You may know that the London Book Fair is moving for 2015 and beyond. But what you may not know is that its new home, the Olympia London, is pretty spectacular. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A late addition to the hot books at the London Book Fair is a debut novel called "Hausfrau" that Random House's David Ebershoff preempted world rights to on Friday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers from Belorussia, Pakistan, India, Denmark, Australia, Malaysia, the U.S. and China were among the winners of the first London Book Fair International Book Industry Excellence Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
With the recent consolidation of Penguin Random House fresh in everyone’s minds, this year’s London Book Fair Great Debate argued the proposition: "It’s all about size, bigger is always better." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
While no single title has emerged as the hot book of this year’s London Book Fair, a number of titles were generating buzz as the trade show kicked off on Tuesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tthe Swedish super-agency came out in a big way with its top title at the London Book Fair, a crime novel called "Made In Sweden." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
With day one of the London Book Fair not yet closed, another book is emerging as a hot title: a memoir by "New Yorker" contributor Lauren Collins which has the working title, "French Lessons." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
"We cannot deny we are in an extraordinary transition," said author Anthony Horowitz, opening the sixth annual Publishing for Digital Minds Conference at the London Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Read the complete Day 1 coverage from the 2014 London Book Fair in this Scribd reader. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Read the complete 2014 London Book Fair Digital Spotlight in the Scribd reader below. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
For years, we’ve spoken and written about digital publishing, sometimes as if it was a separate part of the business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Powering more than 50 e-bookstores for publishers specializing in such subjects as fiction, academic, professional and romance has given Qbend COO Kaushik Sampath many unique insights on e-retailing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
On April 1, Michael Cairns officially replaced the retiring George Lossius as CEO of Publishing Technology. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The proliferation of digital devices in the classroom and the reinvention of education from traditional models to new, more interactive and individualized means of learning will change education publishing faster and farther than other segments, says executive director Bill McCoy of IDPF. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
For Cenveo Publisher Services, 2014 is the year digital strategies must deliver in terms of profits for its publisher clients. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Everyone knows that publishing is changing more than at any time since Gutenberg. But is it? I’ve always believed ebooks are much less of a disruption than was supposed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the formation of the Readium Foundation (Readium.org), an independent nonprofit launched in March 2013 with the objective of developing commercial-grade open source publishing technology software. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Recently, experts working on ORCID and ISNI, both ISO-standard identifiers, spoke with one of the founders of schema.org to facilitate their use as embedded persona references, particularly through extensions such as BibExtend. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Like many people across the business world, publishers have a skeptical view of so-called Big Data, seeing it as “the next big hype.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Removal of books by revered Palestinian poet from Riyadh publishing event is condemned by PEN as censorshipThe removal of works by the esteemed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish from a major book fair in Saudi Arabia for reportedly containing "blasphemous passages" has drawn widespread... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]