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THURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 2017
CEO panelthe global and the local
All publishing is local,
declared Carolyn Reidy,
president and ceo of Simon
& Schuster, during a
spirited discussion with
Albin Michels Guillaume
Dervieux at the Frankfurt
Book Fair ceo panel, always
a highlight at the fair, writes
Ed Nawotka.
You need to know what
each customer wants and, of
more importance, how to
market those books, Reidy
said. But, she added:
Having a company just in
one language does not mean
you are not international,
because you can bring
international authors to
your market and then
export those authors by
selling the rights.
Dervieux commented that
Albin Michel, though a
family business deeply
rooted in French soil, had
expanded through
acquisitions abroadbuying
an education publisher in
HarperCollins wins Cher memoir
HarperCollins has acquired
world rights for what it is
calling the definitive
memoir by one of Americas
best-known performers, Cher.
The book was bought by
Lynn Grady, senior v-p and
publisher of the William
Morrow imprint Dey Street
Books, from Alan Nevins of
Renaissance Literary & Talent
Agency. Dey Street editorial
director Carrie Thornton will
Belgiumand worked with
international distribution.
Addressing the question
of the whether or not large
publishers were squeezing
out smaller publishers and
companies by acquiring too
many rightsincluding for
formats such as audio and
filmDervieux noted that
while Albin Michel tried to
acquire all the rights that it
could when they were
available, some formats in
France were not as
advanced as those in the
United States.
Reidy, on the other hand,
acknowledged that S&S was
eager to acquire what rights
it could, but such matters
were largely dependent on
agents. Most agents want
to work with the most
passionate publishers they
can find, she said.
Dervieux noted that in
France publishers worked
directly with most authors,
while dealing with agents
edit the book, which does not
yet have a name or pub date.
HarperNonFiction will publish
the memoir in the UK (Katya
Shipster will edit). An HC
spokesperson said it would
decide on a case by case basis
whether it would sell rights to
the memoir in other countries
or publish the book through
one of its overseas divisions.
Calling it a comprehensive,
intimate, and revealing
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Moderator Ruediger Wischenbart, Carolyn Reidy, Guillaume Dervieux
on translated titles. We
sometimes find that agents
are not the most productive
partners and are focused
on short-term gain. We
find growing the success
of an author needs time,
effort, intimacy and an
understanding of their desires.
This necessitates a direct,
long-term relationship.
Asked about the cooling
of the ebook market, Reidy
said simply that customers
got tired of the screen,
adding: Ebooks have done
some pretty remarkable
things, but it was and always
memoir, HC said that,
Cher will tell the story of
her journey from high school
dropout to becoming one of
the best-loved musicians and
actresses in history, and
winner of a Grammy, an
Oscar, an Emmy, and three
Golden Globe Awards.
HC promised that the book
will provide fans insight
into Chers incredible life
and career.
has been just a format.
Earlier in the discussion,
she had offered a nod to the
enduring power of print.
However, this was not the
end of the story: she
suggested that we would see
a new version of the book
based on digital delivery
that people have not
thought of yet. There is
some person who is young
and has grown up with the
screen who will come up
with a new form. I dont
think we have found it yet.
But when we do, that will
be an exciting day.
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Iowa MFA grad lands six
figures for debut
While non-fiction, especially memoirs, have been dominating
much of the buzz at the fair, a debut novel by a recent Iowa
Writers Workshop grad has been drumming up intense interest
in Frankfurt. Regina Porters The Travelers, which sold for a
rumoured $500,000 in the US, is now racking up foreign sales,
with six-figure deals having just closed in the UK and Germany.
Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group, who represents Porter,
sold North American rights to the book to Alexis Washam at
Hogarth. In the UK, where a deal closed late last week, Michal
Shavit at Jonathan Cape pre-empted the novel. German rights
have also been pre-empted, by S Fischer Verlag. At press time,
Claire Roberts at Trident, who is handling foreign rights for
the novel in Frankfurt, said she would be closing the auction
for French rights at the fair, and that offers are coming in
from the other markets.
Levine said in her pitch letter that The Travelers, which follows
two American families, one white and one black, was equal
parts heartbreaking and humorous. With its story spread
over decades and localesincluding the Hamptons, Vietnam,
Germany and Brittanythe novel focuses on a diverse group of
characters ranging from a Vietnam vet who cant stand still
to an African-American lesbian who finds something like
freedom in 1970s and 1980s Berlin.
