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Rights round up
Pamela Cannon at Ballantine Books author’s attraction to and fear of solitude and isolation, Retreat (early 2020)
(US) has signed North American will ask how extended periods of meditation alter the neurochemistry of the
rights, in a rumoured six-figure deal, brain. What is the long term emotional effect of retreat? And is isolation a
in Troop 6000 by Nikita Stewart. means of engaging more fully with reality, or of evading it? Segnit is an Anglo-
The author, a New York Times American writer based in London. This will be his first non-fiction book.
reporter, was represented by Larry
Weissman, who has an eponymous Doubleday US and Fleet (Little, Brown UK) have signed a new novel by
shingle. Troop 6000 concerns a Colson Whitehead, author of the bestselling and award-winning The
group of homeless girls who, along Underground Railroad. Whitehead’s agent is Nicole Aragi; the UK sale was
with their parents, start a Girl Scout handled by Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein. The Nickel Boys (2019) is the story
troop. Ballantine said it was “an of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era
inspiring true story”. Florida. The novel is based on the story of a real institution. Whitehead said:
“It was a story I hadn’t seen told before – another one of our country’s secret
Asya Muchnick at Little, Brown and tragedies. I wanted to speak for them, in whatever small way I could.”
Federico Andornino at Hachette Nikita Stewart
sister company Weidenfeld in the UK Saga Press’ Joe Monti nabbed, in a two-book pre-empt, North American
have signed The Reunion by France’s bestselling author, Guillaume Musso. rights to Nathan Ballingrud’s debut novel The Strange, and a collection
The deals were struck with Musso’s French publisher Calmann-Lévy (also called The Atlas of Hell. The latter, Monti noted, contains the novella
part of Hachette Livre), and publication is set for July next year. The “The Visible Fifth”, which has been adapted for film (starring Armie
French edition of The Reunion, Musso’s first title with Calmann-Lévy, has Hammer and Dakota Fanning). Monti said The Strange was pitched as
sold more than half a million copies since its publication earlier this year. “The Martian Chronicles meets True Grit”, and followed a 14-year-old
France Télévisions is to broadcast the novel as a six-part miniseries. It is set girl on a misguided journey of revenge in search of a gang that attacked
on the French Riviera, where dark secrets emerge during a school reunion. her father. Ballingrud (North American Lake Monsters) was represented
by Renee Zuckerbrot at Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents.
What does it take to land a movie deal via Wattpad? For Sam Marsden,
whose SF novel Under Glass has been optioned by Stampede, it was f Continued from page 1
350,000 reads on the storytelling platform. Marsden, who is repped by
New Leaf Literary & Media, initially published Under Glass, described by Agents Centre move
the agency as “a modern-day Logan’s Run for the Brexit era”, in October
2017, sharing two chapters a week with readers. The book was removed Johanna Ingalls, managing editor of Akashic Books (Hall
from the site in early 2018, after Marsden received multiple offers of 6.0) said: “I don’t like it. The change will mean that my fair
representation and signed with New Leaf. The agency, which at press time
was shopping the manuscript to publishers at Frankfurt, said that a
is almost guaranteed to be less productive. I am going to
substantially revised version of the book was making the rounds at the fair. have to take half as many meetings and its likely that my
meetings will have to be shortened to 15 minutes, rather
A debut that Doubleday’s Lee Boudreaux won at auction back in January than 30.”
is a hot commodity at the fair thanks to a foreign rights sales approach
by Trident Media Group. Claire Roberts, who is selling foreign rights to
The LitAg has moved several times in the past decade,
Claire Lombardo’s The Most Fun We Ever Had, said a calculated decision frustrating some, in order to accommodate growth; this
was made to shop the book abroad after it was edited by Boudreaux. year the LitAg has 538 tables, up from some 500 the year
Foreign pubs were told about the book in London, teasing the release before. Among the agents themselves, the reaction has been
before Frankfurt. Now, with an auction closed in Germany and a UK pre-
empt accepted from Weidenfeld, the old acquisition seems, well, new.
mixed. “We are constantly told that we are ‘the heart of the
fair’ and rights are the very reason for the fair’s existence,
Writers House’s Al Zuckerman closed a deal for two series, Ninja Kid yet we are being treated like pawns,” said one, who noted
and Weirdo, by bestselling Australian author and stand-up comic Anh the existence of a petition circulating in the LitAg asking
Do. Scholastic’s Abigail McAden took US and UK rights to six books – the first
two in Ninja Kid, and the first four in Weirdo – in the agreement. Zuckerman
the fair to reconsider the decision.
