Adam Critchley

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U.K. Publishing in 2025: Three Indie Presses Find Success in Translation

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Adam Critchley

The U.S. has become an increasingly important market for small literary U.K. publishers. That is especially true for publishers working in translation, and even more so for those that have attracted attention from award juries.
Literal Publishing Celebrates a Decade of Bilingual Books

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Adam Critchley

Rose Mary Salum is somewhat dismayed by how little has changed since she founded the Houston-based bilingual press Literal Publishing in 2015. “When I started Literal, there was already an anti-immigrant sentiment,” Salum says.
Hack a Friend Gaming Console

Dec 24, 2024 | hackster.io | Adam Critchley

Things used in this project Nordic Semiconductor MDBT50Q-1MV2×1×1Analog Devices MAX98357AETE+T×1Texas Instruments BQ24072RGTR×1×1Amphenol 10152803-00011LF×1STMicroelectronics SMBJ5.0A-TR×1×1Unexpected Maker GP0115ACCG30×1Unexpected Maker R1515H033B-T1-FE×1Unexpected Maker R1154H033B-T1-FE×1Unexpected Maker S2B-PH-K-S×1Unexpected Maker VG1040003D×1Unexpected Maker TC2050-IDC-NL×1Play CTF attack and defend style games with your friends or foes. Attack your friends game device and defend your own.
Guadalajara Book Fair Puts Spanish Audiobooks in the Spotlight

Dec 11, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Adam Critchley

The Guadalajara International Book Fair hosted its first forum dedicated exclusively to audiobooks this year, reflecting the format's increasing popularity and recent production surge in Spanish-language markets. The forum featured five panel discussions and keynote presentations by Audio Publishers Association (APA) executive director Michele Cobb, Audible country manager for Mexico Anasofía Sánchez, and Javier Celaya of Spain’s Dosdoce.
Guadalajara Book Fair Broke Records for Attendance, Participation

Dec 10, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Adam Critchley

This year's Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), which closed on Sunday, was the largest in the event's 38-year history, with a preliminary attendance of 907,300 visitors before the final day of the nine-day event, up from 857,315 in 2023. The fair's children's pavilion, FIL Niños, drew 194,239 visitors, and Spain's delegation of 300 people was the largest ever from a guest nation of honor. (Spain will return for FIL 2025, slated for Nov. 29–Dec.
Guadalajara International Book Fair 2024: A Surge in Spanish-Language Audiobooks

Oct 21, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Adam Critchley

The 2024 Guadalajara International Book Fair will host a one-day forum focused on audiobooks on December 3, Foro Audio FIL, organized by the FIL, Audible, Mexican audiobook publisher Audiolibre, and Spain-based digital-publishing-focused portal Dosdoce. At the forum, Dosdoce founder Javier Celaya will present a keynote on the international trends in audiobook production with data from the second annual “Map of the Audiobook Industry in Spanish,” published earlier this year.
Guadalajara International Book Fair 2024: “A Two-Way Street”

Oct 21, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Adam Critchley

At a press conference earlier this year announcing Spain’s guest of honor program at FIL 2024, Ernest Urtasun I Domènech confirmed a trend that’s been apparent to anyone paying attention to the global publishing scene: the Spanish publishing industry is enjoying a renaissance. “We’re going through a great moment for literature in our country, with an array of talented young writers,” Domènech said.
Guadalajara International Book Fair 2024: Spain in the Spotlight

Oct 21, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Adam Critchley

The 2024 Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), set to run November 30–December 8, promises to once again be one of the world’s most vibrant celebrations of literature, with some 18,000 publishing professionals from 54 countries expected to attend, in addition to more than 850 authors from 43 countries writing in 19 languages. Among those attending is a significant contingent of American librarians, as well as a growing number of publishers and rights representatives.
Guadalajara Fair Names Its 2024 Indigenous and Romance Language Honorees

Sep 5, 2024 | publishingperspectives.com | Adam Critchley

The two major prize-winners of the 2024 Guadalajara International Book Fair are Mia Couto and Ruperta Bautista Vázquez. By Adam CritchleyHonoring Romance- and Indigenous-Language Literature As our Publishing Perspectives readers know, the annual the Guadalajara International Book Fair always features two highly prized awards issued well before the sprawling fair itself, this year running November 30 to December 8.
Audiolibre's Elena Bazán and Álvaro Ortiz in Mexico: Audio First

Jul 16, 2024 | publishingperspectives.com | Adam Critchley

Still in its first year, Mexico’s Audiolibre creates Spanish-language audio-first productions from books, to make “something richer.’By Adam Critchley‘A Bigger Experience’ Amid glowing reports of growth in the Spanish-language audiobook markets, the Mexico City-based production company Audiolibre says it’s targeting the United States market, despite faster growth for the format in Latin America reported by the Madrid-based consultancy Dosdoce‘s reporting this year.