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Spanish-Language Rights Surge in the US Market

The fastest-growing rights market in the United States speaks Spanish. Rights deals for Spanish-language books — fiction, nonfiction, children’s — into the US market have grown at a pace that has outstripped every other translation corridor tracked…

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Indie Booksellers Back Pre-Order Campaigns

The pre-order campaign — once the publisher’s digital marketing instrument, conducted on the platforms and counted in algorithms — has moved into the bookshop, and the independents who adopted it early are discovering that the oldest retail…

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Crime Writers Diversify Into True Story Podcasts

The crime writer’s second act has found its medium. Across the genre, established novelists are migrating — in many cases commuting — into true-story podcasting, adapting the narrative instincts that built their book careers to a format…