With a huge response to its call at Frankfurt Book Fair for submissions, AmazonCrossing arrived at London Book Fair in rapid expansion. Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives. Read More
The Importance of a Web site in Self-Publishing
For authors today, no “piece of digital real estate” is more important than the author Website: It gets your message to a busy visitor fast. Read More
Matthew Welch: ‘My Music Sounds Like An Optimistic View Of The Future’
“The bagpipes are actually incredibly difficult to play,” says bagpiper-composer Matthew Welch in Music for Writers by Porter Anderson. #MusicForWriters at Thought Catalog Read More
Sari Feldman and Mitchell Davis: The US Library Transformation Takes Hold
Two leaders in the United States’ library system’s new digital lease on life — the ALA’s Sari Feldman and Bibliolabs’ Mitchell Davis — talk to us about the ‘creative commons’ that the sweet building down the block from you has become, a community mecca for makers and a partner in grassroots creative leadership. Read More
Asia, North and South America, Africa, Europe Featured in London Book Fair’s Excellence Awards
France, Australia, US, China, Sudan, Brazil, Poland, New Zealand and more factor into the honors: New Bookstore of the Year category a popular favorite. Read More
Rights of Passage in a New Year of Trade Shows
As the ‘Wall of Content’ rises, the heart of the publishing trade show, its rights transactions, becomes all the more vital. Read More
Quantum’s Quandary: London Book Fair’s Careful Conference
In a day 0f congenial panel discussions and reassuring pep talks, London Book Fair’s Quantum Conference threw an amber-warm light on tricky times for publishing. Read More
Jailed ‘Free Saudi Liberals’ Creator Raif Badawi Receives IPA Prix Voltaire
Emphasizing ‘the plight of oppressed publishers and writers,’ the International Publishers Association confers its newly renamed Prix Voltaire on Saudi dissident Raif Badawi. Read More
Publishers’ Rights Corner: A Place for Frankfurt’s New Deal
Publishers’ rights managers are booking tables in a new ‘Publishers’ Rights Corner,’ adjacent to the sold-out LitAg at Frankfurt Book Fair — for saner meetings on #FBM16 Tuesday. Read More
The IPA London Congress: Confrontation and Debate
Dichotomies of local and global, major and modest, resonated throughout the International Publishers Association’s 31st Congress, convened in the run-up to London Book Fair. Read More