Perspectives and opinions from the international publishing community
The Festival Neue Literatur, taking place in New York City, February 10-12, features German-speaking authors and reflects the changing face of Europe.
Named after a beloved but deceased pet, Barcelona's Blackie Books is a surprisingly successful independent publisher of cult fiction, poetry, and illustration.
Petra Hardt, Foreign Rights Director at Berlin's Suhrkamp Verlag, has written 'Rights: Buying. Protecting. Selling' to help publishers make the best choices.
'We don't have editors,' says Michael Fabiano, head of recently launched NBC Publishing, 'we have producers, and that's an important distinction.'
'People don’t revere the old comics enough,' says Manuel Morin, owner of Paris' BD Spirit, which offers 50-80,000 titles, many of them collectors items.
Rebecca Carter is leaving Random House to become an agent for Janklow & Nesbit. 'My motivation comes from wanting to work with writers on editorial,' she says.
Waterstones is to launch a Russian bookshop within its flagship store in London’s Piccadilly, offering 5,000 Russian language titles and translations.
Duncan Jepson's new novel 'All the Flowers in Shanghai' gives western readers a glimpse into China's psyche, where tradition can take precedence over reason.
A new study reveals that pirates are offering tens of thousands of high quality illegally scanned comics in France to meet market demand for digital editions.
Eric Hellman's Unglue.it, now in alpha, asks an author or publisher to accept a fixed sum of money from the public for the unlimited use of an e-book.
