SPRING 2019

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Rising Paper Prices in Russia from 18 to 20 percent—a rate hike that started January 1. ussian book publishers say they’re consid- As publishers are telling Publishing Perspec- Rering cutting their new-title numbers this tives, they find themselves in a difficult situ- year and focusing more on publishing work ation: despite these rising costs, few of them by domestic authors. These and other “opti- feel they can further raise their prices at the mization measures,” they say, are driven by bookstore—not least because bookshops are ever-higher costs of paper, translation rights, critically overstocked, many of their shelves and bookstore inventories. packed with books from prior seasons. In recent years, paper prices have signifi- To improve their financial outlooks, pub- cantly increased in Russia, and that, in turn, lishers say they’re reviewing and trimming has prompted higher book prices. This year, their lists, removing unprofitable titles, recon- these costs are set to grow again, exacerbated sidering genres and/or categories, and in some by a recent increase in VAT (value added tax) cases reducing print runs. •

Progress on EU Copyright Directive tives about the copyright directive, Dr. Jessica Sänger, legal counsel and director of Europe- n February, the proposed EU copyright di- an and international affairs for the German Irective—part of the Digital Single Market Publishers and Booksellers Association, said: framework—was approved by three branch- “We have been particularly concerned with es of the European government, as well as a the proposed exceptions to copyright for illus- majority of EU member countries, including tration for teaching, preservation, and TDM those that had been previously opposed to [text and data mining], but also with the pro- parts of this legislation. posals regarding what libraries or archives can EU commissioner for digital economy and do with works in their collections which are society, Mariya Gabriel, said in a press state- out of commerce. All these areas have been the ment that this directive would “strengthen the subject of intense negotiations, and the results cultural and creative sectors.” achieved are in no way ideal, but we view them In an interview with Publishing Perspec- on the whole as an acceptable compromise.” •

Spanish Readers Embrace Digital aged 14 or older said they listen to audiobooks at least quarterly. n announcing results of its “Barometer of The study also found that teenagers aged IReading Habits” study for 2018, the Feder- 15 to 18 said they read some 33 percent of their ación de Gremios de Editores de España (Fed- books in digital formats. For younger children, eration of Spanish Publishers’ Guilds) reports aged 10 to 14 years, the percentage of digital that a growing number of readers say they read reading climbs to 37.6 percent. in digital formats. This group accounts for 23.2 In a presentation at the two-day CONTEC percent of those readers surveyed. Mexico conference in February, ebook distrib- Digital readers are being described by the utor Bookwire reported that they now distrib- federation as more “intensive,” reporting that ute more than 33,000 ebook titles across Spain a digital reader will read 13.2 books per year, and Latin America. That’s up 25 percent over compared to 11.2 books for a print-only read- 2017, with 2018 revenues rising 30 percent er. And 2.5 percent of the survey population worldwide over the previous year. •

Launch of Wattpad Books and er, publisher of Amazon Publishing, says the Amazon Crossing Kids new imprint “blends the missions of Amazon Crossing and Two Lions by introducing terrif- n January this year, two content power- ic books from around the globe to readers who Ihouses have launched new book publishing are beginning to develop their worldview.” divisions for younger readers. Amazon is ex- At Wattpad Books, the focus is on young tending its translation activities with Amazon adult titles, given the younger demographic of Crossing Kids, a new imprint with a focus on the platform’s writers and readers. Ashleigh picture books in translation. And Wattpatt Gardner, in charge of the new publishing di- has launched its own book publishing division vision, says, “We bring something completely after having worked steadily to build its part- unique to publishing: an engaged global com- nerships with established publishers for years. munity, the most diverse set of writers on the Amazon Crossing Kids is launching with planet, and the technology to find every type of three picture books this year. Mikyla Brud- hit imaginable.” •

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SPRING 2019 4 FROM THE EDITOR

From the Editor: On Brexit and the Staying Power of Trade Shows

Publishing Perspectives is the leading source of s we all come back together for another tail (I’m looking at you, Seattle) or sliding information about the global book publishing Ayear’s London Book Fair, an interview YA sales or paper prices or self-publishing business. Since 2009, we have been publishing I’ve just had with LBF director Jacks Thom- agendas colored and complicated the trip to daily email editions with news and features as has helped me understand a subtle reason a book fair. This time, we see Irish border from across the book world. that our great international trade shows are issues looming, logistics dilemmas waiting, Our mission is to help build and contribute so important. Simply put, over time they be- tariffs a possibility, and a host market in to the international publishing community by come a part of the way we decode our indus- London that may take a heavy no-deal hit. offering information that publishing and media try’s history, tools for how we comprehend As you’ll read in our Spring Magazine, professionals need to connect, cooperate, and our mission. the French Institute’s book office here work together year-round and across borders. This is less evident than the straightfor- in London is aggressively programming In addition to our daily online coverage, ward social pleasures of returning, year after demonstrations of solidarité. And nobody we also offer an online monthly rights edition, year, to one of the four or five major shows understands the problems of British gov- as well as print magazines at special events in the world. From rights trading to pro- ernment dysfunction this year like Ameri- including the London Book Fair and the gramming and from launches of new initia- cans do. The bright spot: political books are Frankfurt Book Fair. tives to celebrations of old ones, the “look buoying nonfiction sales. Founded by the German Book Office New and feel” of a good trade event is reliably As Thomas reminds us, that’s just the York and now a project of the Frankfurt Book textured. There’s a comfort in being back. context for now. Look back over our years Fair New York, Publishing Perspectives works But in talking with Thomas, it’s the together at this trade show and at others, with our colleagues in Frankfurt and the fair’s discomforts I became aware of—worthy and you can chart where the strains were, international offices, as well as IPR License, to discomforts, sometimes even healthy ones, what we thought was bad news, what we share with you the latest publishing trends and rightful dilemmas—and the role our trade believed was good news, what we found out opportunities, people to know, companies to shows and book fairs play in how we handle was no news in the end, and what we didn’t watch, and more. those discomforts, those challenges. see coming, too. Like all of us, she’s keenly aware of the Stephen Page, Faber’s CEO, has told us Brexit cloud hovering over us this year. For ahead of his Quantum conference keynote, most of us, the worst part is not knowing that what’s important is to remember the what the impact might be. There’s a feeling “editorial centrality” that publishing holds of helplessness where the promise of effec- for society, and the “cultural responsibility” PUBLISHER : Hannah Johnson tive governance and fruitful negotiations that goes along with it. The books business EDITOR-IN-CHIEF : Porter Anderson should have established a path forward. and its sister creative industries form a criti- BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Erin L. Cox “What you can do is be very cognizant cal and humane infrastructure now. of the context in which you’re operating” London Book Fair is part of that infra- CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE: each year, says Thomas. structure. It matters. And so we’ll be back. Adam Critchley And the more difficult a political or so- In this year’s peculiar political climate, that Eugene Gerden cial or economic pressure may be each year, may be the best takeaway of all: we create Mark Piesing she and I agreed, the brighter a spotlight our collegial continuity because it reflects Olivia Snaije shows like London and the Frankfurter the cultural continuum of world literature. Roger Tagholm Buchmesse shine on just how global book Publishing is the business for which the publishing really is. You don’t have to be book never ends and the story isn’t over. PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES British, French, or German to understand Welcome back. • a project of Frankfurt Book Fair New York the uncertainties swirling around our UK 30 Irving Place, 4th Floor and Continental colleagues’ businesses this New York, NY 10003 spring. We all understand the export power Porter Anderson United States of the British book industry; every publish- Editor-in-Chief er’s need for a diverse workforce; the uni- Publishing Perspectives CONNECT WITH US ONLINE: versal reliance on rights and licensing; and Publishingperspectives.com those rapidly evolving habits of consumers Facebook.com/pubperspectives wherever there’s a wi-fi connection or a Twitter.com/pubperspectives charged-up smartphone. “But we’re united by a commonality of purpose,” Thomas said to me. “In all of these global market spaces, you’re going to see more people determined to do more business across more borders, I’m sure of it.” OUR PARTNERS: She’s right. Today, we can think back a few years to when the simple term digital roiled the trade. We can recall contemplating some- thing as tangible as the London Book Fair’s move from Earls Court to Olympia London, remember? There are years when online re-

PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES BREXIT 5

Brexit: French Partners in ‘Holding Pattern’

Image provided by the Institut français Lucie Campos

By Olivia Snaije tural institutes have organized bringing over writers to the UK with the Brexit context in mind,” says Campos. “We have to rexit is expected to be a prime subject of A series of events will be held from May Bconversation at the Institut français’ tradi- through November first at The British Li- tional and well-attended “French party” on the brary, next at the National Centre for Writing reinvent how we first night of the London Book Fair. in Norwich, and then at regional festivals, with That’s where “We usually make sure plen- the program returning to London during the work together.” ty of networking goes on between British and autumn. French publishers,” says Lucie Campos, the “The events will involve translated writers Lucie Campos director of the Institut français book office in with lots of committed partners,” says Cam- Book Deptartment, London and the person who announces up- pos. “Either they’re seeking to develop inter- Institut français UK coming initiatives during the party—such as national audiences or to send a message that the organization’s UK event program for Eu- whatever happens in the political field it’s im- ropean writers and translators. portant to go on working with international This is, Campos says, “a very unusual year. writers. The French Institute is very involved. We’re not going ahead with our normal strate- We work in the field of translation in general.” and comics/graphic novels “to strengthen ties gy, we’re in a holding pattern. There’s no com- At the French party, Campos will also be and to get to know the newer faces,” says BIEF mitment to long-term projects … We have to announcing details of the 2019 Beyond Words director Nicolas Roche. reinvent how we work together. festival, which she launched in 2017. Held in These meetings will come on the heels of “But we’ve all been reminded that the sorts May, “It’s an exciting festival,” she says, “be- a trip to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair or- of things we work on make our cross-cultural cause it follows the publishing calendar.” Be- ganized by author and translator Daniel Hahn events and our partnerships seem very mean- yond Words brings together French-language who will lead a group of 10 young British pub- ingful … Where we will go on March 29th,” if authors who have recently been translated in lishers who wish to produce works in trans- that holds as the date for the UK’s departure the UK to meet with English-language authors lation but haven’t yet done so. Campos says from the European Union? “Perhaps to Wa- who have a bond with France. she hopes the June meetings will bolster ties terstones again.” “Beyond the connections between British forged at the Bologna fair. Campos is referring to an event that dates and French publishers,” Campos says, “we help back to the start of the UK’s political ordeal. promote the books that have been translated. On the Calendar: London and Paris When the results of the Brexit referendum We work closely with the translators who were announced in June 2016, the Institut know their British audience.” Adding to the drama of a looming Brexit is a français’ book office in London sent out a Campos says the book office used to be timing crunch for those attending the Salon du message to the people it works with on a reg- primarily geared toward promoting French livre in Paris, which begins March 15, with its ular basis suggesting a drink at Waterstones writers, but during her tenure she has oriented pre-fair events on the 14th—the day the Lon- Piccadilly. “Four hundred people showed up events toward “highlighting the two worlds at don Book Fair ends this year. to show solidarity,” says Campos, now in her their strongest points.” Amusingly, the guest of honor at Livres fourth year as the book office’s director, al- Topics of discussion about a translated Paris this year is the European continent, rath- though her mandate will end in September. book can vary, depending on which country er than a single country. The fact that the two “It will be very interesting to see how they take place in. For example, says Campos, book fairs, both managed by Reed Exhibitions, things play out at the book fair this year,” says when Leila Slimani’s award-winning Chanson are back-to-back has meant that the BIEF and Campos, adding that visas for Europeans liv- Douce appeared in English as Lullaby, trans- other organizations have had to scramble to ing in the UK could become a question. lated by Sam Taylor, “There was a whole new rearrange the two days of professional meet- discussion about her work in the UK that was ings organized for the Livre Paris’ guests of The Institut français in London different from the one in France.” honor, that are usually held before the fair. In June the book office, along with the When asked about the proximity between Located in London’s South Kensington area— Bureau International de l’Édition Française the London and Paris fairs, a spokesperson the nucleus of the city’s French community— (BIEF), will organize two days of meetings in for the London Book Fair said that flexibility the Institut français holds year-round cultural London with French and British rights manag- for the dates in London were limited, making events. In 2019, led by her office, “Twenty cul- ers and publishers involved in children’s books March 12 to 14 the only viable option. •

SPRING 2019 6 MARKET FOCUS: INDONESIA

Beyond Books: Indonesia Brings Its ‘Islands of Imagination’ to the London Book Fair

With two locations at the London Book Fair, Indonesia’s Market Focus program puts the country’s literature, cuisine, and creative content on display.

