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London Book Fair 2013: Dealing Starts Early
The dealing started early at this year’s London Book Fair with a number of titles drawing interest from multiple houses. Among the deals that closed, Simon & Schuster bought a debut novel for seven-figures and, just before the fair opened, paid six-figures for a nonfiction work by a hedge fund founder. There was also lots of interest from around the world in a debut novel by a young British novelist.
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London Book Fair 2013: Is Amazon Good or Bad for the Publishing Business?
The question whether Amazon is a friend or foe of the publishing industry was the topic of this year's Great Debate at the London Book Fair.
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The London Book Fair Show Daily Day 2: April 16, 2013
Keep up with all the day 2 goings-on at the 2013 London Book Fair with the PW London Book Fair Show Daily!
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Ingram, B.i. Publications Launch E-textbook Joint Venture
Ingram's Vital Source Technologies has entered a joint venture with B.i. Publications Pvt. Ltd, to create Ingram B.i. Pvt, an e-textbook platform aimed at the Indian marketplace and powered by the VitalSource Bookshelf
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The 2013 PW London Book Fair Show Daily Digital Spotlight
Read our complete 2013 London Book Fair Digital Spotlight pullout!
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The London Book Fair Show Daily Day 1: April 15, 2013
Keep up with all the goings on at the 2013 London Book Fair with the PW London Book Fair Show Daily!
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London Book Fair 2013: In Keynote, Gaiman Says 'Try Everything'
In his keynote at the fifth London Book Fair Digital Minds Conference, bestselling author Neil Gaiman kicked off the day-long seminar by telling a packed auditorium that authors and publishers were “on the frontier,” in the digital age.
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New Adult Is Hot, but Will It Play Abroad?
While interest in romance titles is showing no signs of slowing down—they continue to find their way into top spots on bestseller lists and command major advances from big-six editors—it’s the newish category new adult that is particularly hot right now.
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'PW' and 'BookBrunch' Together Again for 'London Show Daily'
Publishers Weekly and BookBrunch are teaming up again to publish live, on-the-floor coverage of the 2013 London Book Fair set to run April 15-17. Three print issues of London Show Daily will be produced by the team of PW and BB editors.
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London Book Fair Moves Digital Minds to Monday Slot in 2014
The London Book Fair 2014 will take place at Earls Court from Tuesday, April 8–Thursday, April 10 in 2014. The Digital Minds Conference will take place on April 7.
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Gaiman to Give Digital Minds Keynote
Author Neil Gaiman will give a keynote speech at the London Book Fair's fifth Digital Minds Conference set for Sunday April 14.
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Sara Lloyd to Chair 2013 LBF Digital Minds Conference
Pan Macmillan director of digital and communications Sara Lloyd will chair the London Book Fair's fifth Digital Minds Conference on Sunday April 14, 2013.
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London Book Fair Announces IPA Education Conference
The International Publishers Association and the London Book Fair (LBF) announced the program for the first IPA International Education Conference, a one day event that will run alongside LBF on April 17, 2013. The result of a new partnership, the first program will include a keynote address from Andreas Schleicher, and talks from World Bank’s Michael Trucano, Reed Elsevier’s Y.S. Chi.
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Korea Selected as London Book Fair 2014 Market Focus
The London Book Fair and The Korean Publishers Association have announced Korea as the Market Focus of The London Book Fair 2014.
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Burtenshaw Leaving the London Book Fair
Alistair Burtenshaw is stepping down from his position as director of books and publishing at Reed Exhibitions, a job which includes the post of director of the London Book Fair.
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Kobo to Open 100 E-Reader Stores Inside WHSmith Shops
E-book retailer Kobo announced an agreement with U.K. retailer WHSmith at the London Book Fair to open branded Kobo shops within 100 WHSmith High Street retail stores in 2012.
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London Book Fair 2012: The DoJ, '50 Shades of Grey' and J.K. Rowling
"The DoJ, 50 Shades of Grey and J.K. Rowling," is what one foreign rights associate said when asked about the popular topics at this year's London Book Fair.
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London Book Fair Show Daily: April 18, 2012
Read the entire London Book Fair Show Daily for April, 18 2012
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London Book Fair 2012: Amazon Woos Authors On Busy Show Floor
Attendance figures for the 2012 London Book Fair won’t be released for weeks, but judging from the fairly strong traffic in the main hall, it seems likely this year’s attendance will top the 24,802 who came to last year’s event.
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