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„Lasst uns eine, zwei – nein, unendlich viele Geschichten erzählen“
Das Hohelied der Liebe - in unsere heutige Zeit transponiert
Was geht in Sachen "Story Telling" mit...
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Große Fragen, präzise Antworten.
Mike Shatzkin hatte keine Scheu, große Fragen aufzuwerfen. Bei den Antworten aber gab er sich niemals mit schick klingenden, doch nicht präzise...
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Richard Sarnoff von KKR Private Equity und Jonathan Karp von Simon and Schuster besprachen strategische Perspektiven für den legendären New Yorker Verlag.
https://vimeo.com/1024454405Wir erlebten ein volles...
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Kontext und Perspektiven für das Geschäft mit Büchern.
Worum geht es beim abrupten Eigentümer Wechsel im Suhrkamp Verlag? Wie überraschend kam die Erschütterung? Was bedeutet dies...
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Welche Entwicklungen und Trends prägen das globale Buchgeschäft heute?
Das Global 50 Publishing Ranking 2024 gibt einen soliden und detailreichen Einblick in die heutige internationale Buchbranche...
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Simon & Schusters internationale Expansion und digitale Transformation im Rampenlicht beim Global 50 CEO Talk 2024
Prominente Gastredner, Jonathan Karp, CEO von Simon & Schuster, und...
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audiobooks,
bestseller,
book markets,
China,
deutsch,
Europe,
general,
globalization,
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Ein neuer Report untersucht die vielen überraschenden Facetten, wie Autoren und ihre Leser das Buchgeschäft auf digitalen Plattformen neu erfunden haben.
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Why I reject the concept of a "leading culture". On a current debate about culture and politics in Austria.
„Wer unsere Art zu leben ablehnt, muss...
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Preparing this year's "Season greetings", I wondered what might be a good snapshot of the moment we are in. It should be kind of comforting,...
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“Gute Stories enden nie.”
Hou Xiaonan, CEO von Yuewen, der Literatur- und Entertainment Platform, ist Gast des Global 50 CEO Talk 2023.
Der Global 50 CEO Talk...
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What we often miss, when speaking about the “Book Business”
A research project by Rüdiger Wischenbart Content and Consulting 2023When researching the Global 50 Ranking of...
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The Global 50 Publishing Ranking 2022: Growth for the largest publishing groups - Continuing consolidation - New business models expanding.
The Global 50 Publishing Ranking 2022...
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„Alle kommen nach Frankfurt, weil alle nach Frankfurt kommen.“ Auf diese bewusst zum Kalauer zugespitzte Formel verständigten wir uns intern, als ich 1998 als Pressesprecher...
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A #publishing #XMas tale (and a few links for further #reading down below).
What does Penguin Random House as the world's largest consumer book publisher have in...
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The international consumption of digital books reflects a steady shift of readers’ habits, with mostly stable growth in ebooks and audiobooks and a continuous expansion...
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The Global 50 International Publishing Ranking 2021 is ready for free download at www.wischenbart.com/ranking.com
55 leadling publishing groups worldwide in consumer books, educational, scientific and professional, listed by revenue...
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Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 14.00 to 15.00 CET
The Global 50 CEO Talk 2021 will investigate deep transformative shifts that currently re-define much of the international...
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"Breaks, but no breakdowns: The pandemic and its impact on the international book business" reads the headline of a new preview of the Global 50...
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More digital book consumption, new audiences, a sustainable upswing:
2020 was a breakthrough year for digital consumer books, bringing new opportunities in reaching new audiences and...
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authors,
book markets,
book statistics,
digitization,
ebook,
Europe,
Germany,
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retail,
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In case you have missed the recent online debate at ReBoot Books on April 21st, find here below some key talking points from the discussions -...
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5 renowned book industry organizations team up, with support from Creative Europe, to disseminate market insights and practical learnings about novel approaches in publishing.
Apply now...
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The season’s first workshop in the “ReBoot: Books, Business and Reading” on 25 Feb 2021 took off with promises of a wild ride between some...
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ReBoot 2021: The Repair Shop. Assessing the damage, and fixing it.
After a widely received first season in fall 2020, with four Preparations Workshops and a...
