Weekly Roundup: March 24th-30th

 

Good morning from Bologna Global Rights Exchange! 

This is a special Monday, as today marks the beginning of the 2025 edition of the Bologna Book Fair. Until Thursday BolognaBookPlus has some amazing events and panels planned. If you haven’t already, make sure to secure a ticket! (Here is an easy link: Tickets)

Whilst you’re on your way to the fair, you might want to check out some of last week’s most interesting publishing news, concerning AI, bookselling and much more. 

Buona lettura, and hopefully see you in Bologna!

 

• UK Publishers and Cambridge, Call out Meta and Piracy in Generative AI Training

• Canadian Booksellers Unite in Tariff Fight

• WH Smith to Sell Bookstores to Modella Capital - Publishers Lunch

• New ‘Hunger Games’ Book ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ Sells 1.5M Copies in First Week, Tripling ‘Mockingjay’ Tally

• Taylor & Francis to use AI translation tools to publish books ‘otherwise unavailable in English’

 

• Bologna Guest of Honor Estonia: Interview with Vallo Kalvik

• Women's Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist celebrates books that 'illuminate complex subjects'

• 2025 Polari Prizes open call for submissions

 

• Author Vincenzo Latronico: ‘I left Italy out of sadness’ | Fiction | The Guardian

• March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction ‹ Literary Hub

• It’s All Greek to Stephen Fry

• It’s Gatsby’s World, We Just Live in It

 

• Bologna Children's Book Fair, al via domani la 62esima edizione | Skytg24

• Il Giornale della Libreria alla Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Ecco il numero di marzo

• Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: il programma e le novità. Daniel Pennac tra gli ospiti

 

- Lara Abrahams