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Kobo's Aura launch praised by trade

Publication Date: Fri, 19/04/2013 - 09:16

Publishers have praised Kobo’s determination to win market share in the UK and other territories, hailing the decision to launch a luxury e-reader at LBF as a “clever move”.

The Kobo Aura has a 30% larger HD e-ink screen, with special contours for comfortable reading, and is priced at £139.99. The launch...

Accent Press | digital | Home | Kerr MacRae | Kobo | Kobo Aura | LBF | Lisa Campbell | London Book Fair | Michael Bhaskar | Michael Tamblyn | Profile | Simon & Schuster
Carry on publishing

Publication Date: Thu, 18/04/2013 - 14:55

This year’s London Book Fair was back to its ebullient and buzzy best with great displays of confidence from the likes of Hachette, Random House, Granta, Canongate and Kobo.

Yet, behind the plumage this was also a fair wracked with nerves; one at which Amazon was a looming presence despite its almost complete absence from the...

amazon | blogs | Canongate | Digital Minds Conference | Granta | Hachette | Home | Kobo | LBF | London Book Fair | Philip Jones | random house
London on the Ether - part 2

Publication Date: Wed, 17/04/2013 - 15:36

Look down. This is Wednesday, Day Three, after all. The airy fair-iness of it all has taken its toll. And some of the booths in Earls Cavern—many booths, in fact—are rigged to make you fall flat on your face, have you noticed that?

You’re all set to glad-hand that publisher’s rep. You grin your way in, only to...

blogs | Home | Katie Allen | LBF | London Book Fair | Porter Anderson
Publishers' online communities to double

Publication Date: Wed, 17/04/2013 - 11:40

Publisher–generated online communities, such as HarperCollins’ InkPop, Gollancz’s SF Gateway and Hachette’s Pick a Poppy, are set to almost double over the next two years, according to research by Bowker which was unveiled at yesterday’s “The Campaign Revolution: New Models for Reaching Reader Communities...

Bowker | digital | Gollancz | Hachette | HarperCollins | Home | InkPop | Jane Tappuni | LBF | London Book Fair | Publishing Technology | The Campaign Revolution: New Models for Reaching Reader Communities | tom tivnan
Indie Alliance creates Independents Day

Publication Date: Wed, 17/04/2013 - 11:20

The Independent Alliance consortium of UK publishers is partnering with the ICA to launch a one-day festival “to celebrate and explore independence across the creative industries” in Britain.

The event, which will run on 6th June, will feature publishers such as Faber’s Stephen Page and Atlantic’s Ravi...

Independent Alliance | Independents | Joshua Farrington | LBF | London Book Fair | Stephen Page
Copyright licensing changes ‘just beginning’

Publication Date: Wed, 17/04/2013 - 11:19

Publishers must get used to a “permanent, never-ending requirement” to keep simplifying copyright licensing rather than imagining it is a one-off job, Richard Hooper told LBF yesterday (16th April), at the Charles Clark Memorial Lecture.

Hooper, chair of the Copyright Hub Launch Group, said that the widely drawn...

Bookseller Staff | Charles Clark Memorial Lecture | Copyright | Copyright Hub Launch Group | digital | LBF | London Book Fair | Richard Hooper
Pears’ digital novel débuted at LBF

Publication Date: Wed, 17/04/2013 - 11:15

Author Iain Pears and publisher Faber displayed the work in progress of Pears’ latest novel at LBF yesterday (16th April) an experimental work called Arcadia, which will first be released as an app.

Pears, author of An Instance of the Fingerpost, specially commissioned software to allow him to write the novel...

An Instance of the Fingerpost | App | Arcadia | Charlotte Williams | Cuban Missile Crisis | digital | Faber | Iain Pears | LBF | London Book Fair
Girls Will be Girls to Orion

Publication Date: Wed, 17/04/2013 - 11:00

Orion has acquired a non-fiction title, Girls Will Be Girls, a book by academic Dr Emer O’Toole on "why women have ended up acting female", following a “hotly contested” auction.

Editorial director Orion non-fiction Jane Sturrock bought British Commonwealth rights excluding Canada from...

Blake Friedmann | Bookseller Staff | Emer O'Toole | Jane Sturrock | Juliet Pickering | LBF | London Book Fair | Orion | Rights deal
Start-up success

Publication Date: Wed, 17/04/2013 - 10:04

Why do publishers need to work more closely with technology start-ups? In the digital age, publishers must assume that they are no longer in the content business. To compete in the web, they need to provide valued added services around their content and those services will be provided by start-ups. In the new age of collaboration, it is too...

blogs | digital | Home | Javier Celaya | LBF | London Book Fair | telecommunications
LBF stays upbeat despite EU woes

Publication Date: Wed, 17/04/2013 - 10:00

Publishers and agents sounded a note of caution about European markets, but insisted optimism in the UK was strong as LBF entered its final day.

Many fairgoers noted it as one of the busiest LBFs in recent years, yet a number pointed out that many European territories seem to be struggling.

Jeremy Trevathan, Pan Macmillan...

Agents | Charlotte Williams and Joshua Farrington | Europe | Faber | International | Jeremy Trevathan | LBF | London Book Fair | Michael Bhaskar | Oli Munson | Pan Macmillan | Plexus | Profile | Stephen Page | Summersdale