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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Redmayne Talks New Storytelling Models and Competing With PRH
The CEO of HarperCollins U.K. talked about taking his new job and how he plans on taking HC into the future.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Terézia Mora Wins German Book Prize
On the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Her Das Ungeheuer was honored as the year's best German-language novel.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: The Digital Spotlight
Read the complete Frankfurt Book Fair 2013 Digital Spotlight in this Scribd reader
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Frankfurt 2013: CONTEC Opens 'Good Mood' Frankfurt Book Fair
The popular Tools of Change is no more, but in its place a more intimate digital conference--CONTEC--kicked off what Frankfurt v-p of conferences and entertainment & media Holger Volland said was going to be “a good mood” Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Karten Nabs Two Big Buzz Books Pre-Frankfurt
In separate deals with agents at William Morris Endeavor, HarperCollins's Terry Karten acquired North American rights to two of the big buzz books drawing attention leading into the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Foreign Markets Drawing Mixed Reviews
Depending on whom you talk to, the foreign rights markets are rebounding, or are still in decline.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: The Publisher: Innovator or Traditionalist?
There is no denying that the past decade has seen some mighty changes within the publishing industry.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: CONTEC Makes Its Debut
In March of this year, following a wonderful day of programming at TOC Bologna, I sat at dinner with a few of our speakers from the day—my friend and CONTEC Frankfurt speaker Paul Rhodes included—and the conversations at that table were simply absorbing.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Where the World Plugs In
At an opening session at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, U.K. Publishers Association CEO Richard Mollet remarked that digital publishing was no longer in its infancy, but in the “voting and drinking stages of early adulthood.”
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: BookMachine: A Meetup for Global Book Professionals
On Wednesday, September 25, six speakers in six different cities around the world gave related presentations loosely organized around the effects of the digital transition on publishing, entrepreneurship, and the power of collaboration.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: An American’s Take on the French E-book Market
When I moved to Paris in 2010, I’d already begun doing the majority of my reading on my Kindle.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: E-books Go Global
One of the allures of e-books for American publishers is the opportunity the format provides to sell titles to international markets, free of the costs of printing—and shipping—books overseas.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Working the Digital Content Space
Uncertainty is one big obstacle holding publishers back from outsourcing their distribution, observes CEO Gareth Cuddy of ePubDirect.
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STUDYeBUDDY Preps For Frankfurt Debut
Seven months after its New Delhi launch, the STUDYeBUDDY e-bookstore now offers digital content from 32 publishers, including Usborne, Crabtree Publishing, Kendall Hunt, Ashgate, Ocra, Carson-Dellosa, Global Finance School, Pustak Mahal, Popular Prakashan, and Aardash Books.
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Frankfurt Briefcase 2013: What the American Agencies Will Be Selling At the Fair
Barbara Ehrenreich tackles "the truth"; Arianna Huffington tackles success; Elizabeth Gilbert tackles fiction; Alice McDermott tackles being ordinary; and more.
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Frankfurt 2013: Frankfurt Adapts and Grows
Over the 35 years since its introduction, the rights trade conducted at Frankfurt has become the backbone of the international publishing world, generating buzz and more than a few million-dollar blockbuster deals.
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With CONTEC, Frankfurt Embraces Life After TOC
For the past four years, Tools of Change has been a popular kickoff to the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Dohle to be Featured on Frankfurt Panel
Markus Dohle, CEO of newly merged Penguin Random House, will be the sole guest speaker at this year’s CEO forum at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Indonesia Will be Frankfurt Focus Country in '15
The Frankfurt Book Fair announced that Indonesia will be its guest of honor country in 2015. Brazil is the honor country this fall with the focus on Finland in 2014.
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Connections, Chance, and Content Deck the Halls
Last year, students in the master’s program in Publishing: Digital and Print Media, at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, were volunteers at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair—and shared their thoughts with Publishers Weekly.