The Week Ahead 11.09.12

Nov 9, 2012 | News

Self-publishing, like politics, makes for unusual bedfellows. Not only authors, but also now publishers are turning to platforms like Smashwords that publish and sell e-books, and taking advantage of digitally-devoted distribution services. Publishers Weekly’s Calvin...

The Week Ahead 11.02.12

Nov 2, 2012 | News

Hurricane Sandy, the superstorm of 2012, will go down as one for the record books in numerous categories – for flooding, for amount of rainfall, and for its terrible impact on human lives and livelihoods. In Manhattan, the epicenter of American trade book publishing...

The Week Ahead 10.26.12

Oct 26, 2012 | News

The countdown begins: Confirmation from Pearson that it is talking to Random House about a merger with Penguin, its trade book publishing division, could see the Big Six drop a notch. “This would be massive stroke of consolidation for an industry that has been...

The Week Ahead 10.19.12

Oct 19, 2012 | News

Like the book business itself, the Frankfurt Book Fair is undergoing a metamorphosis. Yet while publishers continue their own transformations, the Fair organizers have already emerged from a chrysalis with a new kind of show. “The Frankfurt Book Fair has succeeded in...

The Week Ahead 10.12.12

Oct 12, 2012 | News

Even as the publishing industry converges in Frankfurt, Germany, for the world’s largest annual book fair, the news keeps breaking elsewhere. This week, in Stockholm, the Nobel committee awarded the Prize in Literature to Mo Yan of China. And in a New York courtroom,...

The Week Ahead: 10.05.12

Oct 5, 2012 | News

Trade book publisher Penguin sets to thaw out relations with libraries, but the move on e-book sales is seen as cold comfort by some. “The program is still very restrictive,” explains Andrew Alabanese, Publishers Weekly features editor. “For one, it windows new books...

The Week Ahead: 09.28.12

Sep 28, 2012 | News

In the weeks before the Frankfurt Book Fair, self-published authors no longer find themselves on the outside looking in. Just ask E.L. James. “There is a significant uptick in the number of American agents taking books to this year’s Frankfurt that were originally...

The Week Ahead: 09.21.12

Sep 21, 2012 | News

Leaders from the book industry and the American Library Association gather next week in New York City. The Association of American Publishers has invited them to share perspectives on a growing controversy over e-book pricing. For the moment, as the diplomats might...

The Week Ahead 09.14.12

Sep 14, 2012 | News

In many, remarkable ways, the book publishing business is unrecognizable from its form only two years ago. Kindles and iPads have seen to that, of course. Last week, court approval of the settlement in the e-book price-fixing case is quickly leading to a re-writing of...

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