During BookExpo at the Javits Center next week, trade visitors and rights specialists will be in two different parts of the city, as the New York Rights Fair makes its debut at the Manhattan Pavilion.

In our pre-BookExpo rights roundup: a wartime tale set in Senegal, a generational family drama from Georgian author Nino Haratischwili, a Catalan classic, and more.

How are authors' contractual rights with a publisher best handled when the house rolls out a digital subscription offer? An authors' lawsuit of Cengage is calling the question.