SIBA Launches Collective Ad Program By Claire Kirch - 10/28/2009
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance has launched a new banner ad campaign under which the associaiton will coordinate the promotion of one title across participating stores Web sites.
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Large Turnout Sparks SCIBA Show By Wendy Werris - 10/26/2009
The largest bookseller attendance in several years put a charge into this weekend's Southern California Independent Booksellers Assocation meeting, the last of the fall regionals.
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Counting Down To National Bookstore Day 10/26/2009
With National Bookstore Day coming closer, another 30 stores have signed on for the event in the last week, bringing the total number of stores to 80. Among the new stores to join National Bookstore Day, set for November 7, are Broadway Book Mall, Denver; Jabberwocky Books, Music & Video, Eagle River, Wis.
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Elementary, My Dear Indy: Bouchercon 2009 By Jordan Foster - 10/19/2009
This past weekend's Bouchercon World Mystery Convention drew almost 1,700 fans to Indianapolis where Michael Connelly was the Guest of Honor.
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Frankfurt 2009 Roundup: The Distress Over Digital and the Books That Got People Talking By Rachel Deahl - 10/19/2009
The 2009 edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair concluded with a slight dip in overall attendance, tough the number of visitors to the rights center was up. There was lots of discussion about all things digital, though the Europeans and Americans seemed to differ on where things are headed. A few rights also were sold.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Trident's Gottlieb Charges European Publishers with Collusion By Rachel Deahl - 10/16/2009
In an e-mail sent to publishers in an undisclosed number of European countries right before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Trident chairman Robert Gottlieb charged that publishers have been colluding to keep advances down. European executives dismissed the charging, saying Gottlieb has "gone mad."
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Europeans Play the Moral Rights Card Against Google Settlement By Andrew Albanese - 10/16/2009
There’s been a simmering anti-Google sentiment at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, no doubt connected to European objections to the Google Book Search Settlement. And on Friday that simmer reached a boil, as the deal faced harsh—at times, puzzling—criticism at a registration-required panel on “European and American Positions Towards the Google Settlement.”
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Ray Kurzweil Teams with Baker & Taylor on New eReader Software By Calvin Reid - 10/15/2009
Baker & Taylor announced a partnership with acclaimed scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, to supply digital content for K-NFB Reading Technology, a newly developed e-book reading software created by Kurzweil in collaboration with the National Federation of the Blind.
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Laughter Sets the Scene at NCIBA Children’s Author Breakfast By Wendy Werris - 10/15/2009
At a breakfast that was more stand-up comedy than standard presentation, authors James Dashner (l.), Nancy Farmer and Berkeley Breathed charmed the sold-out crowd gathered for the Children’s Author Breakfast at the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association annual trade show in Oakland on October 10. Award-winning YA author Nancy Farmer began her talk with a humorous, detailed description of her recent eye surgery...
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Kids’ Books in the NAIBAhood By Judith Rosen - 10/15/2009
Children's books shared the stage with adult titles at the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association conference earlier this month. Longtime Baltimore institution The Children's Bookstore was one of several stops on a DIY bookstore tour that preceded the official opening of the conference, which began with a dinner with children's author Laurie Halse Anderson and adult author Paul Rudnick. Sporting a blue IndieBound T-shirt, Anderson thanked booksellers for fighting the good fight for shopping local.
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NAIBA’s Tween Reader Panel By Judith Rosen - 10/15/2009
At a panel on tween readers held at the recent New Atlantic Booksellers Association fall conference, Association of Booksellers for Children executive director Kristen McLean, who got her start selling toys, observed that 15 years ago, the toy business changed its definition of "kids" from age 12 to age eight. Around the same time, she said, publishers and booksellers began breaking out middle-grade fiction...
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Friedman Expounds on Open Road Integrated Media By Jim Milliot - 10/14/2009
From the Frankfurt Book Fair where she is promoting her new company, former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman has added a few more details about her new operation, Open Road Integrated Media.
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By Rachel Deahl & Liz Thomson - 10/14/2009
A Michael Jackson graphic novel project is one of the books that generated interest as Day 1 of the Frankfurt Book Fair comes to a close. Attendance was off modestly
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Penguin Adopts New Global Management Approach By Jim Milliot - 10/14/2009
To ensure that it is properly positioned to take advantage of growth opportunities in digital and emerging markets, Penguin Group has made some changes to its global management structure and publishing strategy. The new alignment puts the CEOs of four of Penguin’s major subsidiaries in charge of different regions to help promote what Penguin chairman John Makinson calls a local market focus combined with a global publishing approach.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Penguin, John Wiley in China Deals By Liz Thomson and Lynn Andriani - 10/14/2009
With China as the featured country at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, Penguin and John Wiley used the occasion to announce new China initiatives.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Writers House Announces Simultaneous Six-Country Release of Follett’s Next Novel By Lynn Andriani - 10/14/2009
The first major deal out of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair involves an international laydown of Ken Follett’s next novel, Fall of Giants, which will be the first title in Follett’s New Century Trilogy. The simultaneous six-country release—set for September 28, 2010—will coincide with the airing of an eight-hour Pillars of the Earth TV miniseries next fall.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: SBS Unveils New E-commerce Hub 10/13/2009
International supply chain manager SBS Worldwide Publishers has unveiled “a faster, cheaper and easier way to ship books from printers to customers.” “We have taken our logistics expertise and combined it with our extensive knowledge of the publishing industry to develop eDC (electronic Distribution Centre) specifically for this market,” explained SBS chairman Steve Walker.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Americans Watching Costs Amid Weak Economy By Jim Milliot - 10/13/2009
At last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, many international visitors were preoccupied with the financial meltdown that was occurring on a daily basis, particularly in the U.S. While the downturn began before last year’s Fair, most industry members, having made arrangements far in advance, decided to make the trip. Although the economy may actually be in better shape this fall than in 2008, many American publishers, though not all, have scaled back.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: P2P Threat May Be Overstated 10/13/2009
At the Magellan Media Partners’ ToC session, Brian O’Leary told the attendees he’s looking to earn their trust, since he’s hoping they’d either join the research project he’s conducting on the effects of piracy on the book publishing business, or measure it on their own.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Entrekin Selling Portion of Stake in Grove Atlantic London By Liz Thomson - 10/13/2009
As has been widely predicted since Anthony Cheetham came aboard, Toby Mundy, chairman and publisher of Grove Atlantic London (GAL) has announced a restructure designed to "provide the company with the resources and the strategy to take its place amongst the leaders in the UK's independent publishing sector."
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