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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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Skyhorse Publishing, Sweden's Norstedt Ink Licensing Pact
New York City-based independent publisher Skyhorse Publishing has entered into a three-year, 30-book licensing agreement with Norstedts of Sweden to acquire World English rights to a wide range of titles on crafts, health, fitness and cooking.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2011: Big Pre-Fair Sales and a Swedish Trilogy
With a number of big deals closing the days and hours before Frankfurt got underway this morning, conversations have trended less toward pinpointing the big book, and more toward sifting all the mini-major deals that have already gone down. But one thing everyone is buzzing about is a new Swedish trilogy.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2011: U.K. Publishers, Agents Plan a New Literary Prize
Explicitly aiming a barb at the Man Booker Prize, a group of publishers and agents with Andrew Kidd of Aitken Alexander as its spokesman has announced a new literary award, to be called the Literature Prize, “to establish a clear and uncompromising standard of excellence”.
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Frankfurt Fair Dealer, October 12, 2011
Read the complete October 12, 2011 issue of the PW Frankfurt Fair Dealer.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2011: TOC Keynote Sets Bold Tone
Last year, there was a palpable excitement at the Frankfurt Book Fair about the commercial development of e-books. But moving text from the page to the screen will be remembered as “a minor moment” in the history of books, said e-book pioneer Bob Stein, kicking off the 2011 Frankfurt Tools of Change.
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The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections
This report, preparet by Rudiger Wischenbart for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011, takes a detailed look at the global e-book market.
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Possible Controller Strike Could Impact Frankfurt Fair
After an Icelandic volcano caused major disruptions for the 2010 London Book Fair, the word coming out of Germany is that a possible countrywide air traffic controller strike could cause problems for the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Frankfurt 2011: Going Digital Abroad
Last year at the Frankfurt Book Fair everyone was talking about digital rights. Same as the year before. With the e-book market exploding in the U.S., the fair is devoting more and more space to topics ranging from metadata to transmedia. But with the European market lagging two to three years behind the U.S., the talk of digital is still about the future. While foreign book publishers are all acquiring e-book rights, digital readers remain scarce in Europe.
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Frankfurt 2011 Briefcase, Part II: What the American Houses Are Selling
Shalom Auslander explores the past, Madeleine Albright talks WWII, Alison Bechdel dissects her mom, A.J. Jacobs gets healthy, and Augusten Burroughs delivers survival tips. These are just a few of the topics the major American houses will be exploring as they descend on Frankfurt with their big offerings of the season.
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A Frankfurt of the 'Mind': The Frankfurt Bookfair Expands Its Reach
It’s that time of year again. On October 12, the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair kicks off, the publishing industry’s annual pilgrimage to Germany, where rights are traded, connections are made, and more than 150,000 trade visitors, representing some 7,500 companies and 110 countries, come together to do (and to talk) business.
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Frankfurt 2011 Briefcase: What the American Agents Are Selling
Art Spiegelman gets 'meta' on Maus; Richard Ford heads to the Great White North; Pete Townsend talks 'Tommy' (and life); and Jonathan Evison explores caregiving. These are just some of the authors the American agents will be pushing in the rights center this year.
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Frankfurt 2010
The 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair was an upbeat affair, thanks in part to a surging e-book market that now translates into a meaningful percentage of trade book revenue, the introduction of the iPad from Apple, the coming launch of Google Editions, and the growth in popularity of reading devices, smartphones, and the Android mobile operating system.
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