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Family Business at the 29th Sharjah International Book Fair
The 29th annual Sharjah International Book Fair drew some 750 publishers and showcased 200,000 book titles—including one by Sharjah's ruler, Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed al-Qassimi, a prolific author, who was on hand to sign copies of the English translation of his memoir.
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IFRRO Lands in Boston
For the first time in 26 years, the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO) held its annual meeting in the U.S., with more than 250 delegates from 50 nations convening in Boston, October 25–28, to discuss international licensing, rights, best practices, and copyright issues.
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Koreans Explore Digital Options
This year's Paju Book City publishing conference, held last week at this city of 250 publishers 30 minutes from Seoul, in South Korea, focused on content convergence.
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Graphic Novels, Panel Discussions and Deals at the Sharjah Book Fair
Kuo-yu Liang, v-p sales and marketing at DBD, the trade book distribution unit of Diamond Comics Distributors, is at the Sharjah Book Fair as part of an effort to bring comics, graphic novels, and manga to the Middle East, and was excited about the possibilities. A panel discussion focused on the need to encourage reading, while Orion bought a children's book for the U.K. market.
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Sharjah International Book Fair Opens in Grand Style
The 29th Sharjah International Book Fair opened in grand style Tuesday with a tented reception lit with chandeliers and the presence of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, ruler of Sharjah, the Emirate that thanks to the goals of the Sheikh presents itself as the capital of culture for the Arab world. Sharjah has set itself up as an international center for the dissemination of Arab culture and promotion of books and literacy.
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Roundtable Launches the Read Japan Project
A high-profile symposium on literature in translation took place in Tokyo Monday afternoon. It brought together a group of distinguished book editors, publishers, and literary magazine editors from the U.S., the U.K., and Japan to discuss the Read Japan project, an initiative aimed at promoting translation of Japanese originals into English.
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Smaller Venue and Fewer Booksellers Makes for Low-Key SCIBA Fall Show
A change of venue and fewer booksellers made for a more low-key Southern California Independent Booksellers Association trade show this year at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood on October 23, 2010. The event was the last regional trade show to be held this year.
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Festival America Brings North American Writers to France
This past weekend, Festival America imported a varied and intensely-packed line-up of North American literary figures to Vincennes, a city in the Val de Marnes county located just east of Paris. Since its 2002 inception, this biannual gathering of considerably diverse authors has come to set a global tone for la rentrée (or French back-to-school).
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Frankfurt 2010 Briefcase, Part II
Last week, we covered what rights the major U.S. agencies will be selling at next month's Frankfurt Book Fair. Below are the big books the largest U.S. trade houses will be shopping.
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Frankfurt 2010: The Agency Briefcase
What will the American agents be pushing in the rights tent? Among this year's offerings are Martin Amis's "most ferocious antihero," Nelson Mandela's journals, John Grisham's latest Confession, David Bowie's stuff, Jon Stewart's guide to Earth (and Earthlings), and Ken Follett's Giants.
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Change Is Good: PW Talks to Andrew Savikas
After a successful inaugural session at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change conference will return with a bigger show at the 2010 fair. Among the featured speakers are Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine.com blogger and author of What Would Google Do?; media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, author of Life, Inc.; and Richard Nash, founder of the digital startup Cursor.
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Russian Book Market Revs Up
Attending the Moscow Book Fair 20 years after a first visit to the U.S.S.R., then as publisher of PW and as part of a U.S. Information Agency delegation, is a world away from my prior experience. Then, the ideas of advertising, promoting, and marketing a book were alien concepts, and creating a commercial book itself was an impossibility.
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The Moscow Book Fair in Pictures
PWxyz President George Slowik Jr. attened the Moscow Book Fair last week and sent back some pictures of the goings on at the Fair. You'll see some familiar faces (a boy wizard, for instance) and some new ones.
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Deals Continue at Beijing Fair
The International Hall continues to be a hub of activity on day three of the Beijing Book Fair. While large houses such as HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin, Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Cengage, and Macmillan are going about solidifying their presence with more deals, the medium, small, and independent presses are gathering new insights on the Chinese book market and carving out their own piece of the pie.
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Beijing Fair Stays Upbeat on Day Two
The positive mood evident on the first day of the Beijing Book Fair carried over into day two. After the initial shock of seeing (or hearing about) the collapsed Wolter Kluwers booth, everybody got back into the business of selling books and establishing new partnerships.
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'Frankfurt Fair Dealer' Will Roll at 2010 Event
Publishers Weekly is teaming up with BookBrunch, the U.K.’s online book trade news and information service, to publish three print dailies at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. The two combined to publish two editions of the Frankfurt Fair Dealer at the 2009 event and this year coverage will be expanded to cover the first three days, Wednesday through Friday. As at Frankfurt last autumn and in London this spring, the dailies will offer a lively and authoritative mix of news, features and think-pieces.
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Attendance Up at Hong Kong Fair
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) this week said 920,000 people, both from the trade and the public, visited the 2010 Hong Kong Book Fair from, held July 21 to July 27, a 2% rise over 2009 attendance, as well as a record 510 exhibitors from 22 countries.
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A Record for the Tokyo Book Fair, But Not for E-books
This year's Tokyo International Book Fair set a new record at 1,000 exhibitors welcoming over 80,000 visitors to the Tokyo Big Sight convention center for the 17th convention held July 8 to 11. The growth was due to the first EDIX (Educational IT Solutions Expo), which joined the fair for its first three days.
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Modest Growth at Canadian Booksellers Association Event
The Canadian Booksellers Association's National Conference held in Toronto from May 28 to 30 expanded upon its first effort at creating a national industry event last year following the closure of BookExpo Canada. But its growth was modest and it remains an intimate gathering.
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