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Trade ShowsGuadalajara Book Fair 2024: High Energy Event 'Exceeded Expectations'
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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Trade Shows
Palestinian Publisher Wins Top IPA Award
The International Publishers Association awarded this year’s Prix Voltaire to Gaza-based publisher Samir Mansour, with a special award given to the late Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina, who was killed last year in a Russian missile attack.
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News
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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News
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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News
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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Frankfurt Book Fair
How Digital Innovation Both Strengthens and Threatens the Book Business
More than 320 publishing-related tech startups, nearly all of them AI-related, have launched over the past two years. What impact they will have on the book business remains uncertain.
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Frankfurt Book Fair
To This Tech Entrepreneur and Author, Every Book Is a Startup
Uri Levine, a cofounder of Waze and the author of 'Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution,' argues that unicorn companies and bestselling books have a lot in common.
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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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Frankfurt Book Fair
Audiobook Consumption Jumps in China
Consumers listened to an average of 8.8 audiobooks last year in China, where enjoying audiobooks is a communal experience—one that can even include family pets.
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News
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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