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for publishing… ever’
How was your Frankfurt Book Fair? Penguin Random House
(PRH) was in buoyant mood, writes Andrew Albanese,
with CEO Markus Dohle hosting a boozy reception at the
publisher’s booth in Hall 6.2 to celebrate not only the
publisher’s recent success, but the industry’s resurgence.
“Many of you know that I’ve always been quite upbeat and
optimistic, I would say realistic, about the global publishing
industry and especially about our future prospects,” Dohle
told staff in a 20-minute speech interrupted multiple times
for toasts. And citing data over the last two years, he doubled
down on a claim he first made in his 2017 Frankfurt Keynote.
“This is the best time for publishing since Gutenberg.”
Certainly, PRH has reason to celebrate. The publisher
continues to pile up bestsellers and award-winners, including
Margaret Atwood, who this week was the co-winner of the
Booker Prize and who was at the fair. And PRH continues to
grow, “organically, and through acquisitions”, Dohle noted,
welcoming London-based children’s indie Little Tiger,
acquired this spring, to “the family”, as well as renowned
Brazilian publisher Zahar, in a deal announced earlier this
month; and in the US, Dominique Raccah’s Sourcebooks,
in which PRH took a 45% stake this past May.
Dohle’s speech was aimed at celebrating more than
PRH’s success, but the success of the industry – an industry
that started the decade on an uncertain footing amid a
global recession, and a digital revolution some predicted
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would drag the book business down.
“Who would have thought that in 2019, 80% of our
global distribution is in physical formats? And that has
stabilized the entire book ecosystem. On top of that, our
audience is growing every year. Literacy rates are growing,
so we have more people on the planet who can read.
Children’s books are going through the roof.” These were
“the facts”, Dohle insisted. “So let’s change the image of
this industry. This industry deserves so much better.”
He closed his remarks by celebrating the work publishers
do. “I am very optimistic, and for very good reasons,” he
said. “But I also want to acknowledge that we live in difficult
times, both politically, in many parts of the world, and also
economically. And I want to remind all of you how important
the work is that you do every day. You guys curate deep dives
into stories, into narratives, and you bring them to market.
And before that, you check the facts. And you check the
truth. Which is becoming a very rare thing in today’s world.
Your work is perhaps more important than ever before.”
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Åsne Seierstad targets US Seierstad was speaking at

Norway’s country of honour
stage, and was talking about her
Åsne Seierstad, Bookseller of Kabul author and chronicler recent book, One of Us, on far
of wars and terror attacks, is turning her sights on America right mass killer Anders Breivik.
for her next book, looking at the rise of extremism and She said elements of Breivik’s
far-right terrorism. online manifesto, in which he
“It’s like a cultural civil war, the fracturing of the soul raged against Mulsims, were
of America. The rhetoric has become so harsh, and that’s almost identical to those used
important, because words matter and words kill. It scares by the American El Paso
me what is happening in that huge and important killer, “who just swapped
(l-r): session host Mara Delius and
democracy.” Mexicans for Muslims”.
Åsne Seierstad

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INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION, AND THE FUTURE OF
ACADEMIC PUBLISHING, WITH SPRINGER NATURE
Academic & Business Information Stage (4.2, N101)
Europa28 plans
At a panel event at the fair yesterday, Hay Festival
announced plans for Hay Festival Europa28, an initiative
designed to celebrate and enhance the contribution of
women to European literature, science and the arts. The
initiative features 28 women writers and artists, one from
each EU country. It culminates in a three-day event in
Rijeka, Croatia, from 3 to 5 June. Comma Press in the UK,
Fraktura in Croatia, and Galaxia Gutenberg in Spain will
publish an anthology of the women’s writings on the
future of Europe.

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Frankfurt – world rights

push
Publishers warmed to a ‘business as usual’ Fair, despite the
uncertainty over Britain’s EU status.
Puskin Press’ Adam Freudenheim said: “We’re worried
about the unknown aspect of Brexit, the continued
uncertainty. Whatever happens we just want to see an end
to that.” On whether it was a good fair, he said: “The
reality is it all depends on what books you have. I offered
on more books than previously, so just from our point of
view it is good; for the vast majority of editors the fair is
about networking these days.”
Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, said: Caroline Michel, CEO at PFD, said: “There are a lot of
“This year is my 26th consecutive Frankfurt Book Fair and books on the state of the world, on climate change, but
it’s as exciting as my first. The book business is growing Brexit is the thing that has focused British writers’ minds.”
and the importance of books in our culture and society is She added: “Publishers are a little cautious because of the
felt more than ever.” state of the world, it’s a challenging time.” There were bright
Doug Young, publisher-turned-agent at PEW Literary, said spots though: “Everyone is excited about audio”, there was
that the Brexit timing was as much a problem as anything a renewed focus on books to explain these turbulent times,
else: “Everything is happening right now – it is such an and she was investigating opportunities in India as the
embarrassment!” Nevertheless: “It seems like an average country’s English-speaking middle class expands.
year at the fair, neither violently up or violently down.” One sign of the underlying Brexit tensions came from
Peter Straus at RCW said: “It’s not as frantic as previous British author Robert Harris, at the fair to promote his
fairs, a bit quieter, but upbeat overall.” Ian Chapman, CEO latest novel. He revealed that he was moving house from a
at Simon & Schuster UK, identified a continued push for country village to London to avoid his leave-voting
world rights as the key theme this year, and added that in neighbours, describing the national mood as “like a sober
terms of visitors: “I think it is quite quiet.” old lady who suddenly has had a few gins”.

