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Publishing in Canada 2021: Journalist Omar Mouallem on His Journey as a Muslim Reader
Journalist Omar Mouallem reflects on his evolution as a reader.
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Publishing in Canada 2021: Novelist Xiran Jay Zhao on Blending SciFi and Chinese History
Xiran Jay Zhao crafts science fiction novels inspired by Chinese history.
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Publishing in Canada 2021: Jen Albert on Speculative Fiction in Canada
ECW aims to give readers what they want: new voices in science fiction and fantasy.
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Publishing in Canada 2021: Booksellers and Publishers Evolve and Adapt
The pandemic has been a catalyst for positive changes in Canadian publishing.
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Publishing in Canada 2021: Chris Reed on the Future of Publicity
UTP’s Chris Reed explains how publicity at the University of Toronto Press has pivoted online during the pandemic, and why it’s not going back.
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Publishing in Canada 2021: Scott Fraser on Expanding Diversity
Dundurn Press launches a new imprint, Rare Machines.
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Publishing in Canada 2021: Kate Edwards on Challenges in Publishing
PW talks with Kate Edwards of the ACP about helping indie publishers face the ongoing pandemic, supply chain issues, and the PRH–S&S merger.
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Publishing in Canada 2021: Robert Wheaton on Supporting Booksellers
Penguin Random House Canada has launched a variety of efforts to back bookstores.
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Beijing Book Fair's New Plans for September
The Beijing International Book Fair will open on September 12 with the the International Publishing Forum, focusing on scientific, technical, medical, and educational publishing. The main fair will then be held September 14-18.
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Beckett Is Big in Germany, Dueñas Tops in Spain
Britain’s Simon Beckett topped Germany’s fiction bestseller list in late July with the mystery 'The Lost' while in Spain, María Dueñas’s 'Sira' topped the fiction list.
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Reopenings, TikTok Boosts Indigo Sales in Q1
Indigo Books & Music, Canada's leading book retailer, had a 27% increase in sales in the quarter ended July 3, 2021, over a year ago and it cut its net loss. Online sales fell from last year as physical sales jumped.
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Belarus Dissolves PEN, Invokes International Ire
On the anniversary of Belarus' contested presidential election of Aleksandr Lukashenka, a court dissolved PEN Belarus following the organization's release of a report documenting hundreds of human rights abuses.
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Censorship on the Rise Worldwide
The International Publishers Association and PEN have documented hundreds of attacks on press freedom, many of them targeting LGBTQ and dissident groups.
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PRH Expands in Portugal with Acquisition of Grupo 20/20
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial in Portugal has acquired Grupo 20/20 Editora, and will merge the companies under a new name, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Portugal.
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Canadian Book Sales Recover in First Six Months of 2021
A new report from BookNet Canada, the organization that compiles data about Canadian publishing, shows that book sales for the first six months of 2021 rose 11.2% over 2020, but were still below the sales level in the first half of 2019.
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U.K. Authors Rally to Protect Copyright
More than 2,500 authors have put their names to a letter in London's 'Sunday Times' as part of the Save Our Books campaign, launched in an effort to maintain the U.K.'s "copyright exhaustion" principle.
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Spain’s Retail Rebound
Spanish booksellers are starting to bounce back—with help.
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Welbeck Partners with Bookseller Booktopia for ANZ Expansion
U.K.-based Welbeck Publishing Group is partnering with online bookseller Booktopia to publish books in Australia and New Zealand.
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Australia's Hardie Grant Completes Buyout
Insiders at Australian-based publisher Hardie Grant Publishing have bought back all of the shares held in the company by Associated Media Investments, securing, the company said, its "commitment to being an independent, Australian-owned business.”
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Books for Africa Opens New Atlanta Warehouse
Books for Africa, a charity that ships donated books from the United States to schools and students in Africa, opened a new warehouse in Atlanta on June 26.
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