The publishing industry is buzzing with news of AI start-ups, social media companies entering traditional publishing and traditional houses entering the AI space. It is like a digital wild West with seemingly every few days bringing a new announcement. Among the latest is the arrival of Spines which told the Bookseller that it aims […]
Norway has unveiled the Jon Fosse Prize for Translators, one of Europe’s most highly endowed awards for literary translation, aiming to highlight a profession often overlooked and increasingly challenged by machine translation. Named after Jon Fosse, the acclaimed novelist and playwright who won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, this annual award will honor […]
Barbara Taylor Bradford, the bestselling author of novels including A Woman of Substance, has died aged 91, her publisher has confirmed. The novelist died peacefully at her home on Sunday after a short illness, “surrounded by loved ones to the very end”. Described as “the grande dame of blockbusters”, Taylor Bradford published her 40th novel […]
Più Libri Più Liberi, Italy 4 – 8 December Più libri is the first Italian fair dedicated exclusively to independent publishing where every year around 500 publishers, coming from all over Italy, present their news and their catalog to the public. Website:...