LitAg move: mixed

response
Views were mixed on the move of the agents’ trading area,
the LitAg, to a new site, the Festhalle.
The enormous festival hall space, akin to London’s
Albert Hall, is the opposite end of the Frankfurt site from
Hall 6, home of English-language publishers.
Puskin Press’ Adam Freudenheim said: “The location is
irrelevant and everyone I have talked to says it is so much
nicer [than the previous location in Hall 6]. The secret is to
arrange meetings in blocks.”
PFD’s CEO Caroline Michel was not a fan: “I cannot bear
that we are so far from the books and publishers – I feel
isolated down here.”
Doug Young, publisher-turned-agent at PEW Literary, said
the new location was “a magnificent setting”, although “it’s Guest of Honour 2020
a bit of a slog to get to for the publishers”.
Canadian journalist Nam Kiwanuka is pictured with Canadian
Peter Straus at RCW said the new location was an
Ambassador to Germany Stéphane Dion at the Guest of
improvement, with “fewer people getting headaches than in Honour Canada 2020 press conference, held yesterday.
previous Frankfurts”. In terms of location: “It’s not that
Photo: Erin Whittaker
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Rights in brief
Madeleine Milburn closed two major deals during the fair. In the first, she
sold US rights, for six figures, to Emma Stonex’s The Lamplighters. The
novel was acquired in a two-book deal by Viking’s Andrea Schulz after
what the agent called a “heated auction”. It has also sold in a number of
other territories, including the UK (Picador) and Canada, and is based on
the real life story of three lighthouse keepers who mysteriously
disappeared from a remote rock miles from the Cornish coast.
In the second deal, Milburn sold Michelle Adams’ Little Wishes to
HarperCollins for six figures after an overnight pre-empt. Lucia Macro
nabbed North American rights to the novel, along with a second book.
(The title sold earlier this year to Orion/Trapeze in the UK.) Milburn
described the book as a “sweeping love story” about a couple who “get a
second chance at love”. The book marks Adams’ women’s fiction debut,
after publishing two works of psychological suspense.
Quercus has sold at auction to Flatiron (Macmillan US) NA rights to
bestselling German thriller Dear Child by Romy Hausmann. Stef
Climate grief is hot
Thank Greta Thunberg, the teenage
Swedish climate activist, for helping
inspire a new category: climate
grief books. While there have been
numerous books discussing climate
change, few have been able to convey
the true sense of dread being felt
by millennials. One book that has
captured the imagination of
publishers internationally is Time and
Water by Icelandic writer Andri Snær
Magnason, who combines memoir,
scientific analysis and interviews
into what amounts to a lamentation – or possibly an obituary –
for the Earth. Published by Iceland’s Forlagid, the book has been
sold to publishers in Canada, the US, the UK, Italy, Hungary,
Germany and the Netherlands, among other countries.
Magnason’s grandparents mapped glaciers in Iceland,
and he was commissioned to write the commemorative
plaque for the first glacier “killed” by climate change. The
plaque reads: “Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its
status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are
expected to follow the same path. This monument is to
acknowledge that we know what is happening and what
needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.”
Open Letter Books is publishing the title in the US,
taking what is for the press the unusual strategy of
releasing a hardcover edition, with a first printing of some
1,500 copies. “It’s a call to action and is incredibly
powerful,” says Chad Post, publisher of Open Letter.
Dan Wells, publisher at Biblioasis, which is putting out the
book in Canada, concurred. “It is important for us to address
climate change. We think this book has potential to draw
attention to the issue and dramatically impact the conversation.”
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Bierwerth, publisher at Quercus, had bought world English rights to the
novel from Hausmann’s publisher DTV. The NA sale was handled by
Quercus rights director Rebecca Folland. Constantin Film has optioned
film rights, and there are translation deals in 12 territories.
Kimberley Young at HarperCollins has bought UK and Commonwealth
rights in two new books from Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting Party, from
Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown. North American rights have gone
to Katherine Nintzel, executive editor at William Morrow of HarperCollins
US. The Hunting Party has been one of the bestselling thrillers of the year,
and is due out in paperback at the end of October. Foley’s follow-up, The
Guest List, is due in hardback in the spring. HC aims to “cement Lucy
Foley as the most exciting new voice in the crime thriller market”.
Kishani Widyaratna, commissioning editor at Picador, has signed at a
“heated” auction “a powerful and ambitious memoir of personal and
national loss, family and migration” by Kayo Chingonyi, winner of the
2018 Dylan Thomas Prize for his poetry collection Kumukanda. Picador
has UK, Commonwealth and audio rights in Prodigal from Chris
Wellbelove at Aitken Alexander. Chingonyi was out of touch with his
paternal family for almost 25 years after being smuggled out of his home
in Zambia to live a new life in Newcastle. Prodigal tells the story of his
return and of the life that led up to it. Picador will publish in 2023.
Chingonyi remains with Chatto for his poetry.
Hodder has pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights (inc Canada) to
debut novelist Bethany Clift’s I Alone Survive and a second novel “in a
major deal”. Women’s fiction publisher Kimberley Atkins struck the deal
with Cara Lee Simpson at Jonathan Clowes. Italian rights have gone to
HarperCollins Italia.
I Alone Survive (2021) tells the story of a woman in her mid-30s who
has spent her whole life pretending to be what other people want. But
when a global pandemic strikes, she is forced to find her ultimate
independence in a world she is ill equipped to deal with. Clift is a graduate
of the Northern Film School and has had projects in development with Eon
and the BBC, as well as being a director of her own production company.
Face at Frankfurt
Kirsty Melville, president and publisher,
Andrews McMeel
Kirsty Melville
“This has been a very productive fair. We’re celebrating our
50th anniversary next year, which is very exciting. Our
Instagram poetry program [starring Rupi Kaur] continues to be
very successful, among the many other categories we publish.”
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Hope for copyright in both committees

affirm the position

Canada that the Association of

Canadian Publishers
(ACP) and our
After more than a year of study, the long awaited colleagues have put
parliamentary review of the Canadian Copyright Act forward for the past
wrapped up this spring with the release of two reports few years. After
prepared by parliamentary committees, writes Kate hearing from a broad
Edwards. And after years of difficulty, there is hope yet for range of witnesses
Canadian copyright holders. from the publishing
One report, Shifting Paradigms, prepared by the Standing and education sectors,
Committee on Canadian Heritage, focused on remuneration and legal experts
models for artists and creative industries and was welcomed and scholars, the
by rightsholder groups across the creative sector. Canadian committees concluded
writers and publishers celebrated its direct response to the that the expansion of
market challenges that emerged following the implementation fair dealing to include
of the 2012 Copyright Modernization Act, primarily in Kate Edwards education in 2012
relation to educational copying and fair dealing. has changed the behaviour of educators and students, and
Shifting Paradigms serves as a companion to a broader has resulted in a loss of revenue to Canadian publishers
report prepared by the Standing Committee on Industry, and creators.
Science and Technology, which led the parliamentary Crucially, where the Industry committee identifies the
review. Though the Industry committee’s recommendations problem, the Heritage committee proposes concrete actions
regarding fair dealing are restrained compared to those of that would go a long way to repair Canada’s damaged
the Heritage committee – for example encouraging further copyright framework, and promote a return to a
study of the issue rather than taking immediate action – functioning marketplace for educational materials. For