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At BookExpo in May 2018, a CEO roundtable with, from left, the Association of American Publishers’ Maria A. Pallante, Macmillan’s John Sargent, Simon & Schuster’s...
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First and foremost, I have no clue what regulators will say about the purchase. This is not my turf. But I have a couple of...
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Two seemingly separate pieces of news came in this morning: The International Pulishers Association released a survey on "Covid-19's impact on global publishing", based on a...
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Things tend to change quickly these days. In August, publishers across Sweden had a new, transformative customer knocking at their doors - Amazon.
The only surprise...
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When around 60% of Brazilians found themselves trapped in isolation for well over a month in March and April of 2020, the result was a...
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Virtual Conference on 13 October 2020
> Preparations Tracks in September
The key market lessons we learn for 2021
www.rebootbooks.org
A fact-finding process virtual conference on rebooting writing, reading and publishing in the...
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How did the Covid-19 sanitary crisis and the resulting lockdown impact on the ebooks and audiobooks consumption? Measuring transformative change, and lessons to learn for...
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Für die Atlantik Überquerung wählte der deutsche Skipper Boris Herrmann eine südliche Route nach Amerika, damit ihnen nicht die ganze Zeit der Wind ins...
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Kelly Luegenbiehl, Netflix’ VP International Originals, will be featured at this year’s Global 50 CEO Talk at the Frankfurer Buchmesse on Wednesday, 16 October 2019, from 2:00...
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The Digital Consumer Book Barometer 2019 explores sales trends in e-books and audiobooks in Canada, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, and Spain as well as foreign...
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Deutsche Fassung hier.
“How often do publishers ask their interns for advice?” Sara Sargent of Penguin Random House was raising the question, provocatively, yet with a...
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English version here.
„Wie oft fragen Verleger ihre Praktikanten um Rat?“ Sara Sargent von Penguin Random House warf die Frage provokativ und doch mit einem Lächeln...
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Is artificial intelligence coming? That's the wrong question. Because there are already countless – often unnoticed – examples for the use of AI. On 9...
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The strategy dispute in the publishing industry: Drive diversity? Or focus on the core business? How to increase efficiency in either case!
New perspectives, reorganization, implementation –...
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How is the position of translated literary fiction evolving as compared to literature in general? How are diverse linguistic communities finding their respective audiences, especially...
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(***Deutsche Fassung hier***)
Where do we begin? It’s probably best to start with the tried-and-tested turnaround of storytellers – a surprise coup of death and rebirth....
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***On serial story telling in streaming TV. English translation here***
Wo beginnen? Am besten wohl in der bewährten Volte der Geschichtenerzähler mit einem Überraschungscoup aus Tod...
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For gaining a more realistic understanding of digital markets, creators and consumers, new instruments are needed to measure and structure sales. And we deserve some...
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I thought at first to be ambivalent with regard to today's vote of the European Parliament to pass new - and highly disputed - legislation...
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John Sargent, CEO at Macmillan
Join us at Frankfurt Book Fair CEOTalk with @MacmillanUSA CEO John Sargent to discuss international #publishing industry trends and #Global50 Ranking...
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I peak over the shoulder of a well experienced trade publisher – she, or he, may work in a mid-sized imprint of a major group,...
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Keep reading our reports!
We do reports like the "Global 50 - The Ranking of the Publishing Industry", or the "Global eBook" report, and professional publishing...
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Publishers are challenged by declining book markets, a changing readership drifting away from books, as much as new competition from other content and formats -...
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Why not a public parliamentary hearing on the new role of tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google, as they have developed into today's leading mass...
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Celebrating 10 years of Hachette India, Arnaud Nourry, sharp and outspoken as always, flatly nailed it in an interview with the Indian Scroll.in: "The ebook...
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"Beyond Publishing" is the motto at the Publishers' Forum on April 26 and 27, 2018 in Berlin. Thinking beyond the traditional tailor-made publishing business stands...
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How is the book business doing? Throughout the industry, this is a popular question around this time of the year. Particularly in non-English language markets,...
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The Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry, which has been updated every year since 2007, currently represents 50 companies that each report revenues from publishing of over 150...
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The newly released first BookMap report, “How Big Is Global Publishing?”, provides surprising insights, based on data from around 20 countries worldwide.
Consumers spend around 122...
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Following up on last year's successful premiere with the Beijing Summit of the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry, again a top level conference has...
