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London Briefcase 2012
Frank Langella talks famous friends; Pete Townshend dishes on rock superstardom; Pete Carlin dishes on the Boss; Marcus Samuelsson shares kitchen tales; Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi take on Amanda Knox; and more in this year’s roundup of big books the American agencies will be selling at the upcoming London Intenational Book Fair.
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Herralde Receiving Lifetime Achievement Award From LBF
Jorge Herralde, proprietor and director of Spanish publisher Editorial Anagrama, is receiving the ninth annual Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing from the London Book Fair.
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Not the Whiskey Talking: IBS Bookmaster 'Whiskey' Poll Finds Sober Views of Digital Growth
The Digital Zone at this year’s London Book Fair was more than double the size of its 2009 debut, as was its program, which hosted a full slate of 20-minute pitches and prognostications from vendors. But it was U.K.-based digital services provider IBS Bookmasters that came up with perhaps the most clever way to “distill” publishers thoughts on the digital future.
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The London Fair Dealer: Wednesday, 4/13/11
Wednesday's complete Fair Dealer, with all of PW's coverage of the 2011 London Book Fair.
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London Book Fair 2011: Books That Made a Splash
The cheery attitude among agents and other insiders at the London Book Fair this week may have been thanks to some very pricey sales that happened during, and just before, the three-day event. Two of the most talked-about books were both sold by William Morris Endeavor in the States days before the trade show kicked off.
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London Book Fair 2011: In Busy Rights Center, Ghonim Book Goes Up for Grabs
Traffic was strong at the international rights centre during the second day of the London Book Fair. While many agents and other insiders said there was no big book at the fair, talk was building about a coup Michael Carlisle and Richard Pine at Inkwell Management scored, signing Egyptian Internet activist Wael Ghonim. Ghonim became an international folk hero after his Facebook page, about Khaled Said, an Egyptian man who was beaten to death by police, went viral and helped spark the revolution that swept Egypt. In an unorthodox sales approach, the agents set Ghonim up in a conference room in the rights center where, Monday and Tuesday, he gave roughly hour-long presentations discussing his life. Inkwell has not closed any deals yet for the book, Revolution 2.0, and is instead letting interested publishers leave their names, so to speak, at the door.
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The London Fair Dealer: Tuesday, 4/12/11
PW's show daily from the London Book Fair.
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London Book Fair 2011: Revolution or Evolution? CEO Panel Examines the Digital Transition
Introducing the London Book Fair’s 2011 CEO panel, U.K. Publishers Association CEO Richard Mollet asked whether the digital transition was more evolution, with publishers adapting over time, or more revolution, in which old powers are swept away quickly, sometimes violently.
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London Book Fair 2011: Frankfurt SPARKS Returns; SBS Launches Consultancy
The Frankfurt Book Fair's digital initiative, Frankfurt SPARKS, will again take place this year in an expanded version. Separately, publishing industry freight forwarder SBS Worldwide has launched a new consultancy company, Virtualized Logistics.
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The London Fair Dealer: Monday, 4/11/11
PW's show daily from the London Book Fair.
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London Book Fair 2011: Debating Advantages of E over P
In a Monday morning panel in which the virtues of digital, and the possibilities of the global digital marketplace, were touted, a trio of speakers talked about the changing face of rights and sales in the market today.
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London Book Fair 2011: Social Networking for Bookworms
Until recently, reading a book had resisted technological advances, but like everything else, this has started to evolve and now we are embracing technology. Books are now more easily available in electronic format and sharing your opinion about a title – print or ebook – is more popular. So when LibraryThing, the online cataloguing and social networking site for book lovers was launched more than five years ago, its success was hardly surprising.
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London Book Fair 2011: Selling Rights in Russia
With Russia the market focus country at the Fair, Russian publishers will be at Earls Court in force and there will be many associated literary and cultural events.
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London Book Fair 2011: On Representing Yeltsin
It doesn't seem so long ago that we used to gawp at the occasional postage stamps that would appear on a letter from the USSR: oversized, bright images extolling the successes of Communist endeavour. Soviet books in contrast were distinctly drab affairs whose covers would have appealed to few in the West other than the likes of J D Salinger – strictly no images.
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London Book Fair 2011: What's Cooking In Content Services?
E-books, mobile apps and e-learning modules are hot. That's the conclusion from a quick survey of 18 content services vendors operating in India.
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London Book Fair 2011: Going Global
In 2009, the number of self-published books released in the US exceeded the number of new titles from conventional publishers for the first time in history. Now, a similar pattern is emerging overseas. Until recently, costly transatlantic shipping, different trim sizes and business models, and language barriers conspired to segregate the US author-publisher from foreign markets, and vice versa.
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London Book Fair 2011: NEWS BRIEFS: Monday, 4/11/2011
Andrew Nurnberg Associates International is to represent Raja Alem, joint winner of the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Her novel The Dove's Necklace explores the disappearing world of Mecca from the unique perspective of a female Saudi author.
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London Book Fair 2011: BL honours HH Dr Sultan Al Qasimi
His Highness Dr Sultan Bin Muhammad Al Qasimi of Sharjah was last week fêted at a grand dinner held – unusually – amid the splendour of the British Library, where, over the years, he has spent a good deal of time researching the many books he has written. The occasion was preceded by a special tour of the BL, conducted by Dame Lynne Brindley, its CEO.
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London Book Fair 2011: As Dictators Fall and Digital Rises
As the saying goes, "may you live in interesting times", and for the Association of American Publishers' International Freedom to Publish Committee, these are interesting times indeed. With governments falling one by one in the Middle East, and democracy taking root in China amid reports of internet censorship, the IFTPC is sure to have its hands full in the coming years.
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London Book Fair 2011: Welcome to LBF's 40th
When looking at the show today, it is incredible to think that the first Fair was held in the basement of a hotel off London's Oxford Street, with 22 publishers exhibiting, writes Alistair Burtenshaw. Now 40 years on, the London Book Fair welcomes more than 1,600 exhibitors and 23,000 attendees annually.
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