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example, the Heritage committee recommends amendments
to the Copyright Act to clarify that fair dealing should not
apply to educational institutions when a work is
commercially available. As a result, the committee
recognises the difference between a student photocopying
or scanning a few pages of a book to support their own
research, and the systematic, uncompensated copying of
coursepacks to support classroom instruction.
Legislative solution
Importantly, it presents a legislative solution to address this
damaging practice. Together the Industry and Heritage
reports represent an important milestone in Canada’s
continuing copyright saga. And what remains at stake is
Canadian publishers’ ability to invest in the development of
high quality, Canadian-specific educational resources that
reflect Canadian perspectives and serve local communities.  licensing fees for K-12 educational copying.
So, what happens now? The good news is that, working
across party lines, members of Parliament have recognised
the problematic nature of the Canadian education sector’s
copying guidelines and practices, and have called for
resolution of the issue. The timing of the reports’ release,
however, on top of an imminent federal election, means
that the current government will not formally respond to
the reports. With the election scheduled for 21 October, it
will be up to the next government – whatever its political
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stripe – to determine how to react to the committees’
recommendations. The net result: legislative reform is still
at least a year or two off, if it comes at all.
But despite the realities of the parliamentary calendar
and the legislative process, there is room for some
optimism. A decision in the appeal of Access Copyright vs.
York University is anticipated by early 2020, a decision we
hope and anticipate will uphold the Federal Court’s 2017
decision, which found York’s copyright guidelines unfair
and was a definitive victory for Canadian rightsholders.
Meanwhile, the K-12 and post-secondary sectors in
Quebec remain fully licensed following last year’s
settlement between Copibec and Université Laval, meaning
that when works are copied in Quebec schools, colleges
and universities, royalties are paid. And in late 2018, the
British Columbia Ministry of Education paid its annual
This marks the first collective licensing payment made
for use of K-12 materials (outside of Quebec) since 2012
and the introduction of fair dealing for education. This is
excellent news for Canadian writers and publishers, and
ultimately for the students and teachers who benefit from
the continued production of diverse Canadian-specific
learning resources. We hope it sets a trend. ■
Kate Edwards is executive director of the Association of Canadian
Publishers.
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Pluto Press at 50
Pluto Press is 50 this year. Veruschka Selbach gives five tips
for keeping a small radical publisher going for so long.
1. Ensure independence… work with brilliant people who
put mission first
In 1969, our founder, Richard Kuper didn’t think he would be
standing in the Crypt on Clerkenwell Green celebrating Pluto
Press’s 50th birthday. Keeping a small radical book publisher going
isn’t easy. He describes Pluto’s origins in a blog on our website:
“Pluto Press has its origins in the anti-Vietnam war movement,
the student movement and the militancy of grassroots workers’
organisation of the 1960s. The origins of this late-sixties ferment
made the launch of a far-left socialist publishing house possible.
“[After a few years of running the press alone] fortunately
for Pluto and socialist publishing, Mike and Nina Kidron were
in the process of moving to London with energy, enthusiasm
and a grander vision than I could summon up at the time.
“Mike and Nina were insistent that we formalise the endeavour
as a truly independent publishing project. Our decisions on what
to publish would flow from our vision of what was needed to
influence political activism and develop socialist analysis among
a new generation of activists. We really were living in the midst of
a vibrant world in upheaval with a buzzing range of alternative
movements and projects. We attempted to ensure that Pluto was
part of this, shaping and being shaped by this unprecedented
upheaval, and reaching our target readership by selling directly
to trades unions, student unions, women’s organisations and
theatre audiences as well as through the expanding network of
radical bookshops that emerged in the 1970s.”
In 1987, the list was acquired by Roger van Zwanenberg, which
gave Pluto a new lease of life. Roger and Anne Beech led the
company through the next 30 years, holding on to this vision as
well as its independence through a number of ownership models.
In 2018, Pluto restructured again to secure its independence
and manifest it as the social enterprise that it is. Roger van
Zwanenberg has created the Pluto Educational Trust, a charity
which owns the majority of the company. Staff members have
been given 10% and are represented on the board.
2. Floods happen… back up your data
In 2005 the washing machine upstairs overflowed, down into our
finance director’s office. Thoughtfully, he had backed up his data
on to an external hard drive. Unfortunately, the hard drive was
also on his desk. We lost all our sales data. We had to reconstruct
it, painstakingly, from previous reports and paper copies.
3. Stand your ground… make sure your partners and
suppliers understand you
Sometimes it’s hard. And sometimes it costs a lot. In the end, you
have to stand by what you publish. In 2007 Pluto published
Joel Kovel’s Overcoming Zionism, an insightful critique of the
contradictions of Zionism and a two-state solution in Israel.
The book was heavily opposed in the US by Stand With Us, a
pro-Israeli government advocacy group. They targeted the
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University of Michigan
Press, which was our
distributor in the US at
the time and forced it to
stop distributing Pluto
books. Moving
distribution cost us about
20% of our US turnover,
but we ended up with a
good partner who
understood our ethos.
4. Watch out for suing
Sheiks… check books for
libel, but don’t be scared
In 1999, Pluto published
John Cooley’s Unholy
Veruschka Selbach Wars, an analysis of the
US involvement in training and arming a quarter of a million
Islamic mercenaries in the 1980’s, including Al Qaida. In April
2001 we published Reaping the Whirlwind by Michael Griffiths,
a comprehensive picture of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
In September that year, the twin towers were destroyed.
Pluto had the only book-length analyses of the organisation
claiming responsibility and its supporters. Sales soared.
In 2003, however, we were sued by Sheik Khalid bin
Mahfouz for allegations of funding Al Qaida in Griffith’s
book. We had to concede and pay a large six-figure settlement,
which wiped out any profit we had managed to accumulate.
5. Get involved and stay involved… put your money where
your mouth is
At Pluto, we keep our ears to the ground, we listen and we
work with activists and authors who are at the forefront of
movements, campaigns and political projects. And everyone
at the company has a different take on what they perceive to
be radical. But, like any successful political project, it’s a
combination of our internal knowledge and understanding of
radical theory and economics, mixed up with an ever-changing
awareness of what people actually care about. Pluto is more
than just a business. We actively work to support campaigns
we think can stick a knife in the heart of the establishment.
We produce a monthly podcast called “Radicals in
Conversation” where we chat to people involved in campaigning
on the ground. This month we discuss the arms trade, “artwash”
and the power of political art, with artist Peter Kennard and
Rhianna Louise, an organiser at Art the Arms Fair.  We are
especially excited about launching our new Outspoken series
of short books, written by young people for young people,
unravelling debates on a variety of issues including sex education,
masculinity, feminism, mental health, and class and inequality. 
We also support radical initiatives in other ways. For example,
we donate books to Haven Distribution, which provides books
for prisoners, and to campaigns such as the Women’s Strike, the
Picturehouse Cinema Strike and the Grenfell Victims’ Fund. These
activities keep us from becoming complacent and isolated. ■
Veruschka Selbach is managing director of Pluto Press.
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Chris Sagers:
QA US vs. Apple,
lessons learned
It’s been roughly five years since the expiration of sanctions
placed on five major publishers by the US Department of
Justice for conspiring to fix ebook prices. And as 2019
draws down, American antitrust regulators – this time
encouraged by US publishers – have a new target in their
sights: the tech industry. But can America’s competition
laws effectively address the growing power and dominance
of a few firms in the sector? And what lessons can we take
from the Apple ebook case? Andrew Richard Albanese
recently caught up with Cleveland-Marshall College of
Law Professor Chris Sagers, whose new book United States
v. Apple: Competition in America uses the Apple case to
deftly explore the state of competition policy in America.
Looking back, the Apple ebook price-fixing case was not
close on the facts. So, what made the case so remarkable
to you?
The most remarkable thing to me was that so much of the
public opposed the suit, when to many antitrust lawyers
the case seemed very strong. But it turns out that’s not
uncommon, historically. And the fundamental conclusion
of my book is that antitrust cases often find popular
opposition, because antitrust is basically an effort to make
markets work like they should work, and in their ordinary
operation, markets are often machines for producing pain.
They cause businesses to fail, investments to be wasted and
jobs to be lost. So it can be very hard for the public to see
how an antitrust case, in which the government seems to be
insisting that all those things should happen, is actually for
the best. And the Apple ebooks case was an ideal case to
explore that, because the ordinary forces of competition in
this case – basically, a technological innovation that made
ebooks cheaper to distribute than print books – appeared
to jeopardise so many other values and businesses we can
all agree are important and good. But if we’re going to have
competition policy at all, we have to make peace with those
kinds of risks.
Why is it important to have public support for antitrust law
and competition policies?
Public support matters because if the public and the
judiciary don’t believe in a policy that keeps markets
vigorous, even though they’re sometimes unpleasant to
watch, then antitrust won’t be consistent and sustainable
enough to do us any good. The enforcement agencies are
not immune to political considerations, and they won’t
bring cases if they are unpopular, for example. And the
judiciary matter most of all, because they ultimately decide
what is illegal and what is not. But on the brighter side, in
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the book I show that
the consequences of
enforcing competition
policy are usually not
as bad as are feared,
and that the
alternative, not
enforcing competition
policy, would in fact
make things worse.

