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Spanish Dominates Booker International Prize Longlist
This year's longlist for the £50,000 Booker International Prize includes four books from Spanish, two each from French and German, and one each from Afrikaans, Dutch, Farsi, Japanese, and Norwegian.
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PEN America Rallies Support for Turkish Writer Facing Jail
PEN America is rallying international support for writer Aslı Erdoğan, who is facing a sentence of up to nine years in jail in Turkey for alleged terrorist propaganda. PEN has called the charges against her “judicial harassment."
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Indigo Sales Dropped Nearly 10% in 2019 Holiday Quarter
Indigo Books and Music reported that revenue for the quarter ended December 29, 2019, was down 9.9% from the comparable period in 2018 as sales fell across all of its channels. Earnings, nevertheless, rose to C$25.8 million from C$21.5 million in 2018.
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Italy's Giunti Buys into U.K.'s Quarto Group
Italy's Giunti Group has acquired 20% of U.K.-based Quarto Group. Polly Powell, a former publisher at Pavilion Books, has been appointed CEO of Quarto’s U.K. operations.
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Canadian Book Buyers' Habits Unchanged in 2019
The mix of formats sold in the Canadian book market differed only slightly from previous years, according to BookNet Canada. The bricks-and-mortar channel picked up some market share from online outlets.
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Virus Impacts Publishing In and Out of China
The pandemic virus, 2019-nCoV is already having an impact on the global publishing business, with numerous U.S. and U.K. publishers and event planners monitoring the situation in China.
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Book Sales Up in U.K. and France
Booksellers in the U.K. and France are reporting strong results, with two-thirds of booksellers in the U.K. reporting stronger holiday sales, and booksellers in France seeing a drop in December but an overall sales hike in 2019.
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U.K.'s Book People Collapses, Again
The Book People, the U.K. online discount bookseller, which also operates pop-up stores at schools and businesses, has gone into administration, a U.K. term similar to filing for bankruptcy protection.
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New Round of Tariffs Suspended
Tariffs that were scheduled to be placed on a range of children's books printed in China on December 15 have been suspended by the Trump administration following a "phase one" trade agreement reached Friday between the U.S. and China.
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Obama, Atwood Among Canada's 2019 Bestsellers
Michelle Obama's 'Becoming' was the bestselling English-language print book in Canada for the second year, according BookNet Canada SalesData. Margaret Atwood and Malcolm Gladwell were the top Canadian fiction and nonfiction authors.
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Big Bad Wolf Targets Middle East and Africa
Big Bad Wolf Ventures, a company based in Malaysia that runs large-scale, 24-hour book sales, is opening an office inside the Sharjah Book Authority Free Zone in the UAE to service the Middle East and Africa.
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Egypt’s Bookish Revolution
Egyptian publishers are taking more risks in the post-Mubarak era.
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Beijing's Iconic English-language Bookstore to Close
The Bookworm in Beijing, a community hub for expats and host of a popular annual literary festival, will close after zoning changes targeting "illegal structures" in the city prevented them from renewing their lease.
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Indigo Sales Slide 7.6% for the Quarter
Canada's leading book retailer reported yet another quarter of declining sales, with a total sales decline of 7.6% for the second quarter of its current 2020 fiscal year compared to a year ago.
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Snowden Hits European Bestseller Lists
American whistleblower Edward Snowden’s memoir, 'Permanent Record,' hit a number of bestseller lists in Europe in September.
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Academic Publishing in China 2019: All Our Coverage
Welcome to our latest coverage on the Chinese academic book market.
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Where Are Books Banned? All Across the Globe.
As a new map plainly shows, book banning knows no boundaries.
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Global Pubs Turn to Blockchain and Crowdfunding
Canada’s Prescient Innovation plans to launch an e-bookstore that uses blockchain, and Italy’s Bookabook sees growth with its crowdfunding model.
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Urbanization Spurs Major R&D in China
Keeping up with urban demands has benefitted various industries, including academic publishing.
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A Quick Visit to Two Academic Bookstores
PW drops by the tranquil Tongji Bookstore, in Shanghai’s Yangpu district, and Boku Tianmu Bookstore, in Hangzhou.
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