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Beckett Is Big in Germany, Dueñas Tops in Spain
Britain’s Simon Beckett topped Germany’s fiction bestseller list in late July with the mystery 'The Lost' while in Spain, María Dueñas’s 'Sira' topped the fiction list.
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Reopenings, TikTok Boosts Indigo Sales in Q1
Indigo Books & Music, Canada's leading book retailer, had a 27% increase in sales in the quarter ended July 3, 2021, over a year ago and it cut its net loss. Online sales fell from last year as physical sales jumped.
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Belarus Dissolves PEN, Invokes International Ire
On the anniversary of Belarus' contested presidential election of Aleksandr Lukashenka, a court dissolved PEN Belarus following the organization's release of a report documenting hundreds of human rights abuses.
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Censorship on the Rise Worldwide
The International Publishers Association and PEN have documented hundreds of attacks on press freedom, many of them targeting LGBTQ and dissident groups.
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PRH Expands in Portugal with Acquisition of Grupo 20/20
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial in Portugal has acquired Grupo 20/20 Editora, and will merge the companies under a new name, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Portugal.
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Canadian Book Sales Recover in First Six Months of 2021
A new report from BookNet Canada, the organization that compiles data about Canadian publishing, shows that book sales for the first six months of 2021 rose 11.2% over 2020, but were still below the sales level in the first half of 2019.
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U.K. Authors Rally to Protect Copyright
More than 2,500 authors have put their names to a letter in London's 'Sunday Times' as part of the Save Our Books campaign, launched in an effort to maintain the U.K.'s "copyright exhaustion" principle.
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Spain’s Retail Rebound
Spanish booksellers are starting to bounce back—with help.
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Welbeck Partners with Bookseller Booktopia for ANZ Expansion
U.K.-based Welbeck Publishing Group is partnering with online bookseller Booktopia to publish books in Australia and New Zealand.
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Australia's Hardie Grant Completes Buyout
Insiders at Australian-based publisher Hardie Grant Publishing have bought back all of the shares held in the company by Associated Media Investments, securing, the company said, its "commitment to being an independent, Australian-owned business.”
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Books for Africa Opens New Atlanta Warehouse
Books for Africa, a charity that ships donated books from the United States to schools and students in Africa, opened a new warehouse in Atlanta on June 26.
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Spanish-Language Titles: July 2021
A round-up of select Spanish-language titles for July with descriptions provided by the publishers.
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Book Sales Dipped in France in 2020
Book sales fell 2.3% in France last year, according to France's publishers association, the Syndicat National de l'Édition. Graphic novel sales were a bright spot and saw a 29% sales bump for the year.
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Egmont Takes Sole Ownership of Cappelen Damm
Egmont will become the sole owner of Cappelen Damm, Norway's largest publishing house. Together with its ownership of Lindhardt and Ringhof, Egmont ups its share of the Nordic book publishing market.
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‘The Missing Sister’ Discovered in Europe
Lucinda Riley, who died in early June, took multiple spots across European bestseller lists in late May with her Seven Sisters series, published in English by Atria.
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Legible Launches Browser-Based Reading and Publishing Platform
Legible.com is a new browser-based, mobile-first digital reading and publishing platform currently in beta. "It aims to democratize, decolonize, decarbonize and decentralize the publishing industry," CEO Kaleeg Hainsworth said.
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Select May–June Spanish-Language Titles
Select May–June Spanish-Language books.
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President or Dictator?: PW Talks With Jorge Ramos
Univision news anchor and author Jorge Ramos discusses his aborted interview with Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
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New Novels Scored Overseas in April
Valérie Perrin’s third novel, 'Three,' took the top spot on the French fiction bestseller list at the end of April.
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Korea's Naver Completes Wattpad Acquisition
Naver, Korea's leading internet platform, has completed its acquisition of Wattpad for more than $600 million in cash and stock. Wattpad will remain headquartered in Toronto, where it plans to add 100 staffers over the next year.
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