Frankfurt Fair Dealer, October 14, 2011
Keep up with the goings on at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Read the complete October 14 issue of the PW Frankfurt Book Fair dealer in this digital edition. more...
10/21/2011 @ 12:00AM
Starting Up
In his closing remarks, Frankfurt Book Fair director Juergen Boos said that 2011 was a strong year for startups at the fair. Among those startups, perhaps none had a better reception than Small Demons, in Los Angeles. “We couldn’t have asked for a better first Frankfurt Book Fair,” Small Demons founder and CEO Valla Vakili told PW.
10/18/2011 @ 12:00AM
It was the book that, as one insider put it, you had to “go into a closet to read.” If there was one hush-hush book at Frankfurt this year, it was Masha Gessen’s Vladimir Putin biography, The Man Without a Face.
10/14/2011 @ 12:00AM
Keep up with the goings on at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Read the complete October 14 issue of the PW Frankfurt Book Fair dealer in this digital edition.
10/14/2011 @ 12:00AM
With official numbers still to come, organizers say attendance at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair is level with last year, and traffic in the rights center was up 11% over 2010, with more stands, more space, and a flurry of deals being reported.
10/14/2011 @ 12:00AM
The International Publishers Association yesterday took the unusual step of having a vote on whether the Emirates Publishers Association should become a full member of the IPA.
10/13/2011 @ 12:00AM
New York City-based independent publisher Skyhorse Publishing has entered into a three-year, 30-book licensing agreement with Norstedts of Sweden to acquire World English rights to a wide range of titles on crafts, health, fitness and cooking.
10/13/2011 @ 12:00AM
Follow all the action at the Frankfurt Book Fair by reading our PW Frankfurt Fair Dealer in this digital edition.
10/12/2011 @ 12:00AM
Explicitly aiming a barb at the Man Booker Prize, a group of publishers and agents with Andrew Kidd of Aitken Alexander as its spokesman has announced a new literary award, to be called the Literature Prize, “to establish a clear and uncompromising standard of excellence”.
10/12/2011 @ 12:00AM
With a number of big deals closing the days and hours before Frankfurt got underway this morning, conversations have trended less toward pinpointing the big book, and more toward sifting all the mini-major deals that have already gone down. But one thing everyone is buzzing about is a new Swedish trilogy.
10/11/2011 @ 12:00AM
Last year, there was a palpable excitement at the Frankfurt Book Fair about the commercial development of e-books. But moving text from the page to the screen will be remembered as “a minor moment” in the history of books, said e-book pioneer Bob Stein, kicking off the 2011 Frankfurt Tools of Change.
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