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Weidenfeld & Nicolson has appointed Juliet Annan, founder and publisher of Fig Tree, to the role of publishing director.

Authors Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Shalom Auslander and Howard Jacobson are headlining Jewish Book Week this year, taking place from 25th February to 5th March 2023 both online and in-person at Kings Place, London. 

Journalist Reeta Chakrabarti will chair this year’s BBC National Short Story Awards (NSSA), alongside Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle, award-winning author and lecturer Okechukwu Nzelu, BBC Radio books editor Di Speirs and bestselling novelist Jessie Burt

The most popular digital books borrowed from libraries in 2022 via OverDrive have been revealed, with Richard Osman, Matt Haig, Bella Mackie and J K Rowling topping the charts. 

Rita Fürstenau of Germany's Rotopol Press talks about comics, graphic storytelling, and the rights outlook ahead of the 50th Angoulême. The post Rights Edition Interview: Germany’s Rita Fürstenau appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Iradj Bagherzade, founder and chairman of I B Tauris, has died aged 80.

Gina Centrello, president and publisher of Random House in the US, is retiring after 23 years leading Random House and more than 40 years in the book business. 

Assallah Tahir has been promoted by Simon & Schuster UK to editorial director from her previous role as senior commissioning editor on the adult non-fiction editorial team. 

Works of Roger Tory Peterson, John Brooks, and HW Janson have been added to International Literary Properties' collection. The post Rights Edition: International Literary Properties Adds Nonfiction Estates appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, has announced it will not be going ahead with a planned adult colouring book tie-in to Colleen Hoover’s bestselling It Ends With Us – which deals with the theme of domestic violence – following criticism.