP.| Publishing Perspectives
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Selling rights not only to other African publishers but also 'in Europe, in North America and recently to the Arab world,' AmaBooks presses on in Zimbabwe.| Publishing Perspectives
From VietnamNet: Vietnamese titles are seeing modest gains in rights sales abroad, from Russia and New Zealand to other countries in Southeast Asia.| Publishing Perspectives
From Words Without Borders: 'Put in the time to seek out great books by women and underrepresented writers,' one of a quartet of women translators says.| Publishing Perspectives
Ace translators Marian Schwartz and Nicky Harman trade thoughts on the joy of stories 'very unlikely to resemble anything that could be written in English.'| Publishing Perspectives
From the Japan Times: The Kyoto DDD Gallery's exhibition of Kouga Hirano's work includes his book cover designs for travel publisher, Shobunsha.| Publishing Perspectives
Finalists for the Neustadt International Prize for literature include authors from France, India, Pakistan, Russia, and the USA.| Publishing Perspectives
From the Daily Nation: While publishers in Kenya enjoy seeing their titles win prizes like the Jomo Kenyatta Prize, some may not adequately promote the win.| Publishing Perspectives
EBRD's new award will draw from a wide pool of original languages for work translated into English. Submission is made by UK publishers.| Publishing Perspectives
Ahead of the annual Bloody Scotland festival in September, the William McIlvanney Prize shortlist for Scottish crime fiction has been announced.| Publishing Perspectives
Having named a shortlist in June, the Miles Franklin prize goes to Perth's Josephine Wilson, who publishes with University of Western Australia Publishing.| Publishing Perspectives
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The 53-year-old Buchreport, one of Germany's trio of trade publications, was best known for its Der Speigel bestseller lists.| Publishing Perspectives
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Some 200 Million Americans say they want to publish a book, but lack of attendance at the IBPA’s Publishing University at BEA suggests a disregard for the craft of book publishing. By Justine Tal Goldberg It’s often said the book fairs are no place for writers. But what about at a conference organized specifically to help writers publish? According to ...| Publishing Perspectives
Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein's influential 'Abundance' makes the FT/Schroders shortlist, as does Eva Dou's 'House of Huawei.'| Publishing Perspectives
The China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair looks to new international markets in November's upcoming 12th iteration.| Publishing Perspectives
July's summer-reading-list among students in China may yet yield some newcomers to the mainland's bestseller lists.| Publishing Perspectives
The fifth anniversary of Bologna Children's Book Fair's 'Grand Tour' has spent an opening four days at Toulouse's Cartoon Forum.| Publishing Perspectives
The United States' market, according to the Association of American Publishers' StatShot report, was down in June 1.7 percent year to date.| Publishing Perspectives
A prelude to the start of the 2025 Frankfurt Rights Meeting, this month's Rights Roundup focuses mainly on adult fiction.| Publishing Perspectives
Digital audio increased 22.2 percent to $2.4 billion in 2024, according to the Association of American Publishers' annual StatShot.| Publishing Perspectives
Having helped take down the Z-Library pirate site, France's SNE publishers now have a court ruling against Japscan.| Publishing Perspectives
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Authors including Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, Olga Tokarczuk, Max Porter, and Bernardine Evaristo lead the Society of Authors' appeal.| Publishing Perspectives
Dar El Shorouk's view: IPA's award tells courageous publishers that 'a global community sees them, values them, and stands with them.'| Publishing Perspectives
WEXFO Youth and World Expression Forum delegates join in the conference's opening day at Lillehammer| Publishing Perspectives
Entering its fourth decade, the Reykjavik festival uses its 'Absent Author' series to feature the jailed Sansal.| Publishing Perspectives
Europe's DemRead project—'Democracies Depend on Reading'—launches in the autumn. The World Expression Forum has an update.| Publishing Perspectives
Area news reports indicate that county school systems may be reacting to state-level intimidation.| Publishing Perspectives
'Opt-outs for religious objections will chill what is taught in schools,' writes PEN America's Elly Brinkley on 'Mahmoud v. Taylor.'| Publishing Perspectives
A court decision that some say 'forsakes core First Amendment principles' alarms freedom-to-read backers in the States.| Publishing Perspectives
Ahead of the States' National Library Week, Penguin Random House and Sourcebooks open a 'Banned on the Run a fundraising effort.| Publishing Perspectives
The CEO of Macmillan Publishers, Jon Yaged, talks about his personal experience of reading and the stark dangers of banning books.| Publishing Perspectives
