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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

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CONTECbetting on publishings future

If you had $10 million to
invest in a new publishing
business today, where
would you put your money?
That was the question posed
by Jakob Larsen, Head of
Consulting for Danish
publisher Schilling, at an
opening panel at CONTEC
2014, the digital-themed
conference that serves as
the unofficial opening to the
Frankfurt Book Fair, writes
Andrew Albanese. The
panel responses neatly
captured the state of
publishing in 2014, and the
conversations that will be
heard throughout the halls
all week.
Im always passionate
about two things: publishers

and start-ups, said Michael

Bhaskar, Digital Publishing
Director for Profile. But,
actually, if you look at
where the growth has come
from in publishing, its not
from there. Bhaskar said
he would put half his money
in players like Amazon and
Pearson, both of which had
achieved significant share
price increases. The rest
hed spread around to
indie game developers, selfpublishing ventures, and
subscription ventures,
although he stressed that
blue chip content was the
best long-term investment.
Is anyone going to be
watching Netflix in 50 years?
We dont know, Bhaskar

said. Are kids going to still

like Mickey Mouse and
Harry Potter? Probably yes.
Bhaskar was followed by
Georgina Atwell, from
discovery start-up
Toppsta.com, who said she
would put her money where
she has, well, already put
her money: in discovery,
marketing and PR. I think
readers need need help, she
said. If I had $10 million,
Id want every book to have
a marketing plan, and a
marketing budget.
Richard Charkin, Executive Director at Bloomsbury
UK, rounded out the panel
by saying hed put his
money at the front of the
value chain: as a principal

Debut novel The Girls draws 7 figures

Twenty-five-year-old
newcomer Emma Clines
The Girls, which seems
primed to become one of the
most talked-about projects
at the Fair, has been acquired
in major US and UK deals,
writes Rachel Deahl. The
US acquisition of the debut,
which has been dubbed by
some outlets as the Manson
Family novel, was for a
rumoured seven figures,
with Random Houses Kate
Medina emerging as the

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winner of a 12-publisher
auction. Chatto & Windus
won UK rights to the novel.
Bill Clegg, who recently left
William Morris Endeavor to
launch his own eponymous
shingle, is representing The
Girls out of the States, and
sold the work in a threebook deal with Medina. Its
rumoured that Medina paid
well above the $1 million
mark, but Clegg declined to
comment on the advance,
saying only that Random

House made a major

commitment not just to this
book, but to Emmas career.
Medinas acquisition comes
on the heels of Scott Rudins
pre-empt of the film rights to
the novel. Deadline, in its
announcement about the film
deal, referred to the book as
the Manson Family novel.
Although the description Clegg
gave makes no direct mentions
of Manson, the inspiration
for the work is clearly the
murder of Sharon Tate.

partner of authors. I think

our customer is not the
reader, our customer is the
author, and we need to get
our heads around that.
Authors today can choose
how they publish.
The panel went on to
discuss the factors that might
affect their investments, chief
among them territoriality
and the globalisation of the
business, a major theme of
the Fair. There was a time
in English language
publishing where the
Atlantic Ocean was very
wide and you needed
separate publishers to do
things across the Atlantic,
Charkin observed. Its not
so wide any more.

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Harper Creates HarperCollins Germany

Moving quickly on its promise to use the Harlequin
acquisition to expand its international footprint following
its purchase of the company this summer, HarperCollins
has announced the creation of HarperCollins Germany. To
form the new unit, HC is expanding the Harlequin
Hamburg office, although HC executives stressed that the
company would continue to release the same number of
Harlequin titles under existing imprints for the German
market while adding 50 HarperCollins Germany titles.
Brian Murray, CEO of
HC, said HarperCollins
Germany was the template
for the way HC planned to expand its foreign-language
publishing programme by building on Harlequins existing
offices around the world. New foreign language offices are
planned for Japan, Sweden, Holland and Spain in the
coming months, and Murray said that HC would soon be
able to offer its authors the chance to publish in 15
languages in addition to English.
The first author signed by HC to a multi-language deal is its
bestselling English-language author Daniel Silva. HC has

reached an agreement with Silva to publish The Heist and

three new books into 16 markets. Released in the US in July,
The Heist will be published in Germany in fall 2015, followed
by Brazil, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Japan,
Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Silvas three forthcoming
new books will be published in those markets as well as in
Denmark, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, and Spain.
Speaking about the Germany launch, Murray said that
current plans were to limit output to 50 HarperCollins
Germany titles annually,
doing three to four books
per month. Most books will
be commercial fiction, Murray said, and would include
books drawn from current HC authors backlist works as
well as new titles. Thomas Beckman, Harlequin Germany
Managing Director, will oversee HarperCollins Germany,
and Murray said the company would add staff to help
build the German list. To date, HCs publishing efforts have
focused primarily on English-language markets, but the
rollout of its foreign-language programme would make us
a more important player on the world stage, Murray said.

PW Teams for Launch of The Global Rights Report

In cooperation with PubMatch and IPR License, Publishers
Weekly has launched The PW Global Rights Report, an email
newsletter aimed at publishers around the world featuring the
latest news and deals taking place in the international arena.
The newsletter will be distributed free of charge to a
subscriber base of more than 90,000 every other Tuesday,
and its editorial coverage will include book rights deals,
country focuses, interviews with literary agents and
international rights agents, detailed book fair reports,

To contact Franfurt Show Daily at the Fair

with your news, visit us on the Publishers
Weekly stand Hall 8.0 R28
Reporting for BookBrunch by
Nicholas Clee in London and Liz Thomson in Frankfurt
Reporting for Publishers Weekly by
Andrew Albanese, Rachel Deahl, Calvin Reid and Jim Milliot
Project Management: Joseph Murray
Layout and Production: Heather McIntyre
Editorial Co-ordinator (UK): Marian Sheil Tankard

To subscribe to Publishers Weekly, call 800-278-2991

or go to www.publishersweekly.com
Subscribe to BookBrunch via www.bookbrunch.co.uk
or email editor@bookbrunch.co.uk

announcements of newly inked deals, rights news, trends in

buying and selling international rights, and technological
advancements in buying and selling rights internationally.
Rachel Deahl, PWs News Director and author of the
weekly Deals column, is GRRs Editor. Books, more than
ever before, are able to cross boundaries and find a global
readership. But its hard enough keep track of whats going
on in your own backyard, much less around the continent.
With the PW Global Rights Report we hope to solve that
problem, giving our readers a snapshot of what titles are
drawing interestand getting people talkingall over the
globe, Deahl said.
Rights and licensing is now a truly global business and as
an innovator in this field we realize how important it is to
champion this sector and provide added value for a variety of
rights-holders. The Global Rights Report is the perfect vehicle
to showcase key titles to a huge international audience, not to
mention helping to keep the industry fully informed on any
rights and licensing related deals and announcements, said
Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License, the
London-based online rights-trading database and platform.
One of our initiatives at PubMatch is to make rights
part of the daily conversation and were excited to work
with PW on the launch of the Global Rights Report
newsletter to encourage a more frequent conversation on
rights, noted Jon Malinowski, President of Combined
Book Exhibit, PWs partner on PubMatch.
For more info on GRR, drop by one of PWs booths in
Hall 8, stand R28 or in digital zone 4.2, stand B88.

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BARBARA
TAYLOR
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I wish to thank my publishers

all over the world for everything
they have done for me and my books
over the last 35 years.
Your loyalty is much appreciated.

Barbaras 30th novel THE CAVENDON WOMEN

will be published in the spring of 2015

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014

IFFRO launches copyright campaign

The International Federation of Reproduction Rights
Organisations (IFRRO) has launched a campaign designed
to emphasise the importance of copyright and improve
information about the protection of literary and artistic works.
The Value of Copyright, announced at Frankfurt, features
a websiteCopyrightLink.orgas its focal point. The site
aims to provide a single online access hub for international
and local information on copyright. It includes news and
events, relevant legislation, useful facts, and details on the
value of the protection of literary and artistic works, in
addition to its usage and importance.
A survey by PwC in the UK showed that some 25% of
authors derived more than 60% of their income from
secondary uses of their works, and that UK educational
publishers depended on secondary income for some 12%
of their earnings, which equates to around 19% of their
investment in new works. Information such as this, which
highlights the vital role copyright plays in society, is
publicly available, and should find its way into the current
copyright debate.
Olav Stokkmo, Chief Executive of IFRRO, stated: We felt
there was a need for a resource to allow people to more easily
find accurate information on copyright and to help them
better understand why it is so important. This is why we
decided to launch this campaign and website; to dramatically
improve the overall level of the copyright debate and enhance
access to relevant and reliable information and resources.
Only through a clear understanding of the facts about
copyright and its importance to society at large, can

Faber buys Glass memoir

Belinda Matthews at Faber has acquired Words Without
Music, the long-awaited memoir of composer Philip Glass.
Compositions by Glass include Waiting for the Barbarians,
from J M Coetzees novel, as well as settings of poems by
Leonard Cohen and scores for movies including The Hours.
He has also worked with David Bowie and Paul Simon.
Faber signed UK/Commonwealth rights from Elisabeth
Kerr at Norton. The book will be published in April 2015
in both the US and the UK.
Words Without Music describes Glasss creative process, and
charts his journey from his upbringing as the son of a music-shop
owner in Baltimore who entered college at aged 15, to his studies
in Paris under the legendary Nadia Boulanger. Glass devotees
will be fascinated by the stories behind Einstein on the Beach
and Satyagraha, among others. His new opera, based on
Kafkas The Trial, will be premiered in London later this month.
Matthews, who presides over one of UK publishings few
remaining music lists, said she was very proud and thrilled
to have acquired Philip Glasss remarkable memoir, which
neatly ties up the circle since Faber published his seminal
book Opera on the Beach in 1988.

informed decisions be made on how copyright can be set at

the heart of a vibrant, growing digital economy, which is
responsive to the needs of both creators and users and
beneficial to society as a whole.
IFRRO and special guest Robert Levine, author of Free
Ride, will take part in a panel discussion entitled Fight for
Copyrighthow the publishing and creative industries can
show their support. It will take place at 11am on Wednesday
8 October at the Publishing Perspectives stage, Hall 8.

