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Busy Kobo To Acquire Aquafadas, Raise Self-pub Royalty and More
After launching a self-publishing platform this summer, e-book retailer Kobo has enlarged its publishing portfolio again after agreeing to acquire Aquafadas, a digital publishing platform that allows publishers to easily and economically build multimedia apps for children’s books, comics, magazines, and newspapers without using a programmer.
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Frankfurt 2012: CEO Panel Discusses 'Lessons Learned' From Digital
After years of talking about what the digital future might hold, a CEO panel at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair instead took a look back at the last decade of change.
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The PW Frankfurt Show Daily: Day 1, October 10, 2012
Read the complete Day 1 Frankfurt Show Daily here.
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BookShout Addition Lets Readers Import E-Books from Any Platform
BookShout, a social reading and book retail application, is introducing new technology that will allow its users to legally import their previous and future e-book purchases into their BookShout account, free of charge, no matter where they were purchased.
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Smartphones, Reading and A New World of Collaborative Writing
Fan fiction is ”one of the fastest growing genres on Wattpad. It's people celebrating what they love.”
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: At ToC Frankfurt, Data Shows E-Book Growth and Opportunity
Digital has been a hot topic of conversation at recent Frankfurt Book Fairs, and two data-driven keynotes at the Tools of Change Frankfurt kicked off the 2012 show with yet more evidence of the vast potential digital offers publishers.
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Frankfurt Bookfair 2012: Digital Spotlight
Read our complete Frankfurt Bookfair Digital Spotlight supplement here.
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Reagan Arthur Nabs Buzzed-About Thriller 'The Three'
After a quiet build-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair, a book that Reagan Arthur pre-empted has people buzzing.
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E.L. James’s Long Shadow May Linger over Frankfurt
It was the talk of the London Book Fair. Then it was the talk of the summer. Then it became the book news story of the year. The Fifty Shades series—an originally self-published erotica written as Twilight fan fiction—was too new a phenomenon in April, when the London Book Fair was underway, to have any major effect on deals at that industry event. But with Frankfurt weeks away, and the series topping charts around the globe, a flurry of big deals for romance titles (many of them originally self-published) indicate that the Fifty Shades effect will be holding sway over business in Germany.
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In Build-Up to Frankfurt, Handful of Titles Generate Buzz
With the Frankfurt Book Fair just over two weeks away, some in the industry are feeling that it's a bit quiet on the deal-making front.
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Frankfurt Briefcase 2012: What the American Agencies Are Bringing to the Fair
At this year’s publishing pow-wow in Germany: John Banville channels Raymond Chandler; Daniel Woodrell explores a 1929 American bombing; Michael Pollan gets elemental; Elif Batuman tries fiction; and Lionel Shriver goes to Iowa.
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Bigger, and Better: Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 Preview
It’s almost here, the publishing industry’s annual literary Oktoberfest: the Frankfurt Book Fair. This year’s edition officially kicks off on October 10, with more than 150,000 professional visitors representing some 7,500 companies and 110 countries expected to gather to trade rights, network, and participate in an energetic, forward-looking professional program. And despite difficulties both within the industry and from a lingering global fiscal crisis, the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair is poised to have one of its best turnouts in years.
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Buzzed About Novel With Tie to Bon Iver Sells In Major Deal
In one of the notable pre-Frankfurt deals, buzzed-about debut novel Shotgun Lovesongs has sold to Katie Gilligan at St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne, who bought U.S. and Canadian rights in a high six-figure acquisition, beating out seven other bidders.
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2012 Frankfurt Fellows Named
Sixteen members of the publishing industry, from across the globe, have been named as the 2012 winners of the Frankfurt Book Fair Fellowship Program.
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Small Demons Makes Big Splash at Frankfurt Book Fair
In his closing remarks, Frankfurt Book Fair director Juergen Boos said that 2011 was a strong year for startups at the fair. Among those startups, perhaps none had a better reception than Small Demons, in Los Angeles. “We couldn’t have asked for a better first Frankfurt Book Fair,” Small Demons founder and CEO Valla Vakili told PW.
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A Putin Biography Secretly Lights Up Frankfurt
It was the book that, as one insider put it, you had to “go into a closet to read.” If there was one hush-hush book at Frankfurt this year, it was Masha Gessen’s Vladimir Putin biography, The Man Without a Face.
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Frankfurt Fair Dealer, October 14, 2011
Keep up with the goings on at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Read the complete October 14 issue of the PW Frankfurt Book Fair dealer in this digital edition.
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France Blocks Emirates' Membership in IPA
The International Publishers Association yesterday took the unusual step of having a vote on whether the Emirates Publishers Association should become a full member of the IPA.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2011: Rights Center Traffic Up, Attendance Even with 2010
With official numbers still to come, organizers say attendance at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair is level with last year, and traffic in the rights center was up 11% over 2010, with more stands, more space, and a flurry of deals being reported.
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Frankfurt Fair Dealer, October 13, 2011
Follow all the action at the Frankfurt Book Fair by reading our PW Frankfurt Fair Dealer in this digital edition.
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