noted that Do had sold over 2 million copies, in Australia, of his autobiography Another agent, one who asked not to be named for fear
(about escaping from Vietnam) as well as, on the children’s side, his series Hot of backlash, suggested that the move might prove to be
Dog! He is a fixture on Australian television as well as having appeared in various auspicious. “I don’t know what all the complaining is
shows, including the 2007 iteration of the country’s Dancing with the Stars.
about. It’s not as if what we have now is so luxurious,” she
Living in the Multiverse by Thomas Hertog was acquired, just before the said. “And who knows, maybe the Festhalle will be a nicer
fair, in a six-figure acquisition by Hilary Redmon at Ballantine Books venue – maybe it will finally have enough women’s
(US). Hertog, a world-renowned cosmologist, was represented by Max bathrooms so I won’t have to wait in line to pee.”
Brockman at Brockman, Inc. Speaking about the book, Brockman said it
chronicled the long collaboration between the author and Stephen
British publishers have expressed misgivings at the move.
Hawking, who spent 20 years developing a “new and important theory The new venue is a five-minute walk from Hall 6 using the
on how the universe began”. Hertog said that the book, which lays out moving pavements on the elevated walkway.
their theory, is “the culmination of our intellectual journey” and “a book David Shelley, UK ceo of Hachette, said: “It is not going
for a broad audience about our new cosmology”.
to be seriously inconvenient, but it is obviously not ideal.”
In a deal that may offer an antidote to the Frankfurt Book Fair, Bodley Head He predicted that there would be more meetings held in
publisher Stuart Williams has signed UK and Commonwealth rights in Hall 6, or “people would get fit” travelling to and from the
Retreat by Nat Segnit, pre-empting rights within 24 hours of receiving the Festhalle. Jeremy Trevathan, publisher at MacMillan, said
proposal. The agent was Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit. Informed by the
he was “concerned” about the move.
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Jo Henry, BookBrunch md, chaired a Women’s Prize panel with 2018 Antonio Martin (left), founder of La Lectore Futura, with Carlo
winner Kamila Shamsie and (right) Joanna Prior of Penguin. Carrenho, the founder of PublishNews in Brazil. They have joined forces
to launch PublishNews for the Spanish language market.
From left: Helen Kogan, md of Kogan Page; Orna O’Brien, conference manager, London Book
Fair; Jonathan Glasspool, md Bloomsbury Academic; Clare Painter, Clare Painter Associates.
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I hope I’m out of a job sooner rather than later. It experienced editors at Springer Nature deal with
may seem strange that, having been in my current relatively minor issues themselves, this is just a
role leading the small Springer Nature Research portion of the total number of integrity-related
Integrity Group for about two months, I have queries. Of those 500 queries, most originated in
redundancy as my aim. But wouldn’t it be the medical and life sciences portfolios. Only 10%
amazing if there was no longer any research or concerned books or book chapters, and about
publication misconduct to prevent or detect? half of the problems were detected after
Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen publication. Plagiarism, duplicate publication, and
anytime soon. The pressures on authors, editors problems with authorship, data or the peer-review
and reviewers are as intense as ever. New types of process were the main categories, and most cases
misconduct continue to emerge. Old ones become involved a single article or book.
more sophisticated and, therefore, more difficult Suzanne Farley Less frequent, but perhaps more concerning,
to detect. Plagiarism, stolen intellectual property, fake data, are the cases that play out on a massive scale: thousands of
authorship-for-sale, article mills, fake decision letters and proofs, manuscripts, and hundreds of authors, editors and in-house
fake reviewer reports, citation cartels, identity theft – just some of staff across multiple legal jurisdictions, languages and time-
the scams I’ve dealt with in my 15-odd years in STM publishing. zones. Completing a thorough investigation can take months.
