Year-to-date hardback revenues were down 7.5 percent in May at US$1.2 billion, paperbacks up 8.7 percent for $1.3 billion.

A newly issued license allows the UAE's Kalimat Foundation to produce content in line with the Marrakesh Treaty's stipulations.

The late Sonny Mehta's widow, Gita, has endowed graduate writing study programs in England and in the United States.