It’s that time again. We leave behind the luminous, rapturous accounts of heated snapping up of a few projects in advance of an upbeat rights fair to give you a look at the actual data on the marketplace for new book projects over the past five weeks, starting March 5. As usual, today we provide a preliminary look at the breakdowns — from which the trends are already quite clear — and we will follow up Tuesday morning, when the London Book Fair formally opens, with the final totals. Coming off a year in which some of the biggest names […]