Hicks steps out with Colfer deals

Ruby Films is to collaborate with Eoin Colfer and Sky drama
to bring WARP, The Reluctant Assassin to aTV audience.
The screeplay is by Sarah Dollard, and captures the wit
of Eoins distinct storytelling, beloved by millions of readers
all over the world, and promises a modern, international,
returnable family drama.
Colfers third novel in the series, The Forever Man, has
been acquired by Stephanie Lurie from Disney-Hyperion for
the US and Canada, and for the UK by Ben Horslen at Puffin.
The authors agent is Sophie Hicks, who makes her Frankfurt
debut under new colours at the Sophie Hicks Agency.
Horslen said he was proud and delighted to be continuing
our long relationship with one of Britain and Irelands most
popular childrens authors.
Colfers books have sold more than 20 million copies and
have been translated into 44 languages.

S&S pre-empts new writer

Andy Jones
Simon & Schuster North American and UK have pre-empted
two novels from Andy Jones, buying world rights in a preFrankfurt deal with Mark Stanton of Jenny Brown Associates.
Publication (by Atria in the US) will be in spring 2015.
The first novel, The Two Of Us, tells the story of Fisher and
Ivy, and is about falling in love and about what happens next,
for fans of David Nicholls, Graeme Simsion and Nick Hornby.
Clare Hey at S&S UK said that the novel had captured the
heart of readers right across S&S, with word-of-mouth buzz
building in the office from the moment I circulated the
manuscript. It is that rare thing: a novel that will make you laugh
and make you cry; a novel that will remind you that the most
important thing in life is the most simplethe people you love.
Stanton said the manuscript had me in stitches. And in
tears. Not wishing to draw literary comparisons Id say its
as funny and wiseabout relationshipsas When Harry Met
Sally. And more heart-breaking than Brief Encounter. It
should be sold with hankies.
Rights have sold around the world, with Newton Compton
buying Italian rights, Books in the Attic buying Israeli rights, and
Editora da Suma de Letras pre-empting Brazilian (excluding
Portugal) rights. An auction is under way in Germany.

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Rights round up
New agency Kingsford Campbell arrives in Frankfurt with Andrew Hoskens
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ISLAMIC STATEthe proposal for which it
received only on Mondayas its lead title. Julia Kingsford described it as an
important book which tackles not just the rise of the Islamic State but the
global impact they have and will continue to have. As one of BBC Radio 4s
most senior reporters, Andrews got that mix of serious domestic investigative
experience as well as winning the odd award for his foreign reporting and
hes regularly in Iraq which is materially important because he knows the
human consequences first hand. You only have to listen to his From Our
Own Correspondent programmes to know how well he does that. The
agency also brings Edward Brooke-Hitchings FOX TOSSING, OCTOPUS
WRESTLING AND OTHER FORGOTTEN SPORTS, which Ian Marshall
at Simon & Schuster bought at auction (WEL rights, for publication in 2015)
and which is about bizarre and sometimes barbaric sports of yesteryear; Jen
Campbells THE BOOKSHOP BOOK (Constable & Robinson), the official
book of the Books Are My Bag campaign; and Will Storrs SELFIE: THE
SELF-ESTEEM MOVEMENT AND THE MAKING OF ME (UK and
Commonwealth rights with Picador).
Robert Davidson at Scottish Independent Sandstone Press has signed THE
ADVENTURE GAME, a memoir by leading outdoor cameramen Keith
Partridge. Sandstone has world rights, and will publish in June 2015. Over two
decades, Partridge has travelled from the North Face of the Eiger to the guts of
an Indonesian volcano, into the worlds biggest cave in Vietnam, and inside
Alaskan glaciers, working on projects including Touching The Void, Beckoning
Silence and Human Planet. Davidson said: If some astonishing location has
amazed you on television, or you have watched a climber, or explorer, in some
outrageous position, the chances are that Keith Partridge was there with his
camera... The stories are terrific, the photographs are stunning.

Ann-Janine Murtagh and Nick Lake at HarperCollins Childrens Books

have bought bestselling novelist Cecelia Aherns first two novels for teen
readers. HC has UK and Commonwealth rights from Marianne Gunn
OConnor. The books will form a pair, FLAWED (summer 2015) and
PERFECT (2016), set in a society where perfection is valued above
humanity. Lake said: Cecelia has a unique gift for creating stories that
hook the reader in, and FLAWED grabs from the first page.
Daniel Crewe at Viking has bought world rights to a major new account of
the Battle of the Atlantic by journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby.
The author, whose previous book was an account of El Alamein, said: It is
hard to exaggerate the importance of a long battle that was fought with
relentless ferocity at sea and in the corridors of power in Britain, Germany,
Russia and the United States. Crewe added that Dimblebys breadth and
depth of research, insightful analysis and wonderful storytelling will make
for a must-have history. Dimblebys agent is Veronique Baxter of David
Higham Associates. Viking will publish in autumn 2015.
Richard Haines at Penguin has bought from Mind Candy, creator of
Moshi Monstors, publishing rights in new app game WORLD OF
WARRIORS. Mind Candy will launch the game this year in six languages
on iOS and Android. The Puffin imprint tie-ins will start with an official
guide and sticker book (June 2015), and will also include fiction written
by Curtis Joblin, designer of Bob the Builder. Haines said: WORLD OF
WARRIORS is an incredibly exciting and ground breaking new brand
from Mind Candy that offers us such fantastic creative opportunities.
Susanna Wadeson at Transworld has acquired THE STORM IN A
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Czerski. Transworld has UK/Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada)

following an 11-publisher auction conducted by Will Francis at Janklow
& Nesbit. John Glusman at Norton won US rights, also at auction. In
Germany, Fischer Paperbacks won a 12-way auction. The deals were
done on the basis of a proposal. Wadeson said: Helen takes a subject
that can be mind-boggling and overwhelming and makes it fascinating.
Her book will make us all see the world differently. There are many great
writers about physics but Helens ability to explain her subject to the
layman is exceptional, the fluency and elegance of her writing makes it a
joy to read and her enthusiasm is infectious.
Tim Holman at Orbit UK has signed a two-book deal with Jenny Colgan
for novels in which Bridget Jones meets The Big Bang Theory meets
Independence Day. Orbit has UK and Commonwealth rights in the new
books from the Jo Unwin Literary Agency. The first title in the deal is
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE (June 2015), published under the name JT
Colgan. It focuses on young mathematician Connie, who is recruited to
work on a top secret government project along with an oddball bunch
of scientists. Holman said: The whole Orbit team loved Resistance Is
Futile. How could we not love a novel that blends aliens and romance
and jokes about prime numbers? Were thrilled to be publishing Jenny,
and hugely looking forward to introducing her to SF fans and readers
keen to get in touch with their inner geek.
ANY OTHER MOUTH (Freight Books), Anneliese Mackintoshs
gut-wrenching and shockingly frank account of sexual misadventure,
familial disintegration, bereavement and self-discovery, was gaining
traction ahead of Frankfurt, with Fiona Brownlee of Brownlee Donald
closing deals in the Netherlands and Germany. Brownlee said: Theres

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a huge buzz about it, though its a Marmite book. The people who
love it are truly passionate about it. I wouldnt give it to my mother! I
think it sums up where Freight is at in terms of cutting-edge fiction. Its
very exciting working with them as they break out on to the world
stage. Freight is one of six contenders for the Scottish Publisher of the
Year in the Saltire Book Awards, with Backpage, Birlinn, Bright Red,
Floris and Sandstone.
Carolyn Mays at Hodder & Stoughton has signed four new psychological
suspense novels by bestselling author Sophie Hannah. Hodder has world
rights from Peter Straus of Rogers, Coleridge & White. The first novel in
the contract is Hannahs first standalone suspense novel, A GAME FOR
ALL THE FAMILY, which Hodder will publish in summer 2015.
Hannahs most recent novel is The Monogram Murders (HarperCollins),
a Hercule Poirot story commissioned with the approval of the Agatha
Christie estate. This aside, she has published her crime novels with
Hodder since the start of her career. Mays said: I acquired Sophies first
psychological suspense novel in 2004 and she is now an international
bestsellerpublished in over 25 countries. The whole team could not be
more delighted to be planning books through 2019.
Suzanne Bridson at Transworld has bought MARTHA LOST, an
utterly charming debut novel by Caroline Wallace. Transworld has
world rights from Donald Winchester at Watson Little, for publication
under the Doubleday imprint in 2016. The novel follows the
adventures of Martha, who has lived in the lost property office of
Liverpool train station since she was found there as a baby. Bridson
said: This is an utterly charming, quirky novel with shades of both
Amelie and Hugo.

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Frankfurt Briefcase 2014

By Rachel Deahl and Clare Swanson in New York and Nicholas Clee and Liz
Thomson in London

UK

and Roddy Doyle, WEIGHTLESS by Sarah Bannan is a coming of-age-

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Germany, Droemer Knaur; Hungary, Gabo).

story for the digital generation (UK, Bloomsbury; US, St Martins Press;

Of Laird Hunts American Civil War novel NEVERHOME, Paul Auster

said: Its sentences seem to rise from the earth itself. Laird Hunt had me

JANKLOW & NESBIT

under his spell from the first word of Neverhome to the last (rights sold in

THE YEAR OF THE RUNAWAYS by Granta Best of Young British

UK, US, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain; film rights sold).

Novelists choice Sunjeev Sahota is an epic novel about the lives of four
illegal immigrants (UK, Picador; US, Knopf).

BLAKE FRIEDMANN
TANNIE MARIAS RECIPES FOR LOVE & MURDER by Sally Andrew

LBA BOOKS (FOREIGN RIGHTSILA)

is a new series that combines the gentle charm of The No 1 Ladies

In END GAME, Anthony Barnosky and Liz Hadly explore how rapidly

Detective Agency and the culinary appeal of Like Water For Chocolate

the planets natural resources are running out (UK, HarperCollins; US,

(UK, Canongate; ANZ, Text; SA, Random Umuzi; pre-empt in Canada

St Martins).

agent Isobel Dixon).

