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Swedish Thrillers, Nobel Winner
New fiction took the top spots at the end of October in France and Germany. In the latter, Dan Brown beat out the Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller with The Lost Symbol debuting at #1 in Germany and Müller's Everything I Have I Carry with Me landing at #3. Last week, Müller's U.S. publisher, Metropolitan Books, announced that it had acquired U.
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Metropolitan Books Nabs Two By Müller
Metropolitan Books has acquired two titles by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller. The first is a new novel called Everything I Possess I Carry With Me, and the second, an earlier work called The Fox Was Always a Hunter.
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Sharjah Book Fair Opens
The 27th Sharjah International Book Fair opened today with a ceremony led by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohamed Al Qassimi. Over the next 10 days, the fair, which is open to the public, will host more than 750 publishers from some 40 countries, and draw more than 400,000 visitors. Fair organizers said they expect about $28 million worth of business to take place at the fair.
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Frankfurt 2009 Roundup: The Distress Over Digital and the Books That Got People Talking
The 2009 edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair concluded with a slight dip in overall attendance, tough the number of visitors to the rights center was up. There was lots of discussion about all things digital, though the Europeans and Americans seemed to differ on where things are headed. A few rights also were sold.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Trident's Gottlieb Charges European Publishers with Collusion
In an e-mail sent to publishers in an undisclosed number of European countries right before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Trident chairman Robert Gottlieb charged that publishers have been colluding to keep advances down. European executives dismissed the charging, saying Gottlieb has "gone mad."
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Europeans Play the Moral Rights Card Against Google Settlement
There’s been a simmering anti-Google sentiment at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, no doubt connected to European objections to the Google Book Search Settlement. And on Friday that simmer reached a boil, as the deal faced harsh—at times, puzzling—criticism at a registration-required panel on “European and American Positions Towards the Google Settlement.”
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Ray Kurzweil Teams with Baker & Taylor on New eReader Software
Baker & Taylor announced a partnership with acclaimed scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, to supply digital content for K-NFB Reading Technology, a newly developed e-book reading software created by Kurzweil in collaboration with the National Federation of the Blind.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Friedman Expounds on Open Road Integrated Media
From the Frankfurt Book Fair where she is promoting her new company, former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman has added a few more details about her new operation, Open Road Integrated Media.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: At A Slightly Smaller Fair, Michael Jackson Project Draws Lots of Chatter
A Michael Jackson graphic novel project is one of the books that generated interest as Day 1 of the Frankfurt Book Fair comes to a close. Attendance was off modestly
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Penguin Adopts New Global Management Approach
To ensure that it is properly positioned to take advantage of growth opportunities in digital and emerging markets, Penguin Group has made some changes to its global management structure and publishing strategy. The new alignment puts the CEOs of four of Penguin’s major subsidiaries in charge of different regions to help promote what Penguin chairman John Makinson calls a local market focus combined with a global publishing approach.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Penguin, John Wiley in China Deals
With China as the featured country at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, Penguin and John Wiley used the occasion to announce new China initiatives.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Writers House Announces Simultaneous Six-Country Release of Follett’s Next Novel
The first major deal out of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair involves an international laydown of Ken Follett’s next novel, Fall of Giants, which will be the first title in Follett’s New Century Trilogy. The simultaneous six-country release—set for September 28, 2010—will coincide with the airing of an eight-hour Pillars of the Earth TV miniseries next fall.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: SBS Unveils New E-commerce Hub
International supply chain manager SBS Worldwide Publishers has unveiled “a faster, cheaper and easier way to ship books from printers to customers.” “We have taken our logistics expertise and combined it with our extensive knowledge of the publishing industry to develop eDC (electronic Distribution Centre) specifically for this market,” explained SBS chairman Steve Walker.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Americans Watching Costs Amid Weak Economy
At last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, many international visitors were preoccupied with the financial meltdown that was occurring on a daily basis, particularly in the U.S. While the downturn began before last year’s Fair, most industry members, having made arrangements far in advance, decided to make the trip. Although the economy may actually be in better shape this fall than in 2008, many American publishers, though not all, have scaled back.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: P2P Threat May Be Overstated
At the Magellan Media Partners’ ToC session, Brian O’Leary told the attendees he’s looking to earn their trust, since he’s hoping they’d either join the research project he’s conducting on the effects of piracy on the book publishing business, or measure it on their own.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Entrekin Selling Portion of Stake in Grove Atlantic London
As has been widely predicted since Anthony Cheetham came aboard, Toby Mundy, chairman and publisher of Grove Atlantic London (GAL) has announced a restructure designed to "provide the company with the resources and the strategy to take its place amongst the leaders in the UK's independent publishing sector."
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Sara Lloyd Kicks Off First European TOC
Most seats were taken at the opening keynote for the first Tools of Change conference in Europe, taking place on Tuesday, one day before this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan kicked off the event, continuing a speech she gave at the TOC in New York in February and formally dubbed in Frankfurt “Revisiting a Publishing Manifesto: What Does the Future Look Like for Publishers?”
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Questions Mount Before Debut of International Kindle
Amazon has given the international publishing community plenty to ponder as it gathered this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair. The pending (Oct. 19) release of a $279 Kindle that will be available for sale in more than 100 countries has raised a variety of questions. Here are the most pressing. How will the integrity of territorial rights be maintained? What will be the impact of digital edition...
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Pre-Frankfurt Deals: Two Iowa Writers' M.F.A.s Go at Auction
Closing a five-way auction just before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Brian DeFiore sold North American rights to 26-year-old Benjamin Hale's debut to Cary Goldstein at Twelve. Another Iowa graduate, Anna Keesey, just sold her debut novel, Little Century, at auction, to Courtney Hodell at FSG.
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Kindle Goes International; U.S. Price Lowered
Amazon announced last night that it will begin shipping a new device with U.S. and international wireless access October 19. The new Kindle, priced at $279, will be available in more than 100 countries, Amazon said, and will have more than 200,000 English-language books. Amazon also said it is lowering the price of its U.S.-only Kindle from $299 to $259.
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