At Frankfurt Book Fair: Turning Corners on Self-Publishing and Amazon?
Here at the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair this week, if we’re not actually walking past a couple of smoothly contoured bends, we may at least be able to peer around them. (1) Self-publishing. We may be...
View ArticleThe 66th Frankfurt Book Fair: A Fast Arc Into Change
‘Beer swilling and book selling’ But he doesn’t stop there. When Frontier Project Partner Jason Allen Ashlock talks about why that international strategy consultancy goes to Frankfurt Book Fair, he...
View ArticleLondon Book Fair’s ‘Digital Minds’ Keep Heading Offshore
After All, After All The idea of the industry! the industry! of publishing being a global one isn’t new. Our largest trade shows — London Book Fair, BookExpo America, Frankfurt Book Fair — have always...
View ArticleMonday: Berlin’s ‘Senior’ Publishers’ Forum Convenes In A Digitally Youthful...
‘The Most Senior In Continental Europe’ There are, it turns out, myriad ways to structure and calibrate the discussions and debates and conversations that go into a good publishing conference. Rüdiger...
View ArticleAfter The Hype And Drama: Balancing Trad And Indie
‘Under The Right Conditions’ Germany is recognized as the third self-publishing market in size and activity. The United States and the United Kingdom are the first and second, respectively. And when...
View Article‘A Hybrid World’: HarperCollins’ Restivo-Alessi in Germany
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Editor-in-Chief “Absolutely vital to stick to a digital agenda” A voice of reason amid recent “print resurgence” hosannas, HarperCollins’ Chief Digital Officer and...
View ArticleInternational Consumer Confidence: A Recessionary State of Mind
In its report on consumer confidence, Nielsen sees 55 percent of those surveyed saying that in Q4 2015, they believed the were in recession. The post International Consumer Confidence: A Recessionary...
View ArticleThe IPA London Congress: Confrontation and Debate
Dichotomies of local and global, major and modest, resonated throughout the International Publishers Association's 31st Congress, convened in the run-up to London Book Fair. The post The IPA London...
View ArticleAt #PF16: The UAE’s Bodour: ‘Ahead of the Curve’
The publisher Bodour Al Qasimi arrives at Berlin's Publishers' Forum as one of the most influential and committed players on the industry's world stage. Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives. The...
View ArticleA New Global Ebook Report on a Mercurial World Market
BEA's' Director of International Affairs Rüdiger Wishenbart's new Global Ebook Report cites continental Europe's ebooks "stalling even earlier" than in the US and UK. The post A New Global Ebook Report...
View Article‘Promise, Energy, Surprise’: Download A Free White Paper on ‘The Markets’ 2016
The pivotal international publishing regions to be featured at Frankfurt Book Fair on October 18 in The Markets: Global Publishing Summit. Learn about them in this free download. The post ‘Promise,...
View ArticleDavid Hockney Speaks at Frankfurt Book Fair’s Opening News Conference
Praising the British artist's 'openness to new media and his application of digital techniques,' Frankfurt's Juergen Boos announces Hockney's keynote comments on October 18. The post David Hockney...
View ArticleRakuten Kobo Becoming Tolino’s Tech Partner in Germany
Taking over from Deutsche Telekom as the Tolino alliance’s e-reading tech partner, Canada’s Rakuten Kobo enlarges its European footprint. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Tamblyn:...
View ArticleSelling African Rights Into Germany
Berlin’s InterKontinental agency is ending its first year ready to accelerate rights sales with its inaugural African literature festival in April: Writing in Migration. Karla Kutzner, left, and...
View ArticleAt Berlin’s Ullstein Buchverlage
Able to trace its founding dates to the 19th century, Ullstein Buchverlage describes itself as Germany’s most successful hardcover publisher. And while many houses are commercializing, Ullstein wants...
View ArticleAndrew Keen at Berlinale: ‘Don’t Rely on a Single Medium’
The iconoclastic author, documentary filmmaker–and a relentless critic of the digital era’s challenges–gives a keynote on cultural integrity for the European Film Market Horizon and DLD. Andrew Keen....
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