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In Build-Up to Frankfurt, Handful of Titles Generate Buzz
With the Frankfurt Book Fair just over two weeks away, some in the industry are feeling that it's a bit quiet on the deal-making front.
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Frankfurt Briefcase 2012: What the American Agencies Are Bringing to the Fair
At this year’s publishing pow-wow in Germany: John Banville channels Raymond Chandler; Daniel Woodrell explores a 1929 American bombing; Michael Pollan gets elemental; Elif Batuman tries fiction; and Lionel Shriver goes to Iowa.
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Bigger, and Better: Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 Preview
It’s almost here, the publishing industry’s annual literary Oktoberfest: the Frankfurt Book Fair. This year’s edition officially kicks off on October 10, with more than 150,000 professional visitors representing some 7,500 companies and 110 countries expected to gather to trade rights, network, and participate in an energetic, forward-looking professional program. And despite difficulties both within the industry and from a lingering global fiscal crisis, the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair is poised to have one of its best turnouts in years.
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Buzzed About Novel With Tie to Bon Iver Sells In Major Deal
In one of the notable pre-Frankfurt deals, buzzed-about debut novel Shotgun Lovesongs has sold to Katie Gilligan at St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne, who bought U.S. and Canadian rights in a high six-figure acquisition, beating out seven other bidders.
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2012 Frankfurt Fellows Named
Sixteen members of the publishing industry, from across the globe, have been named as the 2012 winners of the Frankfurt Book Fair Fellowship Program.
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Small Demons Makes Big Splash at Frankfurt Book Fair
In his closing remarks, Frankfurt Book Fair director Juergen Boos said that 2011 was a strong year for startups at the fair. Among those startups, perhaps none had a better reception than Small Demons, in Los Angeles. “We couldn’t have asked for a better first Frankfurt Book Fair,” Small Demons founder and CEO Valla Vakili told PW.
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A Putin Biography Secretly Lights Up Frankfurt
It was the book that, as one insider put it, you had to “go into a closet to read.” If there was one hush-hush book at Frankfurt this year, it was Masha Gessen’s Vladimir Putin biography, The Man Without a Face.
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Frankfurt Fair Dealer, October 14, 2011
Keep up with the goings on at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Read the complete October 14 issue of the PW Frankfurt Book Fair dealer in this digital edition.
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France Blocks Emirates' Membership in IPA
The International Publishers Association yesterday took the unusual step of having a vote on whether the Emirates Publishers Association should become a full member of the IPA.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2011: Rights Center Traffic Up, Attendance Even with 2010
With official numbers still to come, organizers say attendance at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair is level with last year, and traffic in the rights center was up 11% over 2010, with more stands, more space, and a flurry of deals being reported.
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Frankfurt Fair Dealer, October 13, 2011
Follow all the action at the Frankfurt Book Fair by reading our PW Frankfurt Fair Dealer in this digital edition.
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Skyhorse Publishing, Sweden's Norstedt Ink Licensing Pact
New York City-based independent publisher Skyhorse Publishing has entered into a three-year, 30-book licensing agreement with Norstedts of Sweden to acquire World English rights to a wide range of titles on crafts, health, fitness and cooking.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2011: Big Pre-Fair Sales and a Swedish Trilogy
With a number of big deals closing the days and hours before Frankfurt got underway this morning, conversations have trended less toward pinpointing the big book, and more toward sifting all the mini-major deals that have already gone down. But one thing everyone is buzzing about is a new Swedish trilogy.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2011: U.K. Publishers, Agents Plan a New Literary Prize
Explicitly aiming a barb at the Man Booker Prize, a group of publishers and agents with Andrew Kidd of Aitken Alexander as its spokesman has announced a new literary award, to be called the Literature Prize, “to establish a clear and uncompromising standard of excellence”.
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Frankfurt Fair Dealer, October 12, 2011
Read the complete October 12, 2011 issue of the PW Frankfurt Fair Dealer.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2011: TOC Keynote Sets Bold Tone
Last year, there was a palpable excitement at the Frankfurt Book Fair about the commercial development of e-books. But moving text from the page to the screen will be remembered as “a minor moment” in the history of books, said e-book pioneer Bob Stein, kicking off the 2011 Frankfurt Tools of Change.
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The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections
This report, preparet by Rudiger Wischenbart for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011, takes a detailed look at the global e-book market.
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Possible Controller Strike Could Impact Frankfurt Fair
After an Icelandic volcano caused major disruptions for the 2010 London Book Fair, the word coming out of Germany is that a possible countrywide air traffic controller strike could cause problems for the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Frankfurt 2011: Going Digital Abroad
Last year at the Frankfurt Book Fair everyone was talking about digital rights. Same as the year before. With the e-book market exploding in the U.S., the fair is devoting more and more space to topics ranging from metadata to transmedia. But with the European market lagging two to three years behind the U.S., the talk of digital is still about the future. While foreign book publishers are all acquiring e-book rights, digital readers remain scarce in Europe.
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Frankfurt 2011 Briefcase, Part II: What the American Houses Are Selling
Shalom Auslander explores the past, Madeleine Albright talks WWII, Alison Bechdel dissects her mom, A.J. Jacobs gets healthy, and Augusten Burroughs delivers survival tips. These are just a few of the topics the major American houses will be exploring as they descend on Frankfurt with their big offerings of the season.
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