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PW Online and On-Air: Week of November 19, 2018
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In South Korea, Booksellers Look for Ways to Compete
Booksellers across South Korea have suffered slowing book sales for nearly a decade, even as the Korean goverment has begun working to combat closures.
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PRH Acquires Brazil's Companhia das Letras
Penguin Random House has acquired majority ownership of Brazilian trade publishing house Companhia das Letras. Penguin first invested in the company in 2012.
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'Plan S' Aims to Transform Scholarly Communication—Will Publishers Be Ready?
In connection with International Open Access Week, five quick takes to help publishers navigate an ambitious European plan to require open access by 2020.
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Historical Fiction Is Hot in Europe
In Germany, Turning Point, the finale of Carmen Korn’s Century Trilogy, a historical series about four women in the 20th century, topped the fiction bestseller list in September, and prolific mystery novelist Charlotte Link was in second with The Search, about a missing teen.
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Sunmark Has High International Hopes for Two Japanese Bestsellers
The Tokyo-based house, which was the original publisher of Marie Kondo’s 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up', is pushing two new titles in the U.S. and abroad.
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Europeans Approve Flexible VAT for E-books
The European Union has voted to allow the 28 member states to adjust the value added tax (VAT) rates applied to e-books and downloadable audiobooks to align with the lower taxes on print books.
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Edugyan, deWitt Grace Giller Prize Shortlist
The Scotiabank Giller Prize has announced a shortlist of five titles competing for this year's C$100,000 prize for the best Canadian novel or short story published in English.
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British and Irish Writers Condemn No-Deal Brexit
The Society of Authors (SoA) and The Irish Writers' Union have released a joint statement warning of the impact of a no-deal Brexit on publishing and literature in the two countries.
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BookNet Survey Finds Facebook is Favorite in Canada
Facebook is the top social media platform used by book buyers in Canada, according to a new report on social media use by book buyers from BookNet Canada. YouTube is second.
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Publishing in Québec 2018: Good Times for English-Language Publishing
"There was a time when there were few English-language publishers here in Québec," says Linda Leith, president of the Association of English-language Publishers of Québec.
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Publishing in Québec 2018: Across the Invisible Frontier: Heather O’Neill and Kim Thúy
Kim Thúy and Heather O’Neill both live in Montréal, though they have their differences. Thúy was among the boat people who emigrated from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon, while O’Neill has called the city home for most of her life.
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Publishing in Québec 2018: Crossing Borders with Québec Édition
Québec Édition is a committee within the Association nationale des éditeurs de livres (ANEL), a group that brings together French-language publishers from across Québec and the rest of Canada.
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Publishing in Québec 2018: Québec City: A Literary Getaway
Thoughts turn quickly to bustling Montréal when literary types mention Québec literature.
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Publishing in Québec 2018: Health, How-to, And Happiness
Practical, useful nonfiction books that appeal to readers across the world: it sounds like a tall order, but Québec consistently delivers.
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Publishing in Québec 2018: New Frontiers of Crime Fiction
Québec and its long, dark winters have much in common with the Scandinavian environment that has proven such a fertile ground for authors in the ever-popular Nordic noir genre. W
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Publishing in Québec 2018: Fearless Nonfiction
Essay collections from Québec may most often be written in French, but they feature a distinctly North American perspective on history, literature, and politics.
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Publishing in Québec 2018: Middle Grade and YA Lit from Québec
The YA scene in Québec today, says literary translator Arielle Aaronson, is grounded in strong characters and good old-fashioned storytelling.
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Publishing in Québec 2018: A Cornucopia of Children’s Books
Québec is home to many world-renowned illustrators, including Isabelle Arsenault, Marianne Dubuc, Geneviève Godbout, the cover artist for this special report, and Elise Gravel.
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Publishing in Québec 2018: Today’s Québec Writing Is Bold, Intimate, And Borderless
Québec publishers and authors are confident looking abroad, searching less for reassurances and acknowledgment from the rest of the world than for new international outlets to share all they have to say.
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