In its second year, the distributor’s ‘All About Audio’ event again hears from key companies’ representatives on their offers and observations.
An audio listener in Moscow on April 16. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Yury Karamanenko
Nine ‘Makers of the Boom’
Many
Publishing Perspectives readers will remember the first outing of Bookwire’s “All About Audio” conference in June 2020. With its slightly dire-sounding message of “streaming is inevitable,” the first wave of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic‘s most furious outbreaks was only then easing up in many markets. Publishing’s “digital acceleration,” driven by the pathogen, still hadn’t been fully demonstrated by statistical analysis, though it clearly was a good bet.
Rights Roundup: Nature, Climate, Environment and Politics
Our titles come from the United States, Canada, Finland, Norway, Belgium, and Sweden and include environmentally cognizant writings.
Authors and illustrators whose work is represented in this Rights Roundup are, clockwise from upper left, Ben Goldfarb; Enzo Traverso; Jessika Aro; Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson; Elisabeth Norebäck; Séverine Duschesne; Oliver Dupin; and Grethe Bøe
‘Strange Stories,’ and Eager Beavers
In this first week of the new year a troubling week in so many ways there’s a certain logic, perhaps, to the fact that we have both fiction and nonfiction with political elements.