Since 1999, the German Book Office New York (GBO), takes a group of editors from the United States to Germany for an annual week-long immersion in the German publishing world. The trip aims to create personal connections between North American editors and German editors in the hope that these connections will lead to more German books being translated and [...]
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- International
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Professor John Willinsky from Stanford University on open access and how traditional publishers, both academic and trade, can make the model work for them. John Willinsky is a member of the faculty of the St.Gallen International Publishing Management Course, being organized jointly by the Frankfurt Academy and the Institute for Media and Communications Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, in September 2013.
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- Frankfurt Book Fair
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- Digital Publishing, Future Of publishing, New Business Models, Open Access, Scientific Publishing, University of St. Gallen in Switzerland
A week ago, the German Book Office New York had our very own booth at BookExpo America (BEA) 2013, representing both the Frankfurt Book Fair as well as our office here in New York. BEA is the largest publishing gathering in North America, bringing in more than 1,000 exhibitors, hundreds of authors, and upwards of [...]
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- Frankfurt Book Fair, International
At Storydrive China 2013, Ms. Zhang Zhijun, deputy general manager of Joint Publishing Company International, China, talked about the future of the publishing industry and shared some of her company’s innovative strategies how to address the challenges.
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- Academy, Frankfurt Book Fair
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- Beijing, children's books, illustrations, publishing industry China, Story Drive China
This year’s StoryDrive China 2013 conference was preceded by a newly created exchange and business platform: StoryPitch. Ten students and graduates from the Beijing Film Academy and one editor from Cloudary, China’s biggest online literature internet portal, had the chance to present their stories to an expert panel and film and TV production companies.
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- Academy
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- China, StoryDrive
In Beijing on 29 and 30 May, StoryDrive China 2013 once again brought together some big names from the publishing, film and games industries, from China, Germany, the US, UK and Poland. StoryDrive is becoming a well established and hotly anticipated conference, rich in content and cross-media exchanges. What were this year’s highlights?
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- Academy
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- All Media, China, Collective Storytelling, ebooks, Frankfurt Academy, publishing, StoryDrive
If you were in Brazil in the first half of 2012, reading news about the boom of digital publishing worldwide felt like reading about a parallel world. Brazilian publishing business seemed somehow to be going against industry tendencies elsewhere. The country was (still is) experiencing expansion of brick and mortar bookstore chains and growth of print book sales, and the ‘digital revolution’ seemed to be a phenomenon from the future, that might not even arrive here.
Iona Teixeira Stevens is editor of PublishNews and works as a correspondent for PublishNews Brazil. In her blog post she explains how Brazil is challenging digital publishing in 2013.
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- Guest of Honour
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- Apple, Brazil, Digital Publishing, ebooks, Guest of Honour
With increasing numbers of books published each year and information overload at every click of the mouse, how can you make sure that readers know about your books and authors? With the Reaching Readers Book Marketing Conference on May 28, Publishing Perspectives has gathered a group of incredible experts and publishers to address this very question.
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- Frankfurt Book Fair
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- Digital Marketing, marketing, publishing, readers, Social Media, Technology
“Tell your story differently”, this year’s motto of StoryDrive China (29. + 30 May 2013) sparked the interest of Nick Eliopulos, editor of Scholastic’s multi-platform Infinity Ring series. We talked to Nick Eliopulos about the chances of cross-industry interactions for children’s publishing and why he believes that cross media promotion opportunities will have a huge impact on the future of publishing in general.
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- Academy
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- Children's and young adult books, cross platform publishing, crossmedia, Games, Multimedia, StoryDrive China, tools of change, transmedia
StoryDrive China (29. + 30 May 2013) is the first all-media platform in Asia dedicated to exploring new forms of collaboration and business models across media boundaries. Leading minds from the film, games and publishing industries will reveal their visions regarding the future of media. One of this year’s participants is Mark Staufer, creator of the “The Numinous Place” and screenwriter in Hollywood. He believes that China’s entertainment industry has the potential to impact the West as much as America’s has.
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- Frankfurt Book Fair
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- apps, creative industries, Multimedia, StoryDrive China, Technology, tools of change, transmedia
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