Case in point,
publishers and their
supporters argued they
were merely defending
themselves – and more
broadly, defending the
Chris Sagers very future of books –
from a marauding Amazon and their $9.99 ebook prices.
Was that a legitimate fear, in your opinion?
I don’t know what might have happened if the $9.99 ebook
price persisted, but I don’t think the publishers would just
have failed. They would have adapted. Now, that
adaptation might have been fairly painful. But what the
publishers were really seeking to preserve was their revenue
from new release hardcovers, on which they depend pretty
heavily. That was the real threat of Amazon’s $9.99 ebook
pricing. Although books in general obey the law of supply
and demand, commercial bestsellers are differentiated and
they don’t have especially close substitutes. So to the extent
that Amazon threatened anything, it threatened an
oligopoly that really benefited the big publishers’
shareholders and executives, and a very small group of
celebrity authors.

OK, but as you write in the book, Amazon is clearly

problematic. Can you talk a little more about how, in
hindsight, you saw Amazon’s play in the ebook realm? In
his closing arguments, Department of Justice attorney Mark You have the answer –
deliver great experiences
Ryan made a point I thought was key at the time – “who
knows how the market would have eventually dealt with

and lead the digital

Amazon’s $9.99 price point?” he argued. Was that the right
question? Or, was the supposed benefit to consumers from

