Teos publisher Nina Paavolainen is optimistic about Finland’s literature finding more overseas traction in 2018, some from her Helsinki Literary Agency. Read More
Teos and Finland’s Endless Forest
Translators’ Challenges Ahead
Only 14 of 205 respondents to the Authors Guild’s unprecedented survey said that all their income is from their work as translators. Read More
Selling African Rights Into Germany
Berlin’s InterKontinental agency ends its first year ready to accelerate rights sales with a new African literature festival in April: Writing in Migration. Read More
Trends in Children’s Books 2018
What will kids be reading in 2018? Scholastic editors issue five predictions about what children’s book trends will be popular and successful next year. Read More
An International Rights Roundup
A couple of auspicious debuts are included in our latest rights update, as well as historical fiction, a children’s entry, serial work and noir. Read More
Singapore: StoryDrive Asia 2017
Frankfurter Buchmesse’s StoryDrive Asia conference in Singapore highlighted one of the most promising regions, Southeast Asia’s emerging publishing scene. Read More
Copyrights: China
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Rights: Milano
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Geo-Blocking: Europe
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UNESCO: Sharjah
New recognition for the years of work that Sharjah’s royal family and civic leadership have dedicated to literacy and book culture: Sharjah follows Athens 2018 as “World Book Capital.” By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Originally published at PublishingPerspectives.com Project Slogan: ‘Read—You Are in Sharjah’ The UAE’s Sharjah has been named World Book Capital for the… Read More