ANDREW LOWNIE
FELICITY BRYAN

DISOBEYING HITLER: GERMAN RESISTANCE AFTER JULY 20,

VILLA AMERICA is the new novel by Liza Klaussmann, and is based on

1944 by Randall Hansen tells the story of resistance to National

the real-life inspirations for Scott Fitzgeralds Tender Is the Night (UK,

Socialism and Hitler after Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenbergs

Picador; US, Little, Brown; Canada, Doubleday; Germany, Droemer; the

failed attempt to kill the dictator (UK, Faber; US, OUP; Canada,

Netherlands, Het Spectrum; Denmark, Politiken; Finland, Avain).

Doubleday; French Canadian, Presses de lUniversite Laval).

CAPEL & LAND

MARSH AGENCY

Liz Carlyle returns in CLOSE CALL by Stella Rimington, this time

Helen Macdonalds H IS FOR HAWK is at once the story of a

charged with intercepting illegal weapons before they get into the wrong

relationship between a young woman and a goshawk and also a natural

hands (UK, Bloomsbury).

history of the dissolution of the mind and its recovery in an English

landscape (UK, Cape; US, Grove Atlantic, Italy, Einaudi).

CONVILLE & WALSH

Currently on submission is THREE LITTLE PIGS by Apostolos Doxiadis,

MBA

author of Uncle Petros and Goldbachs Conjecture, and about a

Helen Cadbury, winner of the Northern Crime competition, makes her

shoemaker who brings a threat of death to his three sons when he kills

debut with TO CATCH A RABBIT, a story of migrants, love and the sex

the only son of a Mafia boss.

trade (UK, Allison & Busby).

CURTIS BROWN

MADELEINE MILBURN

THE MUSEUM OF THINGS LEFT BEHIND is the debut novel by Seni

THE CRESWELL PLOT by California-born author Eliza West is set in

Glaister, CEO of the Book People, and set in a middle European country

the backwoods of Upstate New York, where six children live under the

where a young British woman on her gap year is mistaken for royalty

strict rule of their father and his terrifying religious dogma. Sold in the US

(agent, Jonathan Lloyd; UK, Fourth Estate).

to Disney Hyperion for six figures and currently under auction in the UK,
with offers from Brazil, Germany and Poland.

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In THE SOULMATE STALEMATE by Catherine Woods, disenchanted

LAURA MORRIS (TRANSLATION RIGHTSBUCKMAN AGENCY)

Percy James decides to allow online dating company Eros Tech to match

HOW TO WATCH A MOVIE by David Thomson tackles questions such

her up with her soulmatebut can happiness really be reduced to a list

as when to walk out of a movie and whom to watch with, through

of algorithms?

insights into everything from trailers and soundtracks to reviewing (UK,

Profile; US, Knopf; Chinese rights sold).

GREGORY & CO
Gold Dagger winner Belinda Bauers sixth novel is THE SHUT EYE, about a

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woman who refuses to believe that her missing son is dead (UK, Transworld).

FRIENDS TO DIE FOR by Hilary Bonner tells the story of a group of

friends who meet once a week in their favourite Covent Garden restaurant

SOPHIE HICKS
Already garnering advance praise from authors including Colum McCann

until one has a fatal accident. Or is it an accident? (world, Macmillan).

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child, an emotionally unhinged mother... (WEL, Piatkus; Brazil, Record;

Making Gernerts big book list is Stewart ONans novel WEST OF SUNSET

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which offers an intimate glimpse into the Bloomsbury Group. UK rights

THE GREAT CHRISTMAS KNIT-OFF is the first book in a new series set in the

have been sold. The agency will also be shopping the latest from The Tourist

fictional village of Tindledale by Alexandra Brown (UK and US, HarperCollins).

author Olen Steinhauer, ALL THE OLD KNIVES (Minotaur, Mar 2015).

UNITED AGENTS

ICM PARTNERS (HANDLED BY CURTIS BROWN [UK])

THE DEATH OF REX NHGONGO by C B George brings together a

Former JP Morgan employee-turned-debut-author Michele Miller has

cast of characters whose lives collide in contemporary Zimbabwea

written THE UNDERWRITING (Penguin, summer 2015), which the

country where the social infrastructure has collapsed.

agency dubs The Social Network meets House of Cards. The novel, sold
at auction in a two-book deal, was originally released by the author as

ED VICTOR

episodes via her own website; it follows a group of investment bankers

Twelve years in the writing, Bruce Robinsons BOFS: BUSTING THE

and entrepreneurs attempting to bring a new location-based dating app to

RIPPER is much more than an enthralling hunt for the true identity of

an IPO. ICM will also be playing up Kemper Donovans ENTICEMENT

Jack the Ripper (UK, Fourth Estate).

(HarperCollins, spring 2016), another debut that sold, in the US, for a
good six figures, according to the agency. The book, ICM says, is a

WATSON, LITTLE

high concept love story in the tradition of David Nichollss One Day.

Christopher Fowlers BRYANT & MAY AND THE BURNING MAN is

the 12th case for Arthur Bryant and John May and the Peculiar Crimes

INKWELL MANAGEMENT

Unit (UK, Transworld; TV rights under option).

A major book for Inkwell in Germany is Wallace Stegner Fellow Skip

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Horacks THE OTHER JOSEPH (Ecco, Mar 2015), a novel narrated by a

MR YOU (Scribner, fall 2015), an autobiographical literary nonfiction

30-year-old oil-rig worker, and convicted felon, from Louisiana. The book

work from the actress, whose writing has also appeared in Esquire, Bust,

follows Roy Joseph as he finds himself in San Francisco, where he tries to,

and other publications. From Amy Poehler is YES PLEASE (Dey Street,

as Inkwell explains, alter the course of his unhappy and isolated life.

Oct.), the anticipated debut title from the actress and comedian, in which

Another notable novel for the agency, in the childrens category, is Gavriel

she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories; rights sold in the UK.

Savits ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN (Knopf Books for Young
Readers, 2016). The novel follows a young girl in Poland in 1939 who,

TRIDENT MEDIA GROUP

after her professor father is taken away by the Germans, finds herself

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS by Marlon James (Riverhead,

traveling with someone known as the Swallow Man.

Oct) is among Tridents list of big fiction titles for Frankfurt. The book is an
exploration of the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the mid-1970s.

JANKLOW & NESBIT ASSOCIATES

Rights have been sold in Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. The agency

J&Ns big nonfiction book at Frankfurt is physicist and Nobel Prize-

will also be touting Iowa Writers Workshop grad Vu Trans debut novel,

winner Stephen Weinbergs TO EXPLAIN THE WORLD (HC, Feb 2015),

DRAGONFISH (Norton, summer 2015), a thrilling work of literary

a history of science that the agency calls rich, irreverent, and compelling.

suspense that takes place amid the Vietnamese underworld in Las Vegas.

On the fiction side is Harry Brandts THE WHITES (Holt, Feb 2015),
about the exploits of former bad-boy cop Billy Grave. Brandt is the

THE WYLIE AGENCY

pseudonym of acclaimed author Richard Price, and this is the first title hes

One of the big non-fiction titles Wylie will be pushing in Frankfurt is General

written under that name. Rights sold in the France, Spain, and the UK.

Michael V Haydens currently untitled memoir (Penguin Press). In the book,

the author, who is the only person to have overseen both the NSA and the

WILLIAM MORRIS ENDEAVOR

CIA, will detail the most pressing intelligence issues of our time, the agency

A notable nonfiction title for WME is Timothy Snyders BLACK EARTH:

says. From Leslie Jamison, author of Empathy Exams, is ARCHIVE LUSH

THE HOLOCAUST AS HISTORY AND WARNING (no US publisher

and GHOST ESSAYS (both from Little, Brown). Archive Lush, the agency

yet), the Yale history professors follow-up to Bloodlands: Europe Between

says, is an in-depth exploration of addiction. Ghost Essays explores

Hitler and Stalin. Whereas Bloodlands, WME explains, took on how,

loneliness and obsessions in a blend of memoir, criticism, and journalism

when, and where the mass killings of the 20th century occurred, this book

that follows a four-year relationship in a series of hauntings. Both books

will answer the vexing question why. From Mary Louise Parker is DEAR

have sold in Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.

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LBF International Excellence Awards 2015

Following the launch of its International Excellence Awards
in 2014, the London Book Fair has, in partnership with the
UK Publishers Association (PA), opened the submission
process for the 2015 awards, writes Clare Swanson.
To help launch the 2015 contest, Jacks
Thomas, Director of the London Book Fair,
and the Publishers Associations Emma
House will be hosting a Forum Dialog in Hall
5.0, Stand A122, at 1.15pm on Thursday 9th
October along with one of last years
winners, Gita Wolf from Tara Books.
We were really delighted with the warm
reception that the first awards received this
yearwhat could be nicer than showcasing
successes from all round the publishing
world?, says Thomas. The awards,
designed to celebrate achievement across
the whole business of publishing, are
divided into 10 categories open to
international companies outside the UK. In addition, four
awards are also open to UK companies: the Publishing for
Digital Minds Innovation Award, the International Literary

Agent Award, the Market Focus Achievement Award and

the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award.
The 2014 winners included companies from Malaysia
(Fixi), Denmark (Anneli Hoier), Australia (Penguin) and
the US (Skybound).
We are delighted to see the International
Excellence Awards instilled as an annual
fixture of London Book Fair after their
successful inauguration last year, said
Richard Mollet, Chief Executive of the PA.
The publishing industry has an incredible
global footprint and these awards provide the
ideal opportunity to showcase great initiatives
from our colleagues around the world.
Entries will be reviewed by panels of UK
judges, and the shortlist will be announced
in February 2015. The 2015 winners will
be announced at a ceremony during the
London Book Fair on 14 April. Entries must
be received by 9 January 2015.

These awards
provide the ideal
opportunity to
showcase great
initiatives from
our colleagues
around the
world.
Richard Mollet

Full details on the entry criteria can be found at

www.londonbookfair.co.uk/awards.

