International publishing

Global book publishing had a mixed performance in 2024, with Brazil's exports surging 266% while European markets faced declines. Physical book sales fell across France, Italy, and the U.K., where a lack of consumer confidence after another year of inflation took the blame. German and Swiss markets remained stable, with price increases offsetting declines in unit sales.  Read more

The world's biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors' intellectual property from being used to train large language models (LLMs) and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools, The Bookseller can exclusively reveal.

The five-year anniversary of Covid-19 is just months away, but at this year's Frankfurt Book FairWorld's largest trade fair for books; held annually mid-October at Frankfurt Trade Fair, Germany; First three days exclusively for trade visitors; general public can attend last two., the pandemic felt like a thing of the past. While the show floor isn't as bustling on the face as it had been in pre-pandemic years, each night, the Frankfurterhof remains jam-packed-and, more importantly, all reports indicate that the deal-making business has been brisk.

At the US Book Show the energy was palpable; panels were sharper, more diverse, more geared to practical applications; and speakers were good, with costs, discoverability and AI under discussion.

Simon & Schuster has acquired the largest Dutch publishing group Veen Bosch & Keuning, including all of its publishers in the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as sister companies Thinium and Bookchoice.