It's the last week to pitch your stories and book advertising in our printed Frankfurt Book Fair Show Daily issues running October 8-11. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Title production hit 56,000 copies for the first six months of 2012, though overall sales are lower, according to news out of this year's Moscow International Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following a controversial choice last year, FIL comes back with an august winner for it's $150k prize for literature: French poet, essayist and critic Yves Bonnefoy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Many authors wonder if attending the Frankfurt Book Fair is a worthwhile expense. Our downloadable guide explains the steps you need to take to know if it's right for you. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Edinburgh's international book festival is getting Stripped and ready with a strand devoted to comic books. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
With Brazil as Guest of Honor at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair some 250 Brazilian books are being translated and Germany will feature at Rio's book fair this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
To mark the 35th anniversary of the Literary Agents and Scouts Center, the Frankfurt Book Fair is asking for photo submissions from the Agents Center's past. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Download Publishing Perspectives' Frankfurt Book Fair preview of what’s new, what’s happening, and what are likely to be some of the hot topics of discussion this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]