With trusty correspondents fanned out over the big-box landscape this October, word comes back that while bestsellers and brand names are alive and well, who controls those brands varies depending on the venue. At Sam’s Club, for instance, the publisher of record for Williams-Sonoma is Simon & Schuster (The Williams-Sonoma Collection), while at Costco, it’s…Continue Reading
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Tagged Albertson's, AMS, Andrea Pappenheimer, B&N, Barbara Bush, Barnes & Noble, CliffsNotes, Costco, DK, George Bick, HarperCollins, Hearst, John Grisham, Meg Cabot, Michael Jacobs, Oxmoor House, Parragon, Sam's Club, Scholastic, Silver Dolphin, Simon & Schuster, Sparknotes, Target, Wiley, Williams-Sonoma, Zondervan
All circuits are go for this year’s London Book Fair, which returns on March 16 – 18 to the Olympia Exhibition Centre with its usual bagful of rights-trading (400 tables at the International Rights Centre are virtually sold out); foreign affairs (“huge” stands from Belgium and Greece); and industry seminars (such as ePub London, chock…Continue Reading
Look out, Moscow: there’s a new book fair on the block. That’s the word on the street, anyway, as this month’s 15th Moscow International Book Fair hits the town from September 4-9. The venerable Russian institution, expanded this year with a rights center and expected to grab record attendance atop the most recent wave of…Continue Reading
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Tagged AOl Time Warner Book Group, Bob Michel, Boris Akunin, Bulfinch, ExpoPark Exhibition Projects, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Grisham, Luda Frost, Ludmila Ulitskaya, Mariann Kenedi, Modern Library, Moscow International Book Fair, Natalia Matveyeva, Newmarket Publishing, Nikolay Gumilev, Non/fiction Book Fair, Olga Borodyanskaya, Random House, Sandy Friedman, Text Publishers, The Funeral Party, Umberto Eco, Yulia Borodyanskaya
By now the rise of books about the Mideast and the fall of just about everything else has been well documented by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. Many reasons have been cited: the abrupt cancellation of tours; the general lack of promotion and concurrent lack of reader attention; the economy; and fear, any…Continue Reading
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Tagged A Civil Action, BOMC, Bookspan, Carl Lennertz, Carolyn Reidy, David Kirkpatrick, Geoffrey Fowler, Harry Evans, Harry Potter, IMP, John Grisham, Jonathan Harr, Lord of the Rings, Monsters Inc, Pat Schroeder, Peter Olson, Phyllis Grann, Reader's Digest, Rodale, Skipping Christmas, The Popular Group, Wal-Mart, Wall Street Journal
Though much battered in the last decade, Croatia’s 4.5 million inhabitants are citizens of the most developed and richest former Yugoslav republic — and one eager to traffic in the world of books. The Zagreb-based publisher Hrvoje Bozicevic of Editions Bozicevic profiles the nation’s evolving publishing business. The wartime atrocities that befell Croatia and Slovenia…Continue Reading
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Tagged Auden, Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, Croatian Association of Publishers and Booksellers, Dubravka Ugresic, Editions Bozicevic, Eve Ensler, F.W. Engdahl, Fording the Stream of Consciousness, Grand Street, Hrvoje Bozicevic, J. K. Rowling, Janko Polic Kamov, John Grisham, Leksikografski Zavod Miroslav Krleza, marble Skin, Matic Hrvatska, Milan Kundera, Miljenko Jergovic, National University Library, Nikola Sop, Northwestern, Norton, Partisan Review, Patricia Cornwell, Paul Auster, Penguin, Sarajevki Marlboro, Skolska Kujiga, Slavenka Drakulic, Sveznadar, The New York Trilogy, The Vagina Monologues, Tom Clancy
