Weekly Roundup: April 7th - 13th

Good morning from Bologna Global Rights Exchange!

AI is at the top of publisher's concerns, the 2025 International Booker shortlist has been released and Patti Smith has announced her new memoir - these are just some of the news at the top of our list of this week's roundup. 

Lots to think about, ponder and consider when approaching this everchanging industry...

With that said, buona lettura!

 

• 21 States Sue Trump Administration Over Scuttling of IMLS, Other Agencies

• Meta may have used Gerry Adams' books to train AI - BBC News

• Spotify To Invest To Develop French and Dutch Audiobooks - Publishers Lunch

• Pan Macmillan commends Sarah Wynn-Williams' 'brave' testimony on Meta to US Senate

 

• The IPA Prix Voltaire Announces Its 2025 Shortlist

• ​​Writing on the Wall celebrates 25 years of radical writing

• Here are the winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. 

• Indie publishers enjoy full sweep of 2025 International Booker shortlist for first time ever

 

• Bloomsbury to publish 'living legend' Patti Smith's new memoir

• Fantasy Novels for People Who Think They Don’t Like Fantasy

• Thomas Pynchon is publishing a new novel this fall. 

• Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy review – a classic that will be read for decades to come.

• 'Sporror' and The Substance: horror fiction spreads its spores as submissions pile in

 

• Ecco la rosa dei candidati all'IPA Prix Voltaire 2025 per la libertà di pubblicazione

• Editoria: la nuova collana “Bur Letteraria” debutta con Annie Ernaux 

• “La vita possibile”: una conversazione con Emanuele Trevi, curatore del Meridiano di Philip K. Dick

• Libri per ragazzi, l'editrice Lola Shoneyin: “La mia Africa alla riscossa” 

 

- Lara Abrahams