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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
Headline's New Strategy Results in New Hires, Promotions and Layoffs By Lynn Andriani - 11/24/2009
Headline Publishing Group is making some major changes resulting in new hires, promotions and layoffs, Hachette UK CEO Tim Hely Hutchinson announced. The company will be publishing less nonfiction and uniting its marketing, digital and design departments.
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Swedish Thrillers, Nobel Winner 11/23/2009
New fiction took the top spots at the end of October in France and Germany. In the latter, Dan Brown beat out the Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller with The Lost Symbol debuting at #1 in Germany and Müller's Everything I Have I Carry with Me landing at #3. Last week, Müller's U.S. publisher, Metropolitan Books, announced that it had acquired U.
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Metropolitan Books Nabs Two By Müller 11/17/2009
Metropolitan Books has acquired two titles by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller. The first is a new novel called Everything I Possess I Carry With Me, and the second, an earlier work called The Fox Was Always a Hunter.
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Sharjah Book Fair Opens By Lynn Andriani - 11/11/2009
The 27th Sharjah International Book Fair opened today with a ceremony led by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohamed Al Qassimi. Over the next 10 days, the fair, which is open to the public, will host more than 750 publishers from some 40 countries, and draw more than 400,000 visitors. Fair organizers said they expect about $28 million worth of business to take place at the fair.
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Frankfurt 2009 Roundup: The Distress Over Digital and the Books That Got People Talking By Rachel Deahl - 10/19/2009
The 2009 edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair concluded with a slight dip in overall attendance, tough the number of visitors to the rights center was up. There was lots of discussion about all things digital, though the Europeans and Americans seemed to differ on where things are headed. A few rights also were sold.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Trident's Gottlieb Charges European Publishers with Collusion By Rachel Deahl - 10/16/2009
In an e-mail sent to publishers in an undisclosed number of European countries right before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Trident chairman Robert Gottlieb charged that publishers have been colluding to keep advances down. European executives dismissed the charging, saying Gottlieb has "gone mad."
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Europeans Play the Moral Rights Card Against Google Settlement By Andrew Albanese - 10/16/2009
There’s been a simmering anti-Google sentiment at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, no doubt connected to European objections to the Google Book Search Settlement. And on Friday that simmer reached a boil, as the deal faced harsh—at times, puzzling—criticism at a registration-required panel on “European and American Positions Towards the Google Settlement.”
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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
