Iceland’s Bókmenntahátíð í Reykjavík kicks off next week with the inaugural Halldór Laxness Award among many attractions
If it’s 2019, it must be time for the bi-annual Bókmenntahátíð í Reykjavík which this year has a...
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Author: Mark Williams
New Zealand authors struggle to survive on earnings from their writing, mirroring UK authors’ plight. But is there such a thing as a fair wage for writers?
At end March a body called Copyright Licensing New Zealand published a study on author earnings in...
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Sharjah to be Special Guest of Honour at Moscow International Book Fair in September
Not much to report here but it’s such a fine example of the Global New Renaissance...
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Iraqi Kurdistan’s 14th Erbil International Book Fair closes with 400,000 visitors as another MENA book fair record tumbles
With one million titles on offer it was always going to be a big attraction, but even so the...
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Sweden’s subscription model faces its biggest challenge yet as Bonnier and Storytel go to war
It was a confrontation waiting to happen, and perhaps the real surprise here is that it hasn’t...
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