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Page Foundry is a five-year-old ebook distribution platform

that partners with major brands and media firms looking
to add value to their websites or platforms by using books,
writes Calvin Reid. The company, based in Barrington,
Illinois, specialises in delivering ebooks to retail channels
that do not typically offer books, and will be showcasing
its platform and services at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
We focus on non-traditional distribution, like newspapers
or wireless carriers, not traditional bookstores, Dan McFarland,
its Chief Executive Officer, explains. The company has developed
the infrastructure to deliver a branded e-bookstore or branded
retail apps to high traffic media partners. It has agreements
with all the major trade book publishers and has access to
more than two million ebook titles, McFarland says, and has
world rights to about 85% of those. It is currently operating in
122 countries. The company
supplies audiobooks and video
content also, but books are its
primary product. The company
generates revenue through fees
and via a percentage of sales.
Page Foundry delivers ebook
content to high-traffic media
sites that want books for their
customers. McFarland says
Page Foundry partners are not interested in the economics
of the ebook sale; ebooks are valuable to our clients
beyond their individual economics. Theyre not squabbling
about the margins.
McFarland stresses that its clients consider books a valuable,
high-status product that is attractive to potential customers or
can help retain customers. Among Page Foundry partners is
the Chicago Tribune, which approached Page Foundry
about offering ebook titles on the Tribune web pages. And
unlike many traditional book retailers, Page Foundry also
provides its publisher partners with direct access to data
generated by the consumers who see and/or buy their
books via the Page Foundry platform. We have an open
data policy. Publishers have access to customers, we give
them info. Some of it is anonymous, no names but real-time
location and demographic usage, McFarland says.
Page Foundry also gives publishers direct access to consumers
through its ebook retailing apps; they have produced apps for
HarperCollins and Caffeine Nights Press in the UK. Publishers, he
says, can craft discounts, flash sales and special offers that can be
delivered directly to individual consumers via the app. Publishers
also have access to a dashboard with consumer data. Caffeine
Nights specialises in thrillers and suspense, and its app packages
Caffeine Nights titles with thrillers from other publishers.
In the traditional book industry, the bookstore delivers
the publishers message to consumers, McFarland says.
We allow the publisher to deliver their message directly to
the people who are using their content.

Ebooks are
valuable to our
clients beyond
their individual
economics.
Dan McFarland

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The future in the palm of our hand

If this years trade publishing e-reading
developments are anything to go by, the
e-reader is on borrowed time, writes
Michael Cairns. The decision taken by
Barnes & Noble to team up with Samsung
on a new Nook tablet while discontinuing
its dedicated e-reader, coupled with
Amazons no-expense-spared launches for
its Kindle Fire HD tablet and Amazon Fire
phone, leaves little doubt as to the direction
in which the industry giants see the lucrative
Michael Cairns
digital reading market heading.
On the surface, tablets offer the modern day reader
everything they could possibly need: a like-paper reading
experience, access to a variety of digital formats and
platforms, multi-media functionality, and screen sizes not
too dissimilar to the beloved paperback. Indeed, there are
plenty of reasons to get excited about reading on tablets.
After all, in the Western world, the majority of ebooks are
consumed on tablets and they are generally making
publishers a lot of money.
However, what holds the tablet back is the fact that it has
never fully established itself as indispensable: as an item that
every person in every household cannot afford to live
without. The tablet currently enjoys the more limited status
of a lifestyle product. Similar to the espresso machine or the
cyclonic vacuum cleaner, its nice if you can afford one, but
you can certainly do without it. And therein lies the trouble
with the tablet. Not everybody owns one and of those who
do, not everybody uses them to read.

Mobile ubiquity
Meanwhile according to a UN study released last year, six out
of the worlds seven billion people now own a mobile phone.
As the UN study points out, this figure is a great deal higher
than the number of people who have access to flushing toilets
(4.5 billion people worldwide). Mobile phones are everywhere
and people cannot do without them. As technology has
evolved, smart phones have become smarter and have become
more integrated with our lifestyles. As a result, we now find
ourselves spending more time than ever on our handsets doing
more things than we ever could before.
But while mobile phone ownership may be widespread, it
is my view that readers today are still unlikely to regularly
read an entire book on their mobile devices. The small
screens, relatively short battery lifespans and overall less
fluid reading experience all contribute to turn the reader off
the practice of regular, sustained mobile reading. The
smartphone undoubtedly offers a reader convenience,
portability and easy access to reading material; however, I
would imagine that a reader is likely to try mobile book
reading once or twice before abandoning it, or to read books
on their mobile less regularly and in short bursts.

In the US and Europe, we have access to a

large number of books in a variety of different
formats. Yet we havent taken to reading books
on mobile phones to the extent that many in the
publishing industry had predicted. By contrast,
across Asia and Africawhere, notably, there are
shortages of printed books and where e-readers
are scarcethere has been a huge growth in book
reading on mobile phones, primarily due to their
ubiquity. Research by Worldreader, in partnership with UNESCO, recently highlighted that
62% of consumers in seven developing countries read more books on their mobile phones now that they
know they can use their handheld devices for reading.
This research is enlightening, not least because I believe it
fundamentally reflects what will eventually happen in the US
and Europe (go figurea revolutionary reading trend that the
developed world inherits from emerging nations!). One thing
for certain is that, globally, book reading on mobile phones
is set to become a much bigger deal.

Absolutely phabulous
Consumers in developing nations, such as Uganda, Kenya,
India and Pakistan, are reading books on their mobile
devices because, at the moment, there may not be a credible
alternative. However, it is only a matter of time before
consumers in more developed nations no longer have the
array of reading alternatives that exist today.
Like it or not, the phablet phenomenon is truly taking
hold. Apples new iPhone 6 boasts a larger screen than its
predecessors and Samsungs handsets seem to just get bigger
and bigger. Manufacturers are also equipping their gadgets
with high capacity batteries and investing in technology that
helps consumers to charge their phones more speedily. All
these developments, not to mention the constant evolution of
e-reading platforms, such as iBooks and Kindle, favour book
readers. But they dont just point to the fact that reading on
our smartphones will become a better experience, they also
point to the fact that it could quickly become the norm, at
least where consumers and trade publishing is concerned.
Could these developments eventually render the tablet
superfluous? Potentially. Weve seen desktops usurped by
laptops and sales of laptops cannibalised by sales of tablets,
so its surely only a matter of time before mobile phones, in
their new mini-tablet guises, start to really gain ground at
the expense of tablet ownership. The million dollar question
is: will the discerning book buying public come to terms
with this reality and finally embrace the mobile phone as the
book reading device it is destined to become?

Michael Cairns is CEO at Publishing Technology. Publishing Technologys

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International schools boom

Its hard not to be taken
aback by the rapid growth of
international schools, writes
Peter Maisey. There are now
more than 7,000 schools
following international
curricula around the world,
catering for 3.5 million
students in what has become
a $35 billion global industry.
In 2000 there were just
2,500 of these schools, and it Peter Maisey
is thought that there will be more than 10,000 by 2021.
So what is driving this growth? A growing middle class
in emerging markets is certainly one reason. Growing
affluence in parts of Asia, the Middle East and South
America means that a greater proportion of the population
can now afford to send their children to an international
school; and in countries experiencing rapid population
growth, they are doing so in their thousands. The demand
for an English education is also a driver. The majority of
international schools use English as the medium of
instructiona key draw for parents looking to help their
children secure a place at the worlds most respected
universities and succeed in the workplace.
Growth is particularly noticeable in Asia. In India, for
example, the number of international schools has doubled
in two years, while numbers are also increasing in China,
with its staggering 200 million students. Numbers of
schools are also increasing in Pakistanthanks to the
expansion of private school chainsand in Malaysia, where
government regulations have been relaxed allowing for
higher enrolment levels. The Middle East is also a key area
of growth. The United Arab Emirates has the largest
number of schools in one country, with more than 400,
and that number is increasing rapidly.
The expanding market has created a shift in focus for
educational publishers. Until relatively recently, publishers
often operated separate international units catering for
individual curricula. While this remains the case, many are
also now investing in international schools; whether this is
the additional personnel needed to sell, or to develop
internationally specific resources the schools require.
UK publishers in particular are investing in the market. Around
42 per cent of international schools follow UK-based curricula,
and combined with a heritage link to the British way of teaching
and the belief that the UK education system is of a high standard,
there is a real opportunity to build on the reputation that UK
publishers have for high-quality materials. Large numbers of
publishers from the UK and beyond are therefore producing
resources for the UK-based Cambridge International
Examinations (CIE) as well as the International Baccalaureate
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Publishers are also responding to rising demands from

international schools for digital content. Institutions often
offer electronic materials as a way of setting themselves
apart from competitors, meaning that many resources
being developed for this market have significant digital
elements, with publishers being asked to provide content
for tablets, and online tools for front of class teaching.
While the sector offers a wealth of opportunities, it is not
without its challenges. Within the label of international
school there are vast differences, with a variety of
different geographic locations, cultures and local mandates.
It has given rise to many different school profiles and
terminology such as English-medium instruction
schooling, international schooling and bilingual
schooling. International schools also adopt a wide variety
of curricula. As well as IB and CIE qualifications, schools
may import qualifications from other jurisdictions, use
their local curricula, or create bespoke curricula. This
provides challenges for publishers looking to arrange a
uniform offering.
It is also a fiercely competitive market. There are now
six international publishers producing core student books
for the IB in Mathematics alone, with still others
developing revision guides and supplementary resources
for the same subject. This has raised standards and the
range of resources available, but it makes the landscape
even more volatile for publishers.
For Oxford University Press, providing content in the
way it is required is key. As such, making digital resources
easily available is important, and through our new online
Primary (Oxford Owl) and Secondary (Kerboodle)
platforms, we have been able to make this content as
easily accessible as possible. Kerboodle (which was
developed by Nelson Thornes) now sits on a brand new
platform, enabling us to offer a fully comprehensive list
that provides for a huge range of teaching and learning
styles. The result is that international schools can pick
and choose the resources that best suit them. But its not
just about providing a comprehensive list of resources,
its also about high quality support for teachers in their
teaching and professional development.
The international school market provides a challenge
for publishers, but one that can enable us to further the
educational values that the publishing industry has always
held true.
Frankfurt provides a platform for publishers to
interact with partners around the globe and to expand
our reach into local markets. Through meeting with the
hundreds of distributors that sell our products locally,
we will be in a better position to realise this potential
around the world.

