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Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Nears Breaking Point Amid War
Russian airstrikes have destroyed millions of books in Ukrainian warehouses and bookstores. Meanwhile, publishers are beleaguered and increasingly risk-averse, but committed to carrying on.
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Livres Canada Books Partners with Jellybooks for Global Promotion
Books from more than 100 independent Canadian publishers will be enrolled in the U.K.-based Jellybooks’ Discovery platform, which allows readers to preview and sample titles at participating online bookstores in Africa, India, and Europe.
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Audible Ramps Up English Translations of European Audiobooks
The audiobook company says it is accelerating its production of English-language translations of popular genre titles from France, Germany, Italy, and Spain to meet growing demand.
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Hay Festival Appoints First-Ever Creative Director
Ted Hodgkinson is joining the U.K. literary charity in the newly created leadership role, starting in November. He spent the last decade as head of literature and spoken word at London’s Southbank Centre.
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Bookwire Takes Over Digital Distribution for CB in the Netherlands
Centraal Boekhuis, the top book distributor in the Netherlands and Belgium, has moved its catalog of 80,000 e-books and 25,000 audiobooks onto the Bookwire OS platform, giving the German company responsibility for fulfillment.
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Indian Publishers Fight Book Pirates
With the help of Penguin Random House India, Simon & Schuster India, and Hay House, Delhi police closed a printer and a warehouse for pirated books last month.
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Roald Dahl’s Matilda Named Ambassador for U.K.’s National Year of Reading
The nationwide literacy campaign has selected Matilda as its latest fictional spokesperson, “to inspire children to be bold, brave, and a little bit mischievous,” according to a statement.
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AI May Be Making Publishing Easier, But It’s Still Not Easy
At an online summit cohosted by industry platform Publishing Signal, participants agreed that AI is accelerating the pace of production and lowering some costs, but core questions about curation, audience, and prognostication remain.
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Oslo’s Only English-Language Bookstore Expands into Publishing
Prismatic Pages founder and expat Indigo Trigg-Hauger says Norwegian publishers rarely publish in English, leaving a gap that her new imprint, Prismatic Press, aims to fill.
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Norway’s Beat Spins Out Zedoc, a New Agentic AI Platform
The startup is offering publishers the ability to streamline demanding tasks including cleaning up book metadata, accessibility enrichment, and structuring product data for discovery by AI systems, said founder and CEO Njål Hansen.
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