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’s 10-Year Crisis: ‘This Broken Copyright Framework’
Andrew Keen at Berlinale: ‘Don’t Rely on a Single Medium’
The iconoclastic author, filmmaker, and relentless critic of the digital era’s challenges gives a keynote for the European Film Market Horizon and DLD. Read More
On Both Sides of the Political Divide, Books Are Soaring
As the US Senate opens the trial of the impeached Donald Trump, American political books rise on the updraft of media coverage. Read More
Booker Winning Marilyn Booth on Arabic Translations
Arabic-to-English translator Marilyn Booth talks about the challenges and positive signals she sees for bringing new readers to Arabic literature in translation. Read More
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
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
The Baileys Women’s Prize Shortlist: ‘A Wonderful Liberation’
‘The constraint is a liberation,’ says film producer Tessa Ross, whose leadership of the Baileys judges for 2017 honors international women authors. Read More
Patricia Cornwell Tracks the Ripper: Powered by 'Kindle in Motion'
‘I needed somebody who could publish a work of this magnitude,’ says Patricia Cornwell of her new nonfiction work from Amazon Publishing. Read More
An Author and Reporter Boards Amtrak for a Continent-Wide Residency
‘For a long stretch of this country, there’s no wi-fi.’ And for a busy AP reporter who’d won a berth as an Amtrak Residency writer, off-grid was perfect. Read More
Leading With Diversity: The #AWP17 Generation Goes to Washington
In its 50th year, AWP, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, returns to the US capital, with special focus on literature in a political society. Read More