Peter Maisey is International Business Development Manager for Oxford

Education at Oxford University Press.

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Unsettled: Legal cases in the US

Some era-defining legal cases are finally winding down in the US, but surprises may
still loom on appeal. Andrew Albanese takes a look at the key cases on the docket
United States vs. Apple
In June, after more than two years of litigation and a
stinging defeat at trial, Apple agreed to settle damage
claims arising from its ebook price-fixing case. But under
the deal, any damage payment will be contingent upon
the outcome of Apples appealif Judge Denise Cotes
liability finding is upheld on appeal, Apple will pay $400
million to consumers. If Apples liability finding is
remanded for further proceedings, Apple will pay $50
million. And, if Cotes verdict is reversed, Apple will pay
nothing. The Apple settlement must still be approved by
the court, which has set a fairness hearing for 21
November. As with the publisher settlements, payments
will be automatically delivered directly to consumers
retail accounts. But in an interesting twist, the Apple
settlement is a little less publishing friendly; the Apple
settlement says credits can be spent on any product or
service offered by the retailer, where the publishers
deals required credits to be spent on books.

DNAML vs. Apple et al

Also in June, another front officially opened in the
ebook price-fixing battle. Judge Denise Cote gave the
green light to lawsuits filed by three ebook retailers,
which claim their businesses were destroyed by the 2010
price-fixing scheme. Apple and the five agency publishers
had sought to have the case tossed, but in her June
opinion Cote ruled that it was more than plausible that
a discount retailer was harmed by a conspiracy to
remove retailers ability to discount ebooks, although,
she added that proving damages will be difficult in the
extreme for the plaintiffs. At an August conference,
Cote outlined a schedule that would have the case ready
for trial by late 2015.

Authors Guild vs. Google

Yes, nine years later, this is still going onbarely. In
November of 2013, Judge Denny Chin tossed the
Guilds main suit against Google, roughly a year after
another judge, Harold Baer, tossed the Guilds parallel
suit against Googles library scanning partners, the
HathiTrust. The Guild has appealed Chins ruling to
the Second Circuit, but in June the Second Circuit
unanimously upheld Baers ruling in the HathiTrust
case, which does not augur well for the Authors
Guilds chances.

Cambridge University Press vs. Patton

An appeal decision still looms in this case, in which
three academic publishers failed to convince Judge

Orinda Evans that administrators at Georgia State

University encouraged faculty to commit copyright
infringement via the campus e-reserve systems as an
alternative to purchasing course-packs. The 11th Circuit
Court of Appeals heard the case in November of 2013,
and is apparently still sifting through Evans 350-page
rulingsuffice it to say, the 11th Circuits decision is
highly anticipated.

James et al vs. Penguin Group

In a case closely watched by the growing self-publishing
community, a group of authors filed suit against Author
Solutions and its parent, Penguin USA, charging that
the company misrepresents itself as an independent
publisher, and profits from fraudulent practices.
In April, Judge Denise Cote dismissed Penguin as a
named defendant, but the case against Author Solutions
goes on. Discovery is due to close by the end of
November, and it is possible we could see this on a
trial schedule in 2015.

HarperCollins vs. Open Road

In a significant ruling last spring, Judge Naomi Reice
Buchwald found that upstart ebook publisher Open Road
infringed HarperCollins copyright with its digital edition
of Jean Craighead Georges 1973 bestselling childrens
book Julie of the Wolves. The battle has now turned to
moneyspecifically, legal fees. HarperCollins is demanding
that Open Road fork out more than $1.1 million in legal
fees and damages. Briefs have been filed, and if the parties
dont agree on a figure, the court will decide.

Klinger vs. Conan Doyle Estate

An appeals court has affirmed that Sir Arthur Conan
Doyles iconic Sherlock Holmes character, as well as
other characters and story elements, are largely in the
public domain. But last month, the estate of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle asked the Supreme Court to review the
decision. The filing, the latest twist in a legal battle over
Sherlock Holmes copyright status, which was started in
early 2013 by author and scholar Leslie Klinger, who
told Publishers Weekly that the suit became necessary
after the Doyle Estate attempted to extract a licence fee
for a book he was co-editing, In the Company of
Sherlock Holmes (Pegasus Books), with author Laurie R
King. The Doyle Estate contends that because Doyle was
still developing the character of Holmes well past 1923
(works published before 1923 in the US are considered
to be in the public domain), the character merits
protectionhardly elementary.

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Content: Still king?

Delivery methods change, but high quality content endures. Michael Bhaskar explains
For years the thinking in digital media
circles went like this: content is only
valuable inasmuch as it funnels eyeballs to
advertsplatforms, not content, are exciting.
Technology drives things forward, not the
messy business of content. After all, the
value of content is sliding inexorably to free,
while tech valuations soar to improbable
levels (which have quickly become normal).
Meanwhile publishers bust guts shifting a
few books.
Michael Bhaskar
Publishers instinctively felt this narrative
was nonsense. Yet the march of history
continued; Whatsapp sold for $19 billion,
and publishers struggled for growth.
However in the long run it will be content
writing, ideas, creativity and knowledge
that wins out.
An investor I was speaking to recently said
that his fund is moving out of tech and into
content. The penny dropped, he said, when
he saw his children watching old Disney
cartoons. These were made years ago, yet his
kids still loved Mickey Mouse. In 50 years
time, children will still love Mickey Mouse. Will they be
watching it on Samsung DVD players or Netflix? Who
knows? But they will be watching it. If you want to invest
for the long-term dont bother with glitzy platforms or
giant device manufacturersgo for quality content.
This runs counter to the received wisdom of the digital
revolution. A good argument, then, for it being right. Take
another examplePearson. We dont know what technology
will be used in classrooms over the next 30 years, but we do
know countries will want to invest in education. The value
lies in who has the best educational content and who has the
best relationships with educational bodies, not in who has
the fanciest technology. Pearson might be a digital business
now, but they are ultimately about educational content.
In fact, across all media segments the value of prime
content is being driven up, not down by the digital
revolution. Although we have access to almost unlimited
viewing, listening, playing or reading matter, actually what
we want is the best. This is why people, and companies, pay
enormous premiums for rights to things like the English
Premier League or HBOs Game of Thrones. The audience
ultimately doesnt care about the channel to market. It
cares about the end product. Despite a huge surplus of
content, the most valuable material defies economic logic
and only grows in worth.
We are seeing a wave of new content-lead start-ups in
the news space. Companies like Buzzfeed, Vox Media and

Upworthy combine the agility, high-growth

rate and digital understanding of tech
companies with a content-centric business
model. They are re-invigorating what it
means to publish. It explains why a high
profile venture capitalist firm like
Andreessen Horowitz wants to invest in a
company like Buzzfeed ($50 million of
investment for a 6% stake at an $850
million valuation). In previous years no
Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm would
have touched something as dated as
content. But they are learning fast where
lasting value lies.
Indie games developers are also
undergoing a renaissance, led by Kickstarter
and platforms like Steam. At Profile, we
worked with indie developers on an app,
80 Days, which was featured as Editors
Pick on the App Store in the UK and the US.
It became an overnight bestseller on the
platform. The reason we were featured so
prominently was the games great
storytelling. Apple isnt seduced by big
budgets and gimmicks, it wants the chance to offer people
unique and quality experiences. It means that developers
who focus on building something great now have an outlet
for their work.
Of course, we publishers always knew it was about
content; the world is now catching up. It explains why
Reed Elsevier can make hundreds of millions of pounds
profits every year. Or why the 50 Shades film trailer
became the fastest viewed in history. Or why Amazon and
Netflix are piling in to producing and publishing their own
shows and books. It means that despite problems in retail
and saturation in our markets, we are on to a good thing.
Even if content is flooding towards readers at
unprecedented rates, owning and developing the most
valuable properties will be the ultimate foundation for
strong businesses.
The message for publishers is clear. Double down on the
valuable stuff. Double down on finding the writing that
will have lasting appeal. In other words, double down on
what publishers have always done. This doesnt mean
forgetting about technology. But it does mean that good
old-fashioned publishing skills are not going anywhere fast.
When Whatsapp is long forgotten, people will still be
reading Austen, Orwell and Rowling.

When
Whatsapp is
long forgotten,
people will still
be reading
Austen, Orwell
and Rowling.

Michael Bhaskar is Digital Publishing Director at Profile Books and

Serpents Tail and author of a book about publishing, The Content
Machine. He can be found on Twitter as @michaelbhaskar.

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Finnland.Cool aims to be a hot topic

Nicholas Clee talks to Iris Schwanck, Director of the Guest of Honour
programme for Finland
Some 60 Finnish authors, a strong contingent of translators,
and more than 250 members of the countrys publishing
industry are in Frankfurt this week as part of the Finland
Guest of Honour programme at the Book Fair. FILI (Finnish
Literature Exchange) is displaying 130 new Finnish titles in
German as well as further titles in other languages, many of
them translated thanks to grants arranged through the
organisation. Finnland.Coolas the Guest of Honour
programme styles itselfis the banner for 270 exhibitions
and other events taking place in Frankfurt at the moment,
and for numerous other exhibitions, seminars and
conferences staged throughout Germany this year.
All this has been the result of hard work stretching back
some way beyond the signing of the Guest of Honour deal
five years ago. FILI has been promoting awareness of
Finnish Literature abroad since 1977. Director Iris
Schwanck and her wonderful team have taken as their
inspiration the Netherlands appearance as Guest of Honour
in 1993 (the Netherlands, with Flanders, will again be Guest

of Honour in 2016), after which the country reported a

considerable increase in overseas interest in its publishing.
Sauli Niinist, President of Finland, will open the
programme, along with author Sofi Oksanen, whose books
have been translated into 37 languages, and author and
education expert Dr Pasi Sahlberg.
Finlands pavilion will have six zones, all embodying
the cool theme, some with evocations of the snowy
Finnish landscape and others with light and airy
architectural structures. The pavilion will also highlight
the significance of libraries in Finland, as well as featuring
trees to encourage visitors to imagine themselves in a
Nordic glade. The aim of the visual design has been to
create a cool, calm first impression that gradually opens up
to visitors as they get closer and move around the space,
the organisers say. There will be a Design of the Day, a
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Education will be a strong theme,

