London Book Fair Show Daily: April 18, 2012
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04/19/2012 @ 09:00AM
E-book retailer Kobo announced an agreement with U.K. retailer WHSmith at the London Book Fair to open branded Kobo shops within 100 WHSmith High Street retail stores in 2012.
04/19/2012 @ 12:00AM
"The DoJ, 50 Shades of Grey and J.K. Rowling," is what one foreign rights associate said when asked about the popular topics at this year's London Book Fair.
04/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
Attendance figures for the 2012 London Book Fair won’t be released for weeks, but judging from the fairly strong traffic in the main hall, it seems likely this year’s attendance will top the 24,802 who came to last year’s event.
04/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
Ingram has reached an agreement with independent U.K. bookseller Foyles under which Ingram will provide the bookseller with its title data to allow Foyles to populate www.foyles.co.uk.
04/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
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04/17/2012 @ 08:00AM
In what looks to be one of the biggest dollar figure deals coming out of the London Book Fair so far, Amanda Cook at Crown took North American rights, for a rumored seven figures, to a nonfiction title called Dataclysm by Christian Rudder, one of the founders of the dating Web site OkCupid.com.
04/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
Open Road Integrated Media has teamed with Italian publishing giant Mondadori to digitize, distribute and market English-language e-book versions of titles from Mondadori's catalogue. Mondadori is Open Road’s first foreign publishing partner.
04/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
A middle grade series by Guillermo del Toro, which was initially shopped a few years ago before being shelved, is back on track.
04/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
Argo Navis, the digital distribution platform Perseus unveiled in 2011 for agented authors who want to work with their representation to self-publish titles, has launched in the U.K.
04/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
Is the publishing industry’s business model sustainable? That was the question for the London Book Fair’s 2012 CEO panel, chaired by Association of American Publishers president Tom Allen.
Barbara Vey
For some reason I've been having a lot of nightmares lately. You know, the kind where when you wake up you don't know what's real and what's not....
Elizabeth Bluemle
Once in a while, I blog about book covers that drive me crazy because they are either overdone, mired in trend and cliché, or are impossible handsells. I figure it's time to celebrate some stando...
Rose Fox
Hotel shenanigans and plastic suburbia....
Adam Boretz
Our final piece in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 is a Q&A with comedian, actor, director, and writer Michael Showalter -- narrator of the audio edition of his memoir Mr. Funny Pants and...
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| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
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