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The Global eBook report 2017 is a standard reference for international market developments in digital consumer books.
Overall market trends for print and digital in...
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The market of consumer ebooks develops in largely other ways than print. We see huge differences according target audiences, cultural background, genre or pricing.
Understanding these...
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The entirely re-written 2017 edition of the Global eBook report will present new data approaches for a realistic reading of how ebook markets perform, especially...
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It seems as if it all started only last season, but it was 10 years ago when we first met in Vienna, for an informal...
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"Next Tech Revolution", Copyright Controversy, the growing relevance of User Communities: The Publishers’ Forum 2017 will cover the most important topics and debates in publishing...
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The Diversity Report 2016 discusses
By country data on major translation markets;
Which authors, publishers and genres shape the business of translation most strongly;
The role...
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A new white paper by the Global eBook report brings insights on the recent development in several digital book markets across continental Europe.
Share of €...
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The Thursday CEO Talk at the Frankfurt Book Fair will focus on two European editorial power houses that each stand for key strategies in the...
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A debate on strategic developments in international publishing – including notably consolidation, digital transformation, and globalization -, presented by Livres Hebdo (France), with Bookdao (China),...
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The Global Ranking 2016, which is based predominantly on 2015 revenue data, lists (or is describing) a total of 57 publishing groups, as in 2014...
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Discussing the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry with Chinese and international leaders of the book business.
The 2016 edition of the Global Ranking of the...
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The Global eBook report 2016, the reference and resource on the development of key book publishing markets and drivers for the current transformation is now...
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All that Publishing!
Check out our agenda for Publishers' Forum on 28 & 29 April 2016 in Berlin
At the moment, the book business is plagued by...
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Freedom of Expression, in practical terms.
A review of debates in 2015. In memoriam of Charlie and all others persecuted for their speech and attitude.
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Throughout...
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Instead of making predictions about publishing in 2016, Joe Wikert, the wise man, opts for formulating what he wishes to happen. And so in a...
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Sonia Draga is not simply an independent publisher in Poland. She stands out in today s business of books as someone who gave an old...
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In emerging economies, and despite manyfold challenges, many 100 millions of people have become 'middle class' in the past one or two decades, looking for...
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To get the best out of your conversations at the book fair, check out the latest industry statistics and analysis from our research.
Find our 2 free...
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A debate on strategic developments in publishing – including notably consolidation, digital integration, and globalization as well as the specific challenges and opportunities for independent...
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Join us for a debate on global publishing trends with the CEO of Hachette, Arnaud Nourry.
Get your copy of the full Global Ranking 2015 now.
Since...
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Let's face the simple truth: Not one prediction about ebooks (as far as I know) has been correct so far:
No, ebooks will NOT go away...
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This survey of the 57 largest (book) publishing corporations worldwide, with a combined revenues from publishing of 53,328 m€, tracks the evolution of the global...
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We proudly announce our partnership with Electric Book Fair in Berlin on June 20, 2015, a new initiative of the digital publisher mikrotext by authors...
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It all started with hosting a ping pong tournament and players in the early 1970s, recalled Steve Orlins, who in fact had been personally involved...
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The Global eBook report - your reference and guide on the evolution of ebook markets internationally:
Providing compact data and analysis, with comparative charts and tables for...
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The Publishers' Forum in Berlin in April 2015 has brought together over 260 book professionals from Germany, the United Kingdom, the US, Sweden, Poland, Italy...
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The Publishers' Forum (April 27 and 28, 2015 in Berlin) analyzes and discusses the transformations in the German book market in an international context and...
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A long list of outstanding speakers has been announced for the Publishers' Forum which is to open in Berlin in just two months.
The ambition is...
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Announcing the next set of details on the Publishers' Forum Berlin programm and agenda, as the Early Bird discounted reggistration closes nxt Monday (February 2,...
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Proudly announcing more and more details about Publishers' Forum on April 27 & 28, 2015 in Berlin.
These topics and speakers have been announced earlier today:
At the...
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Two of the largest science publishing groups in the world, Macmillan and Springer Media, have announced to merge. The resulting global player will have combined...
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Totally shocked, and frozen, by the news of the murder at Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, I feel a little solace in these two quotes,...