featuring in various events and exhibitions.
The Agora space will display a mobile
library, decorated with Moomins, the
much-loved creations of Tove Jansson, the
centenary of whose birth falls this year. A
Moomins musical will take place on Friday.
Contemporary childrens authors including
Timo Parvela and Seita Vuorela will be
among the Finnish contingent at the Fair.
Iris Schwanck reports the Finnish book
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industry to be in reasonable health in the
light of wider economic conditions. Nevertheless, there
is a decline in sales of books, and ebooks are not
replacing the loss. This is a country where the per capita
consumption of books is a healthy 17 a year. But the
population is 5.5 million, and a bestselling title will have
sales of about 70,000 copies. Total book sales in 2013
were worth 253m euros. So it is very important for us to
look outside Finland, Schwanck says.
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literary work that FILI aims particularly
to promote; literature cannot cross
borders without this kind of help,
Schwanck says, referring to FILIs
translation grants. The organisation
enabled 728,000 euros in grants in 2013.
She says that FILI has worked hard to
make the application process as straightforward as
possible, and adds that she welcomes the opportunity at
Frankfurt to showcase the work of translatorspeople
who work in minority languages such as Finnish are
especially valuable.
Asked about the aims of Finnland.Cool, Schwanck says
that they are to raise awareness of Finnish literature and
culture, and to boost the countrys literary exports. In
Germany, the activities of the programme have attracted a
good deal of coverage already. The Book Fair is likely to
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Improving literacy and lives

Susie Winter looks at the importance of reading for pleasure, and at what
charities and the publishing industry are doing, and can do, to promote it
For many people the ability to read is given
one of those key life skills you learn in your
first years at school. However, as research
shows, this is not always the case. When you
are faced with evidence that four out of 10
children (in the UK) on free school meals are
not able to read well by the age of 11, and
that one in three children does not have a
book of their own at home, action is required.
And this is not just a problem for schools,
but one which affects the wider society; 5.1
Susie Winter
million adults struggle with literacy and
recent OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development) research shows that our 16 to 24-year-olds
literacy skills rank 22nd out of 24 in international
comparisons; only 50% of people in the UK read on a
weekly basis. There is, though, a growing understanding
among researchers and social scientists of the significant and
positive impact reading for pleasure has on a range of
measures, from literacy acquisition and cognitive
development, through to social mobility and employment
prospects. In short, the more people in
society who not only read, but read for
pleasure, the better off that society will be.
In fact, the National Literacy Trust puts the
economic benefit alone at 32 billion by
2025 if action is taken to ensure all children
are reading well by the age of 11.
This understanding has led to a shift in educational
practice and policy, with reading for pleasure now featured
in Ofsted policy recommendations and in the English
curriculum. However, there is a long way to go and it has
prompted a question within the publishing industryis there
more we can do to address this worrying situation? We are
delighted to say that the answer has been quite a bit more.
Publishers already work with the various literacy and
reading-for-pleasure charities operating in the UK, providing
financial, material and in-kind support to their programmes
in schools, libraries, prisons and the wider communitysuch
as providing free and discounted books for distribution in
schools and libraries. In recent years we have stepped up this
engagement and are working harder than ever to ensure that
every part of society (children, adults, those with English as
a second language, those in prison, for example) have the
opportunity to learn, to read and go on to enjoy reading.
Most recently the Publishers Association (PA) has joined a
coalition, led by Save the Children, which includes many of
the UKs literacy charities, parenting organisations and
teaching unions. In the charitys first UK-focused campaign
for 10 years, Save the Children has chosen childhood literacy

as the area to lend their attention, resources

and, importantly, their name. September saw
the launch of the coalitions Read On. Get
On. campaign to get all children reading well
by the end of primary school by 2025. The
report which accompanied the launch showed
England to be one of the most unequal
countries when it comes to childrens reading
levels, second only to Romania in the EU,
with the gap between the strongest and
weakest readers being equivalent to seven
years of schooling.
Read On. Get On., and the National Literacy Mission
underpinning it, may have an ambitious target, but
children who read well by 11 do better at school, get
better exam results, do better in the workplace, and are
better placed to give their own children the best start in
life, so it is one which authors and publishers are only too
happy to get behind.
This campaign neatly complements other work being
undertaken by the PA. People who work in publishing tend
to do so because they love books and love
reading, and as a sector we support a vast
number of initiatives to promote and
encourage literacy. Reading for Pleasure is a
programme that brings together charities and
organisations, that are working in this area in
the UK, with authors and those who work in
publishing, and highlights the variety of ways people can get
involved to encourage people to read for pleasure.
An information booklet has been produced, which shows
the uniqueness of each charity and initiative, and where they
impact on the readers journey from birth to older age,
providing a narrative of how each charity fits in with the
literacy landscape. The Reading for Pleasure roadshow is
visiting publishing houses to allow people from across the
businesses to hear directly from each charity about their
work and the ways in which they can pledge support. Such
pledges may include becoming a Summer Reading Challenge
volunteer, helping schools celebrate World Book Day, signing
up for the Wheres Wally? Fun Run, or becoming a World
Book Night Book Giver. These roadshows not only provide
the charities with an important sales opportunity, but
help those who work in publishing to play an active role in
helping increase levels of literacy and reading for enjoyment.
Increasing levels of literacy and the number of people
reading for pleasure is an exciting challenge, of which the
publishing industry is proud to be a part.

Susie Winter is Director of Policy and Communications, PA.

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Speak up for copyright

The debate over whether
copyright laws need to be
reformed is welcome, writes
Dougal Thomson. Because of
copyrights importance to the
publishing industry, its good
that the issue is stimulating
minds. Unfortunately, while
copyright attackers are
effectively pushing madcap
slogans such as Make the
Dougal Thomson
world more democratic! the
voices of millions who depend on copyright for a living are less
frequently heard. What needs to happen to redress the balance?
We all have a responsibility to be able to articulate why
copyright matters, given that it supports not just publishing,
but the whole knowledge economy. It may surprise you to
learn that copyright is a human right. Article 27(2) of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: Everyone
has the right to the protection of the moral and material
interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic
production of which he is the author.
Copyright makes it possible for creative people (writers,
journalists, musicians, artists, etc.) to earn money from their
talents. It incentivises them to produce great content,
rewarding them fairly for their efforts and protecting them
from people stealing or trying to profit from their creations.
Copyright allows publishers (the venture capitalists of
the words world) to invest in content and authors. It
provides writers with advances and financial support so
they can dedicate themselves to writing before the royalties
come in. Copyright lets publishers employ editors who help
writers produce their best work, and publicists to help
readers discover great writing.
Copyright creates jobslots of them. The European
Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property
Rights has revealed that one in three of all EU jobs is in
IP-intensive industries, and that 39% of the EUs total
economic activity (GDP) relies on IP. In the UK alone, 1.68
million people work in the creative sector, 223,000 of them
in publishing.
Copyrights attackers portray it as an obstacle, a force
which prevents the creation of, and access to, content. The
argument is made that if copyright could be weakened or
abolished, content would freely flow from creator to end-user.
Lets look at the evidence. The last decade has seen
explosive growth in the production, distribution and
consumption of creative content, thanks to technology, and
under existing copyright laws. People have access to more
content today than at any time in history.
And lets say we were to scrap the copyright system.
What would the consequences be? With no prospect of a
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financial return, authors and artists would be unable to

support themselves. The book industry would collapse,
millions of jobs disappearing worldwide (including yours).
The entire creative economy would wither and die.
Yes, there might still be amateur writers, self-publishing
their work and giving it away for free online. But the range,
complexity, variety and quality of published output would
be decimated. Is that the world we want?
This Sunday, the Brsenverein will award Jaron Lanier, the
pioneering computer scientist, musician and writer, with the
Peace Prize. In May 2013 he wrote that sharing information
freely, without traditional
rewards like royalties or
paychecks, was supposed to
create opportunities for brave,
creative individuals. Instead, I
have watched each successive
generation of young
journalists, artists, musicians,
photographers and writers
face harsher and harsher
odds. If the next generation
of creators is to flourish, it
will only be possible through copyright. It will allow them to
earn money from their work, and protect them against piracy
and those seeking to profit from their creation.
Its clear that the digital era requires a new approach to
copyright. Solutions like Creative Commons will boost
access to content. Copyright exceptions also have a role to
play, but wholesale legislative intervention will not work;
treaties simply cannot keep up with the current rate of
change. Rather than radically changing copyright legislation,
we need to make it work in a more effective way. We need
new tools that deliver flexible and sophisticated solutions.
Enforcement is critical. Piracy is depriving authors of
income and crippling publishing businesses. Governments
need to work with publishers, technology companies and
internet service providers to ensure effective enforcement
of copyright.
Ultimately, society must decide whether it wants to
discard an economic system which lets creative individuals
earn money from their content. Its copyright which allows
creators to produce works that enrich our lives, educating
and entertaining us. Its copyright that underpins the
knowledge economy, on which all modern nations depend.
For all these reasons, its vital that everyone in the book
industry speaks up in defence of copyright. And the next
time you hear a pirate calling copyright anti-democratic,
tell them to stop attacking human rights! That should
shut them up.

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International Publishers Association (IPA). IFRRO and several of its
Rightsholder Organisation members, including the IPA, are launching the
Value of Copyright campaign and the CopyRightLink.org website at the
Fair. IFRRO will participate in a panel discussion entitled Fight for
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New models for library ebook lending

With the growth of ebook subscription
services targeted at individual consumers,
there has been much interest in the potential
for new ebook services for libraries, writes
Peter Brantley. This is a topic I canvassed
earlier this summer in Publishers Weekly in
How E-book Subscription Programs will
Affect Libraries. Now, a French ebook
lending model is shedding new light on how
publishers and libraries can create services.
The French effort, called PNB (Prt
Peter Brantley
Numrique en Bibliothque), has been in
pilot since September with a small number of French
libraries, and eventually will be made available to all
libraries in Europe. It is funded in part by the Centre
National du Livre, and thus receives support from the
French Ministry of Culture.

