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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Post-Amazon, Goodreads Still a Place for Book Lovers
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.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Ferals Emerges as Hot Middle-Grade Property
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.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Pricing is the New Piracy
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.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: HC Wins Self-Published Novel In Major Buy
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.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Knopf Nabs Galassi's Debut Novel
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."
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: 'We Have to Get this Right,' Says Dohle
The CEO of the recently merged mega-publisher Markus Dohle addressed a range of subjects.
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The PW Frankfurt Show Daily: Day 1, October 9, 2013
Get complete coverage of the Frankfurt Book Fair with the PW Frankfurt Show Daily.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: What Is a Publisher Now?
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?
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: The Buzz Books of the Show
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.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Redmayne Talks New Storytelling Models and Competing With PRH
The CEO of HarperCollins U.K. talked about taking his new job and how he plans on taking HC into the future.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Terézia Mora Wins German Book Prize
On the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Her Das Ungeheuer was honored as the year's best German-language novel.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: The Digital Spotlight
Read the complete Frankfurt Book Fair 2013 Digital Spotlight in this Scribd reader
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Frankfurt 2013: CONTEC Opens 'Good Mood' Frankfurt Book Fair
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.
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Karten Nabs Two Big Buzz Books Pre-Frankfurt
In separate deals with agents at William Morris Endeavor, HarperCollins's Terry Karten acquired North American rights to two of the big buzz books drawing attention leading into the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Foreign Markets Drawing Mixed Reviews
Depending on whom you talk to, the foreign rights markets are rebounding, or are still in decline.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: The Publisher: Innovator or Traditionalist?
There is no denying that the past decade has seen some mighty changes within the publishing industry.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: CONTEC Makes Its Debut
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.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Where the World Plugs In
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.”
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: BookMachine: A Meetup for Global Book Professionals
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.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: An American’s Take on the French E-book Market
When I moved to Paris in 2010, I’d already begun doing the majority of my reading on my Kindle.