At a Publishers Weekly event in NYC, rights directors and agents discussed how automation and standards would improve the book rights business.
Meet Independent Publishers at Paris’ Salon du Livre
The new “Talented Indies” program at Paris’ Salon du Livre offers professional attendees the chance to network with twenty Francophone independent publishers.
Frankfurt Book Fair’s Juergen Boos on Changes for 2015
Frankfurt Book Fair director Juergen Boos discusses how new advancements coming to the Fair in 2015 reflect the shifting publishing and media marketplace.
The Translation Gap: Why More Foreign Writers Aren’t Published in America
By Emily Williams NEW YORK: Parts one, two and three of my series on scouting looked at American efforts to sell American books overseas. Today, this fourth and final installment of the series looks at the other side of the equation and brings us to a question most scouts run into sooner or later, often posed by one of their …
Inside the Secret World of Literary Scouts (Part III)
By Emily Williams In Part I we looked at the essentials of how scouting works and in Part II we discussed the changes scouting is going through. Today we look at what the future might hold for scouts. The close professional ties scouts develop with their clients, sometimes over decades, are key to the role those scouts play in helping …
Does Book Scouting Have a Future?
By Edward Nawotka As our series on scouting has revealed, having inside information about the hottest books is very valuable to publishers, and scouts have some of the tastiest dish around. That said, digital communication has made the free flow of information about hot books much, well, freer. The risk for scouts is that the wealth and speed of book …
Inside the Secret World of Literary Scouts, Part II
By Emily Williams Part II: Scouting Changes with the Times NEW YORK: Last week in Part I we looked at the essentials of how scouting works. Many of these essentials—recognizing a great manuscript when it crosses your desk, cultivating a wide network of close relationships across the industry, understanding your clients’ needs and serving them well—will always remain the same. …
Are Literary Scouts to be Envied?
By Edward Nawotka In Emily Williams’ continuing series about literary scouting (Part 1 & Part 2), she describes a seemingly mysterious world that seems both quirky and quixotic. As Williams has explained, it is indeed an exotic job, but it is also cut-throat, demanding role that requires constant vigilance over the vagaries of the market. Perhaps no one has summed …
What Have You Done to Get an Early Look at a Book?
By Edward Nawotka Literary scouts, as discussed in today’s feature article by Emily Williams, like much of those in the publishing industry, work in mysterious ways. For them, as well as for agents, editors, and almost anyone else in the publishing chain, getting the earliest possible read on a book—whether as a proposal or manuscript—is a key part of becoming …