Book markets in the United States, United Kingdom, and across Europe have much in common, though, significant national differences remain despite globalization.
Recorded at BookExpo 2018
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On Friday in New York City at BookExpo, a panel of journalists and analysts who cover national and international book markets shared insights from their local beats and explored the room for common ground in book publishing worldwide. CCC’s Chris Kenneally moderated the discussion.
Book markets in the United States, United Kingdom, and across Europe have much in common, from the challenges of online commerce to bestseller lists dominated by authors with internationally-recognized brands. Of course, national differences remain despite globalization. Apart from cultural preferences and languages, price discounting, which is a feature of US and UK markets, is forbidden by law in France, Germany and elsewhere.
Panelists in alphabetical order –
Andrew Albanese is senior writer at Publishers Weekly and the author of The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon and the “Big Six” Publishers Changed the E-Book Business Overnight. As a journalist he has covered the publishing and information technology field for more than a decade.
Porter Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives, founded and operated by Frankfurt Book Fair New York.
Javier Celaya is the CEO and founder of Dosdoce.com, as well as the vice president of the Spanish Digital Magazines Association (ARDE) and member of the Executive Board of the Digital Economy Association of Spain. Dosdoce.com was launched in March 2004 and publishes annual studies related to trends in the creative industries.
Fabrice Piault became editor-in-chief of Livres Hebdo in 2015; earlier this year, he also became executive director at Electre, a bibliographic database of French media and publishing. Piault joined the Paris-based Livres Hebdo, which reports on the French publishing industry as well as booksellers, in 1987 as a reporter. He is also president of ACBD, the association of critics and journalists covering graphic novels and comic books in France.
Dana Beth Weinberg is Professor of Sociology at Queens College-CUNY. A graduate of Harvard University’s doctoral program in Sociology, she is author of “Comparing Gender Discrimination in Traditional and Indie Publishing.” An indie author, she writes fiction under the pseudonym D. B. Shuster and is author of the Russian mafia crime series Kings of Brighton Beach and the forthcoming Cold War spy novel To Catch a Traitor.
