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 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
Beginning this year on Saturday, November 17th and lasting the following week, through Sunday, November 25th, The Tüyap Istanbul Book Fair is incontestably Turkey’s largest book business event—it boasted over 500,000 visitors this year, and more than 500 registered Turkish publishers, agencies, and organizations. Now in its 31st year, the Fair is a production of…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amy Spangler, AnatoliaLit Agency, Barbaros Altug, Beijing Book Fair, Brenda Segel, Dalkey Archive Press, Deniz Kavukcuoglu, Foreign rights, Istanbul Book Fair, Istanbul Copyright Agency, Kalem Literary Agency, London Book Fair, Nermin Mollaoglu, Orhan Pamuk, Rachel Berkowitz, TEDA, translation, Turkey, Turkish Publishers Association
A glance over the list of nonfiction authors who traveled from New Zealand to Frankfurt in celebration of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s Guest of Honor reveals a decidedly gourmet bent: of the 18 authors listed, eight are food or wine writers–almost 45%. This skew toward one particular category, says Kevin Chapman, MD of Hachette New…Continue Reading
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Tagged Al Brown, Alison Brook, Annabel Langbein, Anne Scott, cordon bleu, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt Culinary Festival, Hachette, HarperCollins Worldwide, Jamie Oliver, Jenny Hellen, Julie Biuso, Kevin Chapman, Leon Joskowitz, New Zealand, New Zealand Guild of Food Writers, Nigella Lawson, Peter Gordon, Publishers Association of New Zealand, Random House New Zealand, Robyn Martin, Round Mountain Media, Susan Maruyama, Williams-Sonoma
In a world where “content and form can be easily separated, writers…are nothing short of desperate to understand the change that technology has forced upon traditional publishing,” writes Jason Allen Ashlock, President of Movable Type Management, in a recent Digital Book World post. In the interest of authors being better informed, some publishers are getting…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alan Mahar, Allen & Unwin, Amber Withycombe, AWP, Black Swan, Booker Prize, branding, Center for Fiction, Coutts, creative writing, Crime Fiction Academy, Digital Book World, Doubleday, F+W Media, Faber Academy, Faber and Faber, Gaynor Arnold, Helen Cross, Ian Ellard, Jason Allen Ashlock, Jeanette Winterson, Jim Crace, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, masterclasses, Moleskine, Movable Type Management, Rachel Joyce, Random House UK, Reed College, Shakespeare and Co., Simone Baird, SJ Watson, The Guardian, Tin House, Tindal Street Press, University of East Anglia, Val McDermid
As dead as August is on the rest of the world’s cultural calendar, there might well be no more important month in Scotland. In addition to the Fringe Theater Festival, every August brings the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF), this year running August 11-27. With over 800 authors and around a quarter of a million…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Guthrie, apps, Arthur Conan Doyle, authors, Blasted Heath, Denise Mina, digital-first publishers, DRM, Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Book Festival, festivals, Frances Sutton, Fringe Theatre Festival, Ian Rankin, international, iTunes, J. K. Rowling, Kyle MacRae, Macbeth, Marian Sinclair, Miranda Anderson, Palimpsest, Publishing Scotland, Robert Burns, Sara Hunt, Saraband, Scotland, The Electric Bookshop, The Guardian, University of Edinburgh, Val McDermid
