Weekly Roundup: June 9th-15th

Happy Monday from Bologna Global Rights Exchange!

This week we mourn the loss of writer Edmund White as well as acknowledge the classics of our time thanks to the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction.

Developments, fears and ideas regarding AI are ever so important to be aware of as the industry is challenged by this swooping revolution of thought and approach.

It can feel hard to keep up with news these days, but that's why this roundup comes your way every Monday to shine a light in the endless stream of information we should know about and books we must read...

With that said, buona lettura!

 

• Spotify’s audiobook push sparks publishing industry growth 

• BookBreak Offers Authors on Demand

• Will The Fear Of Being Confused For AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently? 

• The broken midlist: why it’s harder than ever to be a ‘moderately successful’ author

 

• The Women's Prize 2025: we talk to the winners

• Queen Camilla surprises booksellers for special Women's Prize event

• Wimbledon BookFest to host Jacinda Ardern

• Four debuts shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2025 alongside three former winners

 

• How groundbreaking gay author Edmund White paved the way for other writers 

• Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression 

• ‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark 

 

• Forse l’Intelligenza Artificiale sa scrivere, ma non sa leggerci dentro

• Edicole, distributori ed editori: stanziati 82 milioni per il 2025 

• Nasce il Master Luiss in Diritti d’autore e tecnologie delle industrie creative. AIE, nel comitato promotore, offre due borse di studio