And then there are the honest mistakes. The line between the two Agreeing actions can take even longer. It’s resource-heavy work
is often blurrier than you’d think. that hits obstacles at every turn. And instead of generating
In the first half of this year, my team received about 500 requests revenue it generates retractions, corrections and notifications to
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It’s no surprise that there’s such a “negative vibe” around these So many questions! And – as yet – not a lot of answers. But there
types of issues. Being caught has serious repercussions for the are many more conversations happening on these topics than in
individual. Failing to prevent and detect misconduct can damage the recent past. There have been some improvements: for example,
the reputation of employers, funders and publishers. And even more-informative retraction notices, speedier resolution of issues
admitting that it happens at the scale that it does is not something and heavier investment in resources by some publishers. But these
that all stakeholders are prepared to do. Throw in some lawyers, improvements are patchy. Most stakeholders are only now
and these are extremely tricky waters to navigate. Everyone realising the scale of the problem and taking their first steps
involved feels twitchy and uncomfortable. towards building mechanisms to address it.
So, my more realistic, shorter-term goal is to help create an As well as addressing issues when they arise, we need to do more
environment – first at Springer Nature, but then more broadly – in to prevent them happening in the first place. I hear from many
which addressing integrity issues is a normal, non-confrontational authors and reviewers that they receive zero training in this area
part of what we do. Let’s use retractions to illustrate the concept. from their employers, and that many publishers provide very little
Retractions happen for myriad reasons, both honest error and guidance on what is and isn’t acceptable. When guidance is
deliberate misconduct. Why, then, are retractions inevitably provided, it often differs between publishers for no apparent
regarded as blots on authors’ records? Shouldn’t authors who reason. How much does someone have to contribute to qualify as
detect honest errors in their own work and initiate correction of an author? Which third-party services are OK to use? Where are
the scholarly record be applauded? Why do many retraction the lines between quotation, paraphrasing, text recycling and
notices provide readers with such scant information about the plagiarism? How does licence type affect these parameters?
reasons for retraction? Is the label “retraction” so loaded that we Sharing resources and working towards common standards are
should replace it altogether? Should retractions be used as two ways in which publishers can move things forward. I’d love to
“punishment” for misconduct? Is dispensing punishment the role hear from anyone who is interested in working on this together. ■
of the publisher or the employer? How should whistle-blowers be
Suzanne Farley, PhD, is director of research integrity at Springer Nature
protected? Who should decide all these things? (s.farley@nature.com).
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backlists, price pulsing across their lists, launching more driver of book sales, such as literary prizes, real bookshop
frequently, building databases of readers and potential readers, shelf space, retailers’ books of the month, reviews in the
automating where they can, testing and iterating at every press and trade journalism only include books from
marketing touchpoint. This is granular marketing, where traditional publishers. Indie authors are excluded.
money is spent only when a positive return on investment can As a determined group, indie authors will continue to try
be achieved – little wastage, focused and effective. This to break down these barriers or will create alternative
marketing also happens year-round, at weekends and during awards, prizes and mechanisms to drive sales. Amazon is
the evenings. Who could be more motivated than an author already playing its part in facilitating this, with the Kindle
watching the fruits of their labour in real time? Storyteller Awards.
This is totally unachievable by publishers working at Indie authors are entrepreneurial, nimble and determined
scale; this approach is time-consuming and would require and I think we’ll see more rapid change. Self-publishing will
significantly larger marketing teams – which are surprisingly gain in credibility, and will become a viable and attractive route
small for the huge volume of books they work on. Large for more and more authors. I assume Amazon will continue to
publishers do indeed use some of the same digital marketing facilitate this, by making self-publishing easier and supporting
techniques, but tactically and usually around a launch. The indie authors – who are effectively their motivated sales team.
marketing budget is spent during a launch window, which Traditional publishers should be aware of indie authors’
may be anywhere between six weeks and a year (for a very progress, but should also consider evolving more rapidly,
hot prospect). If a book takes off, publishers may find more exploiting digital opportunities, better terms for their
budget to keep the ball rolling, but this is mostly an exception. authors and more granular year-round and effective book
Many indie authors have bestseller status on Amazon, but marketing for all of their authors. ■
as yet only a small number of indies have broken through to
Sam Missingham is founder of Lounge Marketing (http://www.
the top of the New York Times or Sunday Times charts – still
loungemarketing.com), a book marketing service for authors. She was
a very significant shift. And don’t forget almost every other head of audience development at HarperCollins UK.