By Porter Anderson can comfortably listen to the sound, too. “Twenty Indonesian publishers will oc- cupy this ground-floor, two-story stand,” “The international s the London Book Fair’s Market Focus Prinsloo says, “which also has a 360-degree AIndonesia program comes into view, the photo booth in which guests can take a photo first thing you may notice is that it comprises against their choice of 10 island backgrounds. publishing not one but two stands at the Olympia exhibi- They’ll have their photos printed right away.” tion center—one on ground floor and one on community could the floor above. And Above That: A ‘Spice Café’ This approach reflects not only the ele- assist Indonesia’s gance of the country’s 2015 Frankfurter Buch- Those who follow the work of Indonesian messe Guest of Honor program but also this author Laksmi Pamuntjak—and particularly market in moving year’s smartly updated evocation of content her food-focused book, The Birdwoman’s Pal- that’s being developed across many platforms. ate—know all about the spectacular range of forward by As Laura Prinsloo, chair of the Indonesian flavors and textures in the islands’ culinary National Book Committee, tells Publishing Per- culture. The country’s redolent cuisine is what spectives, the presentation this year at the Lon- the upper floor of the Market Focus pavilion making use of our don Book Fair is very much about how critical is about. it’s becoming for publishers and their authors “Our second stand,” Prinsloo tells us, “is on translation grant to think as early as possible about getting their the first floor at Olympia London and occupies content out across formats and platforms. 200 square meters, which we’ve designed as program and also by our ‘Spice Café.’ Ground Floor: ‘17,000 Islands of “There we’ll be serving special snacks, tea, participating in our Imagination’ and coffee made by top Indonesian baristas and chefs. In the center of this stand, you’ll international book “We’ll have two Market Focus stands,” find a stage filled with events produced by 12 Prinsloo tells us. “At the ground level, you’ll cross-media companies from our market.” find a 400-square-meter installation that’s two As Prinsloo explains, it’s not just in food fairs and literary stories tall in itself. that you’ll find that island variety—it’s in the “There, people can enjoy our curated col- content, as well. festivals.” lection of 450 books while walking around our “We’ll have everything from film, games stand on an elevated platform. And from the and board games, animation and apps, to char- Laura Prinsloo top, they can see the 360-degree screens we’ll acters, entertainment, and intellectual proper- National Book Committee, have showing a beautifully produced film on ty,” all operating as shifting themes, formats, Indonesia our theme of “17,000 Islands of Imagination.” and contexts for the content of Indonesia. We’ll have Bluetooth headphones so visitors

Graphic rendering of Indonesia’s ground-floor exhibition at the 2019 London Book Fair

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Bilingualism Served Here Indonesia’s Market While the rapid growth and breadth of Indo- nesia’s creative industries is impressive, so are Focus Program the numbers. According to Jakarta’s Indonesian Agency for Creative Economy, more than 15.9 million Indonesia’s Market Focus program at people are working in those industries, which the London Book Fair features: make a 7.3-percent contribution to the coun- • 450 books try’s GDP (gross domestic product), roughly • 100 events the equivalent of US$67 billion. • 12 authors The export valuations alone come to some • 10 exhibiting publishers US$20 billion. • 12 cross-media companies Something that Prinsloo is stressing this • 2 stands year is that the London Market Focus has special importance for Indonesia’s market be- cause, “There’s always been a great deal of In- Indonesia’s two stands at the donesian content readily available in English. London Book Fair: “Many of our children’s books are pub- • Publishers: 5D125 lished bilingually and align with the growth of Laura Prinsloo English-speaking schools, especially in main • Cafe and cross-media: 4B20 cities,” she says. With its theme of “17,000 Islands of Imag- “However, the National Book Committee ination,” the Market Focus program has “at is temporary,” she says, “and it’s not an inde- Cross-Media Companies from least a good 100 events within Olympia and pendent entity with its own budget. Indonesia: also around London during the week of Lon- “In Indonesia, we don’t yet have an orga- don Book Fair. For literary focused events, nization that looks after books in general, let • Educa Studio we’ve worked with the British Council on alone a long-term strategy for the book indus- • Hompimpa Games events featuring our 12 authors,” including try and its efforts in international promotion. • Invoya Seno Gumira Ajidarma as one of the fair’s des- Our desire is to have an organization run by • Lentera Nusantara ignated Authors of the Day. professionals from relevant fields to support • Manikmaya Games Jakarta’s team has also worked closely, all areas of the publishing ecosystem. • Tahi Lalats Prinsloo says, with the UK’s Publishers Asso- “The international publishing community • Pionicon ciation and London Book Fair administration could assist Indonesia’s market in moving for- • MSV Studio and Pictures for events including a “modest fashion” event ward by making use of our translation grant • AmazingEdu with Dian Pelangi at Asia House. program and also by participating in our inter- • BGDev 3 Nagari “On top of that, we’ve organized many national book fairs and literary festivals.” • Aprofi, the Association for book discussions,” Prinsloo says, “live demon- And the best way to get started during Indonesian Film Producers strations, coffee cup sessions, and tea tastings London Book Fair week, Laura Prinsloo says, all at the Spice Café. is to “Come to our Spice Café, where we’ll have “We’ll also have a number of exhibitions events for almost everyone. And drop off your during that week,” she says, “including one business card at any of our stands: we’ll have a Translation funding information at: on the digitization of old Javanese manu- draw at the end of the fair for a trip to Indone- islandsofimagination.id script material at the British Library; a curat- sia for two lucky winners.” • ed children’s illustration show at Studio 249; architecture and graphic design at the Protein Studio; a play session at Draughts Board Game Café in London Hackney; and film screenings at SOAS University. “One of the films is Wiro Sableng, which will be screened before the actual European premier, which comes up in April at the Udine RIGHTSLINK® AUTHOR Film Festival.” The industry-leading Open Access e-commerce platform Support for Indonesia’s Publishing • Provide a superior author experience driven by the network e ect Ecosystem of a common platform Prinsloo and her associates now look back for • Stop chasing uncollected author fees to lower overhead guidance at their experiences in 2015 as the Frankfurter Buchmesse’s Guest of Honor. • Increase eciencies and ROI by leveraging data-driven workows “Since then, the Indonesian government has set up our National Book Committee, • Gain deeper insights with powerful dashboards which focuses on the promotion of Indone- sian books to the world. Under this we have programs such as participation at international book fairs, translation grants, author residency To request a demo or more information, programs, and many more. Since the setup of contact [email protected]. the book committee, Indonesia has sold more than 1,200 titles to foreign publishers. That’s a significant improvement. Advancing copyright. Accelerating Knowledge. Powering innovation. 8 INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING

Agenda-Setters at the IPA: A Look at 2019

IPA president Hugo Setzer and vice president Bodour Al Qasimi discuss their goals for the coming year and international publishing issues they intend to address.

By Porter Anderson

ugo Setzer, CEO of Mexico’s Manu- Hal Moderno, has succeeded Elsevier’s Michiel Kolman as president of the Inter- national Publishers Association (IPA). And Bodour Al Qasimi, CEO of the Kalimat Group in Sharjah, has become only the second wom- an to hold one of the two top positions with the association in more than 50 years.. The International Publishers Association, based in Geneva, comprises 81 member-orga- Hugo Setzer Bodour Al Qasimi nizations from 69 nations in Africa, Asia, Aus- tralasia, Europe, and the Americas. In what promises to be a year filled with to publish, to spread more rapidly than ever change for publishing—amid deep upheaval in “In an era of before. If the work of an international organi- the politics, cultural contexts, and economics zation like IPA has always been relevant, now- of many world markets—the IPA’s work cov- information adays it is more important than ever before. ers a strikingly broad range of issues. Publishing Perspectives has had a chance to abundance and fake IPA Vice President Bodour Al Qasimi put some questions to Setzer and Bodour on the year ahead. news, publishers’ PP: Looking forward into the year ahead, do you have a shortlist of key issues and challeng- IPA President Hugo Setzer es you’d like to approach, in particular? job as gatekeepers, Bodour Al Qasimi: Hugo provided a We started by asking Setzer what his shortlist great overview of the IPA’s direction over the of key issues might be, looking ahead in his as curators of next year. As a membership-based organiza- new role as IPA president. tion, a key priority of ours is reaching out to Hugo Setzer: The IPA has to work trustworthy, reliable members to understand their needs and to see to ensure a better business environment for what we can be doing better. publishers globally. And such an environment information, is as We’re planning to work with the secretar- rests on the foundation of having freedom to iat on a membership and industry issues sur- publish the works we believe are important important as ever.” vey. The results will ensure that the services and that our copyright is respected. That is we’re offering are aligned with evolving mem- why we focus so much on those points as our ber needs and that our advocacy efforts are fo- two main pillars. Hugo Setzer cused on the most pressing issues in the global Having said that, we are also working on President, IPA publishing industry. other projects as well, like one to show poli- I’m also working very closely with the cy makers the value of publishers. In an era of Kenya Publishers Association on the second information abundance and fake news, pub- Latin America are similar to those in other iteration of our regional African seminar se- lishers’ job as gatekeepers, as curators of trust- parts of the world. What I think is particu- ries in June. The inaugural event in Nigeria at- worthy, reliable information, is as important larly important in having a president coming tracted 200 attendees from over 20 countries— as ever. We need to convey this message to from Latin America and a highly respected making it the largest global forum on African policy makers around the word. vice president from the Arab world is that this publishing ever held. The regional seminars There’s also the work we are doing on di- shows the truly international character of IPA. are a great way to crystalize publishing indus- versity and inclusion. There’s a lot of research PP: How do you see the “state of the in- try ecosystems in emerging publishing mar- showing the benefits of having more diverse dustry” this year? kets like Africa, the Middle East, Latin Amer- and inclusive workplaces. Because of this, I HS: I think publishers are very good at ica, and Asia and enhance the IPA’s impact by have asked immediate past president Michiel adapting to change. We’ve been doing so in connecting with our members on the ground. Kolman to be IPA’s envoy for diversity and many ways for years, adopting new technolo- PP: As you begin your tenure as a much- inclusion. gies in production and delivery of content, and too-rare female vice president of the IPA, how We’ll be working on many issues, especial- we’re still open to adapting our business mod- do you think that you and the organization can ly continuing our support for the Accessible els to the needs of our readers. raise awareness of gender issues in publishing? Books Consortium and the SDG [Sustainable I think IPA plays a fundamental role in BAQ: The publishing industry has a di- Development Goals] Book Club announced fostering inter-cultural thinking and under- versity problem, and it’s more important than last year in cooperation with the UN. standing. We are fully aware that we live in ever that we take action. In many countries, Publishing Perspectives: Can you a globalized world and that we have to think our sector is not welcoming to outsiders, point to any specific issues in the publishing internationally and understand different cul- whether they’re female or from other disad- industry in Mexico and other parts of Latin tures. On the other hand, globalization also vantaged groups. America these days? allows certain issues, like the orchestrated at- The UK Publishers Association is emerg- HS: I think many of the issues we face in tack on copyright and restrictions to freedom ing as a leader in addressing diversity issues,

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and I think there’s a lot our members can learn We’re also increasingly seeing sensitive “The publishing from their publishing workforce diversity socio-cultural issues like the freedom to pub- study, “10-Point Inclusivity Action Plan,” and lish and new media becoming a conversation industry has a five-year targets. We plan to meet with our of public debate. UK colleagues on the sidelines of the London PP: How do you see the “state of the in- diversity problem, Book Fair to see how we can work together to dustry” this year? support other IPA members in taking action BAQ: I think digital disruption is a key and it’s more on our industry’s diversity challenge. theme underlying many of the current devel- PP: Similarly, are there specific insights opments in the publishing industry. Technol- important than or dynamics from the Arab world that you’re ogy has made it possible for Bollywood, Nolly- looking forward to bringing to the fore? wood, Japanese manga, and even Turkish soap ever that we take BAQ: We’re at a very interesting and operas to reach a global audience. A similar exciting stage of publishing industry devel- transition is happening as global readers are action. In many opment in the Arab world. Not only does our increasingly seeking more diverse books. The region have among the fastest mobile and In- digital age is raising some new questions about ternet connectivity growth rates in the world, online freedom to publish as governments countries, our sector but we also have a big, technology-embracing globally develop new laws to monitor and con- youth demographic that we hope will drive the trol online content. is not welcoming region’s digital economy, and this underscores As Hugo mentioned, publishers are the the importance of digital transformation in the gatekeepers of trustworthy, reliable informa- to outsiders, regional publishing industry. tion, but, as our industry becomes more digi- Regional publishers are beginning to see tized, governments, in particular, are cracking whether they’re that some of the stubborn industry challenges down on freedom to publish through censor- we’ve faced can be solved by technology and ship 2.0 tactics that increasingly involve cyber- female or from that the rapid rise of the digital economy and crime, fake news, and other laws regulating the region’s embrace of e-commerce is really the digital space. other disadvantaged going to transform how we do business. Technology is also affecting copyright. In particular, there are some very interest- A big impetus for Europe’s new copyright groups.” ing publishing technologies that are emerging framework is the digital economy with the in the region that can resolve book distribu- debate focusing on cross-border access to con- tion and retail challenges. Issues like how dig- tent online and a fairer marketplace for online Bodour Al Qasimi ital publishing and artificial intelligence will content. As Hugo says, these industry changes Vice President, IPA impact educational publishing are starting to are manageable, but they’re likely to have pro- be discussed. found impact on the publishing industry. •

SPRING 2019 10 SPONSORED: SHEIKH ZAYED BOOK AWARD

Paula Santillán Grimm on Arabic Literature

‘Learning Arabic is a winding road,’ Arabic expert Paula Santillán Grimm says, ‘but the views are so spectacular.’ She speaks now about her new position as a member of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award’s scientific committee.