Beginning in the 1950s and extending through the first year
of Barack Obamas presidency, the novel, Levine continued,
portrayed these two American families as they grappled with
their countrys painful history of racism and sexism.
Porter was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the vaunted Iowa MFA
programme (which conferred a stipend and covered her first
year of tuition). While she has published fiction in the Harvard
Review, Porter has a background as a playwright, working
with theaters including Playwrights Horizon, the Joseph Papp
Theater and the Woolly Mammoth Theater.
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Esther Safran Foer
memoir attracts bids
One of the many memoirs drawing interest, and big a advance, at
the Frankfurt Book Fair is by the mother of a famous young
literary star. Esther Safran Foer, mother of Jonathan Safran Foer, is
drumming up interest from publishers round the world for I Want
You To Know Were Still Here, a post-Holocaust memoir that Tim
Duggan at Crown acquired in a North American rights deal.
The book, which Rafe Sagalyn at Sagalyn/ICM represents,
was, at press time, at the centre of a four-way auction in Italy,
with a Thursday deadline pending for offers from German
publishers. After a sale for the book closed in Holland, offers
had also come in from houses in Spain and Israel.
Foers parents, who came to the US in 1949, are the only
members of her family to survive the Holocaust. The book
chronicles a shocking discoveryEsther Safran Foers
admission that her father had another family before the war
and that Esther had a surviving half-sisterand the ensuing
trip she takes to the Ukraine to find out more about this
long-lost sibling.
The author said: While this is my story and my parents
story, each of my three sons, and now my six grandchildren,
are important parts of this journey. We are four generations of
survivors and survivors of survivors, storytellers and memory
keepers. And were still here.
Foer is the former president of the public relations firm FM
Strategic Communications and most recently served as the
executive director of the synagogue Sixth & I. She has also worked
extensively in politics: her first job in the field was in 1972,
working on the presidential campaign for George McGovern.
The Bookshop wins film
adaptation prize
Catalan film director Isabel Coixet has won the Frankfurt Book
Fair prize for Best International Literary Adaptation 2017 for
her adaptation of Penelope Fitzgeralds novel The Bookshop.
Starring Emily Mortimer, the film is released next month.
In The Bookshop, Isabel Coixet recreates the books special
atmosphere and the main characters personality with great
sensitivity. The adaptation shows respect for the authors work
while at the same time being a distinct and original film,
according to Juergen Boos, Frankfurt Book Fair director.
The winner in the Childrens and Young Adult Film category
was the adaptation Zombillenium by the directors Arthur de
Pins and Alexis Ducord, based on the series by Arthur de Pins.
With Zombillenium, the directors have achieved an incredible
adaptation. It is a wonderful film for the whole family, Boos said.
Also in the running for the main prize were Disobedience by
director Sebastian Leilo, based on the book by Naomi Alderman,
and Wir tten Stella (Killing Stella) by Julian Plsler, based on
the book by Marlen Haushofer.
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At opening ceremony, Macron, Merkel see Europe
united by culture
In a year dominated by
divisive, nationalist politics,
French President Emmanuel
Macron and German
Chancellor Angela Merkel
opened the 2017 Frankfurt
Book Fair by emphasising the
importance of books, and
culture, writes Andrew
Albanese. Speaking at the
fairs opening ceremony, the
two leaders spoke of forging Emmanuel Macron at the opening ceremony
a new Europe that was unitednot dividedby culture, and
mulitlingualism.
There are so many groups trying to spread hatred, fanaticism,
and dogmatism, and we have to stand up to that, Macron said,
adding that books were vital. This is really what holds us,
together, what prevents us from closing ourselves off, and
prevents us from giving way to fear, brutality, and disunity.
In her remarks, Merkel said that books open doors and have experienced that neither at the European level, or the
help us to understand and see what we have in common,
and to understand our differences. She went on to note
the importance of literature in the political realm as well.
In literature, we see the reflection of the soul of our
society, which is based on freedom, and that freedom of
expression goes hand-in-glove with political freedom.