transformation
Amazon’s low prices meant to obscure its true purpose in
enacting them?
That’s an excellent question. And yes, I do think Amazon is
a problem. But I don’t think its ebook prices are what
matters. Like I said, those prices were a frontal assault not
on books, but on a publishing oligopoly that was earning
substantial excess income on a particular set of bestselling,
highly differentiated books. But this is what is supposed to
happen in markets – when one firm figures out how to get
some supra-competitive profit, someone else will figure out
how to compete it away.
Instead, I think Amazon is a problem because it has
gotten very big, very fast, and by doing more than just
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selling cheaper or better products. It
has done a large number of strategic
acquisitions to neutralise
competitive threats. It has engaged
in a lot of very strong-armed
negotiations and contract practices.
But in the book, I argue that we
should use our antitrust laws to stop
that kind of stuff, too. My bottom
line on the role that Amazon played
in the ebooks case has always been
that if Amazon is a problem, sue
them. The solution is not to let the publishers collude, and
sue nobody.
As a reporter covering the case, I was always struck by the
fact that Apple, the world’s richest, most innovative
corporation, went through all this trouble because in the
ebook market they didn’t want to compete on price. Can
you talk a little about the environment we’re in where a
company like Apple, with every advantage in the world,
would conclude that it couldn’t or shouldn’t have to
compete on price?
I don’t think Apple believed that it couldn’t or shouldn’t
compete on price. It was a case of raw opportunism. The
evidence showed that Apple didn’t actually care about
ebooks. It was going to launch the iPad with or without an
iBookstore. But there was an easy profit to be had. As the
iPad launch drew near, Apple executives realised that the
publishers were so desperate to get the retail price of
ebooks up, that they would happily cut Apple in on their
profits, because the publishers’ only real concern was that
the $9.99 price would hurt hardcover new-release sales. In
a way, Apple’s opportunism was a mirror image of
Amazon’s – both companies knew that the publishers were
sitting on a pile of supra-competitive profit from their
bestsellers. The difference is that Amazon took it in a way
that benefited the reading public – at least in the short term
– and Apple wanted to take it for its shareholders.
In the US, the tech industry is now drawing antitrust
scrutiny. Clearly, there are many issues surrounding the
tech industry that need to be addressed. But are we putting
too much pressure on antitrust to rein the practices of these
big, disruptive companies?
That’s a good question, and no one can be sure. But my
whole book is devoted to the argument that technological
change is not particularly special or new. So, before we
revise or reject antitrust because we think it won’t work in
the new digital economy, I’d like us to try to actually
enforce the antitrust laws we have. We haven’t enforced
our antitrust laws for real in decades. I feel that if we had a
real merger policy, and solid monopolisation enforcement
for a good decade or so, we’d be blown away by how
flexible and appropriate it is to handle our purportedly
new circumstances. ■
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RELX Group overtakes Pearson as the
world’s largest publisher. Jim Milliot
reports
Declining sales in Pearson’s North America business combined
with divestitures dropped it from its long-time perch as the
world’s largest book publisher and into second place on Livres
Hebdo/Publishers Weekly’s annual ranking. The new book
publishing leader is RELX Group (formerly known as Reed
Elsevier), which posted publishing revenue (after converting
its sales from pounds to dollars) of $5.28 billion last year.
RELX moved into the top spot despite a 6% decline in
publishing sales in 2018 compared to 2017. The revenue
decline was due to a drop in revenue from RELX’s legal
division – which is built around its LexisNexis database –
which offset a gain in its scientific, technical, medical group.
Revenue from RELX’s event group (which owns BookExpo,
among many other trade shows) and its risk assessment
division are not included in the publishing revenue figure.
RELX’s accession to the top spot among publishers also
highlights how companies that began primarily as print
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book and journal publishers now rely on digital publishing
to support growth. In 2018, about 74% of RELX’s revenue
came from content sold in digital format.
Pearson’s publishing revenue fell 14% in 2018, though
stripping out the impact of divestitures and currency
movements, revenue was down 1% in underlying terms.
That 1% dip was due to a decline in the company’s US
Higher Education Courseware unit of 5% and mid-single-
digit declines in its US K-12 Courseware division, largely
offset by the rest of the business growing in aggregate at
more than 1%. Pearson sold the K-12 Courseware unit in
the first quarter of 2019.
Revenue in 2018 fell in seven of the world’s top 10
publishers, due in part to lower spending on educational
materials in the US. (According to the Association of
American Publishers, sales in the higher education market
fell 7.3% in 2018, compared to 2017, while revenue to the
K-12 market declined 4.4% in 2018.) Still, the top 10
companies in the ranking accounted for slightly more than
half of the total revenue of the 56 publishers who made this
year’s cut (minimum sales of $150 million).
The next 10 companies on the list generated another
20% of total revenue. This basic ratio has hardly changed
over the past decade. The full report from which this
ranking is drawn, as well as profiles of all the publishers
listed, can be viewed at publishersweekly.com/global50. ■
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publicly available sources or from individual companies and includes sales of publishing consultant Ruediger Wischenbart under the aegis of Livres Hebdo.
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EU Copyright Directive
The new EU Copyright Directive was finally approved earlier this
year, and it introduces (amongst other things) three new statutory
rights for authors that have the potential to significantly impact
rights contracts in the publishing industry, Zoey Forbes and
Alex Hardy write. These rights were introduced to address the
perceived imbalance in bargaining power between authors and
performers who transfer or license their copyrights to third
parties such as publishers or production companies.
EU Member States have until 7 June 2021 to implement the
Directive into their national laws and can do so at any time
within this period. As a result, the effective date and exact
scope of each right may vary between member states due to
differences in interpretation and implementation. The current
uncertainty around Brexit means it is unclear whether the UK
will implement the Directive at all.
The “bestseller” right
 Article 20 of the Directive grants authors the right to claim
“additional, appropriate and fair remuneration” from the
author’s licensees, transferees and their successors in title
when the remuneration originally agreed turns out to be
“disproportionately low” compared to “all the subsequent
relevant revenues” derived from the exploitation of the work.
At the moment, the extent of Article 20’s impact is unclear. What
is meant by “additional, appropriate and fair remuneration”?
How low is “disproportionately low” and at what stage should
that calculation be made? Nevertheless, this right will be welcomed
by both authors and agents as it will allow them to renegotiate the
financials of a deal when a work becomes an unexpected bestseller.
Publishers, however, will not only be concerned about how this
right will affect their financial calculations for individual deals,
but how it will affect their business model as a whole. Publishing
by nature thrives on the interplay between risk and reward,
with commercially successful books effectively subsidising
those which are less commercially successful.
Fixed-fee or “buy-out” contracts are expected to receive the
most scrutiny. We expect this right to have a smaller impact on
deals which are based on a royalty structure as here remuneration
automatically increases in line with sales, particularly where
there is a royalty escalator in play. That being said, authors may
use this right to obtain an uplift to low royalty rates. This right
also raises important questions about certainty of contract.
Publishers who have spent time and effort negotiating a
contract could have it unravelled later down the line.
So-called “bestseller” clauses similar to Article 20 have existed
in other countries for some time and do get used occasionally.
Earlier this year Andrzej Sapkowski, the author of The Witcher
series of novels, reached a settlement with CD Projekt Red
following his request for additional payment under the Polish
Copyright Act in respect of The Witcher videogames.
Right to transparency
Article 19 of the Directive grants authors the right to receive a
report at least annually from any party to whom the author has
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licensed or transferred his or her rights. The report must
contain information about how and to what extent the author’s
work has been exploited. This information must be “up-to-
date, relevant and comprehensive” and, crucially, disclose “all
revenues generated” and the remuneration due to the author.
This right continues to apply even when the author’s rights
have been sub-licensed or transferred to a third party.
Member states can consider limiting the scope of information
required where the administrative burden of the report is
disproportionate to the revenues generated and disapplying the
right if the author’s contribution is not significant in relation to the
overall work. Given the publishing industry has a well-established
practice of providing regular royalty statements, we do not expect
this right will require significant changes for most publishers.
However, publishers will need to start reporting on indirect
revenues, and potentially providing reports for assignments
and buy-outs of rights even where no royalties are due.
Right of revocation
Article 22 of the Directive grants authors the right to revoke
(in whole or in part) an exclusive licence or transfer of rights
where “there is a lack of exploitation of the work”, subject to a
reasonable period of time having elapsed since the conclusion
of the deal. In order to revert his or her rights, the author must
send notice and set a deadline by which the work must either
be exploited or the rights will be revoked.
When incorporating Article 22 into their national laws,
member states have wide discretions including providing
exceptions for multi-author works, applying a time limit to the
right and incorporating carve-outs permitted under collective
bargaining agreements. Given the range of discretion, it is
difficult to assess the impact on the industry’s current practices.
Some countries, such as Germany and the Netherlands, already
have a similar right codified in their national laws whilst
publishers in other countries offer reversion rights to authors by
way of contract. Once further detail is provided by each member
state, publishers will need to examine whether their current
reversion practices meet the new criteria and how to deal with
reversion in respect of author assignments or buy-outs. ■
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Harbottle & Lewis LLP. Alex Hardy is a Frankfurt Business Club Ambassador.
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earlier this year for the highest first week sales for any non-
fiction book, and now it’s racked up 950,000 in sales in six
months, plus more than 100,000 for the Pinch of Nom
Food Planner, with another follow-up due out before
Christmas. It’s already the sixth bestselling cookbook since
BookScan began in 1998 and will undoubtedly keep
moving up the list in the coming months. The five books
ahead of Pinch of Nom are: Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals
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and Delia’s How to Cook: Book One (Delia Smith), all of
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healthy eating books have gained a higher profile. Dave
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category to more than a million in sales back in 2013, and it
hasn’t dropped below that threshold since. It remains to be
seen if 2019 will match the Joe Wicks-driven peak of 2016,
but to mid-September, the category’s sales have already
surpassed full-year sales for every year prior to 2015. Even if
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the right information and the description of the book
appear more important (along with subject and price, knowledge
at your fingertips.
which are the top two influences for cookery overall).
Buyers of vegetarian cookbooks also show a higher
tendency to be swayed by recommendations/reviews, reading
an extract/looking inside and the book seeming like the best
book on the subject. There may be an ever-increasing number
of these cookbooks on shop shelves, but with Vegetarian
Cookery still somewhat of a niche area, buyers are taking
care to ensure that the contents of the books fit their
expectations and the recipes are worth the purchase. ■
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more information and to purchase Nielsen’s recent report on the UK Food
& Drink book market, contact infobookresearch@nielsen.com.

