News: international

Publishers join literary agencies in running spring 'rights fairs'

Hachette UK, Pan Macmillan and a number of literary agencies will run their own "digital rights fairs” in March to make up for the rescheduling... Read more

Ulverscroft and Orenda enter new publishing partnership

Large print publisher Ulverscroft Ltd and independent publisher Orenda Books have entered a new partnership that will see an increase in Orenda's audio publications, and... Read more

Naver acquires Wattpad for over $600m

Korean internet giant Naver is to buy Wattpad for stock and cash, valuing the company at over $600m. Read more

Waterstones to host online signing event with Ishiguro

Waterstones is to host an exclusive online signing with Kazuo Ishiguro, the first event for the author's forthcoming novel Klara and the Sun (Faber).... Read more

Scribe lands Simon Akam's analysis of British Army

Scribe is to publish The Changing of the Guard: The British Army Since 9/11 by Simon Akam next month. Read more

Dead Ink bags Missouri's dystopian debut

Dead Ink Books and Farrar Straus & Giroux (FSG) are to publish Missouri Williams’ "brilliant and depraved" debut novel The Doloriad next year, with FSG's MCD imprint publishing in the US. ... Read more

Rowman & Littlefield reshuffles roles for international growth

Rowman & Littlefield has reshuffled responsibilities within its sales and marketing team, as it continues to grow internationally. Read more

Raven Books lands Samira Sedira's English language debut

Raven Books is to publish People Like Them, the "brutal" English language debut of French Algerian novelist, actor and playwright Samira Sedira. ... Read more

S&S lands novel from David Higham Associates' Vialleron

Simon & Schuster UK is to publish The Yellow Kitchen by Margaux Vialleron, a novel exploring love, friendship, identity and cooking. ... Read more

France's publishers saw 2% print drop in 2020, says SNE

French publishers’ print book sales probably dropped by only 2% in 2020 when compared to the year before, according to preliminary figures provided by Vincent... Read more

Supply chain hit by post-Brexit border delays

Border delays and Brexit red tape are hitting the industry, with Waterstones suspending European deliveries and Blackwell's facing issues with goods coming into the UK.... Read more

Leonard and Hungry Paul named Dublin Book of the Year

Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession as been chosen as Dublin's Book of the Year for 2021. Read more

Wattpad 'in sale talks with multiple bidders'

Wattpad, the online story writing website, is in talks with multiple parties to sell the enterprise, with a $500m price tag being mooted, Canada 24 News has... Read more