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London Book Fair 2017: For Publishers, Business Is Booming, but Brexit Means Uncertainty
For a second year in a row, publishers arrived at the London Book Fair with the wind at their backs. Will Brexit change that?
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London Book Fair 2017: Cory Doctorow Unveils His Latest Publishing Experiment—Fair Trade E-Books
For his forthcoming book, Walkaway, out in April, the bestselling author has devised a novel approach to selling the digital edition.
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London Digital 2017: Bringing the Science of Marketing Technology to Publishing
Evan Schnittman on his new startup, OptiQly.
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London Digital 2017: Can Self-Publishing Crack the Academic Market?
PW talks to Daniel Berze, senior v-p of academic publishing for Glasstree, who says the traditional scholarly publishing model is broken—and self-publishing can help fix it.
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London Digital 2017: Publishing’s Startup Culture
Consultant and blogger Thad McIlroy talks to PW about his recently released report on startups in the book business.
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London Digital 2017: The Future of Publishing Is...
As the publishing world gathers for the London Book Fair, now ten years after the birth of the iPhone and the Kindle, Kristen McLean surveys the storytelling landscape.
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London Book Fair 2017: More Evidence of a Print Renaissance in the U.K.
Steve Bohme, research director at Nielsen Book Research U.K. said British print book purchases rose for the second year in a row.
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London Briefcase 2017: What U.S. Agencies Will be Selling at the London Book Fair
Hot properties include titles from Ursula K. LeGuin, Masha Gessen, Tom Hanks, Joan Didion, and more.
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London Book Fair 2017 Preview
Whether the topic is a global publishing rebound or a global political meltdown, organizers expect lively conversations at this year’s London Book Fair.
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PW Sets Rights Marketplace for London Book Fair
Beginning at this year's London Book Fair, which runs March 14-16, PW is launching the Rights Marketplace.
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Quarto Debuts Quarto Innovation, Arab-Language Joint venture
Quarto Innovation will look to develop new businesses opportunities, while Kalimat Quarto will republish Quarto English-language titles in Arabic for the Middle East marketplace.
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London Book Fair 2016: Translators Champion Books in Underrepresented Languages
In a panel called "Translating from the Margins,” literary translators shed light on the advantages of bringing books written in underrepresented languages into English.
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London Book Fair 2016: Librarians Respond to Hachette CEO's IPA Speech
The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) is pushing back against Hachette CEO Arnaud Nourry's suggestion that proposed "vast exceptions to copyright law for libraries," would devastate European publishers.
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London Book Fair 2016: Meet the Woman Who Could Revolutionize Indian Publishing
Chiki Sarkar, the former publisher of Penguin Random House India, is launching Juggernaut Books this month.
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London Book Fair 2016: LBF Opens with Wind at Publishers' Backs
After years of sales declines in the U.K., the London Book Fair opened Tuesday with U.K. sales on the rise.
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London Digital 2016: Connecting the Digital Dots
With more publisher consolidation through mergers and acquisitions, changes in ownership and management structures, focus on digital platforms together with the advent of social media tools, and continuous disruption in content consumption, the global publishing industry is witnessing fast-paced shifts.
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London Digital 2016: MPS on Rights and Permissions
Ever-changing technology and consumer demand for instant content access have tremendous implications on rights and permissions.
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London Digital 2016: Digital and E-learning Solutions from Cenveo Publisher Services
Technology by itself does not produce compelling digital and e-learning solutions.
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London Digital 2016: What’s Ahead for Digital Publishing?
What is going on with e-books? The decline in trade e-book sales in the U.S. is certainly one of the big questions hanging over the publishing industry as publishers gather for the 2016 London Book Fair.
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London Digital 2016: Take Note: Virtual Reality Is Growing Up Fast
In October, the New York Times launched its first immersive virtual reality (VR) application, creating an engaging new kind of journalism that suddenly, jarringly, placed viewers alongside the children displaced by Syria’s civil war.