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A return to the Arab “The programme zone – opened its

doors and Sharjah
will provide an
world with Sharjah opportunity to
International Book
Fair will host its 37th
edition in 2019, having
Market Focus shine a light on the long been recognised
literature, and as the “go-to” book
fair in the region.
We are pleased to be working with partners in Sharjah this highlight the The Sharjah cultural
year to develop part of the Sharjah Market Focus cultural programme will
programme at the London Book Fair (LBF) in March 2020,
trends and topics provide an opportunity
writes Rebecca Hart. being explored by to shine a light on the
It has been 11 years since the Arab World Market Focus literature from across
and much has changed in the Arabic literary landscape. In
writers.” the Emirates, and
2008, the first year the British Council partnered with LBF highlight the trends and topics being explored by writers
on the cultural programme, we programmed more than 40 today. The British Council cultural programme will have a
writers from 22 different countries to showcase the breadth focus on poetry and children’s literature, as these are
of contemporary Arabic literature. At the same time, the particular strengths of Emirati literature and publishing.
International Prize for Arabic Fiction was established and most One of the cornerstones of our programme will be an
recently Omani author Jokha Alharthi was the first author Arabic translation workshop, which will take place in
writing in Arabic to win the Man Booker International Prize. Sharjah in early 2020. The British Council has delivered
It is clearly a moment to be looking to the Gulf to learn many workshops in the region, including in Cairo and Doha,
more about Arabic literature today. Sharjah’s participation as well as the recent Majaaz poetry translation workshop in
as LBF Market Focus is tied into their designation as 2019 Tunisia, which provided an opportunity for poets from the
UNESCO World Book Capital, the first Gulf city to be Maghreb and the UK to collaborate with one another. The
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to reconnect with some of these professionals, both from the

Emirates and across the region. The workshop is currently in
development, but we hope that it will include a programme
for both English>Arabic and Arabic>English translators and
that it will create opportunities for continuing professional
development, and skills and network building, as well as
provide a forum for translators to discuss some of the
issues and topics they face in their work.
Another programme we are planning is a reciprocal
residency programme which will involve a UK writer spending
two weeks in the UAE, and an Emirati writer spending two
weeks in the UK. During their residencies the writers will have
the opportunity to meet with other local writers, explore both
countries, participate in workshops and share sessions with
local literature professionals. The writers will then share
their experiences at the London Book Fair in March 2020.
Alongside the skills developed, the rights sold and the
literature showcased, the cultural programme also provides
a unique opportunity for the British Council to deliver
programmes which build direct connections between
individuals and organisations in the UK and UAE. We hope
that these connections encourage greater cultural
understanding between our cultures and lead to more
collaborations between writers, publishers and literature
professionals for many years to come. ■
Rebecca Hart is literature programme manager at the British Council. Cultural Roundabout in Sharjah

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The Selfies Awards

Self-publishing has come of age, aided by the digital
revolution and abetted by traditional publishers trimming
their publication programmes – and so the Selfies Awards
were born, writes Jo Henry. Initiated by BookBrunch to
help celebrate the very best in independent writing and
publishing, the Selfies were initially launched in late 2018
to reward the best fiction self-published in the UK that
year. With sponsorship from IngramSpark, providers of a
global publishing platform enabling both print and ebook
distribution for authors, and supported by the London
Book Fair, the Selfies presented its first award – a trophy
and a cheque for £1,000 – to Jane Davies during LBF at
London Olympia.
The judges were incredibly impressed with the standard
of work entered for the first Selfies, but the Awards aren’t Shortlisted 2019 Selfies UK authors, with, in front, Robin Cutler,
IngramSpark, winner Jane Davis and Jo Henry, BookBrunch
just for excellent writing: the publishing process is also
assessed too. An all-women shortlist of eight authors been the cause of rejoicing – but the search for truth had
showcased expertly self-published novels that covered a impacted their lives so dramatically that nothing could be
huge variety of genres and topics, including historical crime the same again. In addition to a beautifully judged story,
fiction, LGBQT and disability. The winning title, Smash all Davis had edited, produced and undertaken the marketing
the Windows, explored the complex emotions of the and PR for her novel in a hugely professional way, with all
families of the victims of a terrible disaster. Thirteen years of these aspects, and the results, taken into account by our
later, the undoing of a miscarriage of justice should have expert judging panel.