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Come Visit Us! bestseller list at this time last year, and this year we have various
Australian authors selling as well as or better than their overseas
Hall 6.1, E133 counterparts. Australian authors accounted for nearly a third
of the Top 50 Fiction sales by value last year (15 titles from 8
Australian authors) and this year they have stepped up to take an
The Gold Standard in recovery... even larger slice of the fiction pie, accounting for nearly two in five
of the Top 50 fiction sales by value (16 titles from 11 Australian
authors). Five of the Top 10 titles in 2018 so far are by Australian
authors; in 2016 they accounted for only three of the Top 10.
With a strong DDS (Discount and Department Store) channel,
Children’s is a large sector in the Australian market, making up
44% of all units sold. Although the children’s
market is down slightly so far this year
(-1.5%), we are seeing single-digit long-term
growth in this sector (+4% six year CAGR),
with the increase coming from both fiction
and non-fiction. Australian authors such as
Andy Griffiths (Pan Macmillan), Aaron
Blabey (Scholastic) and Anh Do (Scholastic)
have been dominating the charts. A special
mention needs to go to debut title Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
(Hachette), which has been in the spotlight, winning booksellers’
How to Heal the Underlying Causes • and children’s hearts alike since release in October 2017. It has
How to End Relapse • How to End Suffering now won eight awards and sold more than 89,000 copies. The
second volume, due this month, is sure to make waves. Two other
From the bestselling author of Zen and the
Art of Happiness (published in over 25 languages) debuts that climbed up the bestseller charts were Andy Lee’s
surprise debut Do Not Open This Book (Lake Press) and Zoe
Foreign rights: Nigel J. Yorwerth • nigel@publishingcoaches.com
Hall 6.1, E133 (next to SCB Distributors) Foster Blake’s No-One Likes a Fart (Penguin Random House). ■
Julie Winters is associate director at Nielsen Book Pacific.
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f Continued from page 21 add new annotations to that over time and having rich media
conversations with member companies of the Media Lab. annotations, but also to open that up to a broader community
That iterative, feedback-driven, interactive, data-heavy of commenters,” Rich said. “Being able to do things on
approach… felt like the right way to do research. PubPub like include video annotations and links
[Before PubPub] we just didn’t have a tool that to augmented reality video games, changes it
let us work the way we wanted to work.” from just being a book that has annotations
Her inspiration for Frankenstein, Mary Shelley into a book whose annotations let you dive
recalled, was a friendly competition on a into different depths of content.”
summer’s holiday with writers Lord Byron and Since its founding in 1986, the MIT Media Lab
Percy Bysshe Shelley (her future husband) to has inspired conversations and coding that aim
write a ghost story. Now a fixture in the English to harness technology for creative expression. In
canon, Frankenstein originally depicted a 1995, MIT Press published one of the first open
Romantic era infatuation with nature colliding access books, City of Bits by William Mitchell,
with the growing power of science. who foresaw the ways that online communication
So it’s almost fitting that in 2017, MIT Press published was a powerful and liberating force. Years later, in 2018
an annotated edition of Frankenstein by David H Guston with Frankenbook, noted Terry Ehling, MIT Press is going
(founding director of the School for the Future of Innovation back to the future.
in Society at Arizona State University) and his ASU colleagues “City of Bits was by all accounts the very first book to be
Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert. The open-ended, two-way online full-text, not just snippets, not just a chapter here or
publishing platform of PubPub represented an opportunity to a chapter there. That was really quite a breakthrough,” she
bring Shelley’s masterpiece to a global audience and to invite declared. “There was a lot of concern then that going an open
responses to the same moral puzzle she once confronted. access route would destroy sales of the print edition, and it
Thus, Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, did not. At the time, it actually amplified them. We sold about
and Creators of All Kinds begat Frankenbook. three times the number of copies of the print edition.” ■
“We took that otherwise static print version of Frankenstein
Christopher Kenneally hosts “Beyond the Book”, a podcast series from
and put it on PubPub with the goal of not only being able to Copyright Clearance Center.
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Here be dragons
IMF Publications Book Industry Communication (BIC) reports
Objective knowledge
The BIC Metadata Sub-Committee recognised that a similar
lack of objective knowledge of the routes that product
metadata takes could lead to poor decision-making by both
data suppliers and recipients, and bad consumer experience.
Each organisation may have accrued its own set of beliefs,
but none of us can appreciate all the routes that metadata
takes to its points of use, nor all the potential pitfalls and
diversions along the way. If we all had a better
understanding of our metadata “world” then we might use
the data in the supply chain more effectively.
