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At London Book Fair, Panel Says Two-Year British E-Textbook Study is Myth-Shattering By Andrew Albanese - 04/21/2009
Caren Milloy, director of e-books for JISC, said the two-year effort was largest e-book study ever conducted. It garnered some 48,000 survey responses, as well as analysis of raw server logs at 127 U.K. participating universities, all bolstered by focus groups. More
NEA Selects Copper Canyon to Publish Chinese Anthology By Lynn Andriani - 05/12/2009
The National Endowment for the Arts has chosen Copper Canyon Press to be the U.S. publisher for its International Literary Exchange with China. The exchanges are designed to help American houses publish and promote contemporary anthologies in translation. Copper Canyon will receive $117,000 to support the translation, publication and promotion of a bilingual anthology of work by about 35 Chinese poets born after 1945.
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London Book Fair Restaurant Report By Lynn Andriani - 04/27/2009
I guess if I can get a string of sunny days in London (seriously: I did not open my umbrella once), I can eat six days’ worth of terrific meals without much guidance, too. Here's a look at the pubs, foodie spots, and classic Indian restaurants where I ate while covering LBF 2009.
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London Book Fair '09: Quieter But Productive By Lynn Andriani - 04/27/2009
For a fair that was predicted to be quieter than years past, the London Book Fair was busy by many accounts. Talk revolved around the economy, although many American publishers were quick to cite the declining exchange rate of the British pound, which made London somewhat more affordable this year (the pound is down some 27% over last year).
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'The Hypnotist' Becomes One of the Fair's Big Books By Nicholas Clee - 04/22/2009
While London saw a number of big book deals, one of the biggest involved the thriller, The Hypnotist. The title, which has yet to sell in the U.S., was at the center of a heated auction in the U.K. involving some of the country's leading crime publishers.
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A Quieter But Productive London Book Fair By Lynn Andriani - 04/22/2009
For a fair that was predicted by many to be quieter than years past, the London Book Fair has been busy by many accounts. “Overall attendance may not be that great, but the quality of the attendance has been phenomenal,” said Frank Daniels, chief commercial officer of Ingram Digital. “People are very focused,” he told PW, and those who did show up “came to do business.”
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Willen Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award By Liz Thomson - 04/21/2009
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt senior editor Drenka Willen was in London to accept the sixth annual lifetime achievement award for international publishing.
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Bologna by Day and Night Craig Virden, Blogger, Literary agent March 23, 2009 First Impressions
It's only noon on Monday but not too early for a couple of observations.
Many publ... More
Bologna by Day and Night Craig Virden, Blogger, Literary agent March 22, 2009 Domenica alla Fiera
We went to the Fair on Sunday morning to check out set-up. Like watching grass grow, ... More
Bologna by Day and Night Craig Virden, Blogger, Literary agent March 21, 2009 Lost... and Found
And here we are on Saturday in Bologna. Breezy and cool, but green, and trees floweri... More
