NEWS
Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 The headlines
Out 30th Nov
FEP urges MEP lobbying on copyright CUP launches trade-focused
The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) is calling on trade figures across the continent to lobby Members of the European Parliament to combat the “fake mobilisation” of tech giants and “copyleſt” activists as a key vote on the EU’s controversial copyright law reform looms.
The EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market is the legislation meant to update existing copyright laws for the internet age. The directive has been divisive, with creators and rights-holders broadly in favour of the reforms, while opponents fear the plans could restrict the flow of research and destroy user-generated content, memes and parodies. Tech conglomerates are particularly angered that the changes put the onus on them to ensure copyright agreements are in place for content shared on their digital platforms. Aſter its first stage in the summer, the European Parliament voted to proceed with the law in September. FEP director Anne Bergman- Tahon said “reason prevailed” in September, adding: “[The direc- tive] largely respects a balance. To take an example, it allows text and data mining for scientific research, and only permits it for commercial purposes if the rights-holders can oppose it, including by technical means.” The directive now enters
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What we as publishers need to do is call our MEPs, email our MEPs, and we need to say, 'We create jobs, we create wealth, we create culture. Defend us'
ANNE BERGMAN-TAHON SAYS PUBLISHERS APPLYING PRESSURE IS ESSENTIAL
the crucial Trialogue phase—where the European Parliament, Council and Commission thrash out the details—with a further vote slated for February 2019.
The FEP is asking publishers
to make their voices heard, against what will likely be a huge campaign funded by tech giants. It was widely reported this summer that Google alone spent €25m–€30m on lobbying EU politicians on the issue. In the run-up to the summer vote, MEPs were sent hundreds of thousands of emails—the bulk favouring a broadening of, and more exclu- sions to, current copyright law. An investigation discovered the vast majorit of these emails came from outside the EU, and were sent
Whitehouse joins Fourth Estate with new police procedural series
Psychological thriller author Lucie Whitehouse is moving from Bloomsbury to Fourth Estate and changing gears with a new crime procedural series. Helen Garnons-Williams, publishing director at Fourth Estate, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to two new books by Whitehouse from Victoria Hobbs at A M Heath. Whitehouse has published
four novels for Bloomsbury— including bestsellers Before We Met and The Bed I Made—which
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collectively have shifted 171,000 units through Nielsen BookScan UK. The first title in the Fourth Estate deal, Critical Incidents, introduces disgraced former Met homicide detective Robin Osborne, who is forced to return to her parents’ home in Birmingham to work as an insurance-fraud investigator and share her former teenage bedroom with her own teenage daughter, aged 13. Osborne then discovers that her best friend, Corinna, is dead, and
Anne Bergman-Tahon, FEP director
Cambridge University Press has established a new trade programme in response to the boom in “brainy non-fiction”. It follows CUP’s success with recent titles such as James Williams' Stand Out of Our Light, on the effect of technology on our attention spans, and evolutionary psychology study Te Ape Tat Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams. Te 30-40 titles a year in
automatically. Bergman-Tahon said: “[It] was bots, it was a fake mobilisation, completely unrelated to realit. What we as publishers need to do is call our MEPs, email our MEPs, and we need to say, ‘We create jobs, we create wealth, we create culture: defend us.’” The final outcome is not just a regional mater, Bergman-Tahon noted, as “this is going to be the copyright model for the rest of the world”. She added that regardless of Brexit, UK publishers should still contact their MEPs before the planned EU exit in March 2019: “Post-Brexit UK copyright legislation may not be the same as the EU, but there will be a need for smooth, if not free, circulation.” Reporting Tom Tivnan
Robin Osborne is a fantastic character— impulsive, flawed, funny, deeply relatable
Helen Garnons-Williams, Fourth Estate
Corinna’s missing husband is wanted for murder… Garnons-Williams said:
“Robin is a fantastic charac- ter—impulsive, flawed, funny, deeply relatable—who will appeal to anyone who loves the novels of Susie Steiner, Tana French and Robert Galbraith.”
LUCIE WHITEHOUSE DEPARTS BLOOMSBURY TO JOIN FOURTH ESTATE
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the programme won't carry special branding, but will receive particular focus in terms of sales, marketing, editorial and design. Te list will focus on history, politics, economics, psychology and climate science. Executive publisher Michael Watson, who heads the scheme, said: “As well as [repackaging] books we’ve traditionally published, we’ll be picking up more, and making CUP more of a destination publisher for academics who want to write for a broad audience. Look at the success of Sapiens or Prisoners of Geography: the world is very much in flux, accepted truths are being questioned, and people are looking for guides. We can [deliver] that.” Out on 30th November will be
On the Brink: Trump, Kim and the Treat of Nuclear War by former Pentagon insider Van Jackson; and in February 2019 comes Tere Is No Plan(et) B by Mike Berners-Lee, a look at environmental challenges and how they can be addressed.
Photography: Jaime Turner
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