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Penguin Random House Australia Acquires Text Publishing
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired Text Publishing. A major Australian publishing house, Text's roster includes numerous prize winners and bold-faced names. The company will retain its editorial autonomy as part of PRHA.
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New Consulting Group Forms to Address Global Publishing Markets
Book industry veterans Carlo Carrenho, Cameron Drew, Marcus Stober and Camila Silfvenius have formed the Alpine Global Collective, a Geneva-based consultancy group that aims to provide clients with cross-border expertise and market knowledge.
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Holland's TDM Publishing Launches Nostalgia Series in the U.S.
Dutch publisher TDM Publishing will bring its bestselling My First 18 Years series to the U.S. market in October 2025. The series has sold 900,000 copies worldwide since its debut in Holland in 2022.
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Nobel Laureates to Headline First Sharjah African Literature Festival
Wole Soyinka of Nigeria and Abdulrazak Gurnah of Tanzania will join Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor and more than 30 other authors at the inaugural Sharjah Festival of African Literature, slated to run January 24 through 27.
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HarperCollins Holland Acquires Gottmer's Lifestyle Imprints
HarperCollins Holland has agreed to acquire four lifestyle imprints from Gottmer Uitgevers Groep, including Becht (cookbooks and eco-friendly lifestyle), Altamira (mind, body, and spirit), Dominicus (travel guides), and Hollandia (water sports).
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French Publishers Launch Industry-Wide Sales Tracking Initiative
Eight major French publishing organizations, led by the National Publishing Union (SNE), announced the creation of Filéas, a new platform to track book unit sales data—the first such industry-wide initiative in the country.
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The Top 10 International Book Business Stories of 2024
This year's top stories from abroad include booming English-language book sales across Europe, publishers rallying in support of Palestine, and more.
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U.K.’s Mack Launches New Imprint Run by Sofia Coppola
Mack has announced a new publishing imprint, Important Flowers, run by filmmaker Sofia Coppola. Its first three titles will be released next year.
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War Leaves Scars on Lebanese Publishing
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.
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IPA Congress Warns of Risks of Russian Aggression
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.
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Rebellion Taps into the U.K.’s Long Comics Heritage
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.
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2024 Guadalajara Book Fair Broke Records for Attendance, Participation
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.
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Finding Success in International Markets
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)
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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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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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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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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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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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HarperCollins Germany Acquires Gräfe und Unzer
HarperCollins Germany has acquired lifestyle and travel book publisher Gräfe und Unzer, which was founded in 1722. The acquisition will more than double HarperCollins’s operations in Germany.
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Ukrainian Author Warns West Through Literature of War
Ukrainian historian and author Olena Stiazhkina, whose two recently translated works from Harvard University Press examine the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict, hopes her writing will serve as both testament and warning.
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