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Discover A Foreign City Through Its Fiction Via New Gimbal App

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The new Gimbal app, launching Tuesday at the London Book Fair, features translated short stories for commuters that allows you to explore a city through fiction.

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Ether for Authors: A Mighty Metaphor Is Our Industry

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Porter Anderson assesses the Digital Minds Conference at the London Book Fair, where metaphors were in vogue, the end of copyright debated, and speed was the word of the day.

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5 Ways Publishers Can Be More Like Start-Ups

Rebecca Smart

Osprey CEO Rebecca Smart offers advice to publishers on how to take advantage of startup culture, whether you have a legacy business or a clean slate.

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Pop Up Private Club Adds Glamor to the LBF Agents Center

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London’s famous Ivy Restaurant is running at pop-up version of its private club, complete with champagne and catering, at the Rights Centre at the London Book Fair.

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Attending the LBF? Don’t Forget About the Children!

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The Children and YA Zone at the London Book Fair is featuring 100 exhibitors, an Innovation Theater, a strong education track, and more than a hundred panels.

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Read Petit: A New Serialized Digital Shorts Subscription Service

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Tim Waterstone, the original founder of the UK bookstore chain Waterstones, plans to launch a new serialized digital short story subscription service.

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There’s No Such Thing as “Normal,” say UK Publishing CEOs

Harper CEO Victoria Barnsley

Several UK CEOs set the agenda going into next week’s London Book Fair. Top of the list: communicating with consumers and coping with the relentless pace of change in publishing.

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Are Limited Licenses for Books the Way of the Future?

Andrew Lownie

A growing group of UK agents, including andrew Lownie and Jonny Geller, are calling for limited-term licences as a way to gain more control of rights in a rapidly changing digital market.

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ePubDirect to Manage Random House’s Int’l Ebook Distribution

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Random House has appointed ePubDirect to manage distribution of ebook assets and provide retail support for the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India.

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HarperCollins and Hatchette UK Introduce Refined Agency Model

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The Bookseller reported last week that HarperCollins and Hatchette UK have become the first British publishers to refine the agency model agreement with Amazon co.uk.

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