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Frankfurt Book Fair: P2P Threat May Be Overstated
At the Magellan Media Partners’ ToC session, Brian O’Leary told the attendees he’s looking to earn their trust, since he’s hoping they’d either join the research project he’s conducting on the effects of piracy on the book publishing business, or measure it on their own.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Entrekin Selling Portion of Stake in Grove Atlantic London
As has been widely predicted since Anthony Cheetham came aboard, Toby Mundy, chairman and publisher of Grove Atlantic London (GAL) has announced a restructure designed to "provide the company with the resources and the strategy to take its place amongst the leaders in the UK's independent publishing sector."
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Sara Lloyd Kicks Off First European TOC
Most seats were taken at the opening keynote for the first Tools of Change conference in Europe, taking place on Tuesday, one day before this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan kicked off the event, continuing a speech she gave at the TOC in New York in February and formally dubbed in Frankfurt “Revisiting a Publishing Manifesto: What Does the Future Look Like for Publishers?”
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Pre-Frankfurt Deals: Two Iowa Writers' M.F.A.s Go at Auction
Closing a five-way auction just before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Brian DeFiore sold North American rights to 26-year-old Benjamin Hale's debut to Cary Goldstein at Twelve. Another Iowa graduate, Anna Keesey, just sold her debut novel, Little Century, at auction, to Courtney Hodell at FSG.
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GLiBA Children’s Breakfast a Historical Experience
The booksellers who gathered in Cleveland this past weekend for the Great Lakes Booksellers trade show reflected as much on the past as they did the present and the future, and the children’s authors who spoke at Sunday’s breakfast were no exception. The three authors - Gennifer Choldenko, Candace Fleming and Shaun Tan - each focused on the impact of the past upon themselves personally, as well as upon their work.
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Children’s Books and Author Events Key at NEIBA Show
As children's books have come into their own through series like Harry Potter, Twilight and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, children's programming has become more fully integrated into the New England Independent Booksellers Association annual trade show, held last weekend in Hartford. At the industry lunch that opened the show, not only did Andrew Clements win an award for a children's author's body of work, but this year's NEIBA publisher of the year, Tilbury House in Gardiner, Maine, has a strong children's list.
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New Atlantic Booksellers Navigate Changing Landscape
In a tough year, booksellers hope for improved fall.
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Kindle Goes International; U.S. Price Lowered
Amazon announced last night that it will begin shipping a new device with U.S. and international wireless access October 19. The new Kindle, priced at $279, will be available in more than 100 countries, Amazon said, and will have more than 200,000 English-language books. Amazon also said it is lowering the price of its U.S.-only Kindle from $299 to $259.
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New England Booksellers See Some Hopeful Signs in Weak Economy
Some small sales improvements and the strong fall list helped lift the mood at the New England Independent Booksellers Association regional meeting, even as the region's economy sputters and the trade association itself faces tough choices.
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Great Lakes Booksellers Find Some Optimism Despite Tough Times
Despite the gloom of the continuing recession, which has hit Michigan and Ohio especially hard, booksellers from both states, as well as Illinois, were a highly visible presence at GLiBA this year, determined to educate themselves on how to best negotiate the latest technological and social trends, when not snapping up ARCs of winter and spring 2010 releases.
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Children’s Books Front and Center at Midwest Show
Children’s books played a prominent part in the Midwest Booksellers Association’s annual meeting and trade show, held last weekend in St. Paul. To no one’s surprise, in the wake of Stephenie Meyer’s incredible success with the Twilight series, YA novels that contain magic, vampires or paranormal themes were popular with booksellers trying to anticipate the next big YA hit.
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Record-Breaking Crowds at the National Book Festival
The ninth annual National Book Festival took place last Saturday in Washington, D.C., with a record-breaking attendance of more than 130,000. Numerous children’s book authors and illustrators were present—including Jon Scieszka, Kate DiCamillo, Jeff Kinney, Judy Blume, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, among many more. See our extensive photo-essay after the jump.
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Children's Authors Sparkle at MBA
The children’s book and author breakfast, which traditionally kicks off the trade show portion of the Midwest Booksellers Association’s annual gathering, is usually a literary-star studded affair, and this year was no exception. Nearly 200 groggy booksellers straggled into St. Paul’s RiverCentre last Saturday morning to hear an A-list of children’s authors: Loren Long, M.T. Anderson, Catherine Gilbert Murdock and Neil Gaiman...
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Mountains & Plains Booksellers Gets Boost from Guns, Tourists, Hype
The talk at the Mountain and Plains Independent Booksellers Association meeting centered around the hope that the holidays will bring better sales to a soft year.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Survey Finds Publishers In Search of New Business Models
Just over 72% of publishers taking part in a survey on the impact of digitization on book publishing said the development of new business models, new multimedia products and effective marketing strategies are the biggest challenges facing publishers as they make the transition from print to digital.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Briefcase 2009
Ann Brasheres grows up, Bret Easton Ellis heads back to his L.A. roots, Julia Childs's grand-nephew talks H2O, Julie Powell hits the butcher block, Eoin Colfer does his best Douglas Adams impression and George Romero lays down the rules of zombie-dom—that and more in PW's roundup of the big books up for grabs at this year's fair.
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Bologna Reinstates Fourth Day
The Bologna Children's Book Fair has yielded to protests and reinstated the fourth day of the event. The 2010 fair will now take place from Tuesday to Friday, March 23-26. A group of U.K. publishers petitioned Bologna after they had learned that the 2010 fair had been scheduled to take place over three days rather than the usual four. Gloria Bailey, manager of international book fairs at the Publishers Association, met Bologna Fair director Roberta Chinni...
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PW talks with Monika Krauss
"The lack of proper distribution channels and book information is critical. Sometimes, even Arab publishers themselves have no information about or access to books published in countries other than their own."
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Kids' and YA Authors at the Brooklyn Book Festival
More than 200 authors and illustrators participated in the Brooklyn Book Festival this past Sunday, many of whom were creators of books for children. The one-day festival drew 30,000 attendees, according to the Village Voice; more than 150 booksellers, publishers and other organizations were on hand as well. See our photos from the event.
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Fall List, E-Books, Survival Top PNBA Topics
Portland was the setting for this year's first regional trade show and though numbers were down from the peak years, booksellers were hopeful that this fall will bring a boost in sales. Getting involved with the sale of e-books and the future of the PNBA show were other hot topics.
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