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After the success of the inaugural Selfies Awards it was

clear that we should be looking at launching similar Awards
in other countries with robust self-publishing markets, and
so the Selfies Awards US scheme was born. IngramSpark is
again the sponsor of the initiative, and the venture will be
powered by our colleagues at Publishers Weekly and
BookLife with the support of Combined Book Exhibit
(CBE). The search for the best fiction title self-published in
the US in 2019 will begin at the end of October this year.
The rewards for the winning author will again include a
cash prize, free entrance to BookCon 2020 and a package we’ve added another category, for self-published authors
of advertising in Publishers Weekly in both print and of children’s books. There’s been a lot of comment recently
online. In addition, CBE will showcase the winning and on the lack of BAME authors – and characters – in the
shortlisted titles at library conferences around the world. children’s books that are available in the UK, while
November will also see the launch of the second year of research has shown that a disproportionate number of
the Selfies Awards UK, again sponsored by IngramSpark BAME authors writing for children are self-published, so
and supported by the London Book Fair. This time round it’s doubly important that this new award helps support
those writing in this genre. One thing we’ve clearly identified
as something that indie authors struggle with is getting PR
for their books, so that is an area we’d like to concentrate
on improving for 2020 – and there will be many other ways
in which the Awards will evolve over the years! ■

For more details about the Awards, please go to www.theselfies.co.uk /

www.selfiesbookawards.com or email selfiesawards@bookbrunch.co.uk.

Jo Henry is the managing director of BookBrunch.

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Books for 20 million

Our warehouse, in Camberwell, wasn’t designed to process
books, writes Harry Boughton. It was in fact built to make
violins! But over the years we’ve transformed it into a hugely
efficient space, which can house up to 250,000 books. In
2013 we could send just 600,000 books a year. Last year
we sent 62 shipments carrying 1.28 million books, all
donated by our generous UK publishing partners.
Each book we receive into our warehouse is unpacked,
scanned into stock and then packed in a shipment tailored
for each of our 96 partners – a process that would be
impossible without our invaluable volunteers, many of
whom are from the publishing industry.
The books that our partners need really vary. The
Malawi National Library requires completely different
books for its branch libraries from those needed by a small
NGO working in a Greek refugee camp, and it’s our job to
make sure everyone gets the right books. That job is made
much easier by our publishing partners, who fine tune their
donations, providing exactly the sorts of books our
beneficiaries require and sometimes even shipping pre-
picked donations to us or to a partner overseas.
When the books arrive in a country, our partners
distribute them throughout their communities’ networks of
A few members of the group with their goats and one of the members’ husband
libraries, schools, universities, hospitals, prisons and
refugee camps. Their local knowledge ensures that the right
books reach the people who need them most.
More than 20 million people have access to the books that
publishers enable us to send every year – and behind that
number there are countless stories of books changing lives.
Last year, we heard from a women’s group in Zimbabwe
who told us about how they use the books: “All of us care
for orphans. By reading books we came to appreciate that
we could start a project to help ourselves. Here people like
keeping animals, but culturally in Zimbabwe women do
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started a goat project. Each one of us contributed a goat – we

