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PRH UK Proposes International Sales Restructure
Penguin Random House UK has announced a proposed restructure of its international sales with Dean Chance heading up the export team and Rob Waddington in charge of the group team.
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News Highlights: Spanish-Language Publishing 2014
Zepeda wins Premio Planeta 2014 and more.
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Churchwell, Markovits Win Eccles Award
Author and 2014 Man Booker Prize judge, Sarah Churchwell, along with Benjamin Markovits, author and Granta Best of Young British Novelist 2013, are the joint winners of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award.
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Four Questions for...Finnish Agent Elina Ahlback
We talked with the founder and CEO of the Elina Ahlback Literary Agency is riding the current 'Scandi-trend' in international publishing.
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Canadian Radio Host Ghomeshi Threatens C$50M Lawsuit Over Firing
The popular Canadian radio host, and planned host of this year's Giller awards, has filed a lawsuit against the media company over wrongful termination.
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Follett Tops in September
The final installment in Ken Follett’s Century trilogy, Edge of Eternity, landed at the top of two bestseller lists in international markets in September.
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Four Questions for...Taiwanese Agent Gray Tan
Gray Tan, founder and president of the Taiwan-based Grayhawk Agency talked to PW about the local lure of tie-in's and the slow pace of Chinese publishing.
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S&S Inks Deal to Make Digital Backlist Available in Scandinavia
Simon & Schuster has partnered with Scandinavian e-book subscription service Mofibo to make its backlist titles available to readers in Denmark and Sweden.
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Four Questions for...Dutch Editor Job Lisman
Job Lisman, editorial director of Prometheus/Bert Bakker Publishers in the Netherlands, talks about what's selling on his home turf, how he sees international authors faring abroad, and the state of e-books in the Netherlands.
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New Novels and John Green Ruled Overseas in August
The top three bestselling novels in France last month were new to the country’s fiction list, with Emmanuel Carrère’s "The Kingdom" coming in first.
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A Journey Through Literary Sicily in Film
Earlier this year, Felice Cavallaro, a highly regarded journalist from the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, launched the Road of Writers—a project to rediscover and celebrate Sicily’s great writers.
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Discovering Writers in Sicily
For every 15 titles that Italian publishers import from the U.S., American publishers import one from Italy; a new program aims to change that.
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Unfair Dealing? Canadian Publishing 2014
People on both sides of the debate about how to balance access to educational materials with copyright have been closely watching developments in Canada following changes to Canadian legislation in 2012.
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Canadian Bestsellers: Canadian Publishing 2014
John Green and Veronica Roth have ruled the U.S. bestseller list for most of 2014, and the two authors have also dominated the Canadian juvenile list for the year to date.
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Fresh Takes: Canadian Publishing 2014
Some of the highlights from this season are books that come at their subjects from fresh, unusual, or downright quirky angles.
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Diversity North: Canadian Publishing 2014
Calls for more diversity in books this year have echoed north into Canada.
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Enthrill Partners with Walmart: Canadian Publishing 2014
It’s been a long time coming, but a made-in-Canada idea for bringing e-books into bricks-and-mortar stores may have just arrived in the big league.
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Moving In Together: Canadian Publishing 2014
The merger of Penguin and Random House in Canada is beginning to taking shape in two new, concrete ways.
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Hot off the Presses: Canadian Publishing 2014
Here’s a sampling of books that publishers in Canada are excited about this fall.
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Moving Forward: Canadian Publishing 2014
Every book and publishing venture requires some kind of a leap of faith, but this year Canadian publishers are investing more than ever in new efforts to reach out to readers.