Edward Nawotka

May 17, 2024 | canallector.com | Edward Nawotka

Friday, 31th May Readmagined by Bookwire 9:30 – 9:40h Introduction to Readmagined by Bookwire, by Jens Klingelhöfer, CEO and cofounder of Bookwire 9:40 – 10:20h New audiences and where to find them By Edward Nawotka, Senior International and Bookselling Editor at Publishers Weekly.

Dec 26, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Edward Nawotka

Donald Barliant, co-owner of Chicagoland bookstore chain Barbara’s Bookstore, has died. He was 86. Barliant purchased the original Barbara’s Bookstore in 1967 and helped the store expand across Chicago and the United States.

Dec 19, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Edward Nawotka

The Association of American Publishers will not name a single winner of its International Freedom to Publish Award this year, instead acknowledging the work of "all publishing houses in multiple countries and regions of the world that continued to publish in the face of increased government pressure, harassment, and threats." The prize committee added that several publishers noted that the increased attention that such an award brings can cause more trouble than good and spark reprisals.

Dec 15, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Edward Nawotka

Mitchell Kaplan has been an influential fixture in publishing since he founded the bookstore chain Books & Books in Miami in 1982. Kaplan has contributed to the book business in numerous ways that go beyond selling books. These include cofounding the Miami International Book Fair, which emphasizes the city’s diversity with programming in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole, and helping to raise more than $60,000 for Ukrainian authors, publishers, and booksellers.

Dec 15, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Edward Nawotka

The year 2023 will be remembered as yet another year of surging efforts to ban books across the United States. But it will also be remembered as the year when some of the most vulnerable members of the book community—indie booksellers—took a stand against one of the most high-profile state book banning laws in the nation: HB 900, Texas’s controversial book rating bill.