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The Big Books U.S. Agents Will be Selling at the London Book Fair
What will be hot in the rights center at this year’s London confab?
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A Weekend at the Paris Cookbook Festival
The Paris Cookbook Fair took place February 22–24 in the Carrousel du Louvre, below the French museum’s famous pyramid. The fair brought in nearly 3,000 attendees to visit 102 booths of publishers, writers, and agents.
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Bologna at 50: Looking Back, Forging Ahead
For many children's book industry professionals around the globe, a trip to the Bologna Children's Book Fair has become a familiar, and always welcome, rite of spring.
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Conflicting with Two Religious Holidays, Bologna 2013 Scheduling Raises Eyebrows
Anyone in children's book publishing, who has already booked their travel to the 2013 Bologna Book Fair, may have noticed that flights were slightly more expensive than usual, and accommodations more scarce.
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Librarians Get Together in Guadalajara
A series of events at the Guadalajara Book Fair gave librarians from various regions the chance to share information about the demand for Spanish-language books.
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Guadalajara: Where Culture and Business Meet
Nubia Macias, director of FIL (the Guadalajara Book Fair), the largest Spanish-language book fair in the world, sat with PW to discuss the U.S. participation at this year's show. Macias, who has been director since 2003, is the face of FIL in Mexico and around the world.
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Guadalajara Book Fair Starts Run
The growth and importance of Spanish-language publishing is evident at its most important literary event, Feria Internacional del Libro, Guadalajara's book fair.
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Salon du livre de Montréal Concludes 35th Run
Last week, Salon du livre de Montréal completed its 35th show. The event, which highlights literature from Quebec and elsewhere, marks the largest display in North America of French-language books.
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Debating Digital in Sharjah
The start of the Sharjah Book Fair educational program began with panels addressing a range of issues, not all of which involved the transition to digital publishing.
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'PW,' 'BookBrunch' Team for Frankfurt Dailies
For the fourth time, Publishers Weekly and BookBrunch are teaming up to produce a print daily from the halls of the Frankfurt Book Fair. This year, Frankfurt Show Daily will be published on 10, 11 and 12 October and will include a mix of breaking news and features on the hottest international topics.
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Drupa 2012: The Fair Report
Every four years, Messe Düsseldorf, the giant trade fair grounds and organizer in Dusseldorf, Germany, plays host to Drupa, the world's biggest print media exhibition. This year's event, which ran May 3–16, attracted 1,844 exhibitors and 314,500 visitors, down from 1,971 and 391,000, respectively, in 2008. The drop is reflective of the shrinking print and graphic arts sector: in Germany and the U.S. combined, more than 11,000 printing operations have closed down in the past few years. Large delegations were few. Instead, top managers with specific investment intentions were in attendance. Foreign visitors numbered more than 190,000 (more than 60% of the total), and the 15,000-plus attendees from India form the second largest group after Germany.
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Milan's If Book Then Summer Edition Conference Tracks the Digital Transformation
At the excellent one-day summit If Book Then: Summer Edition, over 80 leading publishers had a very good excuse to find themselves inside the beautiful Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
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Scholarly Publishing 2012: Looking to the AAUP Conference
As the Association of American University Presses prepares to celebrate a milestone 75th birthday at its upcoming annual conference in Chicago, June 18–20, university press leaders are sure to have a long list of birthday wishes. Even the AAUP’s own conference description refuses to soft-pedal the tenuous state of affairs facing academic publishing, acknowledging the “collision of crumbling business models and revolutionary innovation.” Yet there is hope. Even as some long-held traditions and practices “go up in flames,” the conference description goes on to declare, there are “sparks of opportunity.”
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Publishing in Russia 2012: Krasnoyarsk Fair: Reading Deep in Siberia
When the first Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair was held in 2007, there were no overseas attendees in sight. In fact, there were only 63 local exhibitors, including 45 publishing houses. Still, 10,000 visitors attended the midwinter event, for which exhibitors trucked in nearly 10 metric tons of books.
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Coverage of Russia's Book Market
Leading up to the Read Russia 2012 Festival (running June 1-8 in New York City), PW is rolling out an extensive look at the Russian publishing industry. Check back here weekly for new reports.
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Bologna 2012: Trends of the Show
By most accounts, this year's Bologna Book Fair was a vibrant one, with packed schedules and continued excitement for fiction. Unlike two years ago, when Hervé Tullet's Press Here was the title everyone was talking about, attendees didn't crown a book of the fair, and were by and large pleased about that. As Wernick & Pratt agent Marcia Wernick put it, "There was no buzz book this year, and it's been really nice. Everyone can focus on getting stuff done."
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Bologna Briefcase: What the Agents Are Bringing
"Modern Family meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” “Heathers meets The Craft,” and “Titanic in outer space” are just some of the intriguing-sounding projects that will be on offer later this month at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. We asked some American agents to tell us about two projects they have high hopes for.
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Taipei International Book Exhibition Enjoys Busy 20th Year
The Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), which just concluded its February 1-6 run, brought together representatives from more than 60 countries on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
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Panel Examines Canadian School Library Crisis
"Crisis or Opportunity? School Libraries in the 21st Century”: that was the question for panelists and the audience at an event hosted by the Canadian Book and Periodical Council and Ontario Library Association earlier this month, and the answer heard around the room pretty clearly was crisis. But there were also a lot of voices offering ideas of how to address the problems.
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Non/Fiction 2011: Moscow's Unique Fair
A total of 291 exhibitors from 20 countries congregated under one roof at Moscow’s Central House of Artists Thursday to kick off the 13th Non/Fiction Fair. The five-day event is set to hold around 300 programs and welcome 10,000 visitors per day.
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