‘Translation Remains the Keystone’ PSG: I’d recommend reading Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi [Penguin Ran- Publishing Perspectives: What’s your dom House, translated by Jonathan Wright, sense for why Arabic literature hasn’t moved 2018], a novel that transforms the pathetic into other languages more rapidly? absurdity of all wars—in this novel, the case is Paula Santillán Grimm: In the last for Iraq’s—into a fantastic and surrealistic text. 15 years, several factors have contributed to I’m also an avid reader of Ghada Samman’s generate a considerable shift toward adopting books, and her novel Farewell, Damascus [Darf a more open and receptive stance. Publishers, translated by Nanacy Roberts, First, I think that the geopolitical episodes 2017], which narrates the inner forces of Zain, that we have witnessed in the last two decades a woman who struggles to live her own life have prompted many to rethink and reflect on within a context of suppression and mislead- Arab culture and the richness and variety that ing forces. It gives us all a lesson on fighting for intrinsically characterizes this region. our individual aspirations in life. The so-called Arab Spring did probably Finally, for the reader who’s interested in represent a turning point in this sense, as it taking a step further in exploring modern Is- contributed to a rising visibility into real Arab lamic society, I suggest Raja Alem’s The Dove’s societies—mainly on the political scene but Necklace [Harry N. Abrams, translated by also from a cultural perspective. Katherine Halls and Adam Talib, 2016]. In this Moreover, increasing numbers of refugee one, the author unravels the feelings and tricks Paula Santillán Grimm and migrant Arabs voices are searching for of men and women in a stiff traditional setting different ways to express thoughts and expe- behind a murder mystery in Mecca. riences that need to be told and heard. Liter- PP: And finally, beyond such prize pro- By Porter Anderson ature plays a major catalyzing role, but many grams as the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, what other forms of cultural expression contribute do you think might do the most to help en- to shaping these new, living cultural assets as courage a wider discovery of Arabic literature ast autumn, Paula Santillán Grimm, PhD, well, from cinema to visual arts, modern mu- on the world stage? Lwas made a new member of the Shiekh sic, comics, and pop culture. PSG: Translation remains the keystone Zayed Book Award’s scientific committee, In literature, there’s quite a wide range of for rendering Arabic voices so that they’re which functions to appoint jury members for actors who contribute to foster new Arab voic- heard, read, and, hopefully, better understood. its various prize categories and to oversee the es among the general audiences in the West. It also holds true that most of the works cultural and textual integrity of one of the And these aren’t only translators and publish- translated are narrative and poetry works, and world’s wealthiest awards in literature. ers, but also bloggers, critics, and journalists. therefore I’d argue that a greater investment in At stake is a purse of 750,000 United Arab Within this context, initiatives such as the the translation of contemporary thought—the- Emirates dirhams (US$204,176) for each of Sheikh Zayed Book Award play a crucial role atrical work and children’s literature—would eight book categories. The Cultural Personal- in bridging between cultures and languages— help enlarge the potential audience of Arab ity of the Year carries an award of 1 million and, most important, between peoples. On top literature internationally. • dirhams (US$272, 235). In every case, a winner of that, the wide array of categories the award is also given a gold medal with the award pro- recognizes grounds it as a humanistic endeav- gram’s logo and a certificate of merit. or, not just a literary award. Santillán is one of Spain’s specialists in the PP: Can you name a few authors you teaching of Arabic as a foreign language, and might advise newcomers to the Arabic world’s The 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Award ceremony she has worked as an independent contractor writings to try? is set for April 25 in Abu Dhabi. as a translator, interpreter, and editor. Her PhD in Arabic linguistics is from the University of Granada. She lectures in several Arab and international universities. Santillán is also a literary critic for sev- eral international literary publications, and is a trilingual translator (Arabic, English and Spanish) with the United Nations’ European installation in Geneva. Publishing Perspectives is glad to have a chance to put some questions to Grimm about Arabic literature, translation, and the award. We begin our exchange by asking her about Arabic literature, both in its original lan- guage and in translation. Among her messages: The Arab world is far from monolithic—and so is its language and writings.

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Shortlisted Titles: 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Literature • Children’s • Young Author

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: LITERATURE: I Am Not You The Sequin Embroidery (‘Ana Lastu Anta’) (‘Terter’) by Jekar Khourchid — Syria by Nizar Abdelsattar — Iraq (Al Hadaek Group, 2018) (Nofal / Hachette Antoine, 2018) I Dream of Being a Concrete Mixer Divers of the Empty Quarter (‘Ahlam An Akoun Khalat Asmant’) (‘Ghawaso Al Ahqaf’) by Hussain Al Mutawaa — Kuwait by Amal Al Faran — Saudi Arabia (Al Hadaek Group, 2018) (Jadawel, 2016) Where is My Beak? The Self: Between Existence and Creation (‘Ayn Minqari?’) (‘Al That Bayn Al Wujood Wal Eijad’) by Yara Bamieh — Jordan by Bensalem Himmich — Morocco (Palestine Writing Workshop, 2018) (Book Cultural Centre for Publishing & Distribution, 2018)

ABOUT THE SHEIKH ZAYED AWARD YOUNG AUTHOR:

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award honours the outstanding The Dove of the House achievements of innovators and thinkers in literature, the arts (‘Hamam Al Dar’) and humanities in Arabic and other languages. Launched in 2007 by Saud Alsanousi — Kuwait and covering nine categories, the award promotes creativity, (Arab Scientific Publishers / Difaf advances Arabic literature and culture, and provides new Publishing, 2017) opportunities for Arabic-language writers. Knowledge and Power: Approaching the Worlds of Michel Foucault (‘Al Ma’rifa Wal Sulta’) by Omar Al Tawer — Morocco TRANSLATION FUNDING AVAILABLE (Editions Approaches, 2018)

In February 2018, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced The Essence of Values and the that an initiative to make translation funding available for all Freedom of Social Concepts literary and children’s titles that have won the award since it (‘Rouh Al Qiyam Wa Houriyat Al was launched in 2007. The aim of SZBA’s translation fund is to Mafaheem’) contribute to increasing the number of Arabic books that are by Dr. Abderrezak Belagrouz — translated, published and distributed abroad. Algeria (The Arabian Establishment for www.zayedaward.ae Thought and Innovation, 2017)

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Margit Walsø (right) receives the Guest of Honor scroll from Medea Metreveli at the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair, marking the beginning of Norway’s turn in the spotlight (Image: Frankfurter Buchmesse)

Norway Enters Its Frankfurt Guest of Honor Year on a Big Wave of Translation

By Porter Anderson Leading Language: German In 2018, 80 titles received funding to be trans- Norwegian Books in ever in the 40-year history of NORLA— lated into German. That was a record for the NNorwegian Literature Abroad have so number of translations NORLA supported in Translation many titles been granted translation support a single language. as in the past year, according to Margit Walsø, Besides German, the top languages re- Three Most Translated the organization’s director. ceiving translation support from NORLA are: Norwegian Authors Figures from Norwegian publishers and English, Danish, Dutch, Polish, French, Swed- literary agencies show that the total number of ish, Spanish, Bulgarian, Chinese, Turkish and • Karl Ove Knausgård foreign rights sold abroad in 2018 is close to Russian. For the first time, NORLA has grant- 29 translations, fiction and 1,000 titles. ed support for the translation of a Norwegian non-fiction In 2018, NORLA awarded translation book into Burmese. • Maja Lunde grants for 639 Norwegian books to be trans- NORLA officials say the high rate of Ger- 17 translations, fiction for both lated into 45 languages—the biggest such year man translation reflects the coming Guest of adults and children yet for Norwegian literature. And the timing Honor programming at the Frankfurter Buch- • Jørn Lier Horst couldn’t be better as Norway’s publishing and messe, amplified by a specific effort on the part 15 translations, fiction for both books community prepares for its Guest of of literary agents and the Norwegian industry adults and children Honor year at the Frankfurter Buchmesse (Oc- to raise their level of outreach to German-lan- tober 12 to 14). guage publishers. Most Translated Norwegian In addition to its years-long work promot- Authors by Genre ing the export of Norwegian literature with Portal: Books From Norway events and translation grants, NORLA is re- • FICTION: Karl Ove Knausgård sponsible for organizing the country’s Guest of In addition to these specific outearch efforts, 24 translations (10 titles) Honor program in Frankfurt this year. NORLA has developed an online portal called • NONFICTION: Long Litt Woon “A united Norwegian book industry has Books from Norway, which is meant to show- 7 translations (1 title) invested heavily in network building and case Norwegian authors and books to interna- • CHILDRENS / YA: Maria Parr rights sales in the build-up to the Guest of tional publishers for potential translation into 11 translations (3 titles) Honor year, and we are now seeing the re- other languages. sults,” says Walsø. The site includes contact information for Fifteen years ago, in 2004, NORLA pro- rights holders and a translators database. vided support for just over 100 translations. Books from Norway, says Walsø, “consists NORLA’s translation grants and info By 2017, that number had risen to 538, and of more than 1,400 titles and the number is on Norwegian books is at: norla.no in 2018 the number of grants increased by 19 growing day by day. Also, we are cooperating percent to 639 titles. with IPR License on making the titles in Books See Norway’s Guest of Honor The 639 grants awarded in 2018 went to from Norway available on the IPR platform, program online at: norway2019.com 479 fiction titles and 160 nonfiction titles. and this enables us to reach an even bigger NORLA’s staffers say the biggest increase professional audience worldwide. We look Find Norwegian books with rights has been in children’s and YA books, with 197 forward to intensifying this cooperation in the available at: booksfromnorway.com grants, 29 percent more than in 2017. months to come.” •

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Collaboration, Open Access, Advancing and Plan S Implementation Open Scholarly Communications Ahead of a workshop on how publishers can balance the Through Open demands of open access and their own business needs, Dialogue CCC’s Roy Kaufman talks about Plan S. Thursday, March 14 12:30 to 5:00 p.m. RSA House (8 John Adam Street) London, UK publishers over pure OA publishers, and com- mercial over society publishers. When you About this Workshop fight over details such as those, you miss the larger picture, which is that institutions and Copyright Clearance Center and da- publishers are collaborating on some really in- ta-analysis company Outsell will stage novative models, by choice. an invitation-only, half-day event/ For example, Germany has not embraced workshop about Plan S and relat- Plan S, but Wiley’s Projekt DEAL with 700 ed topics including open access, the German academic institutions is groundbreak- changing role of libraries, and infra- ing. The narrative must be broader. structure and workflow needed for PP: Is the Brexit confusion making things the open access (OA) future. more complicated? Or is it understood that the Roy Kaufman UK will follow the European pathway on open Speakers access and Plan S? RK: The UK has been the leader in the • Diego Baptista, Wellcome By Porter Anderson push to shift to open access, especially includ- , Elsevier ing funders such as the Wellcome Trust, but • Olivier Dumon • Danny Kingsley, Cambridge other countries have their own plans now. University Library s complex and layered as the scholar- It’s hard to imagine Brexit not negatively • Petra Labriga, Technische Aly publishing world is at any time, few impacting collaboration and funding of science Informationsbibliothek (TIB) things have triggered such debate in recent and publishing, as well as the free movement • Tasha Mellins-Cohen, years as the so-called “Plan S” initiative an- of goods and people. In regard to where peo- Microbiology Society nounced by the European Research Council in ple publish, if they can collaborate and do have • Brandon Nordin, American September 2018. funding, I don’t think it will make much differ- Chemical Society Plan S was created by about a dozen of the ence given the highly global nature of science , Clarivate leading funders of research in Europe respon- authorship. • Annette Thomas • David Worlock, co-chair, sible for €7.6 billion (US$8.6 billion). Plan PP: Finally, we’ve noted Jeffrey Brainard Outsell’s leadership program S says that all papers that are the product of at ScienceMag quoting some research that in- research funded by them must be free to read dicates, “The required technical fixes may be as soon as possible. Resistance has come from too expensive for some smaller open-access many stakeholders, including, most recently, journals unless Plan S provides them deadline More information is online at: from the Association of American Publishers. extensions, exempts them, or helps them de- go.copyright.com/openlondon2019 “No science should be locked behind pay- velop open-source publishing software that walls,” is the declaration in the preamble to the meets the requirements.” Does this align with plan, and the deadline for implementation— your understanding? January 1, 2020—is almost as much of a shock RK: Yes, it’s not just about technical fixes. as is the aggressive nature of the program’s Let’s get past rhetoric and into economics. requirement. The Article Processing Charges (APCs) to Publishing Perspectives has had a chance publish in so-called “hybrid journals” (i.e. pub- to put some questions about Plan S to CCC’s lications that blend subscription and OA busi- business development managing director Roy ness models) are typically higher than in fully Kaufman. OA “Gold” journals, and especially those APC Publishing Perspectives: Can you fees for articles published by smaller prestige give us an update on where things stand with societies. Plan S? Is implementation still required by However, for many societies, the econom- some point in 2020? ic value of the article and the cost to produce it Roy Kaufman: The short answer is that are both greater than the APC. In other words, the Plan S implementation comments period even at the “higher” rates, publishers can only has closed, and we have yet to see how—and offer the APCs at the current prices because if—the policy can be implemented on that APCs are underwritten through subscriptions. timeframe. With the Plan S talk about a fee cap, this could A longer answer is that Plan S should not become an existential challenge. be viewed as an end in itself, but as part of a Larger publishers, on the other hand, can process of gradually increasing open access. amortize costs against a greater number of ti- Otherwise the details of Plan S threaten to tles. If Plan S goes forward as written, we will overwhelm debate. see greater consolidation as a result, which Plan S does seem to favor subscription cannot be the original goal. •

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Jane Tappuni: Why I’m Attending RightsTech: Europe

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Oct 2018 | ISBN: 9780545902489 Rights sold for previous titles in the series: 320 pp. | Orig. Lang: English Chinese, Danish, and Russian

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Colin the Crab Falls in Love Rosie the Ribeter: The by Tuual Pere Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Wickwick by Darcy Pattison Colin the Crab loves spending the spare time with his many friends, but lately, he has Mims House started to feel a bit empty and lonely. One day, Colin makes an unexpected discovery from Rosie was an astounding female bullfrog who between the shells: a girl crab, who has the came out of the wild for a single week, and set most beautiful eyes in the world. a record that still amazes us today, and then jumped back into the water. This illustrated Oct 2018 | ISBN: 9789523254084 children’s book tells the story of her record- 41 pp. | Orig. Lang: Finnish breaking jumps.