The challenge was to create a Map that could show what
product metadata is being created by whom, how it is passed
from one organisation to another (and possibly changed in
Through the evolution of inflation-forecast targeting, the process) and what recipient organisations do with the
this book tracks the development of monetary policy data they receive. BIC believes the most effective approach
over the past quarter century. to surveying these questions is to collect responses from all
willing supply chain participants, and then aggregate and
$30. 2018. Paperback. ISBN 978-1-48432-594-0 present the details in a searchable resource – the Metadata
Map itself. The Map will be published as an online,
constantly updated resource that will only be accessible to
Map contributors – full disclosure allows full visibility.
Significant challenge
The challenge is not insignificant (Best Practice+Wikipedia+
Bookstore.imf.org/fbf18c CityMapper for metadata…), but we expect the Map to
provide practical, real-world data so that contributing
I N T E R N AT I O N A L M O N E TA R Y F U N D organisations can benchmark their own metadata activity
and identify potential improvements to their data supply,
ingest or maintenance activities.
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To take a concrete example, publishers have lots of
information about their authors: real names, pseudonyms,
biographies, links to other works by the same author(s) and
so on. A better understanding of how (or whether!) that
information is passed on by data intermediaries, and how it
is used by online booksellers should lead to better author
data being made available by data suppliers – data which
could be better trusted by recipients, data which should The year Canada will be the
GUEST OF HONOUR at
lead to better discoverability, better linking of multiple
products to the correct authors, and ultimately to increased
the FRANKFURT
sales and author, agent and customer satisfaction.
The project was launched officially at the London
Book Fair this year, and we have since developed a set of
extensive survey questions that are currently being trialled
by a “Pioneer” group of selected book trade organisations
from the UK. We appreciate the investment of time and
BOOK FAIR
resources by these companies to provide an honest
appraisal of capabilities and processes, and the level of
detail required. The Map cannot provide detailed answers
unless it collects detailed survey data in the first place. This year, meet us in Frankfurt
Nevertheless, we recognise that, like all good maps (as
we firmly believe ours will become!), our own Map is a Rencontrez-nous cette
work in progress: we do not expect to cover the année à Francfort
topography of the metadata supply environment in
complete detail at the first attempt, nor can we start
“drawing the Map” until we have objectively collated the Canada stand, Hall 6.0 B67
survey data provided by the Pioneer group.
Once our Pioneer group survey is complete we will seek
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contributions from the wider BIC membership, since it is
the BIC membership which is funding this project, and later • Translation Incentives
from all those organisations who are willing to participate.
Our goal is to enable organisations to improve their • Online Rights Catalogue,
metadata behaviour through comparison to the Map and, French and English Selection
as a result, raise the standard of data use throughout the
metadata supply chain. We fully expect the Map to inform • Fellowship Opportunities
BIC’s agenda over the next few years – let’s hope we don’t to Canada
find too many dragons! ■
Bittersweet feeling
Lizzy Kremer explains why she has
mixed feelings when hearing the news
that a publisher has paid a seven-figure
advance for a book at a book fair
Publishing is our business
and the economics of it
demand our serious
attention. And yet, despite
the seriousness of our work,
we find joy in running the
risks of our unpredictable
industry. Agents and
publishers take pleasure in
being excellent at this game
of strategy and skill; in
being alert to the Lizzy Kremer
opportunities that come
from talent, from luck and from great timing. Every huge
advance paid for a non-brand name author signifies that
some of our fellow players have played well and won big,
and that at least one publisher is willing to gamble on
success with very high stakes.
And the sweetness for all of us in the seven-figure
Frankfurt book deal is that it acts as the proof that –
despite excruciating pressures on retail and variable
results for debut fiction in particular – publishers still
believe that they know how to make and find success for
authors and for themselves. Without publishers’ belief in
their own ability to actively build and predict bestselling
success, where would any talented author be? I welcome
every big bet a publisher places on a new book as a
rallying cry: books are our cultural lifeblood, books can
make money, authors deserve generous rewards. Let’s
share the best books and drive their success together!
