With the Bologna Book Fair over and the London Book Fair set to begin next Tuesday, April 12, it’s time for our first review of dealmaking trends (with an update Tuesday morning). Total domestic deals in the five weeks prior to LBF (starting March 7) are down modestly right now but should rise some by our final count. But one clear market shift is evident: A year ago Little Brown UK executive David Shelley told The Bookseller nonfiction was “the new black,” with those deals surging to a new pre-Fair high, but this year the opposite is true. Even though nonfiction gains […]