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On to Bologna!
As children's publishers from the world over convene in Italy later this month (March 23—26), a number of issues hang in the balance. How will the economy shape this year's fair? Is the age of the big YA fantasy trilogy finally over? Will picture books make a resurgence? What of the co-edition market? The digital revolution? We asked a sampling of Bologna veterans for their take on what to expect at this year's fair, and what they're looking for.
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Canadian Market Up Slightly in 2009
The Canadian book market remained relatively healthy throughout the economic turbulence of 2009 with sales up 4% in dollars and 1% units sold over 2008 figures, according to a report released by BookNet Canada.
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Canadian Writers Air Google Book Search Gripes
A group of about 175 Canadian writers registered their objections to the Google Book Search settlement last week just before the Jan. 28 deadline for submissions to a New York court.
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Job Moves
Simon & Schuster Australia has promoted Lou Johnson to managing director. Johnson has been with the company since July 2008 as sales and marketing director.
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Canada's Independent Booksellers Satisfied with Holidays
Though the bankruptcy of McNally-Robinson Booksellers grabbed lots of attention earlier this month, many of Canada's independent booksellers said sales held up over the holidays.
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'Alchemist' and Other Coelho Titles Available in Portuguese on Kindle
Worldwide bestselling author Paulo Coelho is making 17 of his books, including The Alchemist, available in his native Portuguese exclusively for worldwide distribution in Amazon’s Kindle store. It will be the first time any of the editions have been available as e-books, and they will be exclusive to the Kindle store for six months.
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Actar Acquires Birkhäuser Architecture Titles
Actar, the publisher of books on architecture, graphic design, and contemporary art with offices in Barcelona and New York, has signed an agreement with Springer Science + Business Media to acquire the sales and distribution of titles from Birkhäuser Verlag in Basel, Switzerland. Birkhäuser will become an imprint of Actar but will remain in Basel.
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Cooking the Books with Clotilde Dusoulier
Clotilde Dusoulier talks about her translation and adaption of the French classic I Know How to Cook, first published in 1932, with more than six million copies in print in France. As holiday shoppers snap up the just-out DVD of Julie & Julia, Dusoulier discusses I Know How to Cook versus Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
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Paris Court Convicts Google in Copyright Infringement Case
The AP reported this morning that a Paris court has convicted Google in a copyright infringement case over online publication of French books.
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South Korea Takes on the E-book
Just two days after returning to New York from the Middle East, we headed to Seoul, South Korea, as part of an American delegation to the annual Paju Book City Forum, along with Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy and University of Hawaii “futurist” James Dator. The topic of this year's forum: publishing in the digital world.
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Fertile Ground: The United Arab Emirates
On a recent visit to the U.A.E. for the Sharjah International Book Fair PW found something remarkable: a publishing industry full of optimism—and on the upswing.
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BEA 2010 Global Market Forum to Focus on Spain
Spain will be the focus of BookExpo 2010’s Global Market Forum, conference organizers announced today.
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Headline's New Strategy Results in New Hires, Promotions and Layoffs
Headline Publishing Group is making some major changes resulting in new hires, promotions and layoffs, Hachette UK CEO Tim Hely Hutchinson announced. The company will be publishing less nonfiction and uniting its marketing, digital and design departments.
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Swedish Thrillers, Nobel Winner
New fiction took the top spots at the end of October in France and Germany. In the latter, Dan Brown beat out the Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller with The Lost Symbol debuting at #1 in Germany and Müller's Everything I Have I Carry with Me landing at #3. Last week, Müller's U.S. publisher, Metropolitan Books, announced that it had acquired U.
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Metropolitan Books Nabs Two By Müller
Metropolitan Books has acquired two titles by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller. The first is a new novel called Everything I Possess I Carry With Me, and the second, an earlier work called The Fox Was Always a Hunter.
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Sharjah Book Fair Opens
The 27th Sharjah International Book Fair opened today with a ceremony led by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohamed Al Qassimi. Over the next 10 days, the fair, which is open to the public, will host more than 750 publishers from some 40 countries, and draw more than 400,000 visitors. Fair organizers said they expect about $28 million worth of business to take place at the fair.
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Frankfurt 2009 Roundup: The Distress Over Digital and the Books That Got People Talking
The 2009 edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair concluded with a slight dip in overall attendance, tough the number of visitors to the rights center was up. There was lots of discussion about all things digital, though the Europeans and Americans seemed to differ on where things are headed. A few rights also were sold.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Trident's Gottlieb Charges European Publishers with Collusion
In an e-mail sent to publishers in an undisclosed number of European countries right before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Trident chairman Robert Gottlieb charged that publishers have been colluding to keep advances down. European executives dismissed the charging, saying Gottlieb has "gone mad."
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Europeans Play the Moral Rights Card Against Google Settlement
There’s been a simmering anti-Google sentiment at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, no doubt connected to European objections to the Google Book Search Settlement. And on Friday that simmer reached a boil, as the deal faced harsh—at times, puzzling—criticism at a registration-required panel on “European and American Positions Towards the Google Settlement.”
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Ray Kurzweil Teams with Baker & Taylor on New eReader Software
Baker & Taylor announced a partnership with acclaimed scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, to supply digital content for K-NFB Reading Technology, a newly developed e-book reading software created by Kurzweil in collaboration with the National Federation of the Blind.
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