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I’m at a minor literary prize last summer, yet I worry that the widening of the pool for
having a glass of wine with an author. She’s submissions has narrowed the chances of
famous, she has the talent to win the Man authors from the UK and Commonwealth
Booker one day, you’d know her name. being given the attention and acclaim which
Which is why I’m not going to use it. the prize once bestowed. It is of course
The conversation turns to the Booker, and necessary for prizes to innovate, but often
the decision to admit Americans. “It’s an change comes at a cost. In this case, I worry
epic act of cultural vandalism, the worst I that the cost is the diminution of possibilities
have seen in my lifetime,” she says, quite for authors who previously would have had
unprompted. No British writer has won the their careers made by the prize.”
prize since 2012. So where is the space for Commonwealth
I’m at another literary gathering, talking American writer George Saunders writers? Since the rules changed, American
winning the 2017 prize
to a prominent London publisher, whose writers have occupied two of the six places
house has won the Booker. I’d heard that he on the shortlist every year, with three out of
was ambivalent about the change, but I was misled. In fact, six American last year. This year the shortlist has the
he is dead against it, angry even. Again, I won’t use the obligatory two Americans (Rachel Kushner and Richard
name, he’s worried about the repercussions of talking Powers), three Brits (Anna Burns, Daisy Johnson and
publicly. Passions are running high on both sides. Someone Robin Robertson) and a lone Canadian (Esi Edugyan).
close to the prize attempts to shut down the debate by There are no Indians, Africans or Australasians.
telling me those seeking a return to the old rules are Continues on page 30 g
advocating a “Brexit for books”.
According to Man Booker the rules of the prize changed
at the end of 2013, to embrace “the freedom of English in
all its vigour, its vitality, its versatility and its glory wherever
Come Visit Us!
it may be”, opening up to writers beyond the UK and Hall 6.1, E133
Commonwealth. But do British publishers actually want that?
Anthony Cheetham, founder of Head of Zeus (and
several other publishers in the course of a glittering career),
describes the decision as “a disaster for British publishing...
it has basically become an American prize, just another
international award”. His wife, the agent Georgina Capel,
“tore strips off the boss of Man at the Buckingham Palace
reception [for the prize’s 50th anniversary celebrations]
until the poor man was left sweating with embarrassment”.
Cheetham believes the quality of the judges, and hence
the prize itself, has declined, and the net effect has been
detrimental to British literary culture. “If you had asked
people at the turn of the century they could have named the
top ten British writers, they can’t do that now.” There is a
sense that the Amis/McEwan/Barnes cohort has not been
replaced; there is now an atomised literary culture.
A leading publisher, who has edited a Booker winner and
some of the most famous British writers, says: “It was a
poor decision to let the Americans in, and it is having a
negative impact on the quality of the prize, and on the The Original Version, Restored and Revised™
development of British literary writing and writers.”
Worldwide bestseller. The copyright-protected
Ian Chapman, ceo of Simon & Schuster UK, says: “I
edition that makes all others obsolete.
completely understand why one might want to broaden out
the prize to American writers. We have been beneficiaries Foreign rights: Nigel J. Yorwerth • nigel@publishingcoaches.com
Hall 6.1, E133 (next to SCB Distributors)
of the change, having had Virginia Reeves’ wonderful novel © The Mindpower Press
Work Like Any Other selected for the 2016 longlist, and
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Norwegian publishers and agents, and substantial support to
foreign publishers that wish to buy Norwegian literature, Since 2008, BookBrunch has been
usually paying half of the translation costs, sometimes up to keeping publishing professionals
75%. Currently, it is estimated that around 1,000 foreign
rights related to Norwegian literature are sold annually. “Last round the world informed about
year we provided support for 538 translations, divided the latest developments in the
between 363 different titles,” says Margit Walsø, director of
NORLA. “In addition, we estimate that roughly the same book industry on a daily basis. In
number of translations are released without support from us.” the last 10 years we’ve published
With a budget of up to 3m euro, NORLA employs 13
people, including the project group working on Norway’s thousands of news stories and
Guest of Honour initiative for Frankfurt 2019. “We have one opinion pieces, and interviewed
of the world’s most solid organisations for literary export,
perhaps the very best,” says Walsø. some of the most influential
And she sees an extremely happy long-term development in her book trade figures.
figures: “The number of translations has doubled in the past ten
years, and since 2004 we are talking about a five-fold increase,”
she says. “Adult literature is the largest area, but children’s
books and non-fiction is the area growing fastest with us.”
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