The appearance of the two leaders comes as France is the
Guest of Honour at this years fairthe first time since
1989, when there was still a wall in Berlin.
In just under an hour, the two leaders touched on not only
the power of culture to hold Europe together, but also on
ARTISAN INKS MULTI-BOOK DEAL WITH CHEF REN
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In a deal rumoured to be in the seven-figure range, Artisan
has inked a world rights publishing partnership with chef
Ren Redzepi. The founder of the Copenhagen restaurant
Noma (which has been named the best restaurant in the
world for multiple years by Restaurant magazine), Redzepi
will write three new cookbooks in additional to a biannual
series aimed at, Artisan said, galvanizing the creative
potential of the global cooking community.
The first cookbook Artisan signed in the agreement is
called Foundations of Flavour: The Noma Guide to
Fermentation, and is slated for October 2018. It will draw
from lessons learned at Noma, which has a fermentation
lab, and will provide tips on how to ferment at home.
The series, called Dispatches, will feature contributions
from Redzepi and other chefs, and is edited by Chris Ying,
co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the food and culture
magazine Lucky Peach. Artisan said it would encourage
readers to think about food in new ways and to take action
as part of a global food and cooking community.
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some issues within the
publishing industry, including
copyright, and digitisation.
Both leaders stressed the need
to protect authors intellectual
property, while also taking full
advantage of technology.
In his opening remarks,
Heinrich Riethmller, president
of the German Publishers &
Booksellers Association,
pressed Merkel to back
publishers on copyright issues within the European Union,
which prompted Merkel to venture off-script to reply.
Copyright in the digital world is in a very, very difficult
position at the moment, Merkel said. While she stressed the
need to properly compensate creators for their work, she
also suggested there needed to be some kind of compromise.
We live in a democracy, and over the last eight years I
German level, was it possible to find an answer in terms of
what is the role of copyright in the digital age, she said. I
have to ask you to join me in fighting for reconciliation
between digital access, and respect for cultural value.
Merkel went on to express frustration that there had
been little to no movement on copyright legislation, noting
that it seemed as though those who want to move forward
in the digital world and those who want to protect
intellectual property will never be able to make progress
together. However, she pledged that she would work with
president Macron to try to find a way forward.
Bookwire expands in Brazil
Bookwire Brazil has consolidated its position as the largest
distributor of ebooks in Brazil by acquiring DLD, its main
competitor. It is an aggressive move further into Latin
America for the Frankfurt-based company, which moved
into South America in 2014, and has now clearly evolved
from a strictly European enterprise into a global one.
The combined Brazilian companies now offer distribution
for 27,000 ebook titles from more than 250 publishers. This
represent 50% of the content available on the market, said
Marcelo Gioia, managing director Brazil. Coincidentally,
on the same day Xeriph, another digital distribution
platform, announced its closure. The result is Bookwire
will be bringing best practices and better marketing and
fulfilment services to client publishers, Gioia said.
In the larger context, the consolidation makes Brazil one
of the few countries around the world where Amazon has a
serious rival in the digital marketplace.
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Rights in brief
Ben Dunn, md at Blink Publishing Susan Lewis is moving from
(Kings Road/Bonnier Publishing), has Century and Arrow to
won a nine-way transatlantic auction HarperFiction in a six-book deal
to sign a memoir by Roger Daltrey, worth seven figures. Kate Elton,
singer with The Who. Blink has executive publisher for
world rights from Jonny Geller at HarperFiction, HarperNonFiction
Curtis Brown, and has sold NA & Avon, and Kimberley Young,
rightsin another nine-way auction HarperFiction publishing, partnered
to Stephen Rubin, president and with Liate Stehlik at William
publisher at Henry Holt. The US sale Morrow in the US for the world
was handled by Amelia Evans, senior rights deal, negotiated through
rights manager at Kings Road. The Luigi Bonomi at LBA.
book is due in autumn next year.
