Last year, Bookreporter.com‘s Carol Fitzgerald had the novel insight that if there isn’t an audience for a book, perhaps it shouldn’t be published. The publishing palooza has subsided a bit (Bowker recently reported that total titles were down to 172,000 last year – an 18,000 title drop from 2004), and Chris Anderson mania has everyone…Continue Reading
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Tagged Apple, Audible, BOMC, Bookreporter.com, Bookspan, Bowker, Carol Fitzgerald, Charles Arda, Chris Anderson, Clear Cut Press, Contact Editions, Don Katz, Dorchester, Hard Case Crime, Harlequin, Hours Press, iPod, Kelsey Street Press, Les Figues, Max Phillips, McSweeney's, McSweeney's Book Release Club, Michael Cader, Michelle Berger, Nirvana, Partners West, Penguin, Public Affairs, Publishers Marketplace, Random House, Richard Jensen, Soft Skull Press, Soundgarden, SPD Books, Stephen King, Sub Pop Records, Susan Weinberg, The Clear Cut Future, The Colorado Kid, Ugly Duckling Press, Up Records, Wave Books, Zooba
As we ready ourselves for this year’s capital convention, we’re once again on the look out for that-which-will-make-this-year-stand-out-from-all-the-rest. Rather than focus on the perennial party previews, this year we thought we’d take the astute route, and highlight some of the must-see panels sponsored by the AAR. The one likely to create the most industry ire…Continue Reading
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Tagged AAR, Brian deFiore, Carolyn Reidy, Constance Sayre, Dan Brown, David Poindexter, Elaine Markson Agency, Geri Thoma, Hachette, Jed Rubenfeld, Lisa Gallagher, MacAdam-Cage, Morrow, S&S, Steve Berry, Tim Hely-Hutchinson
Copyright Conundrums in Iran, Swedish Suburbs & Chilean Death Publishing in Iran is a tough business. Just last year, Publishing Trends reported on the international stir caused by the Iranian government’s banning of Coelho‘s THE ZAHIR (PT June 2005). Eventually, the ban was lifted and Coelho turned up on Iranian bookshelves all over the country….Continue Reading
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Tagged AAP's International Copyright Protection Program, Arash Hejazi, Bari Pearlman, Berne Convention, Caravan Books, Coelho, David Sedaris, Gallimard, Gruppo Editoriale, Hussein Saffar Harandi, International Intellectual Property Alliance, Jonas Gardell, Le Clezio, Mahmoud Abmadinejad, Marquez, Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Pablo Simonetti, Patricia Judd, Piergiorgio Nicolazzini, Planeta, Priority Watch List, Sijthoff, U.S. Copyright Office
In olden days, a faculty member huddled with a publisher’s sales rep and picked a new textbook, which eventually resulted in its purchase by a student. Today, every link in that chain is under reconsideration – some might say under attack. A group of education industry investors gathered in Miami recently to hear about new…Continue Reading
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Tagged Apollo Publishing, Barnes & Noble, Beth Aguiar, Dan Weiss, Google, John Wiley, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, rEsource, Spark Publishing, Sparknotes, Thomson, Tom Turvey, University of Phoenix
Digital Publishing Goes Mainstream. PT Attempts To Make a Meal Out of the Proverbial ePie This month we decided to tackle the Sisyphean task of coming up with eNumbers – stats for the digital side of the biz. For the Book Publishing industry, eBooks are the most literal digital translation – books, in every sense…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon Pages, Audio Publishers Association, Book Tech, Chapter Feeds, Holtzbrinck, International Digital Publishing Forum, Jim Lichtenberg, Lightspeed, MBS, Meg Fisher, Nick Bogaty, Oxford University Press, Random House, Sony Reader, Sparknotes, Vincent Janoski
2006 is promising to be another banner year for graphic novels. Marjane Satrapi‘s PERSEPOLIS (Pantheon) was named this year’s featured work in the Seattle Reads series and Alan Moore’s V FOR VENDETTA (Vertigo), which opened as the No. 1 movie in the U.S., brought the original graphic novel to No. 9 on Barnes & Noble.com’s…Continue Reading
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Tagged Art Spiegelman, Barnes & Noble.com's Hourly Top 100, Bob Mecoy, Chris Ware, Creative Book Services, First Second, HarperCollins, ICv2, James Killen, Joe Sacco, Marjane Satrapi, Mark Siegel, Matt Madden, Milton Griepp, News Corp, Pantheon, Roaring Brook, Seattle Reads, Tokyopop
Not So Foreign Family Problems Fill the Lists The bright blue and red cover of YOU’RE JOKING, MONSIEUR TANNER (l’Olivier), French author Jean-Paul Dubois‘ most recent bestseller, shows a man on hands and knees who’s painted himself into a corner. This is Paul Tanner, a wildlife documentary filmmaker who suddenly inherits the grand family manse,…Continue Reading
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Tagged Archipel, Arno Geiger, Aschehoug, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, Balgunsesang, Bezige Big, Board of Governors, Bompiani, Bonnier, Danish Family Planning Association, Esthi Kunz, Face to Face, Friderike Barakat, Gallimarrd, German Book Prize, Grup 62, Gyldendal, Hanne-Vibeke Holst, Hanser, Huset, Jean-Paul Dubois, Jennie Dorney, John Updike, l'Olivier, Laura Molinari, Maria Stella Conte, Philip Roth, Piratforlaget, Pirelli, Prix Femina, Thelma and Louise, UNESCO
Has Online Syndication Killed the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg? Back in the day, syndication not only sold papers, but was a booming business that built up audiences for everything from columnists’ and comic strip-pers’ books (with excerpts) to television audiences (with Gemstar numbers and listings). And, of course, the syndicated columns and strips…Continue Reading
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Pearson Custom Publishing and Foreign Affairs have teamed up to create a searchable on-line database of select Foreign Affairs’ articles that professors can navigate and cherry pick to create their own personalized textbooks for International Relations courses. Pearson has been building custom textbooks for about four years (part of a growing trend – McGraw Hill’s…Continue Reading
