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Around the Book World: Monday, January 19, 2026

Carlo Carrenho — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:44:57 +0000

In the news: The sale of Norway's oldest publisher appears to be progressing; inflation impacts the book markets in the U.K. and Ireland, as well as in France and Italy; a look at one Brazilian bookseller's impressive growth; and a glimpse into the Japanese publishing market.

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Changing of the Guard for Yale University Press and Ingram Content Group

Erin L. Cox — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:28:27 +0000

As international publishing luminaries John Donatich at Yale University Press and David Taylor at Ingram Content Group retire, their successors are announced.

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Interview: Fabrice Piault on the Rise of French Popular Fiction

Olivia Snaije — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 05:30:20 +0000

Publishing news media in France now are reporting on how 'houses known for publishing literary fiction have been hiring editors to develop popular fiction imprints.'

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Covering the International Books Industry: A Discussion of Trends and Challenges

Porter Anderson — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 05:30:06 +0000

From European markets recovering from financial losses to translation in the US market and book-pricing differences based on authors' genders, a 'Beyond the Book' panel at BookExpo looked at recent coverage of the books industry.

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Livres Hebdo’s Fabrice Piault on Politics and France’s Reading Culture

Porter Anderson — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 06:30:45 +0000

Ahead of France's program as Guest of Honor at Frankfurt in October, a Parisian editor talks about how political distractions may be slowing book sales.

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Trois éditeurs: Ebooks Are Alive and Rather Well in France

Olivia Snaije — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:00:51 +0000

While some see France as the great holdout of Europe digital books and e-reading, some publishers say adoption is moving more quickly now.

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Forthcoming French Titles Focus on Tunisia

Olivia Snaije — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:34:59 +0000

Olivia Snaije Over the years French publishers have printed many books on the political situation in Tunisia as well as fiction by Tunisian writers such as Habib Selmi or Aroussia Nalouti (Actes Sud). France occupied Tunisia from 1881 until the country’s independence in 1956. Never a colony, Tunisia was nevertheless a French protectorate and the ties between the two countries ...

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Tough Times, But Europe Is Coping Best: The Global Publishers Ranking Report

Andrew Wilkins — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:15:38 +0000

By Andrew Wilkins Pearson is the largest conglomerate in publishing, with a turnover of over five billion euros, and all but three of the top 10 publishing businesses are European, according to the recently released 2009 Global Ranking of World Publishing, which lists and assesses the world’s top 52 publishing conglomerates. Now in its third year, the ranking was started ...

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