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London Book Fair Restaurant Report
I guess if I can get a string of sunny days in London (seriously: I did not open my umbrella once), I can eat six days’ worth of terrific meals without much guidance, too. Here's a look at the pubs, foodie spots, and classic Indian restaurants where I ate while covering LBF 2009.
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London Book Fair '09: Quieter But Productive
For a fair that was predicted to be quieter than years past, the London Book Fair was busy by many accounts. Talk revolved around the economy, although many American publishers were quick to cite the declining exchange rate of the British pound, which made London somewhat more affordable this year (the pound is down some 27% over last year).
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'The Hypnotist' Becomes One of the Fair's Big Books
While London saw a number of big book deals, one of the biggest involved the thriller, The Hypnotist. The title, which has yet to sell in the U.S., was at the center of a heated auction in the U.K. involving some of the country's leading crime publishers.
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A Quieter But Productive London Book Fair
For a fair that was predicted by many to be quieter than years past, the London Book Fair has been busy by many accounts. “Overall attendance may not be that great, but the quality of the attendance has been phenomenal,” said Frank Daniels, chief commercial officer of Ingram Digital. “People are very focused,” he told PW, and those who did show up “came to do business.”
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Willen Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt senior editor Drenka Willen was in London to accept the sixth annual lifetime achievement award for international publishing.
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British Publishers Try to Find the Money in E-books
A standing room only crowd jammed into the Cromwell Room at Earls Court mid-morning on day two of the London Book Fair, hoping to learn the answer to what moderator Torin Douglas called “the $64,000 question: where’s the money” in e-books?
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Penguin Breakfast Explains Company's Global Outlook
At Penguin UK’s headquarters at 80 Strand this morning, chairman and CEO John Makinson presented a group of journalists with an overview of the company’s global business, offering commentary and observations from five of its international divisions. The big picture: Penguin is reaching far and wide, especially into developing countries.
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At London Book Fair, Panel Says Two-Year British E-Textbook Study is Myth-Shattering
Caren Milloy, director of e-books for JISC, said the two-year effort was largest e-book study ever conducted. It garnered some 48,000 survey responses, as well as analysis of raw server logs at 127 U.K. participating universities, all bolstered by focus groups.
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University of Nebraska Releasing New Le Clézio
The University of Nebraska Press has acquired translation rights to J.M.G. Le Clézio's 2008 short story collection, Mondo and Other Stories.
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Sen Provides Long View of India’s Relationship with Books
At the London Book Fair's Chairman's Breakfast, Amartya Sen, the Nobel Laureate, talked about India's history of publishing and its current place in publishing.
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At London Book Fair, E-books on the Outside, But Looking In
At the London Book Fair, the Digital Zone and Theatre, a 23-seat area on the edge of the show floor, drew overflowing crowds.
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LBF Panel Compares U.S. and U.K. Consumer Book Buying Habits
Among the chief observations made at this morning’s panel on the “special relationship” between U.S. and British consumer book markets were that the British are at least three years behind Americans in adapting e-books, and that American readers are much more interested in romance while the majority of British readers skew toward literary fiction.
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London Book Fair Opens, Attendees Optimistic
The 2009 London Book Fair opened this morning with a long line of attendees wrapped around Earls Court in unusually bright sunshine. It was an auspicious start to the fair, which was predicted by many to be quieter this year but by anecdotal accounts at least appears to be fairly busy.
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French Favor Coben, House
French favorite Harlan Coben landed in the top spot in France in March with the release of Hold Tight. Debuting in third place was another author well known to Americans, Hugh Laurie, the British-born star of the hit television show House. Laurie's The Gun Seller was first published in English in 1996 and translated into French this year to take advantage of the growing popularity of House in F...
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Bologna 2009: A Photo Essay
See the sights from last week's Bologna Fair without leaving your chair, courtesy of veteran attendee Craig Virden and photographer Mario Ventimiglia. For more of Craig's take on this year's fair, visit our Bologna by Day and Night blog.
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The French Connection: Children’s Books in Translation
Children’s books in translation—from France to the United States, and much more often from the United States to France—were the topic of a lively panel hosted by the French Publishers’ Association this past Tuesday, which took place at NYU’s La Maison Française in New York City.
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Reflections on a First Trip to Frankfurt
A children's book editor attends her first Frankfurt Book Fair, and shares her impressions.
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Bad News - Gerbils Dead
A children's book editor attends the Frankfurt Book Fair, and receives an email from her husband.
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Chad Post
Passionate is a word you often hear bandied about in reference to people who work in book publishing. But optimistic? Not so much. This is one reason Chad Post, 33, seems like such an anomaly. A born-and-bred Midwesterner, Post fell in love with books at an early age and, after carving out a niche for himself in the world of nonprofit publishing, remains one of the most unjaded publishers around.
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Crossing the Channel
British publishers and agents will be looking for deals for authors who have worldwide brand names as well as debut novelists. Virgin founder Richard Branson, Charles Darwin's great-great granddaughter and Ted Hughes's brother all have new books for which rights are available. Among newcomers, a self-published Singapore lawyer has a detective series whose main character is described as a cross ...
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