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The London Fair Dealer: Tuesday, 4/12/11
PW's show daily from the London Book Fair.
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London Book Fair 2011: Revolution or Evolution? CEO Panel Examines the Digital Transition
Introducing the London Book Fair’s 2011 CEO panel, U.K. Publishers Association CEO Richard Mollet asked whether the digital transition was more evolution, with publishers adapting over time, or more revolution, in which old powers are swept away quickly, sometimes violently.
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London Book Fair 2011: Frankfurt SPARKS Returns; SBS Launches Consultancy
The Frankfurt Book Fair's digital initiative, Frankfurt SPARKS, will again take place this year in an expanded version. Separately, publishing industry freight forwarder SBS Worldwide has launched a new consultancy company, Virtualized Logistics.
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The London Fair Dealer: Monday, 4/11/11
PW's show daily from the London Book Fair.
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London Book Fair 2011: Debating Advantages of E over P
In a Monday morning panel in which the virtues of digital, and the possibilities of the global digital marketplace, were touted, a trio of speakers talked about the changing face of rights and sales in the market today.
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London Book Fair 2011: Social Networking for Bookworms
Until recently, reading a book had resisted technological advances, but like everything else, this has started to evolve and now we are embracing technology. Books are now more easily available in electronic format and sharing your opinion about a title – print or ebook – is more popular. So when LibraryThing, the online cataloguing and social networking site for book lovers was launched more than five years ago, its success was hardly surprising.
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London Book Fair 2011: Selling Rights in Russia
With Russia the market focus country at the Fair, Russian publishers will be at Earls Court in force and there will be many associated literary and cultural events.
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London Book Fair 2011: On Representing Yeltsin
It doesn't seem so long ago that we used to gawp at the occasional postage stamps that would appear on a letter from the USSR: oversized, bright images extolling the successes of Communist endeavour. Soviet books in contrast were distinctly drab affairs whose covers would have appealed to few in the West other than the likes of J D Salinger – strictly no images.
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London Book Fair 2011: What's Cooking In Content Services?
E-books, mobile apps and e-learning modules are hot. That's the conclusion from a quick survey of 18 content services vendors operating in India.
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London Book Fair 2011: Going Global
In 2009, the number of self-published books released in the US exceeded the number of new titles from conventional publishers for the first time in history. Now, a similar pattern is emerging overseas. Until recently, costly transatlantic shipping, different trim sizes and business models, and language barriers conspired to segregate the US author-publisher from foreign markets, and vice versa.
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London Book Fair 2011: NEWS BRIEFS: Monday, 4/11/2011
Andrew Nurnberg Associates International is to represent Raja Alem, joint winner of the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Her novel The Dove's Necklace explores the disappearing world of Mecca from the unique perspective of a female Saudi author.
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London Book Fair 2011: BL honours HH Dr Sultan Al Qasimi
His Highness Dr Sultan Bin Muhammad Al Qasimi of Sharjah was last week fêted at a grand dinner held – unusually – amid the splendour of the British Library, where, over the years, he has spent a good deal of time researching the many books he has written. The occasion was preceded by a special tour of the BL, conducted by Dame Lynne Brindley, its CEO.
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London Book Fair 2011: As Dictators Fall and Digital Rises
As the saying goes, "may you live in interesting times", and for the Association of American Publishers' International Freedom to Publish Committee, these are interesting times indeed. With governments falling one by one in the Middle East, and democracy taking root in China amid reports of internet censorship, the IFTPC is sure to have its hands full in the coming years.
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London Book Fair 2011: Welcome to LBF's 40th
When looking at the show today, it is incredible to think that the first Fair was held in the basement of a hotel off London's Oxford Street, with 22 publishers exhibiting, writes Alistair Burtenshaw. Now 40 years on, the London Book Fair welcomes more than 1,600 exhibitors and 23,000 attendees annually.
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London Book Fair 2011: An Evolutionary Phase
This year's London Book Fair is taking place at a time of unique change. The shift from the printed word to the downloaded text is accelerating; chains and standalone bookstores are closing down around the world; and the very future of the book "entity" is being challenged by commentators and industry sages.
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London Book Fair 2011: BDS Takes Stake In Bookbrunch
BookBrunch has entered into a partnership with BDS, which has taken a stake in the news service. BDS will provide IT expertise, support and development through its Ehaus web development subsidiary, and BookBrunch will complement BDS's information services, including its Books & Media reviews website and newsletter.
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London Book Fair 2011: Keeping An Open Mind
In 2001, 81% of publishers were already preparing for the coming e-book (BML research March 2001). Indeed they thought it would come quickly, with half predicting e-books would deliver more than 10% of total book income by 2006.
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London Book Fair 2011: Palazzo's Close Encounter
Palazzo has unveiled a major study of Steven Spielberg, to which the acclaimed director will write a foreword.
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London Book Fair 2011: Traditional Publishers-Who Needs Them?
With an audience made up almost entirely of wannabe authors, self-published author Simon Potter preached about the virtues of the DIY model in a morning session in the Author Lounge at the London Book Fair. (The Author Lounge is sponsored by Potter's self-publishing press, FastPrint Publishing.) Potter, who now advises other writers on how they can self-publish, said the traditional publishing industry today holds a number of problems for the fledgling author.
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London Book Fair 2011: The Digital Future is Now
Speaking from three diverse perspectives—film and TV, the music business, and publishing—the morning speakers kicked off Sunday's London Book Fair Digital Conference with some common observations: platform is key, distribution will be a challenge, but the digital numbers are finally beginning to live up to the hype.
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