Mainland China’s book business may be receiving most of the international limelight lately, but Hong Kong’s industry is also worthy of notice, even if its growth hasn’t been as dramatic. Though the British hand-over of Hong Kong took place in 1997, Hong Kong will maintain its established legal and governmental system until 2047. So, while…Continue Reading
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Tagged Asia Literary Agency, Asian Review of Books, Beijing Media Time, Black Smith Books, Carmen Kwong, Chameleon Press, CN Times, David Parrish, Financial Times, Hachette UK, Hong Kong Book Fair, Kelly Falconer, Man Asian Literary Prize, Marshall Moore, Mguru, Pan Macmillan, Pearson, Peason, Pete Spurrier, Peter Gordon, Random House UK, South China Morning Post, The Atlantic, Tim Hely-Hutchinson, Typhoon Media
Like many small book fairs around the world (see our recent articles on the Buenos Aires and Jerusalem Book Fairs for a few examples), the Seoul International Book Fair (SIBF), a once domestic and consumer-directed event, is looking to professionalize and internationalize its image. In the past 5 years, major funding and programming from the…Continue Reading
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Tagged BEA, Bologna, Buenos Aires International Book Fair, China, Duran Kim, Eric Yang Agency, Facebook, Frankfurt Book Fair, Henry Shin, International Rights Centre, japan, Jerusalem International Book Fair, Jungha Song, Korea, Korea Literature Translation Institute, Korean Publishers Association, London Book Fair, Michelle Nam, Minumsa, Power Readers, Publishing Perspectives, Seoul International Book Fair, Seung Hyun Moon, Shinwon Agency, Sigongsa, South Korea, Tae-Eun Kim, Thailand, The Korea Times
While many BEA 2013 Conference sessions dealt with the familiar subject of how an established industry adapts to change, the recurrent issues in BEA 2013’s Global Market Forum on Mexico were a bit different. Unlike some industries that are “reinventing” themselves, Mexican publishing is a small trade community attempting to build a large and globally competitive…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alberto Ruy Sanchez, Ana Laura Delgado, Artes de Mexico, BEA, BookExpo America, children's books, Constance Sayre, Diego Rabasa, Ediciones El Naranjo, elhi, Enrique Pena Nieto, Felipe Rosete, Fondo de Cultura Economica, Gandhi, Ixchel Delgado Jorda, La ley del libro, Libros para Imaginar, Linda Goodman, Literacy Connections, McGraw-Hill, Mexico, Nina Alvarez Icaza, Pearson, Sanborns, Santillana, Sexto Piso, Spanish, textbooks, The Bilingual Publications Co.
From April 25 to May 19, the Buenos Aires Book Fair will be welcoming readers and Spanish-language publishing professionals around the world, seeking, says the Fair’s Executive Director, Gabriela Adamo, “to reassure Argentina’s place as a leading country in the Spanish book industry.” Like every other part of the Spanish-language book industry, Argentina is feeling…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alejandro Katz, Argentina, Astrid Lindgren Award, Baker and Taylor, Buenos Aires International Book Fair, Editorial Teseo, Eterna Cadencia, export, Gabriela Adamo, import, Irene Barki, Isol, John Bacon, Katz Editores, Leonora Djament, Octavio Kulesz, Sarte
In anticipation of the Bologna International Book Fair, there’s no shortage of buzz about the fast-emerging kids’ markets in Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world, along with curiosity about how the traditional powerhouses of France, Spain, and Germany are faring. Falling somewhere in between, the smaller European territories are feeling the benefit of Asian…Continue Reading
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Tagged Baltic Countries, Bologna Children's Book Fair, Bonnier, Bor the Beaver, Dominique Sandis, Eefje Buenen, Fifty Shades of Grey, Finland, Gyldendal, Hana Whitton, Heli Hottinen-Puukko, Hungary, Hunger Games, Kaya Hoff, Leopold, Mladinska knjiga, Moomins, Netherlands, Otava, Outi Mäkinen, Oxford Literary, Psichigios Publications, Rabén & Sjögren, Suzanne Öhman, Sweden, Tammi, Tove Jansson
In the fiftieth year since its founding, the 26th biannual Jerusalem International Book Fair (JIBF) hosted 5 days of exhibits, panels, and literary events from February 10-February 15, 2013. More than 400 publishers from 30 countries exhibited, and the visitor head-count for the week exceeded 45,000. Amid jubilee celebration, though, a growing contingent of long-time participants…Continue Reading
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Tagged Bettina Schrewe, Deborah Harris, Esther Margolis, Hebrew Book Week, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, Jerusalem International Book Fair, Kinneret Zmora Dvir, Newmarket Press, Nilli Cohen, Philip Rappaport, Zev Birger, Ziv Lewis
The College Art Association’s 101st Annual Conference (held this year in New York, from February 13-16 at the New York Hilton) is primarily a spot for grad students seeking for jobs in the academic art world; professional symposia; and panels on such popular topics as “Eschatology in Art Historiography.” Tucked amongst all this heavy-hitting scholarship,…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adelson Galleries, Art History Publication Initiative, Catalogue Raisonne Scholars Association, Chicago Manual of Style, College Art Association, College Art Association Annual Conference, Duke University Press, Jennifer Norton, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Penn State University Press, Roger Shepherd, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, The Scholar's Choice, Tom Prins, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Washington Press
The 44th Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF), scheduled to run January 23-February 5, 2013, is the second held since the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, but the first since the election of President Mohamed Morsi and his cabinet. More specifically, the Fair’s coincidence with the January 25th anniversary of the Revolution inevitably ties it to questions about…Continue Reading
The Digital Book World 2013 panels, “Sales Across Borders: Export” and “Sales Across Borders: Import” (back to back on Wednesday afternoon) were both concerned with the question of what new digital systems best allow books to travel across international boundaries—though their approaches were hardly two sides of one coin. On the Export panel, there was…Continue Reading
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Tagged Bastei Lübbe, Chitra Bopardikar, Cyrus Kheradi, DBW, Digital Book World Conference and Expo 2013, export, import, Ingram, International sales, Kelly Gallagher, Marion König, Open Road Media, Perseus, Random House
As we took stock of 2012’s publishing milestones and discussed what 2013 held in store, we thought it would be an ideal time to get a global view of what the year was like for publishing in “smaller” languages—for our purposes here, those languages spoken by fewer than 100 million native speakers worldwide. Publishing Trends…Continue Reading
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Tagged Ayse Kulin, Editora Univers, Ersilia Literary Agency, Estonia, Estonian Publishers Association, FarLit, Faroe Islands, Greece, Iceland, israel, Israel's Publishers' Association, Kinneret Zmora Dvir, map, Mladinska knjiga, Nikos Dimou, On the Unhappiness of Being Greek, Portfolio, Publishing Perspectives, Romania, Romanian Publishers Association, slovenia, Slovenian Publishers Association, small language, Turkey, Turkish Publishers Association, Varrak Publishers