The massive audiences and lucrative development of the streaming platforms can mean some tough choices for publishers trying to map out screen success. Read More
Publishers, Choose Your Own Adventure in Hollywood
Olga Tokarczuk Wins the Jan Michalski
Another step in the fast-developing international visibility of the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, Switzerland’s 50,000-franc Jan Michalski Prize has gone to her ‘The Books of Jacob,’ now being translated by Jennifer Croft. Read More
Political Literature’s Darkest Nightmares
In a taut tale of radicalization, Norway’s Demian Vitanza contributes ‘This Life or the Next’ to a season of top-notch political books. Read More
The New Year’s Eve of Time
Wishing you the opportunities you crave and the resources you deserve in 2019. Read More
Is the Best Show Based on a Book?
Taking on the critics who say that TV and film are eroding publishing, the Publishers Association’s report asserts that the best—and top-earning—productions ‘begin with a book.’ Read More
VIDA Count: ‘Anything But the Norm’
Asking this year ‘if abuse and bigotry are anything but the norm,’ the annual VIDA Count for 2017 looks at how women are represented and reviewed in US literary publications. Read More
European Parliament: Copyright Directive Rejected
Shortly after the Federation of European Publishers met to hold its officers’ elections, the European Parliament has rejected a copyright directive the federation has supported. Another vote will occur in September. Read More
Madrid’s Casa del Lector
Built on the site of Madrid’s former industrial slaughterhouse complex, today’s Casa del Lector is filled with the joyous yelps of children meeting storytellers and the reading public encountering exhibitions on reading’s past and future. Read More
Audiobooks Jump 22.7 Percent
A six-year trend of double-digit growth in audiobook sales continues in the US, according to the new report for 2017 from the Audio Publishers Association. Audiobook sales last year totaled more than $2.5 billion. 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