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The eight shortlisted titles for the 2025 Cundill History Prize are to be followed by a three-book list of finalists on September 30.| Publishing Perspectives
Our Rights Roundup features two works from Norway, plus books of note from Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Slow down and enjoy.| Publishing Perspectives
The 12 longlisted titles of the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction are expected to be followed by a shortlist on October 2.| Publishing Perspectives
In its third iteration, Lisbon's Book 2.0 conference explores the urgency of a reading deficit and international pathways to come. (Sponsored)| Publishing Perspectives
Independent publishers have produced two of the British Academy Book Prize's six-title 2025 shortlist, a winner to be named October 22.| Publishing Perspectives
The 300-person conference at Guarujá brings publishers, distributors, booksellers, and printers together for an industry update.| Publishing Perspectives
Announcing a major new undertaking in illustration—expanding the sphere of world book fairs and trade shows—BolognaFiere China.| Publishing Perspectives
What's called in court documents 'the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history' has publishers' and authors' endorsements.| Publishing Perspectives
Browse our archives on OpenBook and get more news on the international book publishing industry| Publishing Perspectives
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The inaugural rights center at Nairobi International Book Fair featured B2B meetings and an issue-driven panel discussion.| Publishing Perspectives
African publishers at Nairobi International Book Fair look at market challenges: the desire to produce fiction and local-language literature.| Publishing Perspectives
Quick snapshots from two long-time Frankfurt veterans, Kalem Agency and Italian Literary Agency, on their latest projects.| Publishing Perspectives
A Frankfurt Book Fair panel on independent comics publishers highlighted the innovative ways publishers get their books to readers.| Publishing Perspectives
A panel in Guest of Honor Slovenia's professional program looked at why cultural funding is essential for publishers in small book markets.| Publishing Perspectives
The Paris bookstore Chantelivre, owned by publisher L’École des Loisirs, has opened a 'House of Stories' where kids engage with narratives.| Publishing Perspectives
Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop has focused on Palestinian literature and nonfiction since its first location opened in 1984.| Publishing Perspectives
With its Paris Book Market opening today, BIEF is observing 150 years of its service to French publishing in the international industry.| Publishing Perspectives
The Morocco-based online magazine ArabLit offers a new rights resource for industry pros on Arabic literature and translation.| Publishing Perspectives
Describing an 'inward-looking atmosphere,' panelists at London Book Fair explored the funding impact of Brexit on the literature market.| Publishing Perspectives
The London-based company called Arabookverse says its Bookwire deal will enable digital distribution for Arabic literature.| Publishing Perspectives
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As the new Spotify audiobooks service goes live, book industry observers are watching for impact on existing distribution and sales.| Publishing Perspectives
'Pooling our energies even more to focus on audio,' Bookwire announces a restructured unit for audiobooks and podcasting.| Publishing Perspectives
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In young people's self-help, a November trend was spotted in specialized guidance for male and female teens in China's market.| Publishing Perspectives
'Dedicated to the trade in rights and the promotion of content for children,' Shanghai's fair stresses its Italian Bologna collaboration.| Publishing Perspectives
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'Effectively ending the book banning provisions in Florida House Bill 1069,' a new ruling is cheered by publishers and authors.| Publishing Perspectives
The president of Wattpad, Aron Levitz looks at the value of 'embracing a community, embracing a fandom."| Publishing Perspectives
In a fast-moving and potentially influential class action suit of AI developer Anthropic, the AAP supports publishers' preparation.| Publishing Perspectives
The 20th anniversary of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize marks another competition in both fiction and nonfiction shortlists.| Publishing Perspectives
The books in this Rights Roundup come from Canada, Italy, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Finland, and the United States.| Publishing Perspectives
Less than a decade in action, one of the key 'online literature' serialization platforms, Radish, is to close on December 31.| Publishing Perspectives
The Association of American Publishers assesses elements of the Trump administration's 'AI Action Plan' and copyright concerns.| Publishing Perspectives
On a year-to-date basis, StatShot respondents showed the overall United States publishing industry down 1.8 percent in May.| Publishing Perspectives
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