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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Whether following from abroad or tweeting from the conferences, here are the essential hashtags for The Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Uncertainty is one big obstacle holding publishers back from outsourcing their distribution, observes CEO Gareth Cuddy of ePubDirect. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Wednesday, September 25, six speakers in six different cities around the world gave related presentations loosely organized around the effects of the digital transition on publishing, entrepreneurship, and the power of collaboration. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
There is no denying that the past decade has seen some mighty changes within the publishing industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The second of two previews of agents' hotlists on the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair. WME... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the allures of ebooks for American publishers is the opportunity the format provides to sell titles to international markets, free of the costs of printing—and shipping—books overseas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
In March of this year, following a wonderful day of programming at TOC Bologna, I sat at dinner with a few of our speakers from the day—my friend and CONTEC Frankfurt speaker Paul Rhodes included—and the conversations at that table were simply absorbing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
When I moved to Paris in 2010, I’d already begun doing the majority of my reading on my Kindle. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]