A return by the London Book Fair to the ExCeL Centre in Docklands is not a done deal, according... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The London Book Fair has begun a consultation over the fair's future location following the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Concern is mounting among the publishing community, in London and elsewhere, over a possible relocation of the London Book Fair to the ExCel Exhibition Centre in Docklands, the far east of the capital. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair was a busy one, despite another modest decline in trade visitors Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
What does the future hold for the world's first mega trade publisher, Penguin Random House? Check out this transcript of PRH CEO Markus Dohle's full remarks delivered at the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
If there a theme emerged from the deal-making at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, it was the dominance of HarperCollins as a buyer of big books, and of William Morris Endeavor as the seller of those books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Watch our Frankfurt Book Fair video interviews with Peter Usborne (Usborne Books), Bob Campbell (Wiley), Jamie Byng (Canongate), Richard Nash (Small Demons), and other leading figures in the publishing industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the big children’s projects that has bubbled up at Frankfurt is a series called Ferals that was acquired jointly by HarperCollins Children’s Books U.S. and U.K. last week, and has already been optioned for film. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
In what is rumored to be a deal worth $500,000, Jennifer Brehl at HarperCollins’s William Morrow imprint bought North American rights to Tina Seskis’s novel, One Step Too Far. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
At this year’s fair, piracy has been a noticeably absent topic, replaced by a new, more pressing concern for publishers in the digital age: pricing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Director of author marketing, Pat Brown, spoke about how the company remains, even after being acquired by Amazon, a place for authors and their fans. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The CEO of the recently merged mega-publisher Markus Dohle addressed a range of subjects. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two more books drawing buzz at the fair include a debut novel by Joshua Ferris's wife, and a co-authored book about friendship and the Iraq war. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
On the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Her Das Ungeheuer was honored as the year's best German-language novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The publishing industry is in the midst of a rapid, tech-fueled period of change, but what does that change mean for the future of the business? That was the question posed to an opening panel at the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair: What Is a Publisher Now? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
At an opening session at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, U.K. Publishers Association CEO Richard Mollet remarked that digital publishing was no longer in its infancy, but in the “voting and drinking stages of early adulthood.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Muse pulls from Galassi's own life and follows a book editor who, Knopf explained, "is caught in the middle of the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions over the work of a beautiful, iconic female poet." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The CEO of HarperCollins U.K. talked about taking his new job and how he plans on taking HC into the future. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Read the complete Frankfurt Book Fair 2013 Digital Spotlight in this Scribd reader Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The popular Tools of Change is no more, but in its place a more intimate digital conference--CONTEC--kicked off what Frankfurt v-p of conferences and entertainment & media Holger Volland said was going to be “a good mood” Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]