In scholarly and academic publishing, Elsevier’s Michiel Kolman says, more female leadership is a new and promising development. Read More
Amsterdam’s Michiel Kolman on Diversity in STM
Producer Beata Rzezniczek’s Rap on ‘Other People’
A film based on a Warsaw ‘rap-roman’ finds its way to Poland’s cinemas in March, its producer calling it ‘fresh’ and ‘blunt.’ Read More
Canada’s 10-Year Crisis: ‘This Broken Copyright Framework’
Having spent years in the court system trying to regain copyright revenue for educational content, Canada’s publishers and authors now set their sights on Parliament. Read More
Canada and Korea: The Newly Merged Wattpad Webtoon Studios
As president of the combined Wattpad Webtoon Studios division, Aron Levitz says the hurdle now is getting more content to more screens faster. Read More
Italian Book Publishers Reveal €528M Lost to Piracy Yearly
Costing the books industry as much as €528M, piracy is a major target for Italian book and news publishers in 2020. Read More
At Berlin’s Ullstein Buchverlage
Able to trace its founding dates to the 19th century, Ullstein Buchverlage describes itself as Germany’s most successful hardcover publisher. And while many houses are commercializing, Ullstein wants to be more literary. Read More
Tom Goodwin: ‘Digital Darwinist’
‘Challenging all assumptions of the past’ may be only the beginning of life after the digital disruption, Tom Goodwin says. And when he speaks at London Book Fair’s Quantum Conference, he’ll be talking about the ‘share-of-attention’ dilemma. Read More
Author Pay and Publishing Profits
How profits from publishing are sliced up has become an industry debate in London, where agents are joining the Society of Authors in asking for more transparency. Read More
Provocations in Publishing: A Major Publisher Jumps the Shark
At Writer Unboxed, Porter Anderson focuses on the recent revelation by publisher HarperCollins of the profitability of ebooks — at what some see as authors’ expense. A Provocation in Publishing post. Read More
The "W" in AWP
Authors in the Spotlight: How To Turn Your Readings Into Book Sales with Porter Anderson Join me in this special three-hour intensive Boot Camp session at Writer’s Digest Conference East (#WDCE) at 12:30pET on Friday, April 5. We’ll look at public presentation for the entrepreneurial author in an interactive, up-on-your-feet workshop format: come with two… Read More