German Book Title Production Drops 7% in 2010

In German Buch News by Siobhan O'Leary

By Siobhan O’Leary New releases in Germany in 2010 were once again heavily weighted toward fiction titles, which accounted for an overall share of 70% of new titles published (up from 66% in 2009). However, overall title production was down 7% compared to 2009 and 9% compared to the long-term average. According to buchreport, a total of 5431 new titles …

The True Cost of Going Digital

In What's the Buzz by Daniel Kalder

By Daniel Kalder Digital publishing is transforming the book trade. But are publishers really prepared to grasp the challenges — not only technical but also financial — that transitioning to this brave new world involves? Dominique Raccah — founder, publisher and chief executive of Sourcebooks, one of the largest independent book publishers in the USA — thinks not. “It isn’t …

In-house v. Offshore Book Production: Now You Don’t Have to Choose

In Global Trade Talk by Amanda DeMarco

By Amanda DeMarco At the Frankfurt seminar “Book Publishing in the Cloud,” Dan Dube, Senior Vice President of Really Strategies, a consulting service for publishers, discussed “an ever more dramatic need to reduce expenses and costs,” mainly due to the emergence of online providers like Amazon and Google Books. As a result, many publishers have transferred their composition processes to …