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A first announcement of speakers to the Publishers' Forum on April 27 & 28, 2015 introduces a mix of senior international and German publishing executives,...
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In its new "Global entertainment and media outlook 2014 - 2018", PriceWaterhouseCooper (PWC) predicts ebook growth patterns not only for the US (expeciting digital to...
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The Global eBook report has released a new Fall 2014 update, based on data and trends until September 2014, including
The most recent data and debate...
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"How to Re-construct Publishing: Competing Visions, Channels and Audiences", reads the motto of the next Publishers' Forum which will take place in Berlin on April 27...
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A set of three debates with international business leaders will introduce HarperCollins’ new strategies, Brazil’s leading publishing and bookselling group Saraiva and Axel Springer’s digital...
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We can proudly announce the release of the Spanish version of our "White Paper on Global Trends in Publishing 2014", sponsored by Dosdoce.com and the...
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A week ago, German ebook buyers noticed in total surprise that ebooks from Random House - Germany's by far largest publishing group - could be...
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With the authors stepping into the arena, the current controversy between Amazon and major publishing groups - so far: Hachette and Bonnier - brings into...
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A debate on consolidation, digital integration, and globalization in publishing, presented by Livres Hebdo, with The Bookseller, buchreport, PublishNews Brazil, Publishers Weekly, and the Frankfurt...
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Kindle Unlimited is not just another subscription offer, but yet another key component in Amazons 2 central strategic lines of action: First of all, to...
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Find a brand new White Paper for free download, which we prepared on behalf of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The transformation of the book publishing industry is...
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The website of HarperCollins, one of the Big Five English language publishers, welcomes visitors - with a shop. A feature that could be just normal...
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The Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry has been released today, June 27, 2014.
An initiative by Livres Hebdo, this annual snapshot of the global book...
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A summary of the BookExpo America Global Market Forum 2014: Books in Translation. Wanderlust for the Written Word. (Disclosure: The event was curated by Rüdiger...
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Talking about translated books was synonymous to complaints - for a long time, and for good reasons. Notably when it is about translations into English.
Only...
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The debate on translation is old - and not always very forthcoming: Translations of (notably fiction) books are seen as difficult to sell, costly to...
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Back from two days of rich - and entertaining! - debates on the digital transformation of books and reading at Publishers' Forum 2014 in Berlin, one...
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The spring 2014 update of the Global eBook report has been downloaded over one thousand times within just three weeks of its launch at the...
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The Spring 2014 Release of the Global eBook Report Is Out: Full coverage of recent ebook market developments for the US, UK, Europe, Brazil and...
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BookExpo America announces speaker list for Global Market Forum 2014: Books in Translation; Wanderlust for the Written Word
“The most ambitious and most senior line up...
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The Spring 2014 update of the Global eBook report will be released on April 8, 2014, with a presentation at the London Book Fair.
The new version...
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The Global eBook report is updated every half year, to map and analyze the evolution of international ebook markets.
As data are still difficult to find,...
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As ebooks go international, it is ever more relevant - and more difficult - to understand who does what, practically and professionally, on a global...
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Ebooks are currently re-inventing book publishing on a global scale. But not everything about ebooks is the same everywhere. Not at all!
This is why we...
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Getting a concrete reading of how the book industry changes ain't an easy exercise.
We saw the dramatic rise of ebooks, first in the English language,...
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Serious shock waves have been triggered by the announcement of Weltbild filing for insolveny a week ago. The company is one of the largest retailers...
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Angebot für ein Praktikum / Internship available (English below): Von Mitte Januar bis Mitte April suchen wir jemanden für gezielte Recherchen und Basisarbeiten am "Global...
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"If I hate a company, it is Amazon", was the cry of battle that Sibylle Lewitscharoff, winner of the prestigeous Büchner Prize in 2013, offered...
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The globalization of the book trade is discussed mostly with regard to the most powerful, plus some emerging markets like Brazil or China. But obviously,...
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A packed room with 350 visitors of the Frankfurt book fair, including numerous executives from around the world, questions - from my colleagues of Livres,...
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How ebooks are confronting the global with the local in international publishing
The Global eBook report provides an overview of internationally emerging ebook markets, with a...
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I'm not sure if I embrace all the casualness in this piece on "networked reading" in The Guardian. But the short article certainly formulates several...