Rights sold: English, Swedish Apr 2019 | ISBN: 9781629440736 32 pp. | Orig. Lang: English

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Biological Restaurants: Big Cat and Small Cat at Strange Customers and Grandma’s House Unexpected Food by Qin Wenjun by Shi Jun Tomorrow Publishing House Guangxi Normal University Press Written by Qin Wenjun, a multi award-winner A biological restaurant is situated deep in and one of the most talented children’s the forest. The proprietress is a pretty and book writers in China, this book tells the vivacious girl who employs numerous cooks, heartwarming story of two cats, who much like waiters and waitress to serve her customers— people, highly appreciate what they like and earthworms, elephants, butterflies, ants, criticise what they don’t. Eventually they learn parrots, etc. But perhaps unsurprisingly, they that treating others fairly will bring them more all eat different food. happiness.

Jul 2018 | ISBN: 9787559808707 Dec 2015 | ISBN: 9787533287313 117 pp. | Orig. Lang: Simplified Chinese 40 pp. | Orig. Lang: Simplified Chinese

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LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES

Transgender and The Catalan Culture: Reoccupy Earth: Notes Fact and Fiction: Literary Imagination: Experimentation, Toward An Other Elements of a General Changing Gender in Creative Imagination Beginning Theory of Narrative Twentieth-Century and the Relationship By David Wood by Albrecht Koschorke, Writing with Spain Joel Golb Fordham University Press by Rachel Carroll Edited by Lloyd H. De Gruyter Davies, D. Gareth Habit rules our lives. Yet climate Edinburgh University Press Walters, John B Hall change and the catastrophic To a large extent, social dynamics future it portends make it clear Grounded in feminist scholarship, are modeled in an aesthetic University of Wales Press that we cannot go on like this. In a manner via narratives. This book informed by queer theory and spirited defense of an enlightened indebted to transgender studies, explores the narrative organisation This is a wide-ranging survey of anthropocentrism, Wood argues of cultural spaces and time-frames, this book investigates the ways in that to deserve the privileges of which transgender identities and modern Catalan artistic culture that the mythological shaping of includes studies on literature, film, reason we must deploy it through communities and adversaries, and histories have been ‘authored by collective sustainable agency. Only others’, with a focus on literary theatre and performance art, and the co-production of narratives which highlights the innovatory in this way can we reinhabit the and institutions aimed at stabilizing fiction by British, Irish and American Earth. authors. aspects of such outputs. social life. Apr 2019 Sep 2018 Apr 2018 Apr 2018 240 pp. | Orig Lang: English 240 pp. | Orig Lang: English 348 pp. | Orig Lang: English 288 pp. | Orig Lang: English ISBN: 9780823283538 ISBN: 9781474414661 ISBN: 9781786832016 ISBN: 9783110347081 World rights available World rights available World rights available World rights available

DTV (Munich) Xinhua Winshare (Chengdu)

dtv was originally founded in Nicola Bieg, Rights Manager: Headquartered in Chengdu, France, Japan, South Korea and 1961 with the sole purpose of “The IPR platform offers a lean Sichuan Province, Xinhua Win- numerous other European and publishing paperback licences. and effective tool for handling share is a large media enterprise Asian countries. Nowadays, around 70% of the permissions requests, both for with business units in publish- books published by dtv are orig- the buyer and the seller. With its ing, media, distribution, printing inal and German first editions easy-to-manage interface and the and production, logistics, book- in many formats ranging from handling of incoming payments, it stores, e-commerce, and educa- Mr He Zhiyong, hardcover to e-books. dtv offers a saves us time and resources. We tion services. With twelve book CEO: “The Winshare broad spectrum of international especially value the ability to reg- publishers and over 6,000 titles group has extended and German fiction, non-fiction, ulate the level of automation for published each year, Winshare’s its activities in the self-help as well as books for each individual title.” imprints cross all categories from international com- children and young adults. With science and technology to chil- munity with a market-oriented around 400 titles published each dren’s books, art and literature, strategy. Copyright trade, co-pub- year, dtv ranks among the largest education and more. lishing and book distribution is independent publishers in Ger- Bestsellers have included currently at the center of its core many. books based on the popular TV/ business. Winshare currently has dtv is working with IPR on the movie series The Boonie Bears. A five overseas offices in Europe, highly successful Instant Permis- series of atlases on Chinese flora India, the Arabic region, and sions platform, which features an and fauna from the Sichuan Sci- USA, and is focusing on tourism, interface in German and English. ence Press won several nation- events and souvenirs in order to al book awards. Winshare has enhance bilateral business with licensed rights to publishers in more values.” the US, Russia, the UK, Germany,

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BIOGRAPHY & TRUE STORIES

The Unknown Kimi Almost Human: Unchained Man: The Tree: A Life Story Räikkönen Biography of Julius the Arctic Life and Times of by David Suzuki, Wayne by Kari Hotakainen Chimpanzee Captain Robert Abram Grady, and Peter by Alfred Fidjestøl Bartlett Wohlleben; illustrated by Siltala Publishing By Maura Hanrahan Robert Bateman Hagen Agency The first and last authorized book Boulder Publications Greystone Books about Kimi Räikkönen, a man of At just six weeks old, Julius the humble origins, who made his way Chimpanzee was rejected by his In 1914, Captain Robert Bartlett The story of a single tree, from to the top of an unusual profession. mother and lived with a human Humorous and moving, this book made a perilous trek of 700 miles the moment the seed is released family for one year. Fidjestøl , across the frozen Arctic Ocean from its cone until, more than 500 will open up a breathtaking world winner of Gyldendal’s Hunger for even those with no interest in to save survivors of the sunken years later, it lies on the forest floor Award, attempts to understand vessel Karluk. Based on extensive as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, motor sport. Kari Hotakainen is a what goes on in the head of bestselling author whose books research, Unchained Man explores mosses, and hemlocks, even as its chimpanzees like Julius while telling this central figure in Arctic history. own life is ending. have been translated to more the remarkable history about this than 20 languages and made into unique chimpanzee’s life. successful films. Jun 2018 Aug 2018 300 pp. | Orig Lang: English 208 pp. | Orig Lang: English Aug 2017 ISBN: 9781927099940 ISBN: 9781771644198 Aug 2018 228 pp. | Orig Lang: Norwegian 250 pp. | Orig Lang: Finnish ISBN: 9788252192568 ISBN: 9789522345387 World rights available Rights sold: English (Aus/NZ), Simplified Chinese, Complex Rights sold to: Simplified Chinese, Rights sold into 13 languages Chinese, French (Canada), World English, Dutch German

DNA (Berlin) ECW (Toronto)

DNA is a Berlin-based subsidiary Cat Media Group, which is an ex- Entertainment. Culture. Writing. on the hottest subject matter; rights agency representing from tensive service network dedicat- Those 3 characteristics (E-C-W) ground-breaking design; and high different publishers a range of ed to the support and success of represent the current ECW Press, production values. German language titles—from creative artists and their content. which is one of the most diversi- sophisticated thrillers to humour, Publishers and authors working fied independent publishers in David Caron, Co-Publisher to biographies and autobiogra- with BlueCat can take advantage North America. Founded in 1974 and President: “Our efforts in phies, and rounded out with a of advice on social media and as a Canadian literary magazine licensing our titles to publishers list of children’s and young adult other marketing as well as rights named Essays on Canadian Writ- around the world has been very titles. Representing audio, film licensing from DNA. ing, ECW is based in Toronto, successful—and we look forward and translation rights, DNA fo- Ontario. They started publish- to continuing the push as Canadi- cuses on original material, which Patricia Arnold, project coor- ing trade and scholarly books in an publishing moves toward the not only impresses with excellent dinator: “We do not just see the 1979, and now have over 1000 excitement of being the Frank- sales figures but also consists of numbers, we see the big picture. books in print. The vibrant back- furt Book Fair Guest of Honor in outstanding and unique plots and And we are looking forward to list includes poetry and fiction, 2020.” characters. our association with IPR helping pop-culture and political analy- For the upcoming spring sea- us to reach more licensees and sis, sports books, biography, and son, DNA will focus on their crime making our overall process more travel guides. titles, for example, the sophisti- efficient.” And today, ECW Press pub- cated thriller Die Poesie des Tötens lishes a mix of commercial and (Poems to Die By) written by Aus- literary works that strive for a uni- trian authors Andrea Fehringer & form standard of excellence: the Thomas Köpf. best writing; the most exciting, DNA is a project of the Blue- controversial and insightful takes

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HUMANITIES

The Austen Girls: Knowledge Resistance: Why Pray? Previously A History of Western The Story of Jane & How We Avoid Insight Unpublished Historical Thought Cassandra Austen, the From Others Reflections and by Pei Yu Closest of Sisters by Mikael Klintman Insights Hunan Education Publishing by Helen Amy By Robert LLewelyn Manchester University Press House Co Ltd Amberley Publishing Darton Longman + Todd This book integrates insights Focusing on thought development and processes in different historical This exquisite look at the lives of from the social, economic What is prayer, and why should we and evolutionary sciences to periods, this book is guided by the two inseparable Austen sisters, pray? In this previously unpublished historical materialism to reveal the Jane and Cassandra, traces their advance our understanding of collection of writings, the late the phenomenon of knowledge evolution of western theories, and special relationship throughout Robert Llewelyn, one of the wisest in turn illuminates the development Jane’s life and literary career right resistance. Drawing on cutting-edge spiritual teachers of our time, offers scholarship as well as personal of western thought over time. It up until Jane’s premature death at advice and insights from a lifetime reflects Chinese history researchers’ the age of forty-one. It also looks at experiences of culture clashes, the of spiritual experience, including book is aimed at anyone interested recent development on the topic of Cassandra’s life after the loss of her the lessons we can learn from Julian western historic thought research. dear sister. in human motivation and the of Norwich. urgent social problems of today. Apr 2015 Jun 2019 Feb 2019 Jun 2019 472 pp. | Orig Lang: Chinese 304 pp. | Orig Lang: English 128 pp. | Orig Lang: English ISBN: 9787553921365 ISBN: 9781445675862 240 pp. | Orig Lang: English ISBN: 9780232533781 ISBN: 9781526135209 World rights available World rights available World rights available World rights available

Translators Hotel: Retreat for Norwegian Translators

By Mette Børja Ivanychuk (translating into Ukranian), Kari Dickson (from Great Britain). n 2014, Norwegian Literature Abroad (NORLA), The translators continued work on Herbjørg Istarted a pilot scheme for translators of Norwe- Wassmo’s novel The One Who Sees (in Norwegian; gian literature, which has gone on to become an Den som ser), Lotta Elstad’s I Refuse to Think (Jeg unconditional success. nekter å tenke) and Gudrun Skretting’s award-win- Called the “Translators Hotel”, NORLA gives ning children’s novel Anton and Other Squares (An- the translators of Norwegian literature the oppor- ton og andre flokkdyr). tunity to come to Norway to delve into Norwegian Margit Waslø, Director of NORLA, said of the literature, language and culture. The scheme com- Translators Hotel: “NORLA’s Translator’s Hotel has prises two-week stays, twice a year, for up to four since the start in 2014 welcomed no less than 42 translators at the Hotell Bondeheimen in Oslo. translators to two-weeks stays in Oslo. Every year NORLA is known for their efforts in promoting we see wonderful results from the translators’ the export of Norwegian literature through active plunges into Norwegian literature.” profiling work and translations subsidies. The or- For those interested in applying for the elev- ganisation disseminates knowledge about Norwe- enth Translators Hotel season in autumn 2019, gian books and authors abroad, and operations the dates and application deadline will be an- are financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture. nounced this summer. Now looking forward to its tenth season in May of this year, the past season in autumn 2018 welcomed four new translators to the hotel: Aude Pasquier (translating into French), Egle Is- Visit norla.no to for more information about ganaityte-Paulauskiene (from Lithuania), Natalia the Translators Hotel. Hotell Boneheimen, Oslo

