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Scholarly Publishing 2012: Looking to the AAUP Conference
As the Association of American University Presses prepares to celebrate a milestone 75th birthday at its upcoming annual conference in Chicago, June 18–20, university press leaders are sure to have a long list of birthday wishes. Even the AAUP’s own conference description refuses to soft-pedal the tenuous state of affairs facing academic publishing, acknowledging the “collision of crumbling business models and revolutionary innovation.” Yet there is hope. Even as some long-held traditions and practices “go up in flames,” the conference description goes on to declare, there are “sparks of opportunity.”
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Publishing in Russia 2012: Krasnoyarsk Fair: Reading Deep in Siberia
When the first Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair was held in 2007, there were no overseas attendees in sight. In fact, there were only 63 local exhibitors, including 45 publishing houses. Still, 10,000 visitors attended the midwinter event, for which exhibitors trucked in nearly 10 metric tons of books.
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Coverage of Russia's Book Market
Leading up to the Read Russia 2012 Festival (running June 1-8 in New York City), PW is rolling out an extensive look at the Russian publishing industry. Check back here weekly for new reports.
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Bologna 2012: Trends of the Show
By most accounts, this year's Bologna Book Fair was a vibrant one, with packed schedules and continued excitement for fiction. Unlike two years ago, when Hervé Tullet's Press Here was the title everyone was talking about, attendees didn't crown a book of the fair, and were by and large pleased about that. As Wernick & Pratt agent Marcia Wernick put it, "There was no buzz book this year, and it's been really nice. Everyone can focus on getting stuff done."
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Bologna Briefcase: What the Agents Are Bringing
"Modern Family meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” “Heathers meets The Craft,” and “Titanic in outer space” are just some of the intriguing-sounding projects that will be on offer later this month at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. We asked some American agents to tell us about two projects they have high hopes for.
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Taipei International Book Exhibition Enjoys Busy 20th Year
The Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), which just concluded its February 1-6 run, brought together representatives from more than 60 countries on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
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Panel Examines Canadian School Library Crisis
"Crisis or Opportunity? School Libraries in the 21st Century”: that was the question for panelists and the audience at an event hosted by the Canadian Book and Periodical Council and Ontario Library Association earlier this month, and the answer heard around the room pretty clearly was crisis. But there were also a lot of voices offering ideas of how to address the problems.
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Non/Fiction 2011: Moscow's Unique Fair
A total of 291 exhibitors from 20 countries congregated under one roof at Moscow’s Central House of Artists Thursday to kick off the 13th Non/Fiction Fair. The five-day event is set to hold around 300 programs and welcome 10,000 visitors per day.
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Sharjah Rights Center a Hit
Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi and Ahmed Al Amri, two of the driving forces behind the Sharjah International Book Fair, have been very pleased with the reaction to the innovations at this year’s fair and at the overall participation.
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More Growth at Sharjah International Book Fair
The Sharjah International Book Fair, which is celebrating its 30th year this week, held its first professional program, announced new translation grants, and saw the number of participating publishers increase by 100 to 884, helping to lead to good activity in the rights center.
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Riggio Expresses Optimism in PubWest Keynote
In his keynote speech at PubWest's annual conference Barnes & Noble CEO Len Riggio said he remains optimistic about the future of bookselling and publishing, seeing the growth of digital as generating more content as well as more readers.
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Reed Exhibitions Signs with PubMatch
Reed Exhibitions, whose trade fairs include BookExpo America and the London Book Fair, has signed on as an affiliate partner to PubMatch, the book-publishing and rights database founded earlier in 2011 by Publishers Weekly and Combined Book Exhibit. The addition of Reed Exhibitions adds the capability for conference attendees and exhibitors at BEA and LBF to obtain real-time rights information in several different languages.
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SIBA 2011: All About the Love
If the idea at last year's Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance trade show was getting booksellers established in social networking sites, this year the focus was on the classic community-building strengths of inddies, highlighting what stores have been doing in their communities to help break the stranglehold of big-box chains and online mega-retailers.
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TOC Frankfurt to Feature Supply Chain Track
For the first year, TOC Frankfurt, the technology conference held by the Frankfurt Book Fair and O'Reilly Media, will feature a track on the supply chain.
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Beijing 2011: A Day of Deal-Making
Publishers at the Beijing International Book Fair, including Bloomsbury and De Agostini, are selling more and more titles in the Chinese market.
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Beijing 2011: The Potential of China's Book Market
Despite continuing complaints about logistics--and specualtion about why one of the halls was closed for a period yesterday--business has been good for exhibitors at the Beijing International Book Fair and reflects the growing importance the Chinese market holds for international publishers.
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Beijing 2011: Bumpy Start in New Venue
On the first day of the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), running from August 31 to September 4, exhibitors and trade visitors alike grapple with a new venue, unfamiliar layout and commuting issues.
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Frankfurt Book Fair Rolls Out New “All-Access” Passes
Frankfurt Book Fair officials announced today that it will sell a limited number of “all access” passes, that will entitle purchasers to entry into all nine conferences and sessions featured in the recently-created Frankfurt Academy program.
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Motovun Group Association Meets in Spain
Ninety-five members, associates, guests and family of the Motovun Group Association met in Santiago de Compostela, Spain June 24-27 to discuss new challenges facing illustrated book publishing and to share experiences that mutually benefit all members.
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New Zealand Named Guest of Honor for 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair
The Frankfurt Book Fair today announced that New Zealand will be the Guest of Honor of the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair (October 10-14, 2012). New Zealand is the third English language publishers to be guest of honor at the fair, following Ireland and India, and will feature the work of a large and growing publishing business that publishes some 2,000 new titles annually.
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