Frankfurt Stays; Exhibitors Will Receive Revised Pricing As Minimum Stay “Is History” German book industry magazine Boersenblatt reported yesterday that the executive committee of the trade association that owns and operates the Frankfurt Book Fair voted unanimously on Tuesday to keep the convention in Frankfurt, in an agreement that will run up to 2010. The Fair’s vice president for corporate communication Holger Ehling confirms for Lunch that Fair president Volker Neumann has achieved “sizeable results” in which “The rental for the fair grounds will go down in a way which will allow Frankfurt to drastically change its proposed pricing structure […]

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The Latest Deals Among the many new reports from Friday there’s Jane Moore’s big US sale, interviews with boxing greats, the story of a Civil War soldier featured in the Ken Burns documentary, a memoir of abuse at a Catholic summer camp, and plenty more. As usual, PublisherMarketplace.com members can see them all, search our huge deals database of over 4,500 transactions, get daily deals via e-mail, and more. How much more? There’s our “addictive” book tracker to follow your titles, our landmark Book Review Index that follows and clips major reviews for about 1 percent the cost of Nexis, […]

53 Books at Once, the Accidental Cult, Books Inspired by the Sopranos and American Idol, and More Over 20 new deals since yesterday, including a grand new project from the creators of the Day in the Life photo series (resulting in a 53-book deal), the story of a television producer who accidentally created a cult, UK fiction sales, a pre-empt for a book about the battles among the all-news cable channels, a top vocal coach advises on how to sing like an American Idol, Tony Soprano on Management, lessons from the head of Fetzer Vineyards, and still plenty more. Fridays […]

Myss, Bay, Interesting New Methods, and More As ever, lots of interesting new deals to report, including bestselling author Caroline Myss moving houses, Willow Bay’s book on how to talk to your kids about difficult times, six-figure sales for a successful author who says you really can make someone change and a psychiatrist/neurologist who treats stress, anxiety and depression with natural methods rather than drugs or talk therapy, a mediation expert’s auction for a book on “instant persuasion” to solve all kinds of conflicts, another self-published success crosses over, and still plenty more. As usual, PublisherMarketplace.com members can see them […]

The Latest Deals Another dozen new ones since yesterday, including an Iraqi woman’s chronicle of life in Baghdad during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning author Chris Hedges has a paperback being rushed out to instruct young readers about war and another adult book on the way, one man’s journey across the Sahara, the story of Def Jam Records, first fiction from a Fulbright fellow (say that quickly 3 times) and still plenty more. As usual, PublisherMarketplace.com members can see them all, view more deals live […]