In the April Issue:

Bookview 04/07

What I Learned On The Other Side

International Bestsellers: The Addams Family Meets Sister Act

Industry Ink Slingers

Hey Old Media, What Are You Doing?

Education Update

Publishing Trends April Issue 2007

IN THIS ISSUE (VOL.XIV, NUMBER IV):

What I Learned On The Other Side
Publisher-Authors Help Their Authors Help Themselves
You could call them secret shoppers. Like the plainclothes informants who check out department stores for a lapse in customer service, publishers who slip on authors' shoes return from their writing experience armed with anecdotes and tips that market research can’t devine. What many intelligencers see shocks them. Even thirty-year publishing veterans see their industry in a new light after sitting on the other side of the desk. . . .

International Bestsellers: The Addams Family Meets Sister Act
As a member of the first internet-savvy generation, the Brazilian Daniel Galera (who was born 1979) naturally looked to the web when he first started writing stories ten years ago. He wrote for and edited literary websites before switching to paper and co-founding Livros do Mal (Evil Books), a publishing project responsible for bringing some of the biggest names to the fore in the new surge of young Brazilian writers.
(To view the International Bestselling Fiction chart, download the full issue here)

April Bookview
March brought some big announcements from industry veterans:
Teri Kelly, President of the trade and reference division at Houghton Mifflin has announced that she will leave the company where she has worked for twenty-five years, once a replacement is found. . . .

Industry Ink Slingers
When we checked in with publishing “ink slingers” just over two years ago, Sara Nelson’s move to Publishers Weekly was imminent, and Jerome Kramer was in mid-launch of VNU’s The Bookstandard. Today, most of the industry stalwarts are still chugging along (including yours truly), many with expanded offerings. . . .

Hey Old Media, What Are You Doing?
South by Southwest Interactive. Austin, Texas. For over ten years now the creators and users of technology’s cutting edge have gathered in the town of great Tex-Mex and live music to, well, interact, after a fashion. This is truly the realm of the ADD generation. . . .

Education Update
At the 9th Annual Education Industry Investment Forum (March 26-28), more than a hundred investors and entrepreneurs gathered to learn more about the current state of the $300B education market. As always, technology was the glue that binds. . . .

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