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USC Panel Kicks Off L.A. Times Book Festival
A panel discussion at USC Thursday night focused on the changes the publishing industry is experiencing.
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'The Hypnotist' Becomes One of the Fair's Big Books
While London saw a number of big book deals, one of the biggest involved the thriller, The Hypnotist. The title, which has yet to sell in the U.S., was at the center of a heated auction in the U.K. involving some of the country's leading crime publishers.
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A Quieter But Productive London Book Fair
For a fair that was predicted by many to be quieter than years past, the London Book Fair has been busy by many accounts. “Overall attendance may not be that great, but the quality of the attendance has been phenomenal,” said Frank Daniels, chief commercial officer of Ingram Digital. “People are very focused,” he told PW, and those who did show up “came to do business.”
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Willen Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt senior editor Drenka Willen was in London to accept the sixth annual lifetime achievement award for international publishing.
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Using SKYPE, Wiley Holds Virtual Bookstore Talk
Combining technology and pop culture, John Wiley’s events planners found an inventive way to upgrade the traditional author bookstore appearance
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British Publishers Try to Find the Money in E-books
A standing room only crowd jammed into the Cromwell Room at Earls Court mid-morning on day two of the London Book Fair, hoping to learn the answer to what moderator Torin Douglas called “the $64,000 question: where’s the money” in e-books?
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Penguin Breakfast Explains Company's Global Outlook
At Penguin UK’s headquarters at 80 Strand this morning, chairman and CEO John Makinson presented a group of journalists with an overview of the company’s global business, offering commentary and observations from five of its international divisions. The big picture: Penguin is reaching far and wide, especially into developing countries.
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At London Book Fair, Panel Says Two-Year British E-Textbook Study is Myth-Shattering
Caren Milloy, director of e-books for JISC, said the two-year effort was largest e-book study ever conducted. It garnered some 48,000 survey responses, as well as analysis of raw server logs at 127 U.K. participating universities, all bolstered by focus groups.
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Sen Provides Long View of India’s Relationship with Books
At the London Book Fair's Chairman's Breakfast, Amartya Sen, the Nobel Laureate, talked about India's history of publishing and its current place in publishing.
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At London Book Fair, E-books on the Outside, But Looking In
At the London Book Fair, the Digital Zone and Theatre, a 23-seat area on the edge of the show floor, drew overflowing crowds.
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LBF Panel Compares U.S. and U.K. Consumer Book Buying Habits
Among the chief observations made at this morning’s panel on the “special relationship” between U.S. and British consumer book markets were that the British are at least three years behind Americans in adapting e-books, and that American readers are much more interested in romance while the majority of British readers skew toward literary fiction.
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London Book Fair Opens, Attendees Optimistic
The 2009 London Book Fair opened this morning with a long line of attendees wrapped around Earls Court in unusually bright sunshine. It was an auspicious start to the fair, which was predicted by many to be quieter this year but by anecdotal accounts at least appears to be fairly busy.
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Children’s Book Week Goes Digital
The Children’s Book Council turns to the Web to promote this year’s Children’s Book Week, which will take place May 11—17. Here are a few highlights of its virtual campaign, as well as information on some of the planned Children’s Book Week events.
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First Self-Publishing Book Expo Planned
Publishing veterans Diane Mancher and Karen Mender are launching Self-Publishing Book Expo, an event that will focus on self-published books and the companies that produce them. SPBE, as the expo is called, will offer attending authors a place to exhibit and sell their books to the general public, and will offer representatives from self-publishing companies to showcase their services.
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ABC Announces BEA Events
The Association of Booksellers for Children has released its schedule of programs for BookExpo America. Just confirmed are the speakers at The ABC Not-a-Dinner and (Mostly) Silent Auction on Friday, May 29. Shannon Hale (Forest Born) will host the keynote program, after which Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson (The Day of the Pelican) and Mike Lupica (Million Dollar Throw) will speak.
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Bologna 2009: A Photo Essay
See the sights from last week's Bologna Fair without leaving your chair, courtesy of veteran attendee Craig Virden and photographer Mario Ventimiglia. For more of Craig's take on this year's fair, visit our Bologna by Day and Night blog.
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Dog and Bear Hit the Road
They may be just three feet tall and made of plush, but that’s not keeping Dog and Bear, the eponymous stars of Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s Dog and Bear and Dog and Bear: Two’s Company (Roaring Brook/Porter), from striking out across the U.S. on tour. The Dog and Bear Best Friends Tour got underway last week and will run through the summer.
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A Garland of Garlands: 2009 Poetry Anthologies
The father of all poetry anthologies was Greek—the Anthologia Graeca, known in English as The Greek Anthology, the first version a collection of epigrams and poems compiled by Meleager of Gadara. That was in the first century B.C. Ever since, the poetry anthology has endured as a form that strives to represent or establish a particular tradition or mode of practice.
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Missed Connection: Christian Book Expo Attracts Few Customers
Stacks of unsold books and glum publishers stood for three days inside the cavernous Dallas Convention Center this past weekend at the Christian Book Expo. The show, sponsored by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, attracted 1,500 consumer attendees; it had hoped for 15,000-20,000
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A Cavafy Person: Daniel Mendelsohn
Critic and memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn undertook the Herculean task of translating and annotating all the poems written by the great Modern Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863—1933), including his last, unfinished poems, never before published in English. It was a labor of love, and Knopf is publishing the results this month in two volumes.
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