The Miami Book Fair’s director of operations, Delia Lopez, and director of programs, Lissette Mendez, have been working together for 15 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
The author, filmmaker, and provocateur’s latest book looks back on his long career and offers some hard earned advice for misfits and weirdos. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
In another major pre-Frankfurt Book Fair sale, Marysue Rucci at Simon & Schuster paid a rumored seven figures for a memoir by playwright Sarah Ruhl called 'Smile.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
The debut novel ‘A Kindness,’ which literary agent Helen Heller received a little over a week ago after responding to an unsolicited pitch letter, is gaining pre-Frankfurt Book Fair buzz after being preempted in the U.S. by Pamela Dorman for high six figures. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Bologna Children's Book Fair is mounting a new touring exhibition of illustrations, and Danish AI specialists at UNSILO sign Cambridge University Press. The post Industry Notes: Bologna Tours Rodari Show; Denmark’s UNSILO Signs UK’s Cambridge appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-09-23 06:30:06 UTC ]
Despite heightening political and economic turmoil around the globe, a sense of confidence and stability has returned to the show. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Announcing at Rio's book fair its coming introduction of Pubnet in Brazil, Metabooks Brasil reports it now accounts for 75 percent of the market's sales. The post Metabooks Brasil Reaches 100,000 Active Titles in Its Database appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-09-05 04:52:20 UTC ]
If you happened to be at the farmer’s market in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park this past Saturday, you might have trailed the vendor tents across the street to Grand Army Plaza and landed in the 2019 Small Press Flea, two concentric circles of book fair tables set up between the Soldiers’ and Sailors’... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-08-28 08:47:44 UTC ]
The Book Development Council is readying its 2019 National Book Week, South African Book Fair and national indigenous language festivals. The post South African Book Fair and Book Week: Toward a Reading Culture appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-08-28 05:30:32 UTC ]
On the way to producing a new joint international children's book fair in Russia for 2021, BolognaFiere and Moscow's fair are collaborating on a tour. The post BolognaFiere Leads a First Children’s Book Tour to Moscow Book Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-08-27 05:30:16 UTC ]
This week's picks for L.A. book lovers, from the Leimert Park Book Fair to a celebration of strip malls Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-08-23 16:50:10 UTC ]
Cultural Cross Sections Margaret Randall Children’s choir at the 2014 La Matanza Book Fair / Photo by Mauro Rico / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación / Flickr When good engineers or scientists emigrate, they are able to continue their work. Novelists... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-07-10 21:07:28 UTC ]
Book lovers! Sign up for the new L.A. Times Book Club for upcoming author events » The Los Angeles Review of Books and Hauser & Wirth Publishers are bringing a brand-new book fair to Los Angeles next month. LitLit, the Little Literary Fair, will premiere July 20 and 21 at Hauser &... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-25 17:30:00 UTC ]
Citing issues in its book fair and book club businesses in the fourth quarter ended May 31, 2019, Scholastic said it expects sales and earnings for fiscal 2019 to be below previous forecasts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-06-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to BB Alston’s Amari and the Night Brothers, which was sold to Egmont in the UK after a seven-publisher auction during the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-30 09:47:24 UTC ]
The Audio Publishers Association, Bookrepublic, and Bologna Children's Book Fair have begun surveying various audiobook markets. The post Books Heard ‘Round the World: A New Survey of International Audiobook Markets appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury Children’s is to publish a picture book by Disney art director Andy Harkness on both sides of the Atlantic in winter 2021, after acquiring the manuscript ahead of this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont has bought UK rights to what is undoubtedly the book of this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair: B B Alston’s Amari and the Night Brothers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Diversity and inclusion is high on the agenda at this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair, with US and UK publishers keen to snap up stories by authors from backgrounds which have previously been underrepresented in publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie and Amnesty International have announced at Bologna Children’s Book Fair that they will collaborate on a children’s book, with themes based around the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]