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PalFest diary: Don't mourn - organise
News - InternationalThursday, 11th June 2009
Rachel Holmes was among those taking part in PalFest, the British Council and UNESCO-supported literary festival which last month took authors to Jerusalem and the West...
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LBF's South Africa Market Focus launches in Cape Town
News - InternationalThursday, 11th June 2009
Training workshops for industry professionals will play a key role in the South Africa Market Focus 2010 programme at the London Book Fair. These sessions will take place...
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Cape Town: the thrill of possibility
News - InternationalMonday, 8th June 2009
'Education for the future' is the theme of Cape Town '09, which opens on Saturday (13 June) and at which 25 countries will exhibit. It will host 'a rigorous discourse into...
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BEA: numbers down on last New York show
News - InternationalMonday, 1st June 2009
The total number of registered visitors who attended BookExpoAmerica, which concluded in New York on Sunday, was 29,923, including booksellers, media, authors and...
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From Publishers Weekly: Tina, Harry and the CEOs...
News - InternationalMonday, 1st June 2009
Tina Brown, founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Beast , was already losing her voice as she began moderating a CEO roundtable discussion at BEA with HarperCollins's...
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Trends 2009 reveals a flat market in the US
News - InternationalSunday, 31st May 2009
The Book Industry Study Group's annual survey, Trends 2009 , has revealed that the net revenues of US publishers rose just 1% in 2008 over 2007 to reach $40.32 billion. At...
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From Publishers Weekly: don't follow the music business
News - InternationalSunday, 31st May 2009
The case could be made that Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson, author of the new book Free and the Long Tail , the seminal work that outlined a new paradigm of...
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From Publishers Weekly: the effects of piracy are overstated
News - InternationalSunday, 31st May 2009
While digital piracy 'does effect some niches', its threat to the sale of paid book content is generally 'overstated' according to an ongoing study of digital piracy that...
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From Publishers Weekly: a downsized BEA
News - InternationalSaturday, 30th May 2009
Amid a global recession, decreasing book sales and industry-wide layoffs, how was day one of BEA 09? Well, it depends on whom you ask. Publicists were typically upbeat (...
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