With the Frankfurt Book Fair looming, we have compiled our semi-annual look at the state of dealmaking, this time bolstered by some very pretty charts. Visualizing our data should make it easier for readers to draw their own conclusions from the statistics, and it allows us to reveal more nuance to the figures as well. The first chart below looks at all US Publishers Marketplace deal reports from September. Deal volume among “comparable categories” continues to grow, up 7.5 percent over last year (when reports jumped almost 17 percent from the recession trough of 2009). But total deal volume is […]
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At this morning’s BISG annual meeting, the organization confirmed that vice chair Ken Michaels is now serving as co-chair of the organization’s board, alongside Dominique Raccah, who will step down from her position in a year. (Raccah took over as sole chair of the board last November when co-chair Andrew Weber left Random House.) Little, Brown, John Parsley has been promoted to executive editor. He joined the company in the fall of 2007. David Moldawer has joined Amazon Publishing as senior editor for the New York-based trade group, run by Larry Kirshbaum. Previously he was a senior editor at McGraw-Hill. At […]
Frankfurt Offers Fair Conference Deal
With ever-more specialized conferences on the Frankfurt Book Fair agenda, show organizers have organized those events and more under the Frankfurt Academy banner. They are now selling a limited number of “all-access” tickets that provide entrance to nine conferences and meetings at the Frankfurt Book Fair with a single discounted ticket. The two Publishers Launch Frankfurt events are part of that offer–our full-day show on global digital trade publishing opportunities on Monday, October 10, and our half-day event focused on Children’s Publishing Going Digital on Tuesday, October 11–as are TOC Frankfurt, the International Rights Directors meeting; Frankfurt’s StoryDrive Conferenc, a […]
It Seems Late, But Attendance Rose at London Book Fair
The London Book Fair has just released audited attendance figures for the April gathering. They tabulated 24,802 visitors, up 7 percent (or about 1,700 people) from the pre-volcanic era 2009 show. Over half the attendees are still local, but international visitors now comprise a slightly larger group, at 44 percent.
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New Zealand will be the guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2012, running from October 10 – 14. At Random House Children’s Books’ Delacorte Press, Rebecca Short has been promoted to Assistant Editor. Acting register of copyrights for the past five months Maria Pallante will now officially take over the position on a standing basis. At one point in her career, she was assistant director of the Authors Guild.
BEA Attendance Nearly Flat
BEA has released preliminary attendance figures for this year’s show. The total was 21,664 people, almost even with last year’s final tally of 21,919 people. The falloff was slightly higher among “attendees” (as distinguished from exhibitors), who numbered 13,028–a decline of 6 percent, or 844 people, from a year ago. The organizers say over 500 fewer authors were enrolled as attendees, accounting for much of that decline. But overall, Reed’s business at Javits grew with the inclusion of BlogWorld attendees, giving them a total of 23,067 people in the building. Show director Steve Rosato writes on his blog that “the […]