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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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Questions Mount Before Debut of International Kindle
Amazon has given the international publishing community plenty to ponder as it gathered this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair. The pending (Oct. 19) release of a $279 Kindle that will be available for sale in more than 100 countries has raised a variety of questions. Here are the most pressing. How will the integrity of territorial rights be maintained? What will be the impact of digital edition...
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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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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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Rizzoli New York Publishing in French
Starting this fall, Rizzoli's New York office will begin publishing some titles in French. Although the publisher has a sister company, Flammarion, in Paris, which already publishes books in French, this marks the first time French-language editions of Rizzoli books will originate from the New York office.
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PEN Protests German Publisher’s Exclusion from U.S.
PEN American Center yesterday issued a letter to Secretary of State Clinton and Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano, urging them to review the decision to revoke the visa of German publisher and PEN member Karl-Dietrich Wolff, who was denied entry to the U.S. on September 25. PEN said not allowing Wolff into the country “sends the wrong message about our country’s commitment to the First Amendment.”
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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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Cookbook Publishing in Brazil, Eating in Ipanema
Tall and tan and young and... hungry? I recently spent a week in Brazil, attending a book fair in Rio de Janeiro and meeting with book publishers in São Paulo. Although the purpose of the trip was for me to get an overview of Brazil’s publishing industry, I also got a fantastic impression of Brazil’s food culture. Here’s a look at what I ate in Brazil, how cookbooks are marketed there, and how well one cookbook publisher is doing.
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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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Recession Wrecks Exports, Imports
The global impact of the recession is reflected in book export figures for the first half of 2009. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, exports fell 14.6% in the January through June period, dropping to $918.8 million. Exports were down to almost all trading partners, with the steepest declines coming in shipments to China and Germany.
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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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'The Hypnotist,' Hot LBF Title, Tops in Sweden
Not too much new fiction made it to the top of the lists in the major European markets in August, but there was a new bestseller in Sweden, with The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler landing at #1. The novel was one of the hot books at the London Book Fair and was bought for the U.S. after the fair closed by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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Penguin Classics Headed to Brazil
Thanks to an exclusive agreement with 23-year-old Brazilian publisher Companhia das Letras, Penguin Classics will begin publishing in Brazil. The initial list of titles will drop next year.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Survey Examines New Business Models
The Frankfurt Book Fair is conducting a survey of what the world’s publishers believe will be the business models of the future.
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RH Canada, McClelland & Stewart Outsourcing Rights Work, Laying Off Staff
In a cost-cutting move from two of Canada's biggest publishers, Random House Canada and McClelland & Stewart are outsourcing their subsidiary rights work to a newly formed offshoot of the Cooke Agency called the Cooke Agency International. As a result of the move, three staffers at RH Canada and two at M&S were laid off.
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Russia Will Be Market Focus at 2011 London Book Fair
Russia will be the market focus and guest of honor at the 2011 London Book Fair. The decision was based on Russian publishing’s rapid growth in the past two decades and on the success of the Russian Pavilion and Russian Literature Week, which were held in conjunction with LBF 2009.
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U.K. Publishers Protest Bologna Curtailment
Representatives from more than 30 publishers, literary agencies and other firms in the U.K. have signed a petition protesting against the shortening of the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Sarah Pakenham of Andersen Press and Margot Edwards of Piccadilly Press organized the petition in dismay both at the reduction of the fair from four days to three and at a failure to introduce a corresponding reduction in fees.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Random House Cancels Frankfurt Party
In a sign of the economic times, Random House has canceled its famed curtain-raising soiree during the Frankfrut Book Fair.
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Found in Translation
This fall, three iconic 20th-century novels are being released in new translations, and their publishers have good reasons to boast. Never before have these novels, written by oppressed German, Russian and Polish writers, been more accessible to American readers. With technology making the world smaller daily, there's still something to be said for a fresh new translation's ability to promote g...
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