The Sound of Good News
TOPIC ON THE PAGE 1 SHOW DAILY FRIDAY, 18 October 2019 | FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR | publishingperspectives.com The Sound of Good News It was standing-room only at the Frankfurt Audio Summit on Thursday, as publishers in many countries see continued growth from the audiobook sector. Subscribe FREE to Publishing Perspectives: Visit publishingperspectives.com/subscribePUBLISHING and sign PERSPECTIVES up for our / daily FRANKFURT email BOOK news. FAIR 2019 2 PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES Letter from the Editor calling for 2020 to be the year that we, men and ABOUT THIS MAGAZINE women, demand that our executives examine their pay scales and start to make the necessary correc- Publishing Perspectives is the leading source tions to close the gap.” of information about the global book publishing Armstrong introduced the 50/50 By 2020 cam- business. Since 2009, we have been publishing paign, calling it “the next jump after #MeToo” and daily email editions with news and features from urging audience members to join. around the book world. Roanie Levy, CEO of Canada’s Access Copy- Our mission is to help build and contribute right and founding CEO of Prescient Innovations, to the international publishing community by concurred with Armstrong, citing North American offering information that publishing and media From left: Jorunn Sandsmark, managing director, statistics that show “other ways in which women professionals need to connect, cooperate, and Kagge Forlag; Roanie Levy, president and CEO, work together year-round and across borders. Access Copyright and Prescient Innovations; Mikyla are paid less in the publishing industry.” Bruder, publisher and global marketing chief, Amazon Female authors, she reported, earn 49 percent Publishing; Tracey Armstrong, president and CEO, of what their male counterparts make, while books Publisher: Hannah Johnson Copyright Clearance Center.
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