had five to start with, and now we have 27 goats. The goats
provide the group with security in hard times, as well as milk.”
But of course, despite publishers’, volunteers’ and our
partners’ best efforts, things don’t always go to plan. Many of
the challenges we face will ring true to many warehouse teams
– constantly juggling space, a leaking roof, waiting for hauliers
to appear or the odd unwelcome furry visitor in the night. Other
challenges are a bit more unusual. Finding a safe shipping
route for our first shipment of books to Mosul, Iraq, took us a
full year. Eventually the books travelled overland through 11
countries, before crossing the Turkish border into Iraq after an Harry Boughton in the Book Aid International warehouse in London
unexpected delay in Bulgaria waiting for final customs approval.
Even with well-established sea shipping routes, we still face space generously provided by Sage in Peterborough, but with
surprises. Last year, we included a donation of wonderful demand for books continuing to grow we must find ways to
puppet books for our partners in Uganda, but unfortunately process more books and reach more people around the world.
customs decided that those puppet books were in fact toys. After In Mosul alone, we have committed to donating 50,000
several weeks of debate by email over what exactly constitutes a higher education books by 2020. Last year we extended
toy, the books eventually cleared customs and found their way our hours of operation until 8pm and developed new
to libraries across the country. With our experienced logistics partnerships with publishers – today we have more than
team, there isn’t much we haven’t been able to overcome – but 120 active book donors. By 2020, we hope to be sending
we know the next challenge is always just round the corner! 1.5 million books a year. If you would like to help by
Every week we receive dozens of book requests from around donating money, giving books or volunteering your time on
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Global challenges
Sir Philip Campbell reports on progress
towards the Sustainable Development Goals
With temperature records being broken on an almost-weekly
basis, fires raging in the Amazon and health emergencies
like Ebola never far from the headlines, the challenges
facing the world can feel insurmountable.
Research communities are integral to understanding and
addressing these challenges: whether analysing problems, like
the effect of atmospheric pollution on solar power generation;
developing new solutions such as more cost-effective photovoltaic
panels; or assessing the efficacy of new drug treatments,
research is providing the evidence and inspiring action.
So why such a focus of effort? The 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, ratified by 193 nations, and its
17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a call to
action by all countries to promote prosperity while protecting
the planet. They address the global challenges we face,
including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change,
environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.
The SDGs provide a framework for business and society to
work together to solve the world’s biggest challenges.
With just over ten years left to achieve them, many governments,
research funders and higher education institutions are directing
efforts to deliver on the commitments set out by the Goals
and to meet the 169 specific targets that sit alongside them.
Sustained interaction
To make meaningful progress towards the delivery of the
SDGs requires strong, sustained interaction not only between
professional communities, but also between the research fields
themselves. The approach to tackling urgent societal challenges
must be multi-disciplinary – as no one research area can solve
the challenges of global hunger, poverty or climate change.
This is where academic publishers come in, to support the
research community, who share their findings in our books,
journals and magazines, in their collective efforts to advance
discoveries and contribute to the delivery of the Goals. What does
this mean practically? At Springer Nature, our SDG Programme
is our direct response. Through this programme, Springer Nature
wants to better support researchers to gain the wider attention
of the policy and business communities who can put research
insights into action to solve regional and global issues.
We are doing this, firstly, by commissioning and targeting
research related to specific aspects of the SDGs, making these
articles more visible to key communities and by finding new
opportunities to partner and support the delivery of the Goals. For
example, by collaborating with researchers in multiple disciplines
we are able to develop significant publications about a sustainable
future of food from the oceans. In addition, Nature Research
journals have introduced new preprint policies, working closely
with InReview, to better support expedition of community
access to research related to health emergencies such as Ebola.
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Breaking down
disciplinary silos
Helping to break
down disciplinary
silos, both in
publishing and across
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community, is a major
objective of our
programme. We think
publishers can use
their expertise to help
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new connections and
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Sir Philip Campbell challenges highlighted
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Sustainability or the books in the Springer Sustainable
Development Goals series are able to bring together
research from the physical and natural sciences with
research from the humanities and social sciences.
This is also why we recently launched a new awards
programme for SDG-relevant books written by Chinese
scholars, launched at the Beijing Book Fair. Supporting this
growth in relevant research, the Springer Nature China New
Development Award recognises and profiles authors whose
work has made an impact on sustainable development research,
such as Professor Qiuhong Tan and Professor Quanshang
Ge from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural
Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
whose work addresses the health risks of climate change.
But we are not just looking at our work with researchers,
we’re also looking inwards at our own business and working
hard to manage and minimise the social and environmental
impacts of our publishing operations. We are reducing the
impact Springer Nature has on the environment by cutting
our carbon footprint and working with our suppliers to
ensure that only sustainably-sourced paper is used for our
books and journals. We have set targets to increase gender
diversity in the company’s senior management, and have
created networks and other programmes to build an
empowered and fulfilled workforce.
Springer Nature is committed to opening up research and
sharing it widely so that it is of use to policymakers and
business leaders as well as practitioners around the globe.
It is our aim that the positive actions we are taking will, in
part, help direct the efforts both of our research community
and our industry towards the sustainable and successful
achievement of the Goals set out. These challenges are not
going away and now is the time for us as a community to
really take focused action, work across our business,
disciplines and cultures, and direct our efforts collectively. ■
For more information: https://www.globalgoals.org and
www.springernature.com/sdg-programme.
Sir Philip Campbell is editor-in-chief at Springer Nature.
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Caroline Fortin. “Canadian inspired by the stories
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industries from all over the country, that met for the first people who’ve inhabited the lands for tens of thousands of
time in November 2017 for a day of brainstorming. The years, as well as the voices of more recent newcomers,
objective was to decide on a vision and values that would while still representing both of Canada’s official languages
help create a Canadian brand that would illustrate our of French and English.
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industry supply chain.
He points out that
although international
London, 15 August 2019, 9 a.m. and a café hidden away on shipping has a smaller
the outskirts of Covent Garden is filling up with book carbon footprint
industry professionals gathering together with one purpose than diesel train,
in mind: to discuss, learn and explore how our industry truck or air freight, it
might improve its carbon footprint and become is still nonetheless
environmentally greener and cleaner, writes Karina responsible for 2.1%
Urquhart. The venue is the Poetry Café, and the sold-out of all CO2 emissions
event about to begin is the August BIC Breakfast: Towards globally and fuel
a Greener Book Industry (#bicbreakfast). Attendees consumption could be
represent service providers, book distributors, printing and greatly reduced simply
logistics suppliers, publishers, data aggregators, shippers by slowing the ship’s
and trade bodies, and encouragingly the professional Karina Urquhart speed by 10%.
profile of representatives is also broad – after all, the state
of the planet affects and is affected by everyone. Green manifesto
As the session progresses, it becomes clear that our industry The BIC event is well
still has much to do environmentally. It also needs to shout timed; it follows fast
more about the great work already happening, do more of on the heels of the
that great work, and expand efforts into new areas perhaps Booksellers
not yet widely known about or considered. It is clear we Association’s (BA)
need to think about how we might all collaborate and announcement in July
co-ordinate to improve our green credentials, together. There 2019 that their Green
is a definite desire that these current and yet-to-come efforts Bookselling Task
be managed and communicated cohesively, collaboratively Force has now created a Green Manifesto calling primarily
and imminently to ensure that the book industry is doing on booksellers, but also the rest of the book trade to reduce
all it can to be cleaner, greener and sustainable. the environmental impact of many long-held practices and
processes. It is encouraging that the American and
Carbon footprint Australian Bookseller Associations are supporting the BA
As we know, increasingly, global book industry standards, regarding this manifesto.
such as ONIX and Thema, are being adopted worldwide The enthusiasm from the BIC Breakfast attendees, and
with a view to bettering international communications and the desire for a co-ordinated approach has led BIC into
discoverability, and increasing sales. Great news, but what discussions with various stakeholders as to how it can best
does this mean for the book industry’s supply chain? What support the UK book industry’s green interests. And given
is the size of our industry’s carbon footprint and its the global nature of the book industry, BIC is also having
consumption of plastic? How can organisations increase similar conversations with BISG (Book Industry Study
their sustainability whilst reducing their overall Group) in the US, and BookNet Canada. Building on its
environmental impact? And what does the future hold? existing programme of supply chain efficiency work, by
These questions face us now and they’re not going away. early 2020, BIC intends to announce its intentions in this
Back at the BIC Breakfast, attendees hear from Carly Griggs space with regards to the green agenda.
and Nick Sammons of Carnstone’s Book Chain Project, who As the BIC Breakfast draws to a close, Dave Thompson
provide an overview of publishers’ green issues and what is reveals that the world now has its first all-electric cargo
currently being done to address them. Neil Springall of ship which is operating in the Pearl River in China – good
Penguin Random House Distribution gives an update on the news you might think. The drawback is the ship currently
measures being taken by distributors to reduce plastic within transports coal! Clearly as a planet there is much work to
the industry (he reveals the shocking statistic that humans be done by us all. ■
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207 million humpback whales!) as well as organisations’ BIC will be hosting its Building a Greener Business seminar at London
responsibilities to carry out returns responsibly. Book Fair on 12 March.You can subscribe to BICs “Green Supply Chain”
mailing list (List 4) at https://www.bic.org.uk/188/Join-our-mailing-lists.
Dave Thompson of Publiship provides an overview of the
forthcoming IMO2020 green initiative, which will be Karina Urquhart is executive director at Book Industry Communication
introduced by the shipping industry next year, and explains Ltd (BIC).

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