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London Book Fair 2014: PW Talks with Kobo President Michael Tamblyn
Is Kobo the anti-Amazon? On the floor of the London Book Fair, we caught up with Kobo's newly installed president and chief content officer Michael Tamblyn to talk about the value of partnerships.
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PW London Book Fair Show Daily: Day 2, April 9, 2014
Read the complete PW London Book Fair Show Daily here.
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London Book Fair 2014: Godoff Goes ‘French’ In Major Buy
With day one of the London Book Fair not yet closed, another book is emerging as a hot title: a memoir by "New Yorker" contributor Lauren Collins which has the working title, "French Lessons."
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London Book Fair 2014: Salomonsson Goes All Out for 'Made In Sweden'
Tthe Swedish super-agency came out in a big way with its top title at the London Book Fair, a crime novel called "Made In Sweden."
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London Book Fair 2014: Big Books, No Huge Book
While no single title has emerged as the hot book of this year’s London Book Fair, a number of titles were generating buzz as the trade show kicked off on Tuesday.
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London Book Fair 2014: Great Debate: Is Bigger Always Better?
With the recent consolidation of Penguin Random House fresh in everyone’s minds, this year’s London Book Fair Great Debate argued the proposition: "It’s all about size, bigger is always better."
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The 2014 London Book Fair Digital Spotlight
Read the complete 2014 London Book Fair Digital Spotlight in the Scribd reader below.
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PW London Book Fair Show Daily: Day 1, April 8, 2014
Read the complete Day 1 coverage from the 2014 London Book Fair in this Scribd reader.
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London Book Fair 2014: Making Digital Pay at Cenveo Publisher Services
For Cenveo Publisher Services, 2014 is the year digital strategies must deliver in terms of profits for its publisher clients.
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London Book Fair 2014: Helping Publishers to Sell Direct: The Qbend Story
Powering more than 50 e-bookstores for publishers specializing in such subjects as fiction, academic, professional and romance has given Qbend COO Kaushik Sampath many unique insights on e-retailing.
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London Book Fair 2014: Meeting Publishers’ Digital Needs
The proliferation of digital devices in the classroom and the reinvention of education from traditional models to new, more interactive and individualized means of learning will change education publishing faster and farther than other segments, says executive director Bill McCoy of IDPF.
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London Book Fair 2014: Publishers and Internet Standards
Recently, experts working on ORCID and ISNI, both ISO-standard identifiers, spoke with one of the founders of schema.org to facilitate their use as embedded persona references, particularly through extensions such as BibExtend.
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London Book Fair 2014: Big Data: Should Publishers Even Care?
Like many people across the business world, publishers have a skeptical view of so-called Big Data, seeing it as “the next big hype.”
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London Book Fair 2014: Open Source for an Open Publishing Ecosystem: Readium.org Turns One
Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the formation of the Readium Foundation (Readium.org), an independent nonprofit launched in March 2013 with the objective of developing commercial-grade open source publishing technology software.
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London Book Fair 2014: Fast-Flowing Streams
Everyone knows that publishing is changing more than at any time since Gutenberg. But is it? I’ve always believed e-books are much less of a disruption than was supposed.
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London Book Fair 2014: The Center of It All
For years, we’ve spoken and written about digital publishing, sometimes as if it was a separate part of the business.
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London Briefcase 2014: The Books to Look For at the London Book Fair
Jimmy Carter makes a call to action for the world’s women, Keith Richards gets colorful, Anne Rice revives Lestat, Richard Ford brings back Frank Bascombe, and Larry Summers dishes on the world economy, and more.
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Int'l Book Industry Excellence Awards 2014 Shortlist
The most nominated countries included the USA, India, China and Korea
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Rogers Wins LBF Acheivement Award
Literary agent Deborah Rogers has been named the winner of the London Book Fair's 11th annual Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing.