As usual it’s time for our preliminary report on deal activity ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair (with our final tallies coming in a week), and it’s clear that September was a booming month for US dealmaking, across the board. We recorded our highest-ever September deal totals in all three major categories — nonfiction, fiction and children’s — with children’s deals rebounding the most after lagging this time last year. Overall, the 593 US deals reported this September was 26 percent higher than the same month a year ago (when the market was down 4 percent overall, and even more […]