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Natürlich sind die meisten Geschäftszahlen nicht öffentlich, was es schwer macht, sachlich genauer einzuordnen, welche Kräfte und Dynamiken die Causa Suhrkamp tatsächlich bewegen. Denn es...
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The Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry 2013: Re-Inventing Publishing at a Global Scale
Markus Dohle, newly appointed CEO of Penguin Random House, will be...
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The „Global Ebook“ report, which had been launched in fall 2011, had been updated since then twice a year, and was downloaded a stunning 5,000...
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The Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry, started in 2006, has been released in its fully updated edition of 2013.
The ranking lists the 60 largest...
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BookExpo America focuses on "Books in Translation: Wanderlust for the Written Word" in 2014, and we are proud to serve as program coordinator for this...
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The leading British industry magazine The Bookseller joins the network of media partners for the new "Global Ebook" report, alongside buchreport, Livres Hebdo, Publishers Weekly,...
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To update the "Global Ebook" report, a new questionnaire has been opened. We ask publishing professionals - publishers, distributors, platform and service providers as well...
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Next update ready in October 2013, tracking key data and referencing international ebook developments.
The “Global Ebook” market survey will continue to serve the global publishing...
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My O'Reilly TOC "Global Ebook Market" report - update 2013 is out! New chapters on ebook bestsellers across Europe - Central Europe - India. And...
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While over the last few days, everyone interested in German publishing was puzzled by the kind of harakiri staged by the two owners of the...
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Have you followed - and realized - that Google will now make available some 5 million titles as ebooks - and only half of them...
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Für deutsche Verlage ist Österreich ein wichtiger, wenn auch nicht immer einfacher Regionalmarkt. Schriftsteller aus Österreich haben indessen seit mehr als einem Jahrhundert eine überaus...
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I spend a good part of the day giving interviews to German, Swiss and Austrian media, while trying to get a reading of the many...
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Allow me to proudly invite you to several events and reports about latest developments in international publishing which we prepared for the Frankfurt Book Fair...
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Amazon gibt immer mehr den Ton an, auch was die Aufmerksamkeit für mögliche nächste Erfolge ausmacht. Die Zeichen stehen auf Sturm
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In allen diesen Veränderungen, Verlagerungen...
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The CEO panel debate at the Frankfurt Book Fair is hosting leaders of this transformation, to discuss the transformation of the industry, and its future...
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Books and publishing are a key to be a part of the globalizing knowledge society. What does this mean for the Arab world? We could...
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Der Buchhandelskonzern Weltbild soll verkauft werden - aus moralischen Gründen. Oder doch nicht? Kaum haben die katholischen Bischöfe die Kehrtwende beschlossen, steht die Welt der...
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After Digital, Globalization Plus Emerging Markets Is The Next Frontier For The Publishing Industry.
The « Livres Hebdo Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry 2012 »,...
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A little tired I am, I admit, and spent hours just, at first, pointlessly wandering around at the New York West Side (yes, where the...
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Announcement made at the BEA Global Market Forum Russia in New York, at a project of Rüdiger Wischenbart Content and Consulting.
The news was short, yet...
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„Schwedenkrimis als Epidemie“ stießen im Hauptgebäude der Universität Wien, bei der langen Nacht der Forschung 2012 auf reges Interesse.
Zwischen 18 und 22 Uhr wurden zahlreiche...
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Wie konnte es geschehen, dass eine so abstrakte wie randständige Materie wie das Urheberrecht solch massive politische Wirkung entfaltet, mit Hebeln, die von den Rändern...
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I have spent quite some time lately, in researching and trying to understand how globalization impacts publishing in the various regions. Parts of this is...
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Invitation
To attend a session at the London Book Fair to discuss international statistics and perspectives of publishing markets
Monday, April 16, 2012, 10:00 to 11:00 am
Thamse...
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At the Leipzig Book Fair, which closed yesterday, a colorful meeting ground for authors, readers and other book people (plus thousands of Manga lovers disguised...
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After a lengthy silence, while traveling a lot, and exploring how globalisation and digital, how emerging markets as well as these old main markets change...
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Europas junge Autoren und die urbanen Lesermilieus befördern einen regen kulturellen Austausch und lösen die Literatur aus ihrer nationalen Verankerung.
