The German division of Lufthansa airlines cancelled 300 flights on Tuesday–one-sixth of their scheduled flights–“as cabin crew launched a second round of strikes in a row over pay and conditions that threatens to drag on for weeks and cost Germany’s biggest airline tens of millions of euros.” The union and the airline have been failed to agree on a new contract for 13 months now. 200 flights out of Frankfurt, including a third of their longer flights, were cancelled today.
Book Fairs
Your First Chance At the Big Event(s)
Digital Book World 2013 (aka DBW IV) has just opened for registration, set for January 16 and January 17 in New York City, shifting location slightly to the Hilton Hotel. Since we first joined with F+W Media and Mike Shatzkin in 2009 to help plan and promote Digital Book World, the event has grown into the premier digital educational event by and for trade publishing professionals in the world. Since the beginning, Publishers Lunch readers have had access to the best price on individual tickets to the show, and that pledge continues: Use our code PUBLUNCH for a 5 percent […]
BEA Moves Up 2013 Dates By A Week, Will Now Run Between May 29 and June 1
Book Expo America announced Monday afternoon that the book fair will take place a week earlier than planned, with the conference to run on Wednesday, May 29 and the show floor set to open between Thursday, May 30 and Saturday, June 1. (The Book Blogger Conference will also take place on the 29th, with Saturday, June 1 open to the public.) BEA officials had wanted to move the date for some time “as it is expected to drive down hotel prices by 10% – 20% depending on the property,” and received the “surprise” go-ahead from Javits earlier Monday. There will […]
BEA Kicks Off with Colbert, Diaz, Kingsolver and Nesbo
Book Expo America kicked off Tuesday morning’s author breakfast with attendees lined up early to enter and offered the classic mix of humor, appreciation and creative inspiration. In a new twist, BEA is live streaming the marquee convention events, and the stream actually worked. (We have the player on the PublishersMarketplace.com home page, and you can find it on many other trade sites, as well as BEA’s own site.) Emcee Stephen Colbert was in classic form, setting the stage for “three of the world’s best authors of books other than mine.” Of his own forthcoming book AMERICA AGAIN: Re-Becoming the […]
AerBook Launches Simple In-Browser Platform to Build eBooks and Apps with Visual Content, and Much More From Publishers Launch
At Monday’s Publishers Launch BEA Conference, in the Publishers Launchpad segment highlighting interesting start-ups, Ron Martinez debuted his company’s Aerbook Maker and Aerbook Cloud Publishing product. They promise to enable the creation and publishing of graphical ebooks and native apps, made right in the browser through drag-and-drop, without any code writing. Martinez said up until now “the cost and complexity has literally made whole categories have to sit out the party,” and Aerbook’s product is designed to make it affordable for publishers to adapt children’s, how-to, travel, educational, photography, or any other graphical content for ebooks and apps all at […]
BEA Is Really Coming
Per tradition, I waited until yesterday to register for BEA, so I’m imagining a number of others are still making arrangements for the convention, which is now less than two weeks away. To help your preparations, Publishing Trends has produced a handy one-page overview of the always-complex schedule and related events, with lots of embedded links. We’ll be sharing our annual party planner next week, so if you want your celebration known, make sure you’ve notified us. Though we often get a lot of last-minute sign-ups, we are running very low on seats for our packed, 16-session Publishers Launch BEA Conference on Monday […]