The London Book Fair will leave behind the Earl’s Court exhibition center after the next convention in April — since it is due to be demolished as part of a sweeping redevelopment of the area. Fair officials have made the sensible decision to move back to nearby Olympia in 2015, rather than trying to persuade publishing visitors to try the more modern facility Excel on the outskirts of Eastern London. Director Jacks Thomas said in the announcement: “We have listened long and hard to those who participate in The London Book Fair and, while it is sad that Earls Court […]
Book Fairs
Strategies and Data for Children’s Publishing, and the Biggest Week In Digital
In January we kick off “Digital Book World week” with our third annual one-day Launch Kids event — the biggest trade conference focused specifically on children’s publishing and digital evolution. The most successful of our many standalone Publishers Launch events, Launch Kids provides deep focus on the complex and nuanced issues and opportunities specifically for children’s book publishers and the start-ups doing business with them. We’ll have detailed new datasets including sales figures from both Nielsen and Readerlink; and analysis of how children and families engage with digital media from Insight Strategy Group and PlayCollection. Looking broadly across mobile, social […]
A Wealth of Options
Before you get overwhelmed by the holidays, consider putting our bigger-than-ever fifth annual Digital Book World conference on your calendar while some early pricing is still available. Running January 13 through 15, the world’s biggest trade conference on digital change adds special tracks on realistic ways to look at start-ups; organizational change management strategies and practice; an in-depth look at Amazon; higher education; technology; children’s publishing and more, on top of that traditional focus on trade publishing. That’s on top of looking at new business models; digital marketing at scale; using data to drive actual decision-making; the future of bookstores […]
Canada Tries Again with Plans for New 2014 Book Fair
The new Toronto International Book Fair, scheduled to launch in 2014 and running November 13 through November 16, aims to give Canada a major consumer and trade book show. Craft show veteran Steven Levy is a co-director of the new event, along with Rita Davies (former head of culture for the city of Toronto) and president of Quattro Books John Calabro. They are hoping for government subsidies to help reduce booth costs for exhibitors and are conducting a search for a show programmer. Calabro tells Quill & Quire, “The one thing I heard from the independent publishers was a fear […]
Kids First, and Then The Widest Offerings Yet
We have much of the programming posted now for our third annual Publishers Launch Kids conference — on Monday, January 13, one of the kickoff events to “Digital Book World Week” in New York. PL Kids starts with a big block of data — from Nielsen (with analysis by Bookigee); from the Insight Strategy Group (looking at larger kids digital media trends); and from PlayCollective (updating their analysis of children’s digital reading habits) — and moves on to cover game-based learning initiatives; the push and pull of licensing and branding; moving to a mobile strategy; an overview of successful new […]
The Everything Show
We’ll confess that this week’s exchange between MacKenzie Bezos and author Brad Stone only makes us more interested in Stone’s appearance at Digital Book World next January, as part of a block of programming focused on analyzing Amazon. This new page at the DBW conference site provides an overview of the Amazon-focused sessions, and also highlights two other “featured blocks” of new material. In response to suggestions from some of the C-level people who serve on the DBW advisory council, we’re featuring four sessions that present a structure view on “change management” (created with the help of consultant Carolyn Pittis, […]