Mehr hier
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The Diversity Report 2010 aims at portraying and mapping how a significant sample of the best renowned contemporary authors of literary fiction in...
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Natürlich ist die Suche nach eBooks noch ziemlich mühsam, zu unberechenbar ist das Angebot, zu willkürlich, was von Verlagen digital zum sofortigen Download...
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"Schatz, legst Du schon mal die eBooks unter den Weihnachtsbaum?" Der Satz wird diesmal noch nicht ganz so häufig ins Wohnzimmer gerufen werden,...
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The first debate of industry leaders, based on the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry, found an audience of over 150 publishing professionals at the...
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With Melinda Nadj Abonji winning the Deutscher Buchpreis very unexpectedly (and Jung und Jung Verlag proving in a most stunning way that a very small...
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Ginge es nach der Gunst von Lesern und (online) Buchkäufern, dann müsste die Entscheidung zum Deutschen Buchpreis heute Abend in einem Kopf an Kopf Rennen...
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Die österreichische Literatur erscheint in deutschen Verlagen und findet ein großes deutsches Lesepublikum. Doch die Abgrenzung zwischen dem Lokalen und dem Rest der...
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The Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry 2010:
Facts, Trends, Outlook.
Industry leaders discuss the business of publishing today.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 14:30 - 16:00
Frankfurt Book...
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The Future Face of Media: Business Models for the Digital Era.
Frankfurt, May 18, 2010.
It was great fun and highly inspiring to moderate two panels...
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Knapp neun Prozent aller Neuerscheinungen in deutschen Verlagen sind Übersetzungen. Davon entfallen etwa zwei Drittel auf die Belletristik. Zwei von drei Übersetzungen stammen...
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After a pause of a few months - and lots of strategizing, research and development and just a huge load of regular work, this blog...
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The yearly top revenue based ranking of Chinese writers by Danwei provides, just as in previous editions, some highly interesting (and entertaining) insights in how...
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Books allow ideas and stories to travel, and translations are the vehicle of choice. Oddly enough for such a fundamental mechanism at the core of...
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...I would be asked,
while still recovering from the ritual book fair cold & cough, and at the same time recapitulating the many many chats...
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Preparing for Frankfurt? Find a detailed analysis of the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry in a close up analysis
In German here
In English with focus...
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Virtually all the big ancient libraries have been destroyed - Alexandria, Xi'an, Cordoba - yet not by new technologies but deliberately by military power. What...
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The Global Ranking portrays the industry’s top companies in a truly global perspective, highlights change and continuity, and the forces that drive it. The editors...
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I admit that I would go a long way only to find a reason to put up this unique picture featuring comic legend Dennis Patrick...
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With the enthusiasm and the energy we are so fond of, and thanks to a hint from Sabina, we found and hereby proudly present THE...
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Following the controversy around the Google Settlement and European publishers' and author (and collecting) societies, one could assume to witness a battle between a bunch...
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Following up on the very successful and fruitful debates at last year’s „On Translation“ conference at the Vienna book fair Buch Wien, we prepare for...
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Tracking significant milestones of how Chinese literature and publishing interacts with the West, we can refer to reports in the Hollywood reporter and The Bookseller...
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With the debate on the Google Settlement and its likely meaning for various groups (and countries) turning into a strange confrontation of hidden interests and...
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Is our culture threatened by Google and by the Open Access movement for freely accessible science publications? Are Google's library scanning programs and the so...
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Long time not write - but frankly, May and June so far have been a frenzy time (but now I can relax). One main cause...
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Es ist bemerkenswert, dass all die heiß umstrittenen Themen in der aktuellen Debatte rund ums Buch – seine kulturelle Stellung als Kulturgut, das Urheberrecht, die...
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Together with Miha Kovac of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, we did a survey on book bestseller lists in seven major European markets over the...
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Is China ready for the next move in allowing publishers to just mind about their own business? It seems so.
The official China...
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Having the pleasure and the privilege to travel with this group of US non fiction editors to see a number of German publishers in Munich...
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In only one day, I came across two just hilarious examples of how books and minds, across time and space, mock our funny lives as...
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This week's NYTimes Sunday Book Review focuses on new books from Chinese authors, including:
'The Vagrants', by YIYUN LI
Reviewed by PICO IYER
'China Witness: Voices From...
