New Oriental’s e-commerce ‘live streaming’ product pitches in China are credited with moving books onto the bestseller charts.
Waiting for the Plane Tickets: Rights Pros on Digital Events
How do online rights events organized by literary agencies, publishers, and others compare to the physical book fair experience? We hear from several rights folks on how it’s going so far.
In Turkey, the Fourth Annual Istanbul Fellowship Program: 72 Markets Attending
The fourth annual Istanbul Fellowship Program drew a record number of applications from more than 100 countries, and closes today with presentations and networking events.
At Chicago’s BEA-Lite: A Meaningful Discussion on Publishers and Authors
On the show floor, the crowds and booths are down. In one unusually frank exchange, however, this BEA finds traction on issues of publishing and its writers.
The Muse’s Town Hall: Writing Literary for Digital
Porter Anderson goes over panelist viewpoints ahead of the Publishing Perspectives live stream (May 2) of the Muse Town Hall on literary fiction and digital.
The Muse’s Town Hall: Jane Friedman on Literary in Digital Times
Porter Anderson previews the Grub Street Muse Conference Town Hall on literary fiction in digital times; Publishing Perspectives streams it Friday 1:30 p.m. ET.
Issues on the Ether: Is Self-Publishing a Flying Leap?
Porter Anderson sets up Wednesday’s #EtherIssue live Twitter discussion with a look at perceptions of self-publishing: Hard? Easy? What does it take to do well?
Will Transit Bookstores Be the Last Holdout for Print?
Paradoxically, while e-readers seem purpose built for travel, airport bookstores continue to thrive, in part because of high foot traffic and bored travelers.
France’s Rentrée Littéraire (Literary Season) Goes Digital
E-book publisher Walrus and literary journal Actualitté have teamed up to produce France’s first website promoting e-books.
A Bookseller Who Bridges Print and Digital, Day and Night, This World and the Next
Watkin’s Books — the world’s most famous mind-body-spirit bookstore — nearly went under in 2010. A 21st-century business strategy and an American with vision saved it from extinction. By Roger Tagholm LONDON: You wouldn’t expect the owner of London’s –- if not the world’s -– most famous mind-body-spirit bookshop, Watkins, in Cecil Court, a Victorian walkway off Charing Cross Road, …