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Canada Market in a Word: Tight by Josh Kerbel - 05/07/2007
A flat market and supply-chain issues trouble publishers, but burgeoning alternative markets hold out hope. More
Weak Dollar Makes For Tricky Show by Diane Roback - 04/14/2008
The weak dollar was a key factor at this year's Bologna Fair, as American publishers found the market tough for buying, but great for selling. Francesca Dow at Puffin said, “The state of the dollar certainly makes buying anything from Europe even tougher.” On the other hand, as Chris Boral of Chronicle Books put it, “It did seem like there were a lot of shoppers, and we were t...
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Riordan Talks Up Clues in Bologna By Diane Roback - 04/02/2008
Bestselling author Rick Riordan was brought to Bologna by Scholastic to introduce The 39 Clues series, a multi-platform middle-grade adventure series, which launches this September. Hyperion also announced a million-copy print run for the fourth Percy Jackson book, The Battle of the Labyrinth, as well as two new series from the author.
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London Book Fair '08: What's in Your Briefcase? by Rachel Deahl - 03/17/2008
American publishers and agents will be shopping an eclectic group of literary wares in the rights area at London this year; the offerings include, a tale about moonshining; holiday recipes from Nigella Lawson; the controversial post-mortem collection from Raymond Carver; a grisly whodunit from David Cronenberg; and a take on First Lady-dom from Curtis Sittenfeld.
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Mayer to Get London Award 02/25/2008
Former Penguin head Peter Mayer will receive a lifetime achievement award for his efforts in promoting international publishing at this year's London Book Fair. Since leaving Penguin in 1996, Mayer has run the U.S.-based Overlook Press and the U.K-based Duckworth Publishers.
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100 Titles Planned for Translation into Arabic By Edward Nawotka - 11/30/2007
A new initiative by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage will translate 100 titles into Arabic with about half coming from English-language works.
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Live From Frankfurt:Phobias, Math and Zoos Among The Hot Topics by Matthew Thornton and Karen Holt - 10/12/2007
A YA series preempted by Little, Brown, a nonfiction work on zoos bought by Weinstein Books were two big deals concluded today at Frankfurt, while two other major projects, The Book of Numbers and Age of Orphans, were drawing lots of interest from American houses.
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Weltgeist in Frankfurt by Sara Nelson - 10/15/2007
Here are some things “everybody” knows about Frankfurt. (1) The hotels are hideously expensive (especially during Book Fair week), the food is bad and the weather is worse. (2) Since so much of the work is done in the evening over cocktails, or late dinners, you don't schedule appointments before 10 a.
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