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"Wanted: The global bestseller.
A new study shows: Only a few writers are successful on a global scale. Yet national bookmarkets are diverse (not homogenized)."
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It is just amazing how a really big organization like Amazon in less then 2 weeks makes an about face in their strategy for their...
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2 events on translation are forthcoming - one local, one European - an I have the privilege to participate:
(a) "Literary Translation and Culture" is a...
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According to our charts, he was probably the most stunning author across Europe in 2008, and now his book makes it to the movies: "Män...
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It was Geety Dharmaraja of New Dehli, a beaming lady with an inescapable sense of mission and the founder of a stunning Indian translation project...
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The Chinese internet platform Danwei reports, quoting an article in China Youth Daily, that the Chinese government is set to abandon direct control over most...
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Our Global bestseller list has been featured in the week's buchreport.express, and buchreport online - Germany's leading source of book market information.
The list which has...
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While it is frightening to see in this very moment how the new Mandarin hotel next to Rem Kohlhas' CCTV tower is burning, I was...
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The wonderful journal "Logos" has published a tink piece I wrote on the "future of the book" or, more precisely, on what e-Books and digitization...
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If book fairs are supposed to be still some kind of frontier, Cairo is the place to go. It is arguably the largest book fair...
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Publishers Weekly (PW), once acclaimed as "the Bible" on US publishing, fires 4 members of its staff, including editor-in-chief Sara Nelson.
PW is owned by Reed...
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Working on bestselling books and author, we did a first ever ranking of the bestselling authors 2008 in Europe and globally. Here is our gobal...
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Tracking news about how the crisis affects publishing over the past two months produces some strange findings. Almost instantly, starting as of November 2008, we...
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The basic pattern is familiar: Most translations of books have English originals (ca. 60 percent on average) , while hardly any translations travel back into...
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A brief visit to the Netherlands parachuted me into an interesting university seminar at Leiden - a lovely city with an outstanding and historically long...
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At the Frankfurt Book fair, I was amazed that a pretty much technical panel debate could draw a crowd of some 100 people for almost...
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So what was the news at Frankfurt?
Funny question. No clear answer.
Someone at the show told me that there were "no great books". But this is...
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At the Frankfurt Book Fair, we could present the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry 2008, which had been published by several of the leading...
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I have argued already on various occasions that I don't believe that e-readers (like the Kindle or the Sony eReader) are the critical driving force...
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I am time and again amazed to see what - even undergraduate - students can achieve when they are allaowed (and a bit encouraged) to...
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These are pretty weird days, and I have some difficulty in finding some coherent thoughts about what that means in a perspective of books.
The Nobel...
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This weeks edition of The Economist runs an insightful piece about the music industry's experience of change over the past decade. I hadn't thought of...
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I was always surprised about ow much attention is focused on reading devices for e-Books instead on new user habits, new channels or new business...
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In an essay for the Vienna daily Der Standard (in German here) I tried to make sense of the new generation of electronic reading devices...
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With all the ambition and enthusiasm and curiosity I met among Chinese publishers, the answer to this question may remain ambivalent – yet it also...
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Writing literature online has a substantial tradition in China, going back to the 1990s, and the most famous site was certainly www.rongshuxia.com (or "Under the...
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Here are some more Chinese publishing groups who prepare to go public and, as mentioned already, take note how many of them are procincial groups:
Schanghai...
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The well established and well controlled environment of China's 578 or so state owned publishing companies is probably about to be shaken up considerably as...
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Today was networking day at BIBF - or the Beijing International Book Fair 2008 in Tianjin. On the international side, we had one workshop with...
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Tomorrow is the grand opening of this year's Beijing International Book Fair BIBF in Tianjin. That means for some, this is lazy Sunday...
while for others,...
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It is a unique story, on several levels, that promises to unfold at this year's China International Book Fair BIBF - in Tianjin, 120 km...
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Arriving at the Beijing airport this morning from Europe, I find myself picked up even before I could realize the really dump whether and the...
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While German publishers, teaming up with their peers from the music business, ran full page ads in national daily newspapers calling for government help (!)...
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News come in regularly about just another project aiming at exploring possibilities and perspectives of books on digital platforms.
