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Frankfurt 2010: Publishing – hot again or what?
In the 1980s and 1990s, publishing seemed to go out of fashion as a number one career choice for the brightest and best graduates.
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Frankfurt 2010: A New Era For Access
The importance of encouraging reading and literacy can never be understated. However, for those with print disabilities, their right to access reading is often overlooked. While charities and organisations have strenuously worked to rectify this situation, publishers are also working to meet their own responsibilities in this area.
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Frankfurt 2010: Penguin Appeal
In the 80 years since Noel Coward wrote his play Private Lives, China is still mostly described in terms of its huge size. When Penguin arrived in China in 2005, certainly the scale of the market was a significant part of its appeal: China was not only the world's most populous nation, it was also highly literate, mobile and online.
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Frankfurt 2010: Spanish-Language Titles Click with Americans
Agent Antonia Kerrigan, who has long represented Spanish-language authors, sold three big Spanish-language titles at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. Kerrigan closed two major deals with Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint and a third, before the fair, with Holt.
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2010 Ranking of the Global Publishing Industry
Livres Hebdo has released its annual rankings of publishing companies from across the world, published in cooperation with Buchreport (Allemagne), The Bookseller (United Kingdom) and Publishers Weekly (USA). The rankings were released at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Frankfurt 2010: Steady Dealmaking is Hallmark of 2010 Fair
There are, as one agent put it, three kinds of Frankfurts: ones where everyone is buying everything, ones where no one is buying anything, and then the middle ground where there is a steady stream of dealmaking. The consensus is that the 2010 fair falls into that last category.
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Frankfurt 2010: Google Editions Makes a Strong Impression at the Fair
We may as well get this out of the way: soon. That's still the best estimate of when Google Editions will launch in either the U.S. or Europe. But traffic at the Google booth in Hall 8 of the Frankfurt Book Fair has been bustling, and Google's cloud-based e-book program has been warmly embraced at this year's fair--quite a change from last year.
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Frankfurt 2010: Piracy pitfalls
A prevalent concern within the book industry is that the ramifications of piracy, though serious, are becoming more acute and are often overlooked by the general public. Strong yet nuanced campaigns to reduce physical and digital piracy are therefore essential to combat the problems.
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Frankfurt 2010: Our Digital Future with Evan Schnittman
After eight years as vice president of corporate and business development at Oxford University Press, Evan Schnittman left in August to become Managing Director of Group Sales and Marketing, Print and Digital at Bloomsbury.
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Frankfurt 2010: Rights Deals: 10/7/10
Quercus has acquired WEL rights in the latest novel by Frank Schaetzing, author of The Swarm, a book-of-the-fair a few years back. The new novel is LIMIT, published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Germany and now sold in 17 countries. The deal was concluded via Tanja Howarth, representing K&W.
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Frankfurt 2010: HMH Announces Fund for Learning
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has launched a $100m Innovation Fund to "promote and support solutions aimed at engaging all education stakeholder groups".
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Frankfurt 2010: Time to Tango
In 1976, when the Dirty War in Argentina was at its height, I remember burning books – not dramatically, with bonfires in the middle of the street – but surreptitiously, throwing them down the trash chute in the kitchen of my flat.
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Frankfurt 2010: Fair Comment: Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair
A lot has happened in the 365 days since the last Frankfurt Book Fair. The ash cloud from Iceland brought air traffic to a halt for a short time – and with it, the international trade fair business. For many the financial crisis seems to have passed its peak. Google, with its Google Books and Google Editions projects, ensured there would be heated discussions within the industry.
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Frankfurt 2010: Rubin Nabs Debut Thriller for Six Figures
In a major pre-Frankfurt pre-empt, Holt President and Publisher Steve Rubin paid a high six-figure sum for North American rights to Mark Allen Smith's Information Retrieval in a two-book deal from Nat Sobel at Sobel Weber Associates.
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Frankfurt 2010: Mulligan to Launch Imprint at Profile
Geoff Mulligan is to launch a new literary fiction imprint at Profile. The Clerkenwell Press, which will publish its first titles in autumn 2011, will be a bespoke list of international writing of "literary fiction in its broadest sense", potentially including translations and memoir.
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Frankfurt 2010: Looking To a Leaner Industry
In his opening keynote speech at the second annual Frankfurt Tools of Change conference, author and media scholar Douglas Rushkoff pulled no punches. "It sounds sad to say it this way... But not as many of us are needed as we used to be," he told the audience.
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Frankfurt 2010: Frankfurt's StoryDrive Kicks Off to Small Crowds
Frankfurt may still be a rights fair, but it's trying to change. Change, however, rarely comes quickly or easily. StoryDrive, one of the newly launched programs at the fair intended to beef up the show's digital offerings, was pitched by organizers as a series of panels that would expound on storytelling in the digital era. But with an anemic turnout Wednesday morning to two of the program's inaugural panels, there may still be kinks to be worked out in the programming.
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Frankfurt 2010: Will Frankfurt Soon Be an E-Book Fair?
The writing has been on the digital wall for some time, but with new initiatives and a noticeable emphasis on e-books, the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair is embracing the digital future. From a StoryDrive program, a schedule of panels that seeks to break down barriers between books, games, films, and other media; to the launch of the Frankfurt SPARKS initiative, organizers are making an effort to "unite the worlds of publishing, technology industries, media and the Internet culture in order to develop collective viable business models," said Juergen Boos, director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and to pioneer a role "as a content and media fair."
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