Auf Wiedersehen

Despite a reconfigured layout and lighter foot traffic, attendees tell PW that this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair has still facilitated plenty of dealmaking and provided a platform for major announcements, including Audible’s plan to bring its audiobooks to five new countries next year, echoing a similar move by Spotify also announced at the fair. Back in the U.S., Rebecca Yarros’s story collection Threshing Day, published last week, has already become the third bestselling book of the year. In other news, Knopf has released a statement confirming Cormac McCarthy’s authorship of the 2022 novel Stella Maris in response to a New York Times Magazine article about the late author. For the Walrus, Tajja Isen argues that declining nonfiction sales reflect publishers’ neglect of category more than changing reader preferences. Lin King, who won the International Booker Prize for her translation of Taiwan Travelogue, claims a European publisher is infringing her copyright through “relay translation”—the practice of bringing a translation, rather than the original work, into another language—via Lit Hub. USA Today and its subsidiary newspapers are the latest publications to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement after filing in a Manhattan court on Thursday, Reuters reports. Alta reflects on the impact of Brad Listi’s Otherppl podcast, which has hosted in-depth author conversations for 15 years. And Scottish crime writer Peter May has died at 74.