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Q&A: Cao Wenxuan, Chinese Bestselling Author

estselling author Cao Wenxuan was born in the years for your writing. In 2016, you were an- BJanuary 1954 in the rural area of Yancheng. nounced as the winner of the prestigious Hans He studied at Peking University and is now a pro- Christian Andersen Award. How has receiving this fessor and Ph.D. supervisor of Chinese literature award affected your career as an author? there. CW: As a writer I have received almost all the Many of his novels and short stories have been awards in China, and have been jokingly called translated into English, French, Japanese, Korean, “The Prizes Holder”. Winning the Hans Christian and other languages. His books have won more Andersen Award didn’t actually have a great im- than 40 national and international awards. He pact on my literature creation because my lit- won the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award for erature concept is quite rigid, and is not easy to what is probaby his most well-known book out- change. One difference is that I am busier than side China, Bronze and Sunflower. before, and I am now having to learn to say no to IPR: As a child did you always have a love of some requests. As writers, what we need to do is reading? And when did you first start writing? write—nothing is more important than writing. Cao Wenxuan: I liked playing when I was a IPR: What are you currently writing and when child, playing in the field, never tired. I began to will it be published? Are you able to tell us? like reading when I was in the fifth grade. At that CW: I am writing a novella called Straw Sandal time, there were not many books to read. Fortu- Bay. It is a story about a private detective and his nately, my father was a headmaster of a primary son, and it takes place in 1940s Shanghai. I haven’t school, and he had two bookcases of books. Some written a story like this before. It will be published of the Chinese classics, especially the special edi- in May. tion books written by Lu Xun, influenced my life. The real creative work began after I graduated from high school. Visit iprlicense.com to see Cao Wenxuan’s IPR: You have received many prizes over books with rights available. Cao Wenxuan

FICTION

My Friend Natalia The Last Night of the Toast Summer Rains by Laura Lindstedt World by Laurie Foos by Ahmad Al Qarmalawi by Joyce Wayne Teos Publishers Gemma Media Al Dar Al Masriah al Lubnaniah Mosaic Press Natalia starts to see a therapist In many ways, the Hamilton Using music as a thread that to help solve the problems in August 1945, Soviet agent Freda children are like any other kids. connects the past to the present, her sex life. It is clear from the Linton’s world is about to fall apart. Mia and Will love playing Minecraft, this novel explores what happens beginning that she is not going She’s spent WWII infiltrating the eating pizza, and playing in the when tradition and cultural heritage to play by the rules. The weekly highest levels of the Canadian yard. But Mia knows that because clash with modernity. Summer sessions combine art, philosophy, government but now cipher clerk Will is on the autism spectrum, Rains, winner of the 2018 Sheikh literature, childhood memories, and Igor Gouzenko’s plans put Freda’s some things are different for Zayed Book Award for Young erotic experiences as a method of life in danger. Last Night of the World him. Toast explores the tender, Author, addresses the current Arab treatment, and slowly they make brings a high-energy creativeness scary, funny, and always complex youth crisis, in which young people Natalia lose all her inhibitions. and emotional tension to a story relationship between a girl and her find themselves torn between Lindstedt’s second novel Oneiron that is rooted in a generation’s autistic brother. fundamentalism and modernity. earned her the coveted 2015 defining incident. Finlandia Prize. Nov 2018 Jan 2017 Apr 2018 100 pp. | Orig Lang: English 220 pp. | Orig Lang: Arabic Mar 2019 320 pp. | Orig Lang: English ISBN: 9781936846672 ISBN: 9789772937370 240 pp. | Orig Lang: Finnish ISBN: 9781771613019 ISBN: 9789518518016 World rights available World rights available World rights available World rights available

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How Livres Canada Books and IPR Work Together

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IPR: Part of your role at Livres Canada Books is rights abroad and to provide international buyers profit. We have learned a lot along the way, and to work with international markets. What are the with a sort of “snapshot” of the Canadian market. we keep looking for ways to improve the service strong trends in your own market at the moment? Partnering with IPR means that we can pro- to publishers. Gabrielle Etcheverry: The Canadian market is mote a greater number of titles to a much wider IPR: What types of books do you enjoy most, very diverse—it has always been so along linguis- audience and make IPR’s services available to our and what are you reading now? tic and regional lines, but it is becoming more di- Canadian publisher network for free. Participation GE: I love fiction that has an element of the fan- verse in terms of the kinds of titles it is producing is now available to a greater number of small and tastical and mixes different genres and/or voices and the audiences it is now engaging. There is a lot emerging publishers. Access to IPR’s digital rights (Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis is a great example). of innovation in terms of genres and formats, and platform also means that publishers with little or My book club just finished reading The Lonely a real interest in new and emerging audiences. no experience with international rights sales now Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill, and it definitely Canada’s being invited as the Guest of Honour have more support entering new markets. had some elements of the fantastical while being at the 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair has also really en- IPR: Livres Canada Books has been partnered set in Depression-era Montréal and New York. It ergized Canadian publishers and, I think, is bring- with IPR as a member since 2017. Tell us more was a great read to start the new year. ing this new diversity into sharper focus. about how this partnership has worked for Livres I am expanding my horizons this year and try- IPR: Livres Canada Books recently published Canada Books’ publishers. ing out new genres. I picked up a copy of Sabrina their 2018–2019 Rights Canada catalogue, the sec- GE: This was a first for us at Livres Canada by Nick Drnaso at the Salon du Livre de Montréal ond catalogue produced in partnership with IPR Books and it has been a great process. As a not- in November. It was published by Drawn & Quar- and distributed at Frankfurt Book Fair two years for-profit association tasked with supporting Ca- terly and last year became the first graphic novel in a row. What were your main objectives when nadian publishers in their export activities, we to be nominated for the Man Booker Prize. putting this guide together? have been very careful to ensure that the Livres I am also returning to one of my first loves: the GE: Rights Canada is the country’s premier Canada Books membership portal is really about short story. I just started the 2018 edition of The collective rights catalogue and has been a part highlighting the publishers and their titles. Journey Prize Stories, which is an annual anthology of the Livres Canada Books publication schedule Through our partnership with IPR, we provide of short fiction by emerging writers first published for over a decade. We distribute it at all the fairs our participating publishers with access to the IPR in a Canadian literary journal or anthology. The we attend, including Frankfurt, Bologna, London, platform, and it’s up to those publishers how they stories have all been longlisted for the yearly Writ- and last year the New York Rights Fair and the want to use it. Given that IPR has mostly had expe- ers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. The Guadalajara International Book Fair, as well as at rience with memberships for individual publishing collection is a great way to get acquainted with our trade missions. Our objectives for this guide companies, we had to work together to find solu- emerging Canadian writers and English Canada’s have always been to help Canadian publishers sell tions for our particular needs as a national not-for- literary ecosystem. •

Why Permissions Licensing is a Perfect Area for Automation

By Mareike Miller tool. Once you are successfully set up on IPR, you Zsolnay Verlag, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage free up time and resources to concentrate on oth- and Wochenschau Verlag. echnologies that work always have one thing in er, more profitable things. Our solution is unique In December of last year, we also welcomed S. Tcommon, they solve a problem. because it is multi-language and brings permis- Fischer Verlag and Fischer Kinder- und Jugendbu- Instant Permissions is both simple and solves sions automation to both an English and German chverlag, part of the prestigious Holtzbrinck Pub- the fundamental publisher problem of “How do market. It is also quick and easy to implement. lishing Group, to our platform. Katharina Winter, you run your permissions business profitably?”. The German launch has been particularly suc- Legal Counsel and Head of Rights Department S. IPR launched Instant Permissions in January cessful, with many large and midsize publishers Fischer Verlage, said: “We want high international 2018 to great success and we have already had a adopting Instant Permissions as their go-to solu- visibility for our authors’ works plus further expo- good start in 2019. In 2018 IPR’s Instant Permis- tion. Whilst more than 60% of our permissions are sure, including the use of single images, quotes sions completed hundreds of automated deals being re-used in a book or ebook, more than 15% and other requests. Furthermore, the system on behalf of its publishers, generating a steady are used in journals, newspapers and magazines. needs to be fast and user-friendly, and the IPR Li- stream of money for participating members. In fact, you can license just about any type of re- cense platform helps us with all these aims, so we Permissions licensing is a perfect area for use through Instant Permissions, including pro- are excited to have our titles included on there.” automation. If the permissions process is not au- motional material, theses or dissertations, training Since launch the solution has been a great suc- tomated this requires the publisher to check the and conference materials, blogs, calendars and cess helping our publishers efficiently generate rights, come up with a price and email the permis- more. Text is the most frequently re-used asset permissions revenue. We look forward to growing sions seekers back. This is time consuming, often type accounting for over 50% of all permissions this stable of publishers throughout 2019. taking months, and is hugely inefficient. transactions, followed by images and poems. Instant Permissions is the perfect solution to We are so proud to include the following pub- the manual permissions process, allowing a pub- lishers as our customers, who are already suc- lisher to fully process their permissions in an easy, cessfully using Instant Permissions: Arena Verlag, efficient way. It allows for permissions to move Bastei Lübbe, Carl Hanser Verlage, De Gruyter, dtv For information or a demo, contact Mareike from being a headache to a revenue generation Verlag, Georg Thieme Verlag, Hogrefe Verlag, Paul Miller at [email protected]

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BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Whitewash: The Story of a The Basics of Bitcoins and Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Blockchains Corruption of Science by Antony Lewis by Carey Gillam Mango Media Island Press Understand Bitcoin, blockchains, and In Whitewash, veteran journalist Carey Gillam cryptocurrency with this clear and uncovers one of the most controversial stories comprehensible guide. Gain an understanding in the history of food and agriculture, exposing of blockchain technology and how it works, the new evidence of corporate influence. Rachel workings of the cryptocurrency market, and Carson Environment Book Award winner. the evolution and potential impacts of Bitcoin and blockchains on global businesses. Oct 2017 | ISBN: 9781610918329 320 pp. | Orig. Lang: English Aug 2018 | ISBN: 9781633538009 408 pp. | Orig. Lang: English Rights sold: Audio (English), Complex Chinese, Dutch World rights available

The Catalyst Effect: 12 Skills and Employee Confidence: The Behaviours to Boost your Impact New Rules of Engagement and Elevate Team Performance by Karen J Hewitt by Jerry Toomer, Craig Caldwell, Steve Weitzenkorn, Chelsea Panoma Press Clark A look at Employee Engagement with a methodology to bring out a company’s real Emerald Publishing leadership potential. A host of practical techniques bring Employee Confidence to The Catalyst Effect powerfully shows readers life, showing us how to create workplaces how to to elevate the performance of their where employees thrive and drive company teams and ultimately the overall organisation. performance. Shorlisted for the Business Book Real examples from business, sports, and arts. of the Year Award 2018.

Feb 2018 | ISBN: 9781787435520 Apr 2018 | ISBN: 9781784521325 232 pp. | Orig. Lang: English 208 pp. | Orig. Lang: English

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Future Fit: How to Stay Emotional Intelligence in Relevant and Competitive in Tourism and Hospitality the Future of Work by Erdogan Koc by Andrea Clarke CABI Major Street Publishing With the level of contact between employees Human skills will enable us to thrive in the age and customers growing ever higher, of accelerations. In her fascinating new book, developing emotional intelligence in former TV news reporter and thought leader employees is vital. This book has a skills- Andrea Clarke explores each of these human based approach and explains how emotional skills and how they will help us all become an intelligence can be developed in tourism and asset to the companies we work for. hospitality students and employees.

Apr 2019 | ISBN: 9780648410072 Mar 2019 | ISBN: 9781786398314 220 pp. | Orig. Lang: English 152 pp. | Orig. Lang: English

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Should Publishers Learn How to Code?

At events like “Coding for Publishers,” Emma Barnes wants to demonstrate why coding can help book publishers take control of their business and creativity.

