AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoAudiobooks: Spotify plans to bring its service to more than 180 markets by year-end, with titles in over 120 languages, including Italian. Monthly listeners rose 40% in the past year, even as music publishers accuse the company’s audiobook bundle of cutting royalty payments. Vatican Publishing: Pope Francis’s private diary, drawn from notes spanning more than three decades, is due out Nov. 24 in five languages and 94 countries. Venice’s History: Historian Alexander Lee’s new book, The First Ghetto, examines how Venice confined its Jewish community and how the word “ghetto” took on wider meaning. Italian Book Events: Colson Whitehead will open BookCity Milano 2026, while Ukraine is set to be guest of honor at the Pisa Book Festival; an Italian translator has also won the festival’s award for a Taiwan novel.
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