Archives for March 2026

The changing market for English-language rights in Europe continues to be a book fair topic of conversation. In his talk on Tuesday morning, PRH UK ceo Tom Weldon spoke about Piper, an imprint of Bonnier Germany, acquiring the exclusive English-language European rights to Bonnie Garmus’s new novel PECK & PECK (Scribner is publishing it in the US). Garmus’s first book, the international bestseller Lessons in Chemistry, was published by PRH, as well as Piper. Weldon said that letting Garmus’s book go was a decision based on the rights structure: “The reason was a very important principle for us, which is […]

On day two of London Book Fair, chatter on the convention floor kept returning to how to revive nonfiction. Meanwhile, the programming continued to address audio, AI, and declining attention spans. Niamh Parsley, head of product & design for audiobooks at Spotify spoke about Page Match, noted that the company has tracked about a 50/50 split between people who come looking for a specific audiobook and people who happen upon a book they want to listen to. “We’re not relying on authors to bring their audiences to Spotify,” she said. Additionally, the app uses data from customers’ listening to help […]