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London Book Fair 2012: Ingram Signs Foyles, Taylor & Francis
Ingram has reached an agreement with independent U.K. bookseller Foyles under which Ingram will provide the bookseller with its title data to allow Foyles to populate www.foyles.co.uk.
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London Book Fair 2012: Crown Nabs Book by OkCupid Co-founder in Rumored 7 Fig Deal
In what looks to be one of the biggest dollar figure deals coming out of the London Book Fair so far, Amanda Cook at Crown took North American rights, for a rumored seven figures, to a nonfiction title called Dataclysm by Christian Rudder, one of the founders of the dating Web site OkCupid.com.
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London Book Fair 2012: RH Reinvests In 'Tools' Authors
Before one of its biggest acquisitions from last year's London Book Fair is even tested in the market, Random House has signed the same authors to a major new deal.
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London Book Fair Show Daily: April 17, 2012
Read the complete April 17 London Book Fair Show Daily
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London Book Fair 2012: CEO Panel Questions Sustainability of the Book Business
Is the publishing industry’s business model sustainable? That was the question for the London Book Fair’s 2012 CEO panel, chaired by Association of American Publishers president Tom Allen.
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London Book Fair 2012: Perseus Brings Argo Navis to the UK
Argo Navis, the digital distribution platform Perseus unveiled in 2011 for agented authors who want to work with their representation to self-publish titles, has launched in the U.K.
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London Book Fair 2012: Stalled Guillermo del Toro Middle Grade Series Re-emerges
A middle grade series by Guillermo del Toro, which was initially shopped a few years ago before being shelved, is back on track.
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London Book Fair 2012: Open Road Launches International Program with Mondadori
Open Road Integrated Media has teamed with Italian publishing giant Mondadori to digitize, distribute and market English-language e-book versions of titles from Mondadori's catalogue. Mondadori is Open Road’s first foreign publishing partner.
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London Book Fair 2012: Foundry Splits One Story into Two Books, Two Deals
In a bit of creative deal-making, agents Peter McGuigan and Stephen Barbara, at Foundry Literary + Media, closed two deals—for an adult novel and a YA novel—for a debut thriller that was initially submitted as a standalone novel.
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London Book Fair 2012: Big Authors Return, Another Swedish Trilogy, Buzzy Debuts
New books from William Vollmann, Erik Larson, Caleb Carr and Zadie Smith pop, while a crop of new authors draws buzz at the LBF 2012.
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London Book Fair Show Daily: April 16, 2012
Today's complete London Book Fair Show Daily.
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London Book Fair 2012: The Great Debate: Will Publishers Perish?
Will today’s existing conglomerates continue to dominate publishing? Or, will technology enable a rising tide of upstarts to forever change the publishing landscape? That was the question at the heart of the London Book Fair’s Second Annual Great Debate.
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London Book Fair 2012: LBF Kicks Off with Digital Minds Conference
The fourth annual Digital Minds event kicked off the London Book Fair with a slate of morning keynotes that sought to put the future of publishing in context with its past.
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London Briefcase 2012
Frank Langella talks famous friends; Pete Townshend dishes on rock superstardom; Pete Carlin dishes on the Boss; Marcus Samuelsson shares kitchen tales; Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi take on Amanda Knox; and more in this year’s roundup of big books the American agencies will be selling at the upcoming London Intenational Book Fair.
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Herralde Receiving Lifetime Achievement Award From LBF
Jorge Herralde, proprietor and director of Spanish publisher Editorial Anagrama, is receiving the ninth annual Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing from the London Book Fair.
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Not the Whiskey Talking: IBS Bookmaster 'Whiskey' Poll Finds Sober Views of Digital Growth
The Digital Zone at this year’s London Book Fair was more than double the size of its 2009 debut, as was its program, which hosted a full slate of 20-minute pitches and prognostications from vendors. But it was U.K.-based digital services provider IBS Bookmasters that came up with perhaps the most clever way to “distill” publishers thoughts on the digital future.
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The London Fair Dealer: Wednesday, 4/13/11
Wednesday's complete Fair Dealer, with all of PW's coverage of the 2011 London Book Fair.
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London Book Fair 2011: Books That Made a Splash
The cheery attitude among agents and other insiders at the London Book Fair this week may have been thanks to some very pricey sales that happened during, and just before, the three-day event. Two of the most talked-about books were both sold by William Morris Endeavor in the States days before the trade show kicked off.
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London Book Fair 2011: In Busy Rights Center, Ghonim Book Goes Up for Grabs
Traffic was strong at the international rights centre during the second day of the London Book Fair. While many agents and other insiders said there was no big book at the fair, talk was building about a coup Michael Carlisle and Richard Pine at Inkwell Management scored, signing Egyptian Internet activist Wael Ghonim. Ghonim became an international folk hero after his Facebook page, about Khaled Said, an Egyptian man who was beaten to death by police, went viral and helped spark the revolution that swept Egypt. In an unorthodox sales approach, the agents set Ghonim up in a conference room in the rights center where, Monday and Tuesday, he gave roughly hour-long presentations discussing his life. Inkwell has not closed any deals yet for the book, Revolution 2.0, and is instead letting interested publishers leave their names, so to speak, at the door.
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