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The Top 10 International Book Business Stories of 2024
This year's top stories from abroad include booming English-language book sales across Europe, publishers rallying in support of Palestine, and more.
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U.K.’s Mack Launches New Imprint Run by Sofia Coppola
Mack has announced a new publishing imprint, Important Flowers, run by filmmaker Sofia Coppola. Its first three titles will be released next year.
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War Leaves Scars on Lebanese Publishing
The brief war of bombardment between Israel and Hezbollah this year destroyed millions of books in Lebanon, disrupting a Lebanese production sector that is critical to the book publishing business in the Middle East.
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IPA Congress Warns of Risks of Russian Aggression
Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk and incoming International Publishers Association president Gvantsa Jobava of Georgia described how Russia's attacks on their countries are an augury of worse things to come if Russia’s expansionism is not stopped.
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Rebellion Taps into the U.K.’s Long Comics Heritage
Rebellion Developments began life as a video game production studio, but over the past 25 years, it has become a force in the U.K. publishing industry, developing robust businesses around valuable IPs including Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper.
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2024 Guadalajara Book Fair Broke Records for Attendance, Participation
This year's Guadalajara International Book Fair, which closed on Sunday, was the largest in the event's 38-year history, with a preliminary attendance of 907,300 visitors and participation from 2,769 publishing houses from 64 countries.
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Finding Success in International Markets
As sales of trade books in the U.S. have stalled since the pandemic peak, publishers are taking a harder look at expanding into international markets. How to best break into different territories was the focus of the November webinar “Publishing Now Fall ’24: Strategies for Success in International Markets.” (Sponsored)
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Anagrama’s Herralde Prize Mints Literary Superstars
The annual award, given by Barcelona-based publisher Editorial Anagrama, was shared by two authors this year—Xita Rubert (l.) and Cynthia Rimsky—for only the second time in its history.
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Publishing in Sub-Saharan Africa Grows Amid Inflation, Piracy
Research commissioned by the British Council in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe found several successful trade publishers—and significant growth in self-publishing—despite growing costs and widespread piracy.
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A Kenyan Publisher Hopes to Change the African Books Market
Mvua Press adds to a short, but growing, list of African independent publishers in a market where books, typically priced between $20 and $30, are beyond the means of many to buy.
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Norway Launches Fosse Prize for Translators, Lecture Series
In honor of Nobel laureate Jon Fosse, Norway has launched a new translation award and lecture series. The inaugural prize, worth $45,000, was won by Norwegian-German translator Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, and the first lecturer will be French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Japanese Book Market
One of the biggest foreign rights stories in book publishing this year is the resurgence in popularity of Japanese fiction, whose unique qualities are the result not just of cultural differences but of the distinct structure of the market.
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HarperCollins Germany Acquires Gräfe und Unzer
HarperCollins Germany has acquired lifestyle and travel book publisher Gräfe und Unzer, which was founded in 1722. The acquisition will more than double HarperCollins’s operations in Germany.
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Ukrainian Author Warns West Through Literature of War
Ukrainian historian and author Olena Stiazhkina, whose two recently translated works from Harvard University Press examine the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict, hopes her writing will serve as both testament and warning.
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Dutch Publisher’s AI Translation Plan Sparks Industry Concern
The recently announced plan from Veen Bosch & Keuning, the major Dutch publisher bought by Simon & Schuster in May, to use artificial intelligence for English-language translations has prompted pushback from industry organizations.
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How to Help Rebuild Libraries in Conflict Zones
Alison Tweed, CEO of U.K.–based charity Book Aid International, describes the destruction of libraries in Lebanon, Ukraine, and Iraq and advises on how the book business can help to rebuild them.
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A Book Demands That It Be Like a Beloved: PW Talks with Elina Harutyunyan
The literary agent with Armenia’s First Literary Agency describes the challenges facing the Armenian publishing industry and the necessity to be “persistent, patient, and flexible” in pursuing book deals from a small country.
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Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker Prize for 'Orbital'
The English novelist has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her latest, which follows six crew members on a space station as they orbit Earth over the course of a nine-month mission.
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EIBF Unveils RISE Bookselling Study on Global Reading and Book-Buying Trends
Tora Åsling, policy officer at the European and International Booksellers Federation, discusses the recently published RISE Bookselling Study on Consumer Behavior, which revealed book-buying trends, reading habits, and customer needs in 19 markets across the world.
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CAA Agents Navigate Global Rights Market Amid Industry Shifts
Daisy Meyrick and Helen Manders, two of CAA’s leading foreign rights agents, discuss current market trends, emerging opportunities, and the evolving nature of their work in an increasingly complex global publishing landscape.
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