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Felicity Bryan Associates agent Carrie Plitt has moved to New York, and will expand the firm’s presence, becoming its first employee to work abroad. 

The top prize at the Bologna Licensing Awards goes to Mattel for the Best Property of the Year. And she's blonde. The post At Bologna: The Licensing Trade Fair Names Its Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Shirley Yvonne Carby, Mitia Osman Tisma, and Anne Friebel win the inaugural PublisHer Excellence Awards at Bologna Children's Book Fair. The post At Bologna: PublisHer Names Its Inaugural Excellence Award Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Sean Garrehy, currently art director at Little, Brown, is joining HarperCollins to become art director across HarperFiction, HarperNonFiction, Avon and One More Chapter, where he will report to creative director Claire Ward. 

Pan Macmillan has launched US novelist Percival Everett’s first ever UK book tour as part of a major marketing and PR campaign for his new novel James. 

Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the “amputation” of Black British literature and queer history courses at Goldsmiths University of London, as part of a restructure threatening 130 academic jobs. 

Afro-Futuristic arts festival Black to the Future will reveal a ‘Manifesto for Black Futures’ at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton next month in partnership with Christie’s and the Royal Society of Literature. 

In transitioning Mensch Publishing to a 'wholly digitally-driven model,' Richard Charkin looks at the pros and cons. The post Richard Charkin: ‘Transitioning’ to Digital Distribution appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The British Library has announced that Sir Roly Keating will be stepping down as chief executive in April 2025, after 12 years in the role, and the Board has begun the process of recruiting his successor.

The Russian opposition politician, who died in prison in February, completed an autobiography which will come out later this yearA memoir by the late Russian politician Alexei Navalny is due to be published this autumn, publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced.The Russian opposition leader and pro-democracy campaigner began writing his book, titled Patriot, shortly…