Category: Iceland
Iceland’s Storytel Dispute: A Clash of Values
“Literature and art are created exclusively by artists and not machines,” says the IWA, seemingly completely ignorant of the history of global literature, where technology has augmented – not replaced – human creativity.
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Iceland’s Literary Heritage: Recycled Calfskin Parchments Reveal Their Secrets
Now, research focussed on identifying and reconstructing forgotten Latin fragments from medieval Icelandic manuscripts, is revealing the theological and liturgical texts that connected medieval Icelanders to broader European intellectual culture.
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It’s pronounced “Jol-a-bok-a-flot”. Iceland’s Jólabókaflóð revisited
Here at TNPS I adhere firmly to the three-Christmases principle: The pagan winter festival that...
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Iceland’s Publishers Association Book Fair sold 1 book for every 4 residents
Fully one third of all books consumed in Iceland are audiobooks. 97,829 books sold at any book...
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Iceland’s Bókmenntahátíð í Reykjavík kicks off next week with the inaugural Halldór Laxness Award among many attractions
If it’s 2019, it must be time for the bi-annual Bókmenntahátíð í Reykjavík which this year has a...
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Nordic Council Children’s and YA Literature nominations announced at Bolgna
At the International Children’s Book Fair in Bologna this week the 12 nominations for the Nordic...
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Storytel Q4 revenue up 27% in Q4. Streaming revenue up 42%. Subscribers up 48% to 533,000. 15 countries by end 2018
While not yet in profit, Storytel has made impressive gains over Q4 2017, with overall revenue up...
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Storytel launches in Iceland. Italy, Bulgaria and Turkey next?
Swedish audiobook subscription service Storytel launched in its tenth country today, adding...
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Storytel has 300,000 Swedish subscribers, a further 250,000 beyond and is aiming for thirty countries
The audiobook subscription service Storytel announced this past week that it has surpassed 300,000...
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Print sales down 43%. Ebooks sale up 60%. Will the 2017 Christmas Book Flood be good news for Iceland's publishers?
Come Christmas, and thoughts turn to northern climes. And in Iceland, thoughts turn to books, and...
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Iceland exports its authors as a prelude to exporting its books
Who’d be an Icelandic author? With a population of less than half a million and a language...
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