By Mark Piesing my time publishing, with creativity and with or store or ship the books ourselves. flair. That means I don’t have the time or the “Our industry has been outsourcing ev- inclination for repetitive, brain-numbing ad- erything we possibly can for years. With code, n Tuesday at London Book Fair, March min. Coding liberates me from that. It means we have a chance to take back control and be O13, a session at 4:15 p.m. in the Buzz The- I can get computers to do the bits they’re good creators.” atre called “Coding for Publishers” will intro- at, and I can focus on the creative work that Still, it’s at the individual level that coding duce attendees to one of the UK’s most pas- makes a difference.” is most important. sionate advocates for tech-savvy publishing: She co-founded a book publishing com- “Many jobs in publishing, from production Emma Barnes. pany called Snowbooks in 2003 with her best control and marketing assistants to managing The serial entrepreneur behind the inde- friend, and she discovered coding through editors and typesetters, can be automated,” pendent press Snowbooks and the publishing Michael Hartl’s Ruby on Rails Tutorial (Addi- says Barnes. “The graduating class of 2023 has workflow platform Consonance, Barnes will son-Wesley Professional), a gentle but thor- been taught programming at school since they have three of her colleagues with her: pro- ough introduction to the web development were five years old. grammer Andy Pearson, full stack developer framework Ruby on Rails. “Your employer won’t push you to learn to Sara O’Connor, and technical product director The code Barnes went on to write would code until they make you redundant. Future- David Aldridge. The session is designed as a first help her organize the data that she’d gath- proof yourself now.” • “friendly taster session,” a non-threatening and ered from Snowbooks and then quickly morph engaging introduction to coding for publish- into the award-winning and “business critical” ing folks at any level of the business. application she named Consonance. Two years If “tech” is the new literacy, then coding— after she wrote her first line of code, she had Event: Coding for the act of creating a new computer program— something other publishers wanted to buy. is the new reading and writing, and you don’t “By writing software that solved my real- Publishers want to be the one left behind in your com- life problems,” she says. “I’d created something pany. Barnes, who also has created a platform that had value to other publishers, something I • Tuesday, March 13 at 4:15 p.m. that schools can use to publish, Make Our could turn into another business.” • Buzz Theatre, London Book Fair Book, says the session on Tuesday is a “come Barnes has led many sessions like this up and have a go at coding” event aimed at abso- and down the country in the last few years. Speakers: lute beginners who work in any department, Her passion for getting publishers busy coding • Emma Barnes in any size publishing house. comes from her desire, she says, to empower • Andy Pearson She says she hopes by the end of the ses- those working in the industry—and is fueled • Sara O’Connor sion, people will ask themselves, “Can this by what she describes as fears for the future of • David Aldridge have been programming? If programming is the industry. words and grammar, not math, then maybe, “As an industry,” Barnes says, “we’re run- Bring your (charged up) laptop, iPad just maybe, it might be something I can enjoy?” ning the risk of limiting ourselves to being or Chrome book to this session, which Moving from publishing to coding is middlemen. We often don’t write the books, introduces coding to people who something Barnes knows well: “I learned to or proofread them, or typeset them, or take the work in any department, at any level, code precisely because I’m a publisher,” she photos, or draw the illustrations, or create the in any size publisher. says, “and so I want to be able to spend most of ebooks, or code the apps, or print the things,

Coding workshop for publishers, organized by Emma Barnes

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La Joie de Lire: Bookseller-Turned-Publisher

Publishing French-language children’s books in Switzerland, Francine Bouchet is known for seeking out talented illustrators and authors from many countries.

Francine Bouchet for Italy, A Swiss ABC. Are Swiss illustrators known for any cultural specifics in design? FB: I don’t generally pay attention to na- tional specifics. What I feel is relevant is the artist’s talent and relevance of their expression. PP: Your publishing house has 20 im- prints producing books for very small children to adolescents. How did these imprints devel- op? Did they “grow up” with the publishing house or otherwise? FB: The prospect of an imprint is always a happy one, even if we have progressively had to become more sensible. Our imprints did grow up with the company over time. PP: Your imprint Encrages includes books by authors who usually write for adults, such as José Eduardo Agualusa or Peter Stamm. And yet here they write for younger readers. By Olivia Snaije space, offering suggestions and not answers.” How did this imprint come about? In talking with Bouchet for our inter- FB: It stemmed from a collection that in- view, Publishing Perspectives began by asking cluded stories for all ages, because we consider wiss children’s book publishing house what she may have learned from readers and each book to be unique and not a product, and SLa Joie de Lire (The Joy of Reading) was book-industry colleagues during her publish- we never wanted to promote 10 titles at once. founded in 1987 by Francine Bouchet. The ing house’s 30th-anniversary celebrations a But to meet market [expectations] and espe- name was first given to a bookshop that couple of years ago. cially booksellers’ demands, we had to divide opened in 1937 and which Bouchet took Francine Bouchet: We realized that the collection between books for teenagers and charge of in 1981. each year our catalogue is increasingly ac- books for younger children. That’s how the Today, the publisher is still in Geneva, knowledged and appreciated. It’s true that an Encrages imprint was born. with Bouchet observing the run-up to Swit- anniversary is a wonderful sounding board. PP: From that collection, the novel Délit zerland’s Guest of Honor stint at the Bologna Publishing Perspectives: You have de Fuite (Hit and Run) was adapted into a film Children’s Book Fair, April 1 to 4. a global outlook as an editorial policy, pub- for television. Do you often sell your books’ As a bookshop owner, she launched week- lishing authors from many regions. What was film rights? ly readings and a literary prize and then chose your inspiration for this policy and how does it FB: This is happening more and more, to become a publisher rather than a bookseller. translate today with nationalism appearing in mostly for animated films. She kept the bookshop’s logo, an owl, as the many countries? PP: You said in an interview with company emblem because an owl, she says, FB: We seek to publish universal themes the French site Ricochet that your imprint “can read at night without a flashlight.” that allow readers to evolve, to develop their Livres-Promenade was the most commercially Bouchet’s publishing program is known freedom of thought and their curiosity for successful. Why do you think it’s a success? for its internationalism. She publishes authors others and the world. It’s through culture and FB: It’s a collection of hardback books full and illustrators from many parts of the world. knowledge that we can counter nationalistic of details and without text, which allows the La Joie de Lire’s mission is to focus on the tendencies that are mostly based on ignorance. young reader to imagine all sorts of stories and quality and creativity of text and images, but PP: With Switzerland as the Guest of to follow certain characters over several pag- its books always have an educational element— Honor at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair es and books. The value of these books is the which Bouchet says isn’t the same thing as be- this year, you were on the selection committee ability to develop the imagination and sense of ing pedagogical. As she says, a book is a “free for the exhibition of Swiss illustrators headed observation.

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PP: How important was it for your pub- lishing house that librarians and booksellers in Switzerland: Guest of Honor at Bologna Book Fair France noticed your books? FB: It was essential. PP: Is France the most important market Switzerland’s Guest of Honor program at Switzerland’s Three Largest for your books? the 2019 Bologna Children’s Book Fair Children’s Book Publishers: FB: Since French is only spoken in (April 1–4) has been organized by the French-speaking Switzerland, yes, France is Swiss Booksellers’ and Publishers’ Associ- 1. NordSüd our most important market. ation (SBVV), with the Swiss Arts Council 2. Orell Füssli / Atlantis PP: What percentage of your books are in Pro Helvetia as main partner. 3. La Joie de Lire translation? FB: Approximately 40 percent. PP: Where do you sell the most books? What to Look For: FB: These days our main market is China, More info about the Swiss illustrators, then Latin America, followed by South Korea. • “A Swiss ABC” exhibition of authors, and publishers in Bologna: PP: Do you sell translation rights in Ger- illustrations by 26 artists, one for each www.bologna2019.ch man or Italian to your fellow Swiss publishers? letter of the alphabet FB: We collaborate very little with our fel- • 12 Swiss children’s book authors low countrymen. It’s a real pity. It’s no doubt representing all parts of the country because of different cultural sensitivities. PP: Have you ever considered publishing • Content from all four of the Swiss in German or Italian? national languages—Romansh, Italian, FB: We did consider it but given the bad French and German experience some of our colleagues had, we • 24 Swiss children’s publishers cautiously gave up on the idea. exhibiting in Bologna, either at the PP: What do you hope the outcome will Swiss stand or their own stands be this year at Bologna? FB: Unique and surprising encounters. •

SPONSORED BY: National Book Council of Malta Malta: Exporting an Emerging Literature

he literature of Malta boasts a unique fea- work of our national poet Dun Karm. the United Planet Writing Prize in 2009. As Tture: since its earliest text in 1450 it has At this year’s London Book Fair, three a translator, Cassar has rendered the work of been written in no less than six languages. very different Maltese writers and winners of fellow Maltese authors into English (notably Maltese and English only became Malta’s of- the National Book Prize—Antoine Cassar, Lou the short stories of Pierre J. Meljak, winner of ficial languages in 1934, bolstering a process Drofenik, and Loranne Vella—will be partic- the 2014 EU Prize for Literature) and Spanish which saw Maltese transform from an oral ipating in a seminar on the Maltese literary (Alex Vella Gera’s Troyano is due to be pub- means of communication into a national writ- scene, highlighting the unique author diaspo- lished in May 2019 by Libros de mentira). ten language. The majority of the country’s ra, bilingualism, translingual narratives, and Lou Drofenik’s award-winning novels writers today prefer to write in Maltese, so translation challenges. The fair’s Poetry Pavil- explore different aspects of Maltese society translation, despite its challenges, provides the ion also features Maltese literature, including and culture. In 2017, she was awarded the best opportunity for their works to travel and poetry books and copies of Under a Tangerine National Book Prize for prose for her novel reach international audiences. Sky, an anthology of some of the best Maltese The Confectioner’s Daughter (Horizons, 2017), a With the support of the National Book poetry, published by the National Book Coun- novel of love, lost innocence, and struggle. It Council of Malta, the past few years have seen cil. is a celebration of Maltese women’s lives, their a significant increase in the export of Maltese resilience, and their familial relationships. literature to a number of countries in western Maltese Writers at the 2019 London Lou Drofenik’s new novel The Reluctant Healer Europe, the Balkans, Scandinavia, the Arab Book Fair (2018) was also published by Horizons. world, and beyond. Acting as an agent for Loranne Vella is a Brussels-based Mal- award-winning Maltese books and authors, Antoine Cassar is a Maltese poet and trans- tese writer, translator, and performer. She the National Book Council negotiates the sale lator. Erbgħin Jum (40 Days, EDE, 2017) is a co-wrote three National Book Prize–winning of rights, and brokers the funding for transla- book-length poem about childhood trauma, volumes of the Fiddien Trilogy (2007-2009) tion and publication with foreign publishers. depression, and walking as self-therapy. It was with Simon Bartolo. In 2012, Vella’s novel The reach of Maltese writers has been expand- awarded the country’s National Book Prize MagnaTM Mater (Merlin Publishers, 2011) ing further through appearances at book fairs in 2018 and has been shortlisted for the 2020 won second place in the prize’s young adult and festivals, and foreign publishers releasing Gdánsk European Poet of Freedom award. category. Rokit (Merlin Publishers), her lat- translated Maltese literature are also supported Passaport (2009), a long poem printed in the est novel, was published to critical and public in various ways. form of an anti-passport for all peoples and all acclaim in March 2017 and won the National Translation funds are allocated yearly to landscapes, has been published in 11 languages Book Prize in 2018. Vella has also translated various projects. In 2018, the Book Council and adapted for the theater in Malta, France, several award-winning books for children. commissioned three different language trans- and Belgium. Cassar’s multilingual composi- In 2018, she penned the lyrics of the musical lations (Arabic, Italian and English) of the tion Merħba, a poem of hospitality was awarded Il-Ħanina Maddalena. •

SPRING 2019 18 CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Children’s Books Salon: Building a ‘Global Community’ of Publishers in New York City

The second Children’s Books Salon in New York City brought together 26 international and nearly 70 American children’s book publishers for meetings and discussions.

By Hannah Johnson They met nearly 70 American editors, publish- leagues from all over the world. The meetings ers, and rights directors during the three days. and discussions were very interesting and in- Anže Miš, publisher and CEO of Miš Pub- formative and gave me lots of new ideas and or the second year, the Frankfurt Book Fair lishing in Slovenia and one of the internation- perspectives. I’m sure the new information FNew York and Publishing Perspectives orga- al participants, said the Salon was “a fantastic and international contacts will be very helpful nized its invitational Children’s Books Salon in opportunity to meet publishers from US and and fruitful for our publishing house. I can’t New York City, a unique, three-day event that gain insight into both their market and their wait to see which new exciting projects will provides a setting for international children’s challenges.” result from the Salon!” book publishers to widen their professional Sara Ehnholm-Hielm, publisher of Förlag- One of the goals of the Children’s Books networks, discover new titles, and learn about et in Finland, said she thought it was “a great Salon is to bring together children’s book ed- the US children’s book market. Children’s Books Salon with a relaxed, inclu- itors and publishers who aren’t always able to This year’s Salon took place in New York sive atmosphere. I didn’t know it was possible meet at other international book fairs, and to City on February 12-14, 2019 and was made to meet so many publishers and learn so much strengthen the international connections in possible by the generous sponsorship of the in so few days. Now the world seems filled the children’s publishing sector. Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Abu Dhabi and with opportunities and kind colleagues, and I To that point, Tina Mamulashvili, man- support from the Federal Foreign Office of am filled with inspiration and new ideas.” aging director of Bakur Sulakauri Publishing Germany. The expanded program included Part of this year’s expanded Salon program in Georgia, made the following observation matchmaking meetings between American included more time for international partici- about her experience at the Salon: “Being a and international publishers, visits to major pants to get to know each other and their lists, publisher in a small country is a challenge: American publishing houses, panel discus- as well as more presentations and panel dis- you have to always balance the books you re- sions, and multiple networking events. cussions about trends and opportunities in the ally like with the commercial ones. Working Twenty-six publishers from 13 coun- children’s book market. in a small market like the Republic of Geor- tries—Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Katharina Braun, editorial director of chil- gia does not allow us to err. Sometimes you Georgia, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Nor- dren’s fiction for arsEdition in Germany, said: doubt whether or not you did it right, when way, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UAE—traveled “The Salon was such an exciting event! I was you chose this path, but then you meet all these to New York City to participate in the Salon. thrilled to meet so many children’s books col- wonderful people from all around the world,

“The Children’s Books Salon in New York gave me this amazing opportunity to once again feel proud of 1 2 what I do and feel myself a part of global community of children’s book publishing.”

