AI Translation Divide Deepens as Publishers Rewrite Contract Clauses
A year ago, machine translation clauses in publishing contracts were a niche concern for technical publishers. This autumn, they are standard battleground. The dividing…
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Sophie Divry’s ‘Rochebrune’ Gains International Traction
Published on 19 August by Actes Sud, Sophie Divry’s novel ‘Rochebrune’ now sells over 1 500 copies a week and is vying for the Médicis prize.
Scandinavian Crime Rights Sell in Record Pre-Emptive Deals
Every few years the rights market anoints a new corner of the map as its hunting ground, and this autumn the scouts have converged,…
Romance Translation Demand Outpaces Qualified Translators
The publishing industry’s quietest bottleneck has no elegant solution. In the romance category — the trade’s most reliably commercial fiction engine, powered by voracious…
Turkish Fiction Breaks Out Across Five Languages
For most of the past two decades, Turkish fiction occupied a curious position in the international rights market: critically respected, prize-adjacent, and persistently under-translated…
Co-Publishing Deals Rise as Currency Volatility Bites
The currency markets have found a new victim, and it is the traditional foreign rights deal. As exchange-rate volatility reshapes the economics of international…
Audiobook Rights Auctions Move Earlier in the Chain
The audiobook rights auction, once the final chapter of a deal cycle, is increasingly its first. Across the rights market this season, audio rights…
Japanese Literature Beyond Murakami: Rights Scouts Get Creative
The question every international scout faces in Tokyo has a name, and the name is not Murakami. For two decades, the world’s rights buyers…
African Literature in Translation: New Funds, New Routes
The rights tables where African literature is traded have changed rooms twice in a decade — from the charity corner to the discovery section…
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…