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Citing concern among publishers about retaliatory governments, AAP opts not to name a specific winner of its 2023 International Freedom to Publish Award. The post AAP’s International Freedom to Publish Award Casts a Wide Net appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Haji Glover returns as CFO to Scholastic, following a short stint with Amazon. Ken Cleary takes up Scholastic's international lead. The post Scholastic Names Haji Glover CFO; Ken Cleary Moves to International appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

US print book sales fell by only 2.6% in 2023 from 2022 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan, following a strong final pre-Christmas week. 

Firefly Press launches Ignite 2 in spring 2024, a programme to "demystify young adult and children’s publishing" following the success of Ignite last year. 

Haji Glover has been named Scholastic’s executive vice-president and chief financial officer, succeeding Ken Clearly who will transition to his new role of president of international. 

Hera Books has paid tribute to co-founder and previous m.d. Lindsey Mooney who has died aged 42.

The Society of Authors has launched a podcast channel, SoA Sounds, to host the ongoing ’SoA Advisory Clinic’ podcast.

Big Tech is the big talking point among trade figures’ New Year predictions, with AI looming large, while politics is likely to take centre stage as a number of key global elections will take place.

The costs of the cyber attack on the British Library are still unknown.

The number of indie bookshop openings rose for 2023 to 51 compared to 49 the previous year, though the number of closures has also increased.