Tina Mamulashvili Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, Georgia 3

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Children’s Books Salon Program

February 12: • International introductions • Panel: HarperCollins editors • Visit to Scholastic • Panel: Translation funding • Networking reception

February 13: • Presentation: Licensing for

4 Children’s Books • Meet the Experts: Panel of children’s book publishers who speak the same language, who publish ternational participants reported both buying • Matchmaking meetings the same books, who face the same problems, and selling titles as a result of their meetings • Reception, sponsored by and you gain the confidence—yes, being a chil- with American publishers and each other. Norwegian Consulate dren’s book publisher is really rewarding and “We received very positive feedback after important. And the Children’s Books Salon in our first Children’s Books Salon last year and February 14 New York gave me this amazing opportunity encouragement from participants to continue • Visit to Abrams to once again feel proud of what I do and feel organizing this event,” said Thomas Minkus, • Visit to Penguin Random House myself a part of global community of children’s vice president of the Frankfurter Buchmesse. • Visit to Children’s Bookstore book publishing.” “The wonderfully enthusiastic and knowledge- • Farewell reception Elena Pataki, publisher of Patakis Publish- able group of publishers who joined us at the ing in Greece, said that a week after the salon, second Salon this February, both from the US she was still thinking about the experience: and many other countries, made this event a “My thirst for the exchange of views and in- true success and a pleasure to host.” • sight from the publishing world was appeased The Children’s Books Salon is during three days filled with seminars, meet- organized by the Frankfurt Book Fair New York and Publishing ings, and discussions with amazing people in Perspectives. New York! What an experience! I’d do it again” This second Salon follows on the success More information about the Children’s Books of the inaugural event in 2018, after which in- Salon is online at www.rights-salon.com

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1. Elena Pataki, Andrea Spooner, Agnes Vogt 2. Sierra Stoval, Steve Geck 3. Visit to Books of Wonder children’s bookstore with owner Peter Glassman (left) 4. Gisela Abrams of LIMA gives a presentation on licensing 5. International participants discuss trends with editors from 5 HarperCollins 6. Dinan Xu, Xuijuan Zhao

SPRING 2019 20 MARKET SNAPSHOTS

Global Book Markets: By the Numbers

Denmark The number of fiction titles writ- ten in Danish increased by 58% from 2009-2017. Ebooks make up 18.5 percent of Danish publishers’ revenue.

Source: Denmark’s Agency for Culture and Palaces

Finland 262 Finnish books were translated and published in other languages in 2018.

Source: FILI

Canada Germany In English Canada, book sales Germany’s book market in 2018 generated CAN$1.13 billion remained stable with a 0.1 per- (US$850.9 million) in 2018. And cent increase in revenue. Sales of as audiobook sales rise, 54 percent nonfiction books grew by 5.5 per- of audiobook consumers prefer to cent over 2017, and children’s and listen on their mobile phones. young adult books by 3.2 percent. In Quebec, some 300 publish- ers release approximately 6,500 Source: Börsenverein des deutschen titles each year, and annual book Buchhandels sales are CAN$700 million.

Sources: BookNet Canada, Associa- Italy tion nationale des éditeurs de livres In 2017, Italian publishers’s for- eign rights sales increased by 10 percent, and research from the USA AIE shows this trend continued Trade publishing revenue was into 2018. up 4.4 percent in the first three The market is also shifting quarters of 2018. Downloaded au- toward domestic authors. Some diobook revenue shot up by 37.5 16 percent of books published in percent, and hardback book rev- Italy are in translation, down from enue went up 6.2 percent. Ebook around 23 percent in 2002. revenue dropped by 3.9 percent. Source: Associazione Italiana Editori Source: Association of American Publishers Spain Ahead of the 2018 Guadalajara Brazil Book Fair in November, Spain’s By recording Brazilian publishers’ publishers federation reported rights activities at internation- that the country’s book exports to al book fairs, the Brazilian Book Latin America were up 3 percent, Chamber (CBL) and the Brazilian and totaled 188 million euros in Trade and Investment Promotion 2017. Mexico received the largest Agency (Apex-Brasil) estimate volume of exports, followed by the value of Brazilian book and Argentina and Brazil. copyright exports to be US$1.876 million from January to October Source: Federación de Gremios de 2018. Editores de España

Source: Brazilian Publishers

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Russia In the first half of 2018, Russia’s book market in Russia grew by 7 percent and some 70 new book- stores opened. Formed as the result of a re- cent merger, the country’s largest bookselling chain, Chitai-Gorod Bukvoed, plans to open another 100 stores in 2019. Bookstore chains account for 14 percent of the country’s overall book sales.

Sources: Eksmo-AST, Chitai-Gorod Bukvoed, Knizhnay Industria

China Sweden In 2018, the overall value of Chi- Book sales in Sweden increased na’s book market grew by 11.3 6.2 percent in the first half of percent and reached 89.4 billion 2018, compared to the same peri- yuan (US$13.2 billion). Some od in 2017. Unit sales rose by 15 156,000 new trade books were percent, with most of this growth published in 2018, down slightly attributed to digital subscription from 204,000 in 2017. services like BookBeat, Nextory Children’s book writer Yang and Storytel. HongYing was the country’s best- selling author in 2018. Source: Swedish Publishers Association (SvF) Source: OpenBook

UK Women made up 54 percent of the senior leadership and executives roles in UK publishing in 2018, and 11.6 percent of UK publishing staff identified as BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic).

Source: Publishers Association UK

Nigeria The president of the Nigerian Publishers Association, Gbadega Adedapo, offered some informa- tion about the African book mar- ket during a May 2018 seminar in Lagos, co-organized by the Inter- national Publishers Association. He said that Africa’s book market is worth roughly US$1 bil- lion, and is growing at a rate of 6 percent each year. He also said that there are more than 500 million book buyers in Africa.

Source: Nigerian Publishers Association

SPRING 2019 22 ARABIC LITERATURE

Al-Mutawassit Is a Creative Force in the Arabic Publishing Community

Fueled by a passion for Arabic poetry and translated fiction, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry works up to 20 hours a day for his readers, authors, and international partners.

By Olivia Snaije He then honed his skills working as the editorial director and graphic designer for Noon Publishing in the United Arab Emirates. “There are few n any conversation about contemporary When it closed, Al Nassiry used the proceeds IArabic literature and publishing the name from his film to launch Al-Mutawassit. The people in publishing Al-Mutawassit seems to come up, particularly name comes from Al Bahar Al Mutawassit, as the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair ap- which means “the sea in between,” the term in taking quite as proaches—this year set for April 24 to 30. Arabic for the Mediterranean Sea. Established in 2015 in Milan, Al-Muta- many risks and wassit publishes contemporary Arabic litera- A Project of Love ture and poetry as well as international liter- ature in Arabic translation. “I can’t really call it a publishing house,” says working at such Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry, the man be- Al Nassiry. “It’s more like books that you love hind Al-Mutawassit, has multiple interests, and want to publish. We translate many books speed and with from his professional roots in graphic arts and from other languages, but mostly we publish journalism to film and poetry. The Damas- fiction and poetry in Arabic. A person who such dexterity as cus-born Palestinian-Syrian studied graph- publishes poetry by Arab authors and trans- ic design and worked as a typographer and lated fiction is not involved in a commercial Khaled. He builds graphic designer for a publisher, and then as business. But this is the kind of project I love.” a journalist focusing on culture. He organized Al Nassiry publishes Dunya Mikhail, links, brings people poetry and literature festivals in Syria with a whose book In the Sabaya Market is known in Swedish cultural association and then moved English as The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen to Italy in 2009 to be with his girlfriend, now Women of Iraq (published in the US by New Di- together, constructs his wife. rections, in the UK by Serpent’s Tail). Trans- He studied Italian and began to work lated by Max Weiss and the author, it tells sto- impossible projects, with the now-defunct bilingual Arabic-Ital- ries of women kidnapped by ISIS. ian magazine, Al Jarida, as editor-in-chief for He also has published Mazen Maarouf and and then delivers the Arabic articles. The magazine focused on his collection of short stories The Rats That Lick immigration, and Al Nassiry says it was the a Karate Champion’s Ears. The English edition on them.” first time he had explored the issue. What of another collection of Maarouf short stories, he learned served him well as he went on to Jokes for the Gunmen, is just out in a translation co-write, direct, and take part in the 2014 by Jonathan Wright. Ra Page prize-winning documentary Io Sto con la Sposa Al Nassiry published Hassan Blasim’s Comma Press, (On the Bride’s Side) which addresses the issue award-winning The Iraqi Christ, which was UK of migrants in Europe fleeing the war in Syria. released in English by the UK’s Comma Press,

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“You think about how this book and the story could work for the Arabic reader. It’s an adventure, you have to believe in it, and you have to have a sixth sense.”

Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry Al-Mutawassit, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry Italy / Lebanon translated by Jonathan Wright. Ra Page, Com- sobering story of the Somali Olympic runner ma Press’ founder and editorial manager who Building Global Recognition Samia Yusuf Omar. Al Nassiry is on his second was recently on a panel with Al Nassiry for edition of the Arabic version and says that a publishers and translators organized by the Al-Mutawassit’s books are published in Beirut typical print run is 1,000 copies. Palestinian Translation Forum, says about Al and are sold on major Lebanese sites such as For his contemporary books in Arabic Nassiry, “There are few people in publishing Jamalon or Neelwafurat. But the rest of the translation, Al Nassiry looks for new names taking quite as many risks and working at such time, like most Arab publishers who are also from other countries that are unfamiliar to speed and with such dexterity as Khaled. He their own distributors, Al Nassiry travels to all readers. “You think about how this book and builds links, brings people together, constructs the major book fairs in the Arab world. “To the story could work for the Arabic reader. It’s impossible projects and then delivers on them. survive you have to go to all the book fairs and an adventure, you have to believe in it, and you He’s like an Arabic Philip Henslowe,” the sell yourself.” have to have a sixth sense.” 17th-century British theatrical entrepreneur, He says he gets some grants from Den- In Arabic fiction and poetry, he looks for “always investing in the right projects at the mark and Sweden but has still not figured out “high quality literature. We come from coun- right time.” how to go about getting Italian grants, even tries at war,” he says, “So maybe war literature It’s hard to imagine how Al Nassiry man- though he publishes Italian authors such as these days; something serious and universal.” ages, given that until very recently he ran his Alessandro Baricco in Arabic alongside more When Al Nassiry goes to book fairs, he business on his own, publishing up to 100 classical Italian titles—Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio enjoys meeting readers who praise not only books a year, he says. and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Il Gatto- the literature but also the quality of his pub- “Until four months ago it was just me pardo (The Leopard). lications and mostly the cover designs, which reading the books, deciding, correcting them, Al Nassiry says that, like him, his trans- are often neglected in the Arab world, he says. designing the covers, following the printing, lators have yet to access Italian funding. One Marcia Lynx Qualey, of the site Arablit, and going to the book fairs.” Admitting that he Italian book he’s done well with is Giuseppe commenting on Al Nassiry’s graphic design, works an average 20 hours a day, he says, “I am Catozzella’s Non Dirmi che hai Paura (Don’t tells Publishing Perspectives, “In addition to lucky, I don’t need to sleep a lot.” Tell Me You’re Afraid), which tells the true and genre-breaking authors, Al-Mutawassit has some of the most consistently exciting cover designs in the business. The jacket of their translation of Symphony of the Dead, original- ly in Persian, was so striking that I remained frightened weeks after seeing it.” Al Nassiry says he wants to slow down to leave more time to get involved in poetry and cinema, although slowing down seems out of character. Al-Mutawassit will be designing and distributing a new poetry magazine, Ba- ra’at (Innocence), which will launch on March 21, for World Poetry Day. • “To survive you have to go to all the book fairs and sell yourself.”

Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry

SPRING 2019 24 FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE

2018 Frankfurter Buchmesse opening press conference in the Frankfurt Pavilion (Image: Frankfurter Buchmesse / Bernd Hartung) Frankfurter Buchmesse: A Look into the Future

he year 2020 will be special for Frankfurt- ture and experience in the Festhalle. Ter Buchmesse’s evolution, both in terms of By early summer this year, we will be plan- the fair’s layout and new offerings. Below, the ning the 2020 hall layouts. And we will keep director of the Frankfurter Buchmesse, Juer- our exhibitors updated about any changes that gen Boos, and its vice president of marketing might affect them. and communications, Katja Böhne, answer some questions about the book fair’s “Future What thematic areas is Frankfurt Frankfurt” concept and what it holds in store working on? for exhibitors and visitors. Juergen Boos JB: “Frankfurt Kids” and “Frankfurt EDU” are What is the “Future Frankfurt” good examples. We launched these initiatives concept? in 2018 specifically to provide dedicated spaces and programs for our exhibitors and visitors in Juergen Boos: The name “Future Frank- the fields of children’s publishing and educa- furt” refers to a series of initiatives and plans tion. In 2019, we will add yet another thematic meant to ensure that our exhibitors and visi- area in Hall 3.1: Frankfurt Audio. We also plan tors have the best possible platform to increase to expand our literary festival, BOOKFEST, their business in Frankfurt. In concrete terms, which we celebrated last year by launching our this means that we will improve the fair’s in- new stage, the Frankfurt Pavilion, at the center frastructure and provide tailor-made concepts of the fair. and services, such as theme-centered exhibi- tion spaces and trade events. Here, our main Is Frankfurt working on any other goal is to provide a new “quality of encounters” changes or layout improvements all across the fair. this year?

