Publishing Perspectives - Best Articles of 2016

Best Articles of 2016
Part 2

This week, we're looking back at your favorite articles of 2016.

In today's list (in no particular order), you'll find rights hacks and an interview with Andrew Wylie. We also bring you articles on bookselling, authors to watch, and the future of textbooks. Happy reading!

International Publishing and the UK's Vote for Brexit

On a wrenching day, we learned that the UK voted to leave the European Union. Despite Brexit, the book publishing industry remains internationally engaged.

Andrew Wylie's Global Approach to Agenting

With a goal of representing 2,000 clients, literary agent Andrew Wylie touts thinking globally, an authoritative backlist—and the highest-quality writing.

French Readers Put Arab Authors on the Bestseller List

After years of writing about radicalization and terrorism in the Middle East, Arab authors are now in the spotlight in France as readers try to understand the Paris attacks.

University Press Week: When the Mission Isn't Money

University Press Week is a celebration of the nonprofit, content-driven nature of university presses, which allows them to take more risks than for-profit publishers.

12 Books Translated from Dutch and Flemish to Know Before Frankfurt

Flanders and The Netherlands, the 2016 Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair, have made literary in-roads in English this year, surely with more to come.

Turning the Next Page in Textbooks

Publishing Perspectives talks to a publisher, an edtech startup founder, and a teacher—from different parts of Europe—about textbooks, today and tomorrow.

Kinokuniya's Hiroshi Sogo on Bookselling Amid Challenges

'Heavy discounting will destroy market order, and idiotic populism will come to reign,' says Kinokuniya's Hiroshi Sogo, whose Tokyo base supports English and other-language work.

To Get More Voices Published in English: Translation as Activism

'Translators play an essential role in raising awareness of writers' plight' in many cases of peril, as was discussed in a London Book Fair seminar.

Ten Rights Hacks: Actionable Advice From Two Key Players

The rights business is about relationships and digital tools, say rights experts Kris Kliemann and Jane Tappuni. Here are their top ten tips for publishing rights professionals.

That Long, Rocky Road: Why Is Dystopian Fiction Evergreen?

'We've been waiting for another type of book for the last two years,' says one editor in Paris. So far, though, it's a dystopian fiction double-down. To some in Europe, 'This is another wave of Americanization.'

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