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NewsGermany’s BookRix Launches Subscription-Based Reading App
The Munich-based self-publishing platform is rolling out a new subscription app for readers with a three-tiered pricing model. It will offer both self-published, or “community,” content as well as books from established publishers.
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Giller Prize Announces 2025 Longlist Amid Ongoing Financial Uncertainty
Fourteen Canadian authors, including three previous winners, have been named to the 2025 Giller Prize longlist, as the prestigious literary award continues to operate under the shadow of a severe financial crisis that threatens its future.
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Germany’s Bookwire Pushes into AI Content Licensing
The Frankfurt-based digital distribution company is now positioning itself as an intermediary to facilitate formal rights licensing agreements to AI companies.
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Spotify Launches BookTok Hub
The streaming platform has teamed with TikTok to roll out a dedicated landing page offering audiobook playlists based on viral book recommendations from the social media app.
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Global Illiteracy Is On the Rise, New Report Finds
In the last two years, global illiteracy rates have increased by an average of 2.2%, with 773 million people worldwide unable to read a single word, according to the World Literacy Foundation.
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WH Smith Revises Down Profit Forecast
Share prices have plunged at the U.K.-based WH Smith, which sold its bookstore chain earlier this year, after the company sliced £30 million off its £140 million profit forecast due to problems in its U.S. operations, now being investigated by Deloitte.
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Audible Sets Its Sights on Mexico, Spanish-Language Expansion
At an event in Mexico City earlier this month, the audiobook platform showcased its growing Spanish-language catalog, with an emphasis on original productions in collaboration with local authors and narrators.
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Wilton Square Launches with Plans to Acquire Orphaned Unbound Titles
Will Atkinson, former head of Atlantic Books in the U.K., has founded Wilton Square Press, a new publisher that intends to acquire titles from the now-defunct Unbound and Boundless, offering authors a joint-venture, revenue-share contract.
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U.K.’s StoryFeast Festival Spotlights East and Southeast Asian Voices
The inaugural StoryFeast Festival in London, which runs September 13–21 and features 20 authors, aims to raise the profile of East and Southeast Asian writers for U.K. readers and publishers alike.
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BookTok Celeb Jack Edwards Wants to Elevate Online Reading Culture
Edwards’s new online book club, Inklings, attracted 75,000 members in its first week. The U.K.-based influencer, who hosts livestreams for the Booker Prize and is curating a day of events at the Gothenburg Book Fair, says he wants to make literary discussions more accessible.
