Among the exhibitors at the Gourmet Gallery in Hall 5.0 is the Baco Club, a company which runs a private wine club in Argentina. “We have 7,000 members have been going for twenty years,” says editorial director Mariana Gil Juncal, who is responsible for publishing the Club’s catalog, elixir magazine, and more recently, wine guides. Their new book, El vino …
Seen and Heard: Kamal Miglani, director of The Wise Owl Publishing Company, New Delhi
“We publish children’s books for the Indian market and since India has not been so affected by the global economic recession. Markets, such as Brazil and Argentina, seem to be quite strong and they are very strong markets for our titles—they are buying a lot of rights from us. Latin America in general is growing. It’s interesting to watch what …
Young Publishers Plan International Cooperation, New Group Proposed
By Hannah Johnson, with reporting by Erin L. Cox Jon Slack is on a mission to create an international community of young publishers. After three years of volunteer work with the Society of Young Publishers (SYP) in the UK, Slack believes such a community has great potential to educate and support publishing professionals in the first 10 years of their …
What’s Cooking, Chef Geir Skeie?
By Erin L. Cox In January of this year, Norwegian Chef Geir Skeie became an international cooking sensation when he lead the Norwegian team to the gold medal at the Bocuse d’Or—an event known around the world as the Olympics of Food. Not only has he won one of the food world’s most prestigious prizes, he has also won the …
Could This Be the End of Territorial Copyright?
By Andrew Wilkins Frankfurt’s enduring relevance as an international rights fair is built to a great extent on the principle of territorial copyright—that invisible patchwork of rights territories that covers the globe. But what if there was no territorial copyright to enable publishers to safely invest in intellectual property in their own country, safe in the knowledge that another publisher …
Amazon Kindle International, Week Two
By Erin L. Cox A week after the international edition of the Amazon Kindle launched, Amazon’s David Naggar, Vice President for Kindle Content, took part in the STM Conference. While he came to appeal to STM publishers to increase the e-books and journals they offer on the Kindle, he also indulged the audience by answering some questions. On rights: “Open …
Books & Bytes Award to Honor Innovative Book Project
By Siobhan O’Leary Terzio Verlag Managing Director and book2look co-creator Ralph Möllers launched the first Books & Bytes Prize earlier this year to bring attention to the most innovative online book projects in Germany. “It is intended support not only the truly innovative developers of these projects but also—and probably even more importantly—the ‘fearless digerati’,” says Möllers. There are plenty …
“Piracy Isn’t Really an Issue:” STM in the Digital Age
By Erin L. Cox Digital publishing is a huge focus of the Fair this year, yet no one is further along that road than the STM publishers. At yesterday’s STM Frankfurt Conference entitled “Surviving Our Mid-Life Crisis: Forward from Forty,” Science, Technical, and Medical (STM) publishers discussed the already successful tools they use for reaching users digitally while also illustrating …
French Books en force
By Olivia Snaije French publishers have weathered the economic downturn comparatively well, and this fall a total of 659 French and foreign novels were published for the inescapable rentrée littéraire (literary season). Many of the books being presented here at Frankfurt have already made the long or shortlist of the numerous French literary prizes that will be announced at the …
Literary Agent Profile: Yasmina Jraissati of RAYA Agency
Based in Lebanon, Yasmina Jraissati founded Raya Agency to represent Arab authors and build more connections between international and Arab publishers.