Horizontal service layer

Hadrien Gardeur of Feedbooks recently briefed me on
the model, which should provide some interesting lessons
for other European countries, and for North American
and other markets as well. First, how it works. As
Gardeur observes, PNB presents a horizontal service layer,
with a single platform providing a routing source for
ebook services, as opposed to each library managing its
needs independently.
In PNB, publishers make titles available to distributors,
which contribute metadata to a central ebook platform. There
are currently six participating distributors, and, notably, every
distributor except Immatriel, which largely serves smallmedium presses, is owned by a publisher. But this ownership
pattern yields a consequential benefit to publishers: they can
obtain title-level circulation data through the service without
having to askor negotiatefor it.

No proprietary website
Libraries purchase titles from retailers, which deliver the
files after obtaining them from a distributor. There is no
proprietary website or app to deliver ebooks to users.
Libraries can either rely on a vendor of their choice, or
build their own catalog. A company called Dilicom
functions as a central service for the distributorsit
aggregates ebook metadata, distributes the metadata to
participating retailers, and enables libraries to harvest the
metadata for their titles, regardless of the distributor that
fulfilled them. It also functions as a gateway for loan or
status requests between distributors and libraries.
Every participating distributor can set its own terms on
ebook lending. For publisher Gallimard, as an example,
an ebook is available for 30 loans over a maximum of six
years before renewal; each loan has a limit of 59 days;
and 10 copies are available at one time. Other publisher

terms are similar. Ebooks are provided in

an EPUB or PDF format with Adobe ACS4
protection. And, ebooks are also available
for unlimited in-library streaming while the
licence is current.

No subscription fee
For libraries, there is no subscription fee,
and no per-use charge. However, libraries
often have to compensate their ILS
(Integrated Library System) vendors to
integrate ebook catalogues into their
systems. Publishers, meanwhile, set the pricing for their
own bookswhich can vary. For La Martinire/Volumen,
the PNB ebook is the same price as a paper copy; for
Gallimard/Flammation it is twice the price of the paper
copy for backlist, and 1.5 times the price for frontlist.
More than 8,000 titles are now available in PNB, with
another 15,000-20,000 expected by the end of the year.
Noticeably missing in the PNB programme is Hachette,
the largest French publisher, although it has indicated
interest in PNB and may eventually participate.
PNB is part of a slow trend toward innovation in library
ebook lending, amid global dissatisfaction with current
models. Recently in North America, Hoopla, a product of
the library vendor Midwest Tape Company, announced the
expansion of its streaming pay-per-use model, not unlike
Library Ideas Freading service, which has been available
since 2011. Under these models, ebooks are available for
an unlimited number of simultaneous checkouts, with each
transaction resulting in a fee charged to the library.

Restrictions from publishers

That libraries are still wrestling with how to manage the
entrance of Hoopla demonstrates just how deep library
dissatisfaction runs with the individual, per-title licensing
model from distributors such as Overdrive and 3M, which
transmit a confounding array of restrictions from
publishers, from expiration periods based on total loans to
expiration dates.
Although it is a step forward, the PNB model still has
several problems. First, ebook pricing can skew selection
policiesfor example, favouring backlist over frontlist. And,
because the French distributors are largely owned by
publishers, the ability for the distributors to innovate new
lending terms is limited. And, just as in the US, libraries and
publishers in France are still mediated in their transactions,
frustrating the opportunity to establish direct relationships
that might build greater trust and encourage experimentation.
But the emergence of the PNB example demonstrates
that there is a wide range of potential models for library
ebook servicesand an opportunity for some muchneeded innovation.

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A portrait of the artist as words guy

This summer, Vintage jacket designer Peter
Mendelsund published two books that both
celebrate and explain the role visual art plays
in our reading culture. Andrew Richard
Albanese caught up with Mendelsund in his
Manhattan office to talk about his work as a
designerand as an author.

and then tell them what to do in terms of

the design. So, I was worried that I was
going to reinforce that by doing a
monograph of covers.

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AA: As one who designs book covers by

day, what was the book writing experience
like for you?
AA: So, you have two books outa
PM: It was awful, just terrible (laughs). I
collection of your work, called Cover
had essentially six months to write this, and
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I already have two jobs, and two children.
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work on art and reading called What We
But it got done. But actually investigating
See When We Read (Vintage). Did they come from a
the idea of what goes on in a persons mind as they read,
common inspiration?
that part wasnt difficult. Despite the fact that I wasnt
sleeping much during that period, it was actually fun to
PM: I think What We See When We Read came less
think and write about.
from inspiration than a neurotic impulseI had been
asked to do Cover, and I thought, you know, people are
going to think of me as the picture guy, and I have this
AA: You are the guy who puts visual designs to words
other side. And, I think design departments at publishers
what is that like?
are already somewhat pigeonholed as the pretty picture
PM: Its a real bummer (laughs). Here I am praising that
people, you know? There is an aspect in some places of
wonderful metaphysical space, and yes, I am the guy who
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about the job is the sheer, colourful aspect of the job. I

look at books and they make me happy. But when I think
about the text and its relationship to the
jacket, and the poor suffering author, the
weight of responsibility bums me out.
Sometimes I think all book jackets should
just be type!

wouldnt handle the literacy aspect of the job. We have a

lot of people coming out of design schools with great
eyes, but no idea how to approach reading.
When I read it is full immersion. And when
I read to design, I read to find narrative
weight, elements of structural importance,
and important metaphor. I am not tying to
see stuffI am not thinking, oh, this
character looks like this and shes going on
the cover. Its much more discerning.

But when I
think about
the text and
its relationship
to the jacket,
and the poor
suffering
author, the
weight of
responsibility
bums me out.

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somewhere to have more of a publishing
role. But a lot of it is our fault, the
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asked what design programmes I could recommend. And I
thought, I could send her to a design school, but that

AA: I breezed through the book, and

found it a brilliant defence, even a
celebration of the medium of reading.
Was that a goal here?
PM: I did think about the book that way,
but I fought against the idea of coming to
any kind of conclusion, because, who am I?
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the world of international politics and history. And within
that area I think were now regarded asimmodesty again
the leaders in publishing on the Middle East and Islamic
world. I think its fair to say that the current state of postCold War international politics has helped us to shape our
list and to exploit the need for information on quarrels in
faraway places between people of whom we know nothing.
At the risk of sounding ghoulish or exploitative, we do
follow world events very carefully and like to think were
ahead of the game when it comes to spotting issues that are
likely to demand more in-depth public information. Just as
an example, we had projects on the cards on the Yazidis,
ISIS/Islamic State, Ukraine and Boko Haram before these
words ever hit the headlines.

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And understanding the international political world today
is impossible without a decent grasp of the history and
environment that create todays crises, which is why weve
paid much attention to our history list. Turkey is emerging as
a major player on the international scene and weve published
the single largest list on Turkish history and Ottoman studies.
Iran likewise has not been out of the headlines much since the
Iranian Revolution in 1979, and I.B.Tauris has the most
extensive list on Iranian studies, going back to Ancient Persia.
The dislocations of the Arab world and the unending ArabIsraeli conflict have certainly dominated much of the news
since the Second World War and its gratifying to see the
extent to which the academic and specialist worlds dealing
with that region have plugged into our publications.
Some who look at the issue of global conflicts say that
you aint seen nothing yetwait until the Middle Eastern
population explosions and development needs collide in a
perfect storm with the crisis of water scarcity; water is
tomorrows oil, as they say. So inevitably Water Studies has
become central to our publishing programme.
And who would have thought 30 years ago, when we
started, that religion would become such a dominant issue
in plotting the path of international politics? Again at the
risk of appearing smug, I.B.Tauris now has one of the more
in-depth yet varied Religion lists in the businessviewing
religion as a philosophical, social, historical and political
phenomenon. Our religion publishing is robustly nonconfessional, non-faith based.
Clearly theres one question that is exercising the entire
publishing world today: where is the digital world taking
us? There are still some harried monks, anxiously listening
to the clatter of the printing press across in the next
cloister, wondering whether their precious craft will be
swept away by that new technology and its strange sounds.
But its clear that most publishers now recognise that
theyre not in the manufacturing businessthat theyre
packagers, curators and presenters of ideas, knowledge,
information, entertainment and so on.
So much has been said about the impact of the co-existence
of the e- and p-worlds in publishing that theres little need for
further pronouncements from me. Were obviously excited by
the new packaging options becoming available, and by the
new promotional and marketing opportunities which the
e-sphere provides. From the narrower perspective of the
I.B.Tauris interest, were very encouraged that, while sales of
ebooks to the consumer markets seem to be in plateau
territory, the institutional sale of academic digital material
continues to rise. And since scholarly academic and niche trade
publishing lies at the core of what we do, when we think about
the next step on the road, were feeling rather bullish.

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The latest addition to BasteiLbbes
network is Bastei LLC, a US-based joint
venture which will focus on developing new IP
for the film, television and gaming markets.
We are delighted to be working in partnership with Imperative Entertainment, a
company founded by a team of entertainment
and media executives with more than $1.5
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Bastei LLC is going to be an important
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our strong international sales and marketing
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customers all over the world. As China also
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are currently in the process of establishing a
local presence and will continue partnering
with local industry professionals to create a
continuous and collaborative flow of great
books and stories.
The future is exciting, and I am keen to see
how our business, and the industry, will develop. What I
am sure of is that being aware of new digital developments,
and developing a flexible and open approach to
opportunities from new business models will be crucial to
success. Of course one shouldnt jump on every bandwagon
or do a deal with every new retailer that pops up. And just
because its possible to tell stories across several formats
doesnt mean every book should be turned into an app. But
sitting down and waiting for everyone else to pave the way
isnt going to get us far. We all need to make our own
innovations, and perhaps some mistakes tooalthough
hopefully not too many of those.
I am sure Frankfurt 2014 will prove vital in enriching
our knowledge and be strongly beneficial to both our core
business and the ongoing exploration of new ideas. Of
course we are a publisher and we like to tell stories and
entertain people. But the key to our success in the digital
age is that we are now becoming more than just a
publisher. We are recruiting some of the smartest people
from the world of technologynot just to tell stories, but to
create them in a host of formats so that those stories can
reach people in the most powerful way possible, wherever
they are.

