Corpse Bride (and Groom), Travels With Democracy From Boxing to Bassoons While many eyes in Hall 8 at the Frankfurt Book Fair were ogling Google, international publishers were juggling a flurry of deals on the heels of a rather upbeat year for most. Here is a sampling of some of the most prominent and promising…Continue Reading
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Frankfurt. London. BookExpo. Cape Town? The triad of must-attend book fairs may become a quadrumvirate next year after the innauguration of Barcelona and Cape Town’s own. With equally idealistic mission statements, the Saló del Llibre and the Cape Town Book Fair will finally happen after ten years and two years of planning respectively. However, claiming…Continue Reading
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Tagged Annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Cape Town Book Fair, Catalan Publishers Association, Circulo de Lectores, DeBolsillo, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Grupo Planeta, Guadalajara International Book Fair, Guild of Catalan Bookstores, Guild of Catalan Editors, Mondadori, Publishers Association of South Africa, Salo del Libre
Audiobooks Go Global, Competition Rises In Germany, Yoshi Mixes Tunes in Japan As PT continues its foray into the audio delivery of the word, we leave behind the car-loving Americans who drive twice the distance at a third of the cost, for the land of the TGV, the U-Bahn and the AVE. A land where…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alfaguara, Angels and Demons, Audible, Claudio.de, Diogenes, El codigo Da Vinci, Focus Magazin Verlag, Fonolibro, Frankfurt Book Fair, Harry Potter, Horverlag, Jan Josef Liefers, John Updike, Marebuch, Paulo Coelho, Pedro Huerta, Random House Mondadori, T.C. Boyle, The Da Vinci Code, The Inner Circle, The Zahir, Urano, Yoshi
WOM’s The Word As Podcasts, Blogging, Buzz & Viral Go Mainstream Although the book publishing industry as a whole has yet to go viral in the way of blockbusters or burgers (Have you “crashed” the Wedding Crashers trailer or Had It Your Way with Burger King‘s Subservient Chicken?), many in the industry say they’re not…Continue Reading
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Desperately Seeking Sister, Swede Picks Up Speed A Genealogical Guessing Game A bevy of menacing women is tearing through the list in Argentina as Marisa Grinstein profiles fourteen femmes fatales who lay to waste the stereotype of the prim and proper lady in LadyKillers. Cheated out of their destiny and left bitter with baggage, each…Continue Reading
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It’s a well-known fact that an audiobook publisher’s most prized demographic is the commuter. Yet in focusing on those commuting to work, it’s easy to overlook those commuting as work, an entire population laden with audiobook aficionados: truckers. A trucker working to the legal limit in the US can rack up to 3,432 driving hours…Continue Reading
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Tagged AmBest Truck Stops, AudiFile, Audio Adventures, Audio Publishers Association, Bob Geistman, Brad Phillips, Cracker Barrel, Flying J, Hyperion/Miramax, Ingram Entertainment, Jenkins, Jill Sansone, Landmark Audio, Le Haye, Love's Travel Shops, Petro Shopping Centers, Pilot Travel Centers, RV.Net, Sapp Brothers, The Rising, Time Warner, Truckstops of America
Audible Braces as MediaBay and Amazon Enter, Growth Continues Across the Board Talking to audio publishers is like walking into a small town where everyone knows everyone else and all of the competition is friendly — at this point everybody is so excited by the potential growth of the industry that they seem willing to…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, Anthony Goff, APA, Audible, Audio Book Club, Audio Renaissance, BBC, Harlequin, Harper Audio, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck, Hyperion, Jeff Dittus, Jill Sansone, Mary Beth Roche, MediaBay, OverDrive, Penguin Group, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Time Warner, Zondervan
Darth Vader, Green Lantern, Spiderman and Princess Lea Hang at Comic Con 2005 New York needn’t envy San Diego, which became the epicenter of the geek world last month when it hosted Comic Con International – because it will get its shot in 2006. That’s when its sister show, New York Comic Con (brought to…Continue Reading
The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Publishing Convention, Seminar, and Summit In the golden years of the publishing conference, 400 people clamoring for access to a panel, summit or seminar, wasn’t unheard of. Some frequenters admit to going to upwards of 10 conferences a year in the late 1990’s techno boom, while others…Continue Reading
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Logic Game Spurs Addiction, Israel Builds a Bridge to Turkey, Takako Takes a Walk Crosswords are so 2004. The new fill-in-the blank fad? Here’s a hint: it’s six letters long (and five times as fun, according to some). Su Doku, the puzzle craze sweeping the world, from Japan to the Czech Republic, has created a…Continue Reading
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