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| London Book Fair 2013: In Keynote, Gaiman Says 'Try Everything' In his keynote at the fifth London Book Fair Digital Minds Conference, bestselling author Neil Gaiman kicked off the day-long seminar by telling a packed auditorium that authors and publishers were "on the frontier," in the digital age. "People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing," Gaiman said. "Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing." more »  International rights portal PubMatch this week announced a partnership with the Copyright Clearance Center to create an automated, Web-based exchange for rights deals, powered by the CCC's popular RightsLink transaction engine. more »  Simon & Schuster has announced a one-year pilot e-book lending program with New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Library that will make its complete catalogue available for unlimited checkout for a period of one year while also making all titles available for retail purchase via the library Web site. more » RCS Libri, Grupo Planeta, Robert Laffont, Univers Poche and De Arebiderspers / A. W. Bruna Publishers have signed with Open Road Integrated Media to have Open Road distribute and market English-language digital editions of their books in English speaking territories. more » After increasing by more than 5% in January, bookstore sales fell 3.6% in February, to $958 million, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales for the entire retail segment rose only 1% in the month. For the first two months of 2013, bookstore sales were up 2.4%, to $3.09 billion over 2012; sales for all of retail were up 3.2% in the two-month period. more »
Ingram, B.i. Publications Launch E-textbook Joint Venture Ingram's Vital Source Technologies has entered a joint venture with B.i. Publications Pvt. Ltd, to create Ingram B.i. Pvt, an e-textbook platform aimed at the Indian marketplace and powered by the VitalSource Bookshelf more » » In planning the third annual London Book Fair's Great Debate, co-organizer, Susan Danziger, organizer of The Publishing Point and founder of Ziggeo, said it occurred to her there was one topic in particular that people are thinking and talking about in private, but rarely in public: the role and influence of Amazon on the publishing industry. Is Amazon a friend or foe? more » » The dealing started early at this year's London Book Fair with a number of titles drawing interest from multiple houses. Among the deals that closed, Simon & Schuster bought a debut novel for seven-figures and, just before the fair opened, paid six-figures for a nonfiction work by a hedge fund founder. There was also lots of interest from around the world in a debut novel by young British novelists. more » » Random House has announced a multi-platform content agreement with David Zinczenko, the bestselling health author and former editor of Men's Health. Zinczenko joins Random House's Ballantine Bantam Dell division as an author with a three-book deal and his company, Galvanized Brands, will establish a new lifestyle book publishing imprint with Random House called Zinc Ink. more » » The New York-based start-up Ganxy, which was founded in 2009 to sell music, is rolling out more tools at the London Book Fair to help small and medium-sized publishers sell and promote DRM-free digital content online. more » » Jessica Roth has been promoted to publicity manager at Touchstone. She was previously a senior publicist. At CN Times, Paul Harrington was promoted to v-p and associate publisher. He was previously a national accounts manager at Oxford University Press. Helen Song has joined as executive managing editor. She was previously editorial production manager at Continuum International Publishing Group. Sean Concannon has joined as sales and marketing manager. He was previously client services director at Sonnet Media. more » »
'Catching Fire' Trailer: Watch it here. 'Salinger' Documentary Due in September: To tie-in with the biography published by S&S. 'Fifty Shades' On Challenged Books List: "Here's a list Fifty Shades of Grey was destined to make: The books most likely to be removed from school and library shelves." The Novelists of 1993 Had it Easy: How will today's young writers publish their work? Do Writers Really Retire?: "Honestly … do you know many former writers? Is that a category that exists?"
 Authors on the Air April 15, 2013: Andrew Pyper, Elisabeth Tova Baily, Lisa Genova The Literary New England Radio Show that airs tonight at 8 p.m. on BlogTalk Radio will feature: Andew Pyper on The Demonologist (Simon & Schuster, 978-1451697414), Elisabeth Tova Bailey on The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Algonquin, 978-1565126060), and Lisa Genova on both Love Anthony (Gallery, 978-1439164693) and Still Alice (Gallery, 978-1439102817), one of the titles that will be given away April 23 for World Book Night 2013. More information here. more » »
PWxyz Blog PWStaff What Was the First Book that Made You Love Books? PW Staff Picks You never forget your first. more » Barbara Vey National Library Week I love celebrations and this week is one of my favorites….National Library Week. Like many of you, some of my fondest memories are from libraries. There was always something about the smell of all those books. So many to choose from and just imagining all those people who enjoyed them before me was mind-boggling. All [...] more » Josie Leavitt Sounds of Sunday I walked into work a few minutes late yesterday to a totally full store, and pretended to be a shopper. more »
 CityLit Festival Hosts ThousandsBaltimore celebrated the 10th annual CityLit Festival at the Enoch Pratt Free Library on April 13, 2013, with headliners George Saunders, Jamal Joseph, and poets laureate Dick Allen (Connecticut) and Stanley Plumly (Maryland). Pictured l-r: Gregg Wilhelm, executive director, CityLit Project; Saunders; Tom Hall, arts and culture editor for WYPR's "Maryland Morning," who hosted the featured program. More than 3000 people attended the day-long free event. Photo Credit: Kaitlin Newman |  Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.   
Bookmasters to Distribute Spanish Edition of Book on New Pope Bookmasters in Ashland, Ohio, will be the official U.S. distributor of the Spanish edition of Javier Fernández Malumbres's Francisco, Nuevo Papa (Francis, New Pope) to be published on April 23 in paperback original and e-book by Madrid-based Edibesa. more »  The London Book Fair Show Daily Day 1: April 15, 2013 Keep up with all the goings on at the 2013 London Book Fair with the PW London Book Fair Show Daily! more » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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