BookExpo Canada closed in 2009, but now plans for a new consumer-oriented book fair in Toronto have been unveiled. The Toronto International Book Fair is currently slated for Nov. 13-16, 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The once-explosive growth of ebooks losing some steam, but tech companies like Amazon.com, Apple and Google are still the most influential players in the publishing industry today, said Christopher Kenneally, a panelist at the Miami Book Fair International. The director of business development... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2013-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
On the last day of the inaugural China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF), held from November 7-9, the winners of the Golden Pinwheel Awards were announced. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Positive reviews from exhibitors continue to roll in on the second day of the China Shanghai Children’s International Book Fair (CCBF). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The London Book Fair has announced it will be featruing a new section in its academic and scholarly zone in 2014 called The Faculty@LBF. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
First impressions count, and on the first day of China Shanghai Children’s International Book Fair, the heavy foot traffic just one hour into its opening bodes well for the inaugural event. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
London Book Fair 2014 will feature a new academic theatre in its Academic & Scholarly zone in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The stage is set for the who's who of China's children's publishing industry and those interested in reaching the country's 230 million children under 16 years old. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]
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 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]