Basti Hansen

This years Frankfurt Book Fair feels very

special to me. I started my current role at
BasteiLbbe less than a week before last
years event, writes Colin Lovrinovic.
Needless to say, I had an intense
introduction to the world of international
digital publishing. So this year will be
different. Ive had a year to shape our
companys global digital sales strategy and
achieve a number of milestones together
with my brilliant team. Frankfurt will be a
Colin Lovrinovic
time for reflection and Im delighted to be
giving a keynote today on how to
successfully publish apps, ebooks and audio
books across the world. An ambitious topic,
but one that already sums up a lot of the
things we are currently doing.
BasteiLbbe is one of Germanys largest
independent publishers and it has undergone
a huge transformation over the past 60
years. It started off producing serialised
dime novelscheap, weekly 80-page series
across all genres that you could buy at any
corner shop. From the start, we owned our
own IP.
We went on to broaden our portfolio and
are now privileged to be working with
authors like Dan Brown, Ken Follett, Jeff Kinney and
numerous great German writers. However, staying true to
our roots, creating our own content is part of our core
DNA. And it has proved to be a good strategy: Jerry
Cotton for example is one of our strongest brands in
Germany and has sold more than a billion physical copies
so far. Recently we re-launched the brand in English as
Cotton FBI and straight away we saw one of the first
episodes being featured as Ebook of the Week in a major
British newspaper.
The first major shift in the way we do business came four
years ago when we started our own digital department
Bastei Entertainment. Within just a few years, the
department has grown from 3 to 33 people and now
accounts for a large proportion of the companys revenue.
Our international business has become a key focus and we
publish content in China, the US, Latin America, with
further territories to follow.
At the heart of BasteiLbbes strategy is the aim to grow
beyond a traditional publishing house so we can offer
different types of content to anyone who loves a good
storyregardless of the format. This has led us to grow our
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Fortune favours the brave

Sam Jordison looks back over two very lively years of Galley Beggar
lived just around the corner from Elly and
I have to start this piece on a bum note.
me. Had we not been neighbours in Norwich,
Eloise, my Co-director of Galley Beggar
and had Eimears husband William not taken
Press, and I wont be able to get to Frankfurt
the manuscript into the Book Hive where
this year. Our nice and cheap
Galley Beggar was then based, we might
accommodation fell through at the last
never have seen this wonderful book.
minute, leaving us looking at the nasty and
But see it we did. It is a superb work of art,
expensive (so expensive!) options left in
a fierce, beautifully written novela force of
town. But well be ably represented by our
nature. As with The White Goddess, printing
foreign rights agent Louisa Pritchard. And
it seemed like a duty as much as a business
anyway, while Im disappointed, Im not
decision. Something we owed to the world
going to labour the lamentations about this
Sam Jordison and Eloise Millar
something for which we were prepared to
small piece of bad fortune. I know that in
go bankrupt. And some time around last
the past year or so Galley Beggar has had
November, when my credit card was straining
more than its fair share of good luck.
under the weight of the third print run, we
Looking back, it even seems fortuitous
very nearly did. But by then we were on the
that we should be here at all. If I knew what
home straight. Eimear was just about to win
I know about publishing now when we set
the Goldsmiths Prize, the first of several
up just over two years ago, I probably
major awards, and our gamble paid off.
wouldnt have dared enter the fray. And I
certainly wouldnt have chanced printing
1,000 copies of our first book The White
Hard work
Goddess: An Encounter with barely any idea
As a result, weve had to do more hard work
of how and where we were going to get it
than we ever imagined when we were
stocked. Happily, however, we just went
making our first tentative forays into
ahead and did itand even more happily, we
publishing. Managing our slush pile has
managed to find a market for the book and
become almost a full-time occupation in
find people who shared our belief that if a
itself, while Elly has had to step back from
book is good enough, people will read it. We
all the other work (and sources of income)
believed that challenging doesnt necessarily
she had before Galley Beggar exploded and
mean inaccessible, that difficult doesnt mean impossible to
become the one full-time member of our team.
sell. But we werent sure about our chances until the book
But again, Im not complaining. Weve been able to carry
actually hit the shops.
on investing in books and authors we believe in and thats a
The White Goddess: An Encounter is a beautifully
wonderful, fortunate thing. This year, weve had the great
written story about the author Simon Goughs lost youth
joy of bringing out Randall by Jonathan Gibbs and seeing
on the island of Majorca in the bohemian 1950s and
it lauded throughout the UK press. (Tibor Fischer in the
1960s, his grand-uncle Robert Graves and a complicated
Guardian, for instance, said it was: The sort of novel you
love triangle involving a beautiful younger woman and a
pray for as a reviewerone that you can actually enjoy and
grumpy Scottish poet. As soon as we read it we fell in love
not have to search through desperately to find something
with itwhich goes a long way to explaining why we
to praise.) Weve been able to buy an exceptional novel
decided to set up shop in the first place. No one else was
called The Weightless World by Anthony Trevelyan, which
going to publish it, so we had to. We thought the world
had Elly and me tingling from the brilliant opening
would be better for having this book. And, as I say, enough
sentence (Raymond Ess is going to kill me.) to the last
people agreed, which meant that we didnt go bust and we
page. Our latest book, Francis Plug: How To Be a Public
were able to put out our next novel: A Girl Is a HalfAuthor by Paul Ewen, meanwhile, was published in
Formed Thing by Eimear McBride.
September and has already been hailed as a work of
genius. The advance buzz it got was all the more exciting
because it is such a strange, rude, hilariously funny and
Astonishing good fortune
uncompromising book. It takes no prisonerswhich is just
Looking back, there seem to be two astonishing pieces of
the way we like it. Its our great good fortune that lots of
good fortune in the publication of this book. The first is that
other people seem to like things that way too.
no one else did it before us. That it spent nine years

travelling around publishing houses which felt unable to

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A&U: proud of its youthful ways

A company can be 100-yearsold or 100-years-young, write
Robert Gorman and Clare
Drysdale. Allen & Unwin has
chosen the latter approach,
combining the rich traditions
and professionalism of its
history with an appetite for
the change thats required to
flourish in todays global
publishing marketplace. It is
proud of its heritage, but ever Robert Gorman
aware of the need to innovate and adapt, which makes it the
very model of a modern independent publisher.
The original George Allen & Unwin opened for business in
London in August 1914, with the formidable Stanley Unwin at
the helm. A management buyout in 1990 saw the company
move to Sydney, where, as Allen & Unwin, it became Australias
largest independent publisher. It is only in the last five years that
it has re-established a presence in the old country.
With the famously healthy Australian market starting to
contract in 2008, a clear option for an Australian independent
publisher looking to expand was overseas. That year Clare
Drysdale moved from Allen & Unwins Sydney office to London
with a brief to expand sales in the UK and to build a select list of
titles with international potential. Since Allen & Unwin launched
its UK publishing programme in 2010, these titles have included
Richard and Judy Book Club pick After the Fall by Charity
Norman, the bestselling Run! from legendary ultra-marathoner
Dean Karnazes and the highly acclaimed Questions of Travel
from Booker-long-listed author Michelle de Kretser.
Further growth came with the acquisition in 2012 of
Murdoch Books, Australias leading food and lifestyle
publisher, with an exceptional reputation in the US, UK
and Europe for beautifully produced books and countless
international co-editions. And in January 2014 Allen &
Unwin became the majority owner of the British publisher
Atlantic Books, home to both Booker Prize winners and
Nobel laureates.

Partner well
As with all independent publishers, decisions about whom
we work with are vital. This holds true for both our
authors and the publishing houses with whom we partner.
Our authors and their books are at the heart of Allen &
Unwin. We publish Jodi Picoult, Michael Connelly, Kate
Morton, Sara Gruen, Christos Tsiolkas, David Suzuki, Shaun
Tan and many others. We have achieved continuous growth
in Australia over the past 25 years thanks to the outstanding
books our authors have written. We have helped them to
attract and retain large and committed readerships; in the
case of Jodi Picoult, our author since 1999, her most recent
novel, The Storyteller, was her third title in succession to be

the bestselling overseas novel

of the year in ANZ.
We have also been fortunate
to work with many of the
worlds best independent
publishing companies in the
ANZ market. We have
partnered with, sold millions
of books for, and learnt from
independent publishers large
and small. Today we are the
Clare Drysdale
proud partner in ANZ of
Black Dog & Leventhal, Bloomsbury Publishing, Canongate,
Constable & Robinson, Faber & Faber, Granta Books, Icon
Books, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, Nosy Crow and Profile
Books. To quote from Swift in his Journal to Stella: We are
so fond of one another because our ailments are the same.
Thats certainly true, though fundamentally it is our love of
great writers and exciting books that brings us together.
Weve also learned a lot from our international partners. A
highlight of publishing each new Kate Morton book is the
chance to share marketing and promotional plans with her
34 international publishers.

Digital future
The publishing industrys digital transformation has
shaped our last four years and will be instrumental to our
future. Our ability to build worldwide readerships for our
books increases every day as ebook infrastructure and
device penetration expand. The mantra publish vigorously
and act globally remains imperative for any publisher
looking to thrive. This demands the traditional skill of
identifying the very best writing along with the
21st-century need to build audiences and attract readers.
Allen & Unwin now offers more than 3,000 titles as
ebooks. Our ebook sales have followed the same rapid growth
patterns as the US and UK markets, and we are constantly
experimenting with pricing and promotional strategies to
ensure our titles are highly visible in the increasingly crowded
digital world. The opening of the Australian Kindle store has
offered an excellent opportunity to both directly merchandise
our titles to local customers and apply some of the digital
learnings of our UK businesses to the ANZ market.
While its easy to be distracted by new formats and
promotional strategies, essentially our marketing efforts
still boil down to enticing readers to our books, making us
feel that a line can be drawn from the past to the present. It
is still, as it was in Stanley Unwins time, the books that
matter. But the principles of the past are now coupled with
the need for change. Allen & Unwin is 100-years-young,
and proud of its youthful ways.

Robert Gorman is CEO of Allen & Unwin and Clare Drysdale is UK

Director of Allen & Unwin.

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