Germany’s Big Publishers Yet To Sign on with Apple’s iPad

In German Buch News by Siobhan O'Leary

By Siobhan O’Leary Germany’s largest publishers have not been as quick to embrace the iPad as their American counterparts. As reported in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Apple has not signed on any of the largest German book publishers to its iBookstore just three weeks before the launch of the device in Germany (though they had already landed Penguin, Hachette, Macmillan, S&S …

German Buch News: Holiday Book Sales Top ’08; Editor to Document Six Months Offline

In German Buch News by Siobhan O'Leary

By Siobhan O’Leary Book sales for the second Saturday of the official holiday shopping season in Germany were up 2.9% over the same day last year, reports the Borsenblatt. The bestselling title was once again Das Verlorene Symbol (The Lost Symbol) by Dan Brown, with Manfred Lütz’s title Irre – Wir behandeln die Falschen (Insane – We’re Treating the Wrong …

German Trendsetters at Klett-Cotta on the Benefits of Being Big

In Feature Articles by Amanda DeMarco

By Amanda DeMarco STUTTGART: Michael Zöllner isn’t sentimental about his days as an independent publisher. He and his partner Tom Kraushaar led Tropen Verlag autonomously until January 2008, when it merged with the larger Stuttgart-based Klett-Cotta Verlag. Tropen, which published 10 to 12 titles per year, became an imprint of Klett-Cotta and the two became CEOs of Klett-Cotta’s list and …

Bonus Material: Indie vs. Corporate Publishing, Is the Choice Still Relevant?

In Discussion by Edward Nawotka

By Edward Nawotka In today’s article about German publishing house Tropen’s transition into the folds of the much larger Klett-Cotta, executive Michael Zöllner stressed that the move was, by-and-large, a positive one. “The element of trust, combined with greater possibilities and safety [as a business] aren’t contradictory with independence, they’re an improved concept of it,” he said. “With Tropen we always …