The Bookseller - News - Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Export editions 'cannibalising' sales in Europe as horror, fantasy and romance soar

Juliet Mushens of Mushens Entertainment said: "Conversations around the threat of English-language export editions to translation editions continue, particularly in the Dutch market. There is definite pressure there for the Dutch to be able to publish simultaneously or ideally ahead of the cheaper English edition."

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Please include return postage if you would like your manuscript returned to you. US rights handled by Janklow & Nesbit Associates in New York. explained that certain publishers in the Netherlands have even stopped working with some of their authors, and the issue seems to affect literary writers from the UK the most.

The prevalence of English-language editions is making the market very competitive for authors writing in English, and agent Madeleine Milburn said that this may be leading some editors to prefer local writers. Milburn said: "International editors are publishing a lot more homegrown talent and only offering for the very best voices from the UK and US, given the competition with export editions cannibalising their sales, and the increased costs of translation." She also noted a "huge growth in translated fiction".