For our third Espresso with…, we are delighted to have interviewed Andre Bredt, Managing Director at Nielsen Book.
Take a look at the questions he chose to answer and his interesting replies.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Great Science Fiction.
The people! Both serious meetings and socialising is best done in person. Great food also doesn’t hurt.
Bookseller at a South African Bookshop called Fascination & Incredible Books
Depends where I am, travelling; ebooks on a smart phone, at home a physical book. Audio for very specific occasions, still prefer music to narration. Though kids audio books for long drives are life savers. All formats have their place.
Barolo
The Lord of the Rings extended edition, all three parts.
Large Language Model generated text and piracy. The industry already struggles with a constant barrage of scraped piracy, this is set to grow exponentially. Clear sensible rules need to be set and agreed, globally. And then somehow enforced.
Like many of these questions, its almost impossible to choose. Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu.
If everyone would use ISBN’s as unique identifiers properly. It is a great standard, we should be proud of it and use it!
GALLERIES
GLOBAL RIGHTS EXCHANGE
FAIRTALES