Jonathan Franzen, J.M. Coetzee, and Arnaldur Indridason talk about Iceland's impact on the literary world.
By Erin L. Cox Publishing Perspectives is publishing live from The Frankfurt Book Fair this week (subscribe to our email edition to get twice daily coverage). And, next door to us are the delightful Frankfurt Book Fair bloggers (some of whom write regularly for Publishing Perspectives) who are giving even more timely coverage on the FBF [...]
By Erin L. Cox This summer, “Amateur Thursdays,” which Publishing Perspectives featured this time last year, will be posting the first of three new episodes of their web show about books. In each episode, established artists and authors, as well as emerging ones, discuss books — fiction, non-fiction, high-brow fare and low-brow stuff — in a given [...]
By Erin L. Cox VIENNA–Last night, Houshang Asadi, Iranian journalist and author of the critcally-acclaimed memoir, Letters to My Torturer, was awarded the 2011 International Human Rights Award in a ceremony in Vienna’s Town Hall. The international award, part of an annual Book Gala Night on which Austria celebrates and honors the most acclaimed and popular books of the year, [...]
By Erin L. Cox On Wednesday, my colleague, Edward Nawotka, hosted a panel discussing book stunts, some of which we’ve previously chronicled on our site. From Chilean artists dropping poetry on Berlin to Eichborn’s fly promotion at the Frankfurt Book Fair to Jennifer Belle’s “laughter project” of actresses laughing at her novel on the subway, these stunts got [...]
Panelists at the second annual 7×20x21 event at BEA posed more questions than they answered about storytelling and the future of libraries. By Erin L. Cox If you are on Twitter and are tapped into publishing circles, you likely know Kobo’s Ami Greko (@amiwithani) and FSG’s Ryan Chapman (@chapmanchapman) who organize the, now annual, 7×20x21 panel at [...]
Publishers, editors, agents and freelancers are free to trail-blaze their way through a changing publishing industry. By Erin L. Cox For the last few years, as publishers go from print to e-publishing and so many people leave traditional publishing or trail-blaze into new sectors — technology, entertainment, social networking — and discover how those intersect with book [...]
By Erin L. Cox Undaunted by my busy schedule and on the eve of a week of Book Expo America activities, I zipped down to Washington, DC last weekend to participate in Saturday’s 2nd Annual Compleat Biographer Conference. Organized by the Biographers International Organization, it brought together biographers from around the country and the world to [...]
When you’re an independent publishing professional, is the time and expense of attending BookExpo America worth it? Editorial by Erin L. Cox In August of 2006, I left the publicity department at HarperCollins for a job as the Book Publishing Director at The New Yorker, where I handled the book advertising. It was not until April the following [...]
By Erin L. Cox In this new era of book publishing, it has become easier than ever for authors to write and publish themselves, bringing their work directly to their readers without the help of publishers through their own website or various e-publishing or self-publishing sites. But, for the most part, those works have only been [...]
