The 2025 book trade jamboree featured a bonanza of heart-shaped fiction, celebrity memoirs, and some vexed discussion about festival finances and children’s readingContentious classics, book-to-screen adaptations and the future of festival funding were some of the hottest topics at this week’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-03-14 18:35:36 UTC ]
The April 2024 StatShot report from the Association of American Publishers tracks especially strong performance in digital audio. The post AAP StatShot: US Book Trade Was ‘High-Performing’ in April appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-06-17 15:00:07 UTC ]
The British Book Awards contenders for Book Trade and Book of the Year are announced, with the shortlists consisting of 29 categories. The post British Book Awards: Trade and ‘Book of the Year’ Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-03-21 15:55:40 UTC ]
As nominations open for the 2023 German Book Trade Peace Prize, the program joins in the 'Winter Aid Ukraine' campaign. The post German Book Trade Peace Prize: ‘Winter Aid for Ukraine’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-01-17 05:19:13 UTC ]
TikTok’s book reviewing community is here to stay, having even received publishing awards for innovation, but issues of authenticity and safety aboundBookTok, the nickname for TikTok videos in which books are discussed, analysed, cried about and turned into “aesthetic” moodboards, began as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-11-15 17:10:25 UTC ]
In his grouchy, funny memoir, “A Factotum in the Book Trade,” Marius Kociejowski writes about what a good bookstore should feel like, famous customers he’s served and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-07-18 18:02:04 UTC ]
Challenges: First half of 2022, the German market has a sales shortfall of 11.1 percent in the local book trade compared to 2019. The post The German Book Market in 2021: Turnover Up 3.5 Percent appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-07-07 21:04:45 UTC ]
Kate Clanchy’s memoir about teaching won the Orwell prize. Then, a year later, it became the centre of a storm that would engulf the lives of the author, her critics and dozens of people in the book trade. So what happened?At the end of March, a book that had been condemned to die came back to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-06-18 08:00:13 UTC ]
Linda Sunshine established comics reprint imprints at both Harmony Books and Fireside in the 1970s that produced some of the earliest hardcover and trade paperback comics collections in the book trade. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
From her early career as a jack-of-all-marketing-trades to her present position representing adult titles for Penguin and for PRH distribution clients, Bay Area sales rep Wendy Pearl has had a front-row seat to the book trade. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
The coronavirus pandemic may continue to cloud people’s lives, but it has generated a silver lining for the French book business. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-10 14:15:46 UTC ]
UK publishers and the book trade donated more than one million books to readers in 24 countries last year, according to charity Book Aid International. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-04 21:12:55 UTC ]
Four in 10 of this year’s list of the book trade’s big cheeses are either new entries or 2021 first-timers, reflecting how the pandemic has reshaped publishing leadership. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-17 00:28:55 UTC ]
The Covid-19 lockdowns have drastically altered book trade events and made a number of them more accessible, but how can we ensure they remain so in the years to come? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-26 16:12:25 UTC ]
An in-depth report into the publishing industry, and how accessible it is to those with disabilities, shows there is much work to do to make the book trade truly reflective of society Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-26 08:40:19 UTC ]
The Spare Zoom Project, the online adaptation of The Spare Room Project supporting book trade interns and job applicants from outside London, has made 320 introductions between jobseekers and publishing trade professionals since it launched in mid-November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-09 16:04:45 UTC ]
Vic Perry, formerly of Jaguar Land Rover, has been appointed as the c.e.o. of the Book Trade Charity (BTBS), taking over from David Hicks when he retires on 31st March after 27 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 13:49:20 UTC ]
Publishers Weekly will launch a new American publishing trade fair. The U.S. Book Show will run virtually May 26-28 and will offer events and programming for the domestic and international publishing industry, including booksellers, librarians, publishers, and self-published authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
TKO Studios, an independent comics publisher based in Los Angeles designed around an unusual business model offering graphic novels and serial comics, is expanding its program into the book trade and TV and film development. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
Some book trade leaders have expressed relief that the "nightmare" scenario of a no-deal scenario for post-Brexit trade has been averted—but a new burden of bureaucracy is descending on the industry, while many questions for the future remain unanswered. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-03 19:23:07 UTC ]