The Edinburgh Book Festival, which is celebrating 30 years, is the "largest and best respected literary festival in the world", according to its director. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House and the Chorleywood Bookshop in Hertfordshire are to run a cookery book festival for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing Perspectives will again publish print editions during the Frankfurt Book Fair. We’re looking for interesting stories that can both inform and delight. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
BookExpo America's 2014 Global Market Forum will be have an exciting new focus, Books in Translation: Wanderlust for the Written Word. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim community and 1,000 active book publishers, will be the Guest of Honor country at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair. Indonesia's most well-known authors include Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Ayu Utami, and Andrea Hirata. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
FRIDAY, JULY 19, AND SATURDAY, JULY 20 The 15th annual HARLEM BOOK FAIR is an outdoor literary extravaganza dedicated to black authors and their readers. The fair is at West 135th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard and features some 250 booths and exhibitions. The event, hosted by the New York... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the guest of honor at this year’s Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), Israel will bring 36 writers, 10 publishing houses, artists, musicians and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers, intellectual property owners, app and game developers, and other licensing executives are wrestling with how to monetize digital content and distribution, as well as how to use digital media to spur purchases of licensed books and products, synergize physical and digital to sell more... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The UK and Germany were the top overseas markets for US print books in 2012, while Europe led the UK in consumption of US ebooks, according to the AAP. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The "Korea Times" compares the Seoul International Book Fair to Tokyo's International Book Fair, and finds it sorely lacking. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Licensed properties originating in digital media continue to proliferate as their licensors try to emulate the success of the Angry Birds merchandise program. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book Expo America, BEA, used to be the place to go to get your hands dirty with printer's ink--all the books were hot off the presses. Now the annual industry gathering at New York City's Javitz Center has been increasingly invaded by geeks. I'm one of these geeks, despite the fact that I've... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The opening keynote of BookExpo America suggests the top concerns facing the US book market in 2013 remain much the same: ebooks, self-publishing, and how to win readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Porter Anderson previews this week's BookExpo America and ponders how changes at the fair reflect the ongoing transformation of "the industry, the industry!" Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roberto Saviano’s ZeroZeroZero, an examination of the cocaine trade, debuted at #1 in his native Italy in April, knocking another famous Italian writer, Andrea Camilleri, from #1 to #5. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are maximising international rights revenue as they seek to spread risk away from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bogota International Book Fair convenes nearly the entire Colombian publishing industry and focuses on bringing the region's books and authors to the public. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Do extravagant stands at book fairs make a difference? Are they a mere splurge, or might they spark the interest of an investor or catch the eye of an author or agent? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The China Shanghai International Book Fair is launching a new children’s book fair, which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week's London Book Fair saw a return to the hectic fair auctions of pre-recession years... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]