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HC Expands Spanish-Language Publishing Efforts
HarperCollins is creating two new Spanish-language publishing divisions: HarperCollins Español and HarperCollins Iberica.
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Plum Johnson Wins Canada's RBC Taylor Prize
Plum Johnson has won the C$25,000 RBC Taylor Prize, one of Canada’s top literary awards for nonfiction for her memoir, 'They Left Us Everything.'
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London's Calling for Foreign Pubs Who Want New Harper Lee
Andrew Nurnberg, the British agent who represents Lee, is taking an unusual approach to selling the foreign rights to her forthcoming novel, 'Go Set a Watchman.'
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Works In Translation: If They Publish Them, Will They Buy Them?
Tom Chalmers, managing director of IPR License, talks about some of the strongest markets for selling works in translation right now.
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Four Questions for...Italian Editor Giuseppe Strazzeri
We spoke with the editorial director of Longanesi Publishing about the problems with local price-cutting measures on books, and the debut by the "energetic and young" writer from Naples he's excited about publishing in May.
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First-Ever Canadian Authors for Indies Day Set for May
After hearing about the Indies First campaign in the U.S., Canadian author Janie Chang decided a similar initiative should be brought to Canada. The result is Canadian Authors for Indies Day, which will take place May 2, 2015.
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Houellebecq Ranks In France, Italy
New titles swept the top of France’s fiction bestseller list in January, led by Marc Levy’s "She and Him."
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Canadian Miniseries Boosts 'Book of Negroes'
The TV miniseries adaptation of Lawrence Hill’s award-winning novel is proving a major sales boost for the title, originally released in 2007.
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Behind the Peruvian Bestseller, 'The Distance That Sets Us Apart'
This novel about a famous Peruvian military leader has sold over 20,000 copies in Peru. In it, a well known journalist and author explores his father's legacy, grappling with difficult questions about whether his father was involved in state-sanctioned torture and murder.
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Native Tongues: Middle East Fiction in Translation: Middle East Books 2015
In an oft-cited statistic, Chad Post, publisher of Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester and an outspoken advocate for books in translation, estimates that 3% of fiction and poetry books published in the U.S. are translations.
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Audio: A Rights Market Heats Up
The rights marketplace has certainly seen 2015 begin with a bang and nowhere more so than through the glut of audiobook licensing deals being completed.
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Four Questions for…Kinneret Zmora's Ziv Lewis
We spoke with Ziv Lewis, foreign rights/acquisitions manager of Kinneret Zmora in Israel, about the difficulties of dealing with his country's new Fixed Price Law, the joy of reading 'Hebrish' and the 'game-changing' novel his house is releasing this year.
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Behind the Bestselling Danish Trilogy, the Missing Persons
Sara Blaedel's series about Louise Rick, a detective inspector on the hunt for a killer, has sold over 1.5 million copies in her native Denmark. It has also been optioned for TV in the U.S.
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Pottermore Claims Sales Up in Face of Negative Report
Pottermore, J.K. Rowling's digital company, has reported "a record-breaking month for sales of e-books and digital audio books," despite an 'Edinburgh Evening News' story that the company has recorded significant losses and cut staff.
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Follett Climbs the International Bestseller Charts
María Dolores Redondo’s novel Offering to the Storm debuted at #1 on Spain’s fiction bestseller list in December.
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HC Folding Harlequin U.K. Into London Operation; Aligning NA Sales Forces
As HarperCollins' integration of Harlequin moves forward, HC announced that it will be making Harlequin UK (HUK) a division of its U.K. business, while in North America it will align HC's and Harlequin's sales forces.
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Canadian University Acquires Novels With Oscar Wilde Link
The University of British Columbia Library has acquired two rare, 19th-century novels that scholars believe may have been written by Oscar Wilde.
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Behind the Israeli Bestseller, 'The History of Tomorrow'
The new book from the author of the global bestseller 'Sapiens' has spent nine months on the bestseller list in Israel.
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Marunas Named Publisher at Quercus U.S.; Shelley to CEO at Little, Brown U.K.
Nathaniel Marunas has been named publisher of the U.S. division of British publisher Quercus, and David Shelley has been named as the successor to Ursula Mackenzie at Little, Brown U.K., with MacKenzie set to retire.
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Four Questions for...Intrinseca Publisher Jorge Oakim
We talked to Oakim, publisher of the Brazilian house Intrinseca, about his knack for finding bestsellers, the challenges facing publishers in his country, and some of the titles he's most excited about on his forthcoming list.
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