This year's top stories from abroad include booming English-language book sales across Europe, publishers rallying in support of Palestine, and more.
Mack has announced a new publishing imprint, Important Flowers, run by filmmaker Sofia Coppola. Its first three titles will be released next year.
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.
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.
The Guadalajara International Book Fair hosted its first forum dedicated exclusively to audiobooks, reflecting the format's increasing popularity and recent production surge in Spanish-language markets.
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.
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.
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)
Nanjing University professor Zhou Xian's outstanding work on cross-cultural research, 'A Theoretical Journey Across Cultures,' is now available in French. (Sponsored)
Growing global interest in Spanish-language content brought renewed energy to the Guadalajara International Book Fair this year, pushing the number of participating professionals beyond pre-pandemic levels.
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