Established in 1982, India’s Seagull Books has been named the 2025 Aficionado Award winner, to be honored at Frankfurter Buchmesse.
Victoria Díaz: Mexico’s 2025 Indigenous Literature of the Americas Award
The 300,000-peso 2025 Indigenous Literature award goes to Chiapas’ Victoria Díaz, in the University of Guadalajara jury’s selection.
Publishing Scotland’s BookSource Celebrates 30 Years in Business
The book distributor BookSource in Glasgow is cheered by its owner Publishing Scotland for reaching 30 years.
Bulgaria’s Book Market: Hopes for Growth With the Euro
The Bulgarian market, while cautiously optimistic for 2026, knows that adopting the euro may mean some constriction at first.
Rights Roundup: August’s Look at Deal News
A prelude to the start of the 2025 Frankfurt Rights Meeting, this month’s Rights Roundup focuses mainly on adult fiction.
Germany’s BücherFrauen, Book Women: a Third Shortlist
The third edition of the BücherFrauen group’s Women in Publishing award program issues its five-title shortlist.
French Publishers Prevail Against Manga Pirate Site Japscan
Having helped take down the Z-Library pirate site, France’s SNE publishers now have a court ruling against Japscan.
Dr. Ali Bin Tamim: The Sheikh Zayed Book Award at 20
Citing ‘a dynamic interplay between tradition and innovation,’ Dr. Ali Bin Tamim takes stock of the Zayed Award’s 20th anniversary.
Germany Saw Sales Grow by 1.8 Percent in 2024
The 2024 German market, while seeing a stabilization in ebook and audiobook markets, saw entrenched shortcomings in literacy continue.
Rights Roundup: Warm Weather Titles on the World Market
The books in this Rights Roundup come from Canada, Italy, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Finland, and the United States.