When Will We Have E-book Bestseller Lists?

In Guest Contributors by Guest Contributor

Op-ed by Tim Coronel (This story originally appeared in the Publishing Perspectives show daily at the Frankfurt Book Fair on 8 October 2010. Download the complete show daily here or click on the image to view the online version.) For all the data we are collecting about the book industry, there is one crucial piece of the puzzle we don’t …

E-Books, Google Editions and Struggling Book Sales

In Digital by Erin L. Cox

By Erin L. Cox (This story originally appeared in the Publishing Perspectives show daily at the Frankfurt Book Fair on 7 October 2010. Download the complete show daily here or click on the image to view the online version.) Livres Hebdo, in partnership with Publishers Weekly, buchreport, and The Bookseller, hosted a panel yesterday titled “CEO Talk: The Global Ranking …

Publishing Perspectives’ BEA Show Daily

In Europe by Hannah Johnson

Publishing Perspectives has produced a printed show daily in cooperation with Kirkus Reviews for BookExpo America 2010. Full of news from yesterday’s conference sessions, book reviews, interviews, and feature stories, the show daily will be distributed today from booths around the show floor at BEA. If you are attending BEA, be sure to pick up a copy. Or you can …

Publishing Perspectives and Kirkus Want Your Stories for Our BEA Edition

In Growth Markets by Edward Nawotka

By Edward Nawotka It was at last year’s BookExpo America that we first introduced the world to Publishing Perspectives. Now, less than a year later, we’ve become a daily must-read for publishing industry professionals around the world. This year at BEA Publishing Perspectives and Kirkus Media LLC are taking a bold step together and collaborating on a first-ever joint print …

Publishing Perspectives & Kirkus Launch BEA Edition

In What's the Buzz by Edward Nawotka

NEW YORK: Today, Publishing Perspectives and Kirkus Media LLC announced a deal to create a joint print edition at this year’s Book Expo America. The edition will be published on Wednesday, May 26, and bring together the ground-breaking international news reporting of Publishing Perspectives with the long history of exceptional review coverage of Kirkus. “We’re thrilled to be working with …

Download of Frankfurt Show Daily, October 16

In Feature Articles by Hannah Johnson

Our final issue of the Frankfurt Edition show daily is hot off the press. In addition to covering two digital publishing companies present at the Fair, Open Road from the US and Shanda Literature from China, the October 16 issue covers STM e-book pricing, Estonia’s surprising publishing industry dynamics, and the IPA Copyright Symposium. You can also read about e-books …

Bonus Material: Download of Frankfurt Show Daily, October 15

In Discussion by Hannah Johnson

It’s day 2 of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and our second Frankfurt Edition show daily is circulating the halls. Coverage for October 15 includes territorial copyright for English-language publishers, Chinese dissident authors and journalists on freedom of speech, the opening of the Gourmet Gallery exhibition and show kitchen, and the presentation of the Global Publishers Ranking Report. For those of …

Bonus Material: Download of Frankfurt Show Daily, October 14

In Discussion by Hannah Johnson

Publishing Perspectives is reporting live from the Frankfurt Book Fair this year. Our printed Frankfurt Edition show daily for October 14 includes photos from the opening ceremony with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping. We also attended TOC Frankfurt, the International Rights Directors Meeting, the Supply Chain Meeting and the off-site …