At the Paris Salon du Livre, the...
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The German book trade magazine buchreport published its yearly ranking of the top 50 German language book retailers (chain stores as well as local chains)...
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After the popular French encyclopedia "Quid" and the very prestigious German "Brockhaus" have decided to stop their paper editions in 2008, the same news was...
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When Harvard Librarian Robert Darnton announced in February 2008 that his prestigious institution is going 'open access' with most of its scolarly publications, this has...
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This has been said, almost a year ago, by my old friend Mike Shatzkin in a remarkable address at last year's BookExpo America in New...
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Publishers Weekly writes that the US children classic Dr. Seuss is going digital, thanks to a partnership between Dr. Seuss Enterprises and kidthing, a new content...
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Co-Blogger Simon Owens told me more details about the Sci/fi publisher Tor Books and his new way of giving away fre eBooks. In his own...
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Within only a few weeks, I came across all sorts of news refering to big publishing conglomerates and small indiependent houses who launch or announced new approaches...
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The revolving debate about what culture may lose as books migrate from a shelf onto a screen - or if digitizing books is a good...
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Here you can find Paulo Coelho's new megaseller "The Witch of Portobello" - for free. Oh, and yes, it is entirely legal. Courtesy of Harper...
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Apologies for being a lazy blogger, but here I can report on a curious and multi facetted battle in German print culture.
A few weeks before...
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It is rare, at least in my observation, to see various pretty serious people - essayists, journalists of high quality newspapers, editors - really in...
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Last week I had the pleasure to spend a few days in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Zagreb, Croatia, talking to publishers and writers on a trip...
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There are 577 publishing companies in China - versus several thousand in Germany alone - and all are owned by the state, sort of.
There are...
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Somehow I have difficulties with the hurry of blogging. I was at this wonderful daylong workshop about the "Really Modern Library", organized by Bob Stein...
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The Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry as presented at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair was echoed widely in professional conversations and small talk throughout...
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Publishing today, at least in a global perspective, is not just about books and authors. It is about information, knowledge, and education. It is as...
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Over the past several years, English language books have been given increased shelf space in traditionally non-English reading countries. As this trend continues, publishers are...
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So today, more than 48 hours before the official release date, the New York Times publishes a first review of Harry Potter and The Deathly...
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I was really puzzled when I realized the amount of interest (and feedback) I had the other day with a piece written for Publishers Weekly...
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I don't need to tell you more than the fact that I lost almost my entire virtual capital on the betting scheme for the Ingeborg...
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Over dinner - or, if you prefer, during the past hour or so - I lost roughly 10 percent of my literary capital.
Initially, I had...
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We proudly announce the birth of our new baby - the Livres Hebdo Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry, or the first reliable list of...
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Roughly a week ago, at this year's BookExpo America, I ran into a smiling Rüdiger Salat, the person in charge of all things bookish at...
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At BookExpo America, I could set up and launch a debate on the "Internationalisation of English reading", or a funny 3 bn $ market niche...
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Last night, I was invited by Gerfried Sperl of Der Standard newspaper, to sit on a panel discussing the UNESCO declaration on cultural diversity, together...
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Book markets today have a reputation of being slow, flat, little exciting, except for those breath taking crime novels that top so many bestseller lists...
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As we screen and analyse international bestseller lists for several book trade magazines month by month, we were puzzled by that the new book of...
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Ever wanted to look across the shoulder of a real Nobel laureate as she (or he) writes? Austrian Elfriede Jelinek (Nobel Laureate in 2004) decided...
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It is interesting to see how large corporations now start to allow (or even encourage) their thinking staff to do their thinking in public, hence...
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The initial essay of this blog on Translation (and the decrease in translations globally) found a nice and critical echo from imomus who - from...
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Myself? At the Salon du Livre,I picked up a rather exotic reader (of 'editions errance') "La culture est-elle naturelle?" ("Is Culture Natural?"), reflecting about recent...
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It's a book fair. But most people line up - for someone drawing and painting often entire pages, in ink and bright colour!
Getting back from...
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Bestsellers in Europe are strange these days. Since fall 2005, or for 78 weeks in a row, a novel about two learned men of the...
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or, Why translation matters.
Oddly enough, globalisation (and the internet) brought, as for books, not many more translations from all those books from all over the...
