International rights directors at two UK publishers are potential ‘Nibbies’ winners this year. Today, they survey the continued importance of rights to an industry in search of new revenue channels.
Publishing Perspectives spoke with two of the nominees to get some of their thoughts on the industry’s rights landscape, and looks forward to talking with more of the shortlisters between now and May 8. Since our exchanges have occurred in this instance, quite soon after London Book Fair, that event was high in our minds. And we’ve started with the nominees from two houses focused primarily in nonfiction: Summersdale and Quarto Group.
Karine Marko is group foreign sales director with the Quarto Group Inc (LON:QRT), which is one of the most internationally positioned independent publishers in the world, with a catalog of more than 10,000 illustrated titles that comprise work from some 50 countries in 37 languages. Topics run from how-to in art instruction to graphic design, home improvement, cooking, gardening, motoring, and crafts. Marko manages a team of people who collectively speak 12 languages and come from 15 nations.