So what does this mean for Katja Böhne: Last year, we conducted a Frankfurt’s exhibitors and trade research project on accessibility at the fair, Katja Böhne visitors? together with the Technische Universität Darmstadt, called “Frankfurter Buchmesse for JB: One major aspect of “Future Frankfurt” is All.” As a result of this study, we have already catalogue; enter your events in our calendar of the development of additional thematically fo- started improving the walkways and signs at events; use our mobile app’s navigation and cused exhibition areas and events at the fair. the exhibition grounds, as well as the number discovery features; participate in the fair’s net- This will make it easier for visitors to locate of seating areas. This helps ensure that all vis- working and matchmaking sessions; and sign exhibitors based on their interests. itors can find their way quickly to their next up for one of our guided tours to learn about a In 2020, we will open up Hall 1, which is meeting, that people with special needs have new segment of the industry. centrally located, while the fairgrounds will access to all areas and events on the exhibition JB: I would suggest concentrating on close Hall 5 for renovations. These changes grounds, and that our weekend visitors can what is—and has always been—the very heart give us an opportunity to revamp the layout of spend quality time at the book fair. of Frankfurter Buchmesse: great stories and the halls by adding theme-centered areas. face-to-face meetings. Also, don’t forget to This year, 2019, our Literary Agents and How can Frankfurter Buchmesse save some time for “after (fair) hours” events, Scouts Centre will move from Hall 6.3 to the regulars make the most of the which have increased enormously in recent Festhalle because of infrastructure improve- “Future Frankfurt” developments? years. There will be inspiring people to discuss ments being done by the fairgrounds in Hall ideas with all over Frankfurt during the days of 6. Tables at the “LitAg” are in high demand as KB: I recommend taking advantage of the the fair. And come to a few of the many events usual, and we are working to give our agents full range of our services—both existing and that are part of BOOKFEST, our international and scouts there the best possible infrastruc- planned. Update your company profile in our festival for literature, stories, and ideas. •

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BOOKFEST 2019: Call for Participation

Submit event proposals for this year’s festival before April 30.

OOKFEST is the international festival of Bthe Frankfurter Buchmesse for literature, stories, and ideas. Events will be held in vari- ous locations throughout the city of Frankfurt on all five days of the fair. The program includes many different types of events like conversations with best- selling authors, poetry slams, tastings, musical concerts, parties, and discussions, with audi- ences ranging from 40 to 2,000 people. In 2018, BOOKFEST attracted 25,000 vis- itors with 77 events in 21 locations. The Buch- messe subsequently received many requests to participate. To make sure the program doesn’t miss out on any of these great ideas, Frankfurt has now opened a Call for Participation. The BOOKFEST program team welcomes a diverse variety of speakers and event formats from all genres like entertainment, non-fic- tion, self help, literature, art, music, and more.

Read the BOOKFEST FAQ online for full details about how to submit a proposal at: buchmesse.de/bookfest Scenes from BOOKFEST 2018 (Images: Frankfurter Buchmesse / Christoph Seubert)

New Frankfurt Audio Area to Launch in 2019

udiobooks are currently one of the biggest fair, formats such as live podcasts and events Agrowth drivers in many publishing mar- with the ‘voices behind audiobooks’ will take kets. This development will be showcased at place. Book fair exhibitors can book slots on Frankfurter Buchmesse 2019 (October 16–20) the stage, and the program will also include in the new Frankfurt Audio exhibition area in sessions curated by the Frankfurt team. Hall 3.1, and a half-day conference, the Frank- furt Audio Summit, on Thursday, October 17. Frankfurt Audio Summit “With the new Audio stage and our Frank- After the successful launch of the audiobook 2018 Frankfurt Audio Conference (Images: Frankfurter Buchmesse / Alexander Heimann) furt Audio Summit, we offer exhibitors and conference at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2018, trade visitors the opportunity to discuss trends the conference format will be continued in and challenges,” says Matthäus Cygan, Direc- 2019 with the name ‘Frankfurt Audio Summit.’ tor Business Development Trade International The half-day conference will give an overview at Frankfurter Buchmesse, “from audio mar- of global audio publishing markets and trends keting strategies and monetizing possibilities as well as provide insights into strategies con- to podcasts and voice assistant technologies.” cerning creative audio production and financ- ing models. Specific topics and programming Frankfurt Audio Area highlights will include how to monetize audio The new Frankfurt Audio area will offer ex- content through streaming and new audio for- hibition space to both German-speaking and mats, and how to make use of consumer data international companies. It will also include a and AI-driven analyses. • stage—where international trade discussions, expert talks, and presentations will take place during the trade visitor days—as well as a cafe Learn more about Frankfurt Audio at: and networking space. At the weekend of the buchmesse.de/audio

SPRING 2019 26 RIGHTS MANAGEMENT

RightsTech: Europe Is a New Summit for Publishing and ‘Related Sectors’

On September 9–10 in Frankfurt, the new RightsTech: Europe conference is set to explore rights management and monetization in book and media industries.

RightsTech: Europe Program Highlights

TOWARD A GLOBAL VIEW OF RIGHTS Like most forms of commerce today, the business of buying, selling, and licensing of rights is increasingly a global enterprise. What is needed to achieve a global view of rights? How are different sectors of the media in- dustry addressing the challenge?

WHAT’S IT WORTH? Paul Sweeting INVESTING IN RIGHTS AND ROYALTIES From securitized royalty streams to By Porter Anderson space were showing him the change he’d been rights-tech M&A, rights and rights watching for. “I noticed that was that there was management are attracting interest a lot going on in different sectors of the me- from investors. What’s driving it? hen the RightsTech: Europe confer- dia ... and in many cases, people were looking Which sectors are attracting capital? Wence has its inaugural two-day event at similar technological solutions, things like in Frankfurt on September 9–10, it will be the blockchain and cryptocurrency, and so forth.” COPYRIGHT IN THE DIGITAL latest in a growing series of thought-leading A lot of attention, Sweeting says, for ex- SINGLE MARKET summits organized RightsTech co-founders ample, was going to new metadata standards Assessing the impact of the EU Copy- Paul Sweeting and Ned Sherman. and how to manage them. right Directive in Europe and beyond. The program in September is produced in “So, I thought it would be interesting to partnership with the Frankfurter Buchmesse, get people together who might be working THE FUTURE OF COLLECTIVE and will be focused on Europe’s leading role in on similar problems in different sectors of the RIGHTS MANAGEMENT driving rights management and monetization media world and see what they could learn What is the future of collective rights in media. from each other’s experiences. That was the management and CMOs in an era of From artificial intelligence to investments goal. The original idea behind RightsTech was multi-territorial licensing and grow- in rights and royalties, and from copyright in to create a platform by putting on conferences ing demands for transparency and the European Union’s Digital Single Market to where people could get out of their individual privacy? the future of collective rights management, a silos and interact with people who are wres- roster of voices from the full spectrum of me- tling with similar problems and challenges in PUBLISHING ON THE dia industries will be part of the conference. related sectors.” BLOCKCHAIN “Working as a journalist in the me- Having created more than a half-dozen Blockchain is a hot topic in the worlds dia-technology space,” Sweeting says in an major events in under the RightsTech banner of music, fine arts, and collectibles, interview from his office in Washington, “the in a couple of years, Sweeting—whose consul- but publishing has just begun to ex- observation I made was that there had been tancy is Concurrent Media Strategies—says, plore its possibilities. an under-investment—both from a financial he’s seen his audiences coming in from “the and technological point of view—in the sort of music industry, the film and television indus- MANAGING OPEN ACCESS middle part of the media value chain. try, photography, the visual arts world, even “Open access” can mean different “There’s been a lot of investment, obvious- the fine arts world, where there’s a lot going on things in different contexts. How are ly, on the consumer-facing side where we see around blockchain, for instance.” publishers, institutions and organiza- new devices coming out,” he says. “And also in Through the partnership with the Frank- tions meeting the technical and legal business, there were new ways for consumers furter Buchmesse, RightsTech: Europe in Sep- challenges to managing the different to access content—and new technologies being tember will highlight topics specific to book flavors of open access? brought to bear on how to create content. publishing and focus on bringing publishing “But then there was this sort of messy part into contact with other media industries. in the middle, the business-to-business layer “The problem,” Sweeting says, “is that each where somebody’s supposed to get paid for of these industries can become a somewhat in- More info online at: something. That’s historically drawn less at- sular community. The point with RightsTech rightstechsummit.com/europe tention.” is to get people out of their bubble—at least out Recently, new developments in the media into a slightly bigger bubble.” •

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Michael Leventhal Greenhill Books Commemorates the 75th Anniversary of a Real-Life ‘Great Escape’

Military history publisher Michael Leventhal—whose father founded the London Book Fair—plans four titles to celebrate events portrayed in an iconic WWII film.

By Roger Tagholm that actually made “home runs,” Jens Muller ML: The film is based on reality. It’s and Bram Vanderstok. Their publication in packed with brilliant performances and the English will finally set the record straight. film takes time to properly develop each char- t’s perhaps the most famous prisoner-of-war I grew up believing the successful escapees acter. Is there anyone who doesn’t love watch- Iescape story in the world, helped, of course, were Charles Bronson [playing a Polish digger ing Steve McQueen on his motorbike? [Muller by director John Sturges’ iconic 1963 film The called Danny “Tunnel King” in the film]; James had a Norton motorcycle in his native Norway, Great Escape, which became almost as famous Coburn [as an Australian named Sedgwick the but the character played by McQueen, and the as the events it portrayed. On the moonless “Manufacturer”]; and John Leyton [as a British scene in which he attempts to jump the barbed night of March 24, 1944, a total 76 Allied RAF tunnel designer, Willie]. In reality it was wire fence on the motorbike, are fictitious]. servicemen escaped from the Luftwaffe-run two Norwegians—Jens Muller and Peter Berg- I grew up watching The Great Escape on Stalag Luft III, a German prison camp for cap- sland—and a Dutch pilot, Bram Vanderstok. TV on Christmas Day. There was the same tured airmen just outside Żagań, in what is I’m also publishing a full history of the es- annual ritual for at least 10 years: the Queen’s now western Poland. cape by Jonathan Vance, a book that explodes speech followed by the film. I clearly remem- Only three of the 76 were to make it home. ongoing myths. There’s also a comprehensive ber watching every year, praying that Steve Of the 73 captured, 23 were sent to other collection of contemporary and modern pho- McQueen would somehow miraculously make camps and 50 were executed on Hitler’s orders. tographs from the camp, many of which have it over the barbed wire fence. The details of the escape are the stuff of never been published before. PP: Tell us about Greenhill Books. legend. Over the course of a year, three tun- Publishing Perspectives: What’s the ML: My father Lionel established Green- nels were dug—and dubbed Tom, Dick and latest news on rights deals for all four titles? hill in 1984. He’d already worked in publishing Harry—with the earth famously being kept in ML: The most successful title to date is for 30 years. He set up Arms & Armour Press socks and then shaken down trouser legs and Vanderstok’s memoir. The Naval Institute and was responsible for establishing the Spe- trodden into the ground by the prisoners as Press in Maryland bought North American cialist Publishers’ Exhibition for Librarians they walked between the camp huts. rights. Big Sky Publishing just outside Sydney in 1971, which was renamed and became the To mark the escape’s 75th anniversary, bought Australian rights, and Hans van Marr London Book Fair in 1977. I publish 25 mili- London’s Greenhill Books—one of the UK’s of Just Publishers has bought Dutch language tary books every year. leading military history publishers—is publish- rights. Tantor Media in Connecticut acquired PP: What’s the market like for sales and ing four titles. audio rights for both the Vanderstok and rights at the moment? Publishing Perspectives has spoken with Muller memoirs. ML: We use Casemate for distribution in Greenhill managing director Michael Leven- I’m in discussion with a number of other the United States, and they’re very good. I find thal, whose father Lionel started what would European publishers and we’ve had interest that with rights sales there are surprising peaks become the London Book Fair. He created the from Korea. and troughs. I had no Korean or Turkish inter- Specialist Publishers’ Exhibition for Librarians I bought world English rights for the est in any books until last year, when rights for in 1971 with 22 exhibitors. The event would Muller account from the original Norwegian five titles were sold. The flip side is that Czech be named the London Book Fair in 1977, and publisher, Gyldendal. I was amazed and de- and Polish rights sales, which used to be very in 1985, it was sold to Industrial & Trade Fairs, lighted when Muller’s son Jon told me that quick and easy, seem to be trickier these days. which later became Reed Exhibitions. his father had translated his manuscript into Getting publicity in the US is hard. You We begin our conversation with Leven- English, but that it had been sitting in a box can’t expect to just ship books to another terri- thal by asking about the books he’s preparing gathering dust for 60 years. tory and watch them fly off the shelves. But it for the 75th anniversary of the Great Escape. PP: The film clearly had an enormous im- does help being a specialist. • Michael Leventhal: I’m proud to be pact. Why do you think this story still has such publishing memoirs by two of the three people a hold on the imagination?

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