Welcome to the last episode of season two of the Make Books Travel Podcast!
I’ll be taking a break for the next month or so in order to focus on my virtual and in-person meetings before and during the Frankfurt Book Fair.
I’m SO excited to be taking part in the fair, and to be back in Europe for the entire month of October after having stayed put in California for the last 19 months.
Today’s guest, Edward Nawotka, is the international and bookselling editor of Publishers Weekly and co-founder of Publishers Weekly en Español. He’d just returned from a trip to the Madrid Book Fair which we’ll discuss, as well as Publishers Weekly en Español, the state of independent bookselling in the US, and the biggest shifts he’s noticed during his many years covering the international publishing scene. We talk about much more but I’ll leave it up to you to discover…
- The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
- The Passenger & the Compass series, from Europa Editions
- Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler
- Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
- The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
- Too Old, Too Late Smart by Gordon Livingstone
Ed Nawotka is the international and bookselling editor of Publishers Weekly and co-founder of Publishers Weekly en Español. Prior to that he was the founder and editor of Publishing Perspectives. Ed has covered the book business for more than two decades, for publications including Bloomberg News, the New Yorker, People magazine, and USA Today. Prior to that he was a foreign correspondent working across Europe, Asia and Africa. He began his career in books as a bookseller for Doubleday Bookstores in Boston. He lives in Houston.
S3 E9: A Close Look at the Romanian Publishing Market with Ana Lotts-Nicolau
S3 E8: Agent Yasmina Jraissati on Selling Arabic Literature Internationally
S3 E7: The Place of Literary Agents in France: An Interview with Sophie Langlais
S3 E6: Les Argonautes Founder Katharina Loix Van Hooff on Making European Literature Travel to France
S3 E5: The Australian Publishing and Bookselling Landscape: An Interview with Penny Hueston
S3 E4: A Close Look at the Finnish Publishing Market with Outi Karemaa
S3 E3: Amélie Louat on Leaving International Publishing to Open an Indie Bookstore
S3 E2: Looking at the Japanese Publishing Market with Manami Tamaoki
S3 E1: A Conversation with Stella Jóhannesdóttir, Director of the Reykjavík International Literary Festival
S2 E21: Author, Translator, Publisher Lawrence Schimel on Book Hunting and Much More
S2 E20: An Interview with Astra Magazine's Editor-in-Chief Nadja Spiegelman
S2 E19: Marie Vinter on Danish Publishing & Starting Vinter Forlag
S2 E18: A Deep Dive into the Audiobook Market with Lance Fitzgerald
S2 E17: Prashant Pathak on Weathering the Pandemic in India and Publishers Without Borders
S2 E16: Natalia Poleva on the Current State of the Russian Publishing Market
S2 E15: Sherif Bakr Discusses the Latest Developments in the Egyptian Publishing Industry
S2 E14: Challenging the Amazon Empire: Bookshop.org Founder & CEO Andy Hunter
S2 E13: Being an Acquisitions Editor in the Educational Publishing Market: A Conversation with Allison Scott
S2 E12: An Interview with Deborah Kaufmann, VP of Literary Affairs at Legendary Entertainment
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