• Dr. Eva Schweitzer, once a New York correspondent for German newspapers, decided to start her own publishing company focused on books from and about Berlin. • Using technology, a DIY attitude, and her ever-expanding network of contacts, Schweitzer will launch her company on November 11, 2010. By Dr. Eva C. Schweitzer NEW YORK: And this is how I became …
What’s the Best Advice for Someone Launching a Publishing Start-up?
By Edward Nawotka Today’s lead story discusses the challenges a German journalist faced when launching her own publishing — Berlinica — company in the US. Among the questions she had to answer were: what books to publish, how to get secure the rights, who will design them . . . as well as funding, distribution and promotion issues. She relied …
Team Europe Ventures Promises €6 million for Mobile Start-ups
By Siobhan O’Leary Berlin-based investment firm Team Europe Ventures has announced a new initiative to provide funding to promising Internet and mobile Internet startups over the next three years. The €6 million fund will be split among four to five startups each year (approx. €500,000 each), which will be hand-selected by Team Europe Ventures and a team of partners. The …
German Buch News: Dissident Ai Weiwei to Miss Frankfrurt; Looking at Pausanio.de
By Siobhan O’Leary The Süddeutsche Zeitung reports that Chinese dissident artist and architect Ai Weiwei has decided not to attend the Frankfurt Book Fair for health reasons. Ai has been recovering in a Munich hospital from surgery to treat a brain injury which has been attributed to a beating he received in August from state police in Sichuan while reporting …