Spotify takes its premium subscribers the option to buy 15 hours of extra audiobook listening time as a monthly add-on.
Spotify Opens French and Dutch Audiobook Production
Touting an investment of €1 million, Spotify builds on its French and Benelux audiobook operations to open a new production initiative.
The International Booker Prize Names Its 2025 Longlist
An ‘unconventional longlist’ opens the International Booker Prize’s cycle: authors and translators of 15 nationalities on five continents.
Purses Totaling £28,000: The UK’s 2024 Translation Prize Winners
This year’s Society of Authors Translation Prizes honor literary translation into English from Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, French, Spanish, Arabic, and German.
France’s Vivlio, 10 Years Old, Launches New Ebook Service
Not unlike the ‘Storytel Originals’ effort to create new audiobook content in some markets, France’s Vivlio is starting a ‘Stories’ platform.
Rights Edition: The Netherlands Offers Hundreds of Sample Translations
The Dutch Foundation for Literature commissioned two years of sample translations to promote titles and help translators make ends meet.
12 Books Translated from Dutch and Flemish to Know Before Frankfurt
A number of books have been translated from Dutch to English ahead of Flanders and The Netherlands’ appearance as the 2016 Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Glagoslav: Slavic Literature Translated Into English and Dutch
‘There are so many brilliant books that haven’t been translated yet.’ Glagoslav Publications, with offices in London and Tilburg, is working on that.
Twitter Now in Dutch and Indonesian, More Languages to Come
Twitter is now available in Dutch and Indonesian as of Monday, thanks to a team of volunteer translators.
How Visible Is Arabic Lit on the International Scene?
This article is part of a series on publishing in the Middle East which is sponsored by the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. By Yasmina Jraissati As a literary agent specialized in representing Arabic literature for world translation rights, I am often asked how visible Arabic literature is on the international scene. This question most of the time translates into: …