Daltrey said: Its great that Ive Rogers Coleridge & White (RCW)
found a young enthusiastic publisher, Roger Daltrey Susan Lewis and the Agency (London) Ltd
an upstart in the world of books, to publish my story. It feels like the right have been announced as the new literary executors of the estate of
fit. Ive always resisted the urge to do the memoir but now, finally, I feel Raymond Chandler. The estate was previously represented by Ed
Ive enough perspective. Dunn said: Roger Daltrey has written a quite Victor Ltd, now part of Curtis Brown following Ed Victors death
brilliant memoir: engaging, funny and filled with amazing anecdotes; its earlier this year.
one of the last great untold rock legends, and we are so pleased that Roger
has chosen Blink Publishing to help tell his fascinating tale. Arrow (Cornerstone/Penguin Random House) is to publish Darker:
Fifty Shades Darker by EL James, the second Fifty Shades title told
Orion secured four major deals for Chris McGeorges high concept crime from Christian Greys point of view, on 28 November, in paperback,
novel, Guess Who?, ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Francesca Pathak, senior ebook and audio. Publication will be simultaneous with Vintage in the
commissioning editor at Orion Fiction, had bought world rights in Guess US, Penguin Random House Canada, and soon after in territories round
Who? through Hannah Sheppard at DHH Literary Agency; the publisher is the world. Susan Sandon, managing director of Cornerstone, bought
billing McGeorge as the new king of the locked room mystery. HarperCollins UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in Darker from
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The hitchhikers guide to the GDPR
If the sell-out audience at last months PA
London seminar on the General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) was anything
to go by then data protection is now on the
radar of many publishers. Of course, I
would like to believe that my own data
protection article published on these pages
for the London Book Fair shares some of the
credit for that. I suspect, however, that it is
the contents of the GDPR itselfincluding
fines for non-compliance of up to
20,000,000.00 or 4% of global annual Duncan Calow
turnover (whichever is higher)that have
really caught peoples attention.
The GDPR will take direct effect across the EU from 25
May 2018. So for those in the industry who havent yet got
up to speedbut now have less than 250 days to do sohere
are some issues to focus on:
1. Dont panic.
2. No, really, dont panic. Thats the message being
promoted by the UK data protection regulator, the ICO
(Information Commissioners Office), which has been
publishing a series of myth-busting GDPR blogs. In
particular, it has tried to reassure that scaremongering
headlines about crippling financial punishment (like, er,
mine above) are misleading. The ICO stresses that its
proportionate approach to enforcement will continue
preferring carrot ahead of stickand that, in many cases,
the GDPR represents an evolution rather than a revolution.
That, though, rather assumes a high degree of compliance
with current rules.
3. So what personal data have you got? Notwithstanding
its calming words above, the ICO is also very clear that
doing nothing is definitely not an option either. So check
now that you know what personal data you hold, where it
came from and who you share it with. Having an accurate
record is a GDPR requirement and even though there are
exemptions that may apply to smaller businesses it is a very
good starting point for any GDPR action plan. Audit, ask,
dig aboutbut do find out. If it identifies living individuals
(and it doesnt have to name their names) it is probably
personal data.
4. Why have you got it? Big picture GDPR concepts like
privacy by design and by default and data
minimisation mean you should only be using personal
data if there is a good reason to do so. But its also
important that your purposes for processing are lawful and
there are only a limited number of legal grounds for
processing that you can rely upon. These include when it is
necessary for performing a contract with or for the data
subject or necessary for your or a third partys legitimate
interestswhich arent out-weighed by the individuals own
interests, rights or freedoms.
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5. Its not always about consent.
Crucially, although consent is also one of
the grounds for lawful processing, getting
effective consent will be hard under the
GDPR. Consent must be treated as an
active, ongoing and granular choice, as
easy to withdraw as to givenot a one-off
decision. Your consent mechanics will
certainly need review (pre-ticked boxes
are banned) but it may be necessary to
re-think, and record, whether one of the
other grounds above may be more
appropriate instead.
6. Communication. First, the GDPR is very prescriptive
about the information that needs to be given to the people
whose data you are processing. So the privacy policies and
notices used on your website or elsewhere will need
updating (with the wrinkle that the separate rules on
e-marketing and cookies are still up for discussionbut
thats for another time). Secondly, everyone in your
business needs to be aware that the law is changingfrom
those at the top to those not at the top.
7. Not in front of the children. There are special rules if
you run online services for under 13s (different ages will
apply elsewhere in the EU) and, as with the current law,
there are stricter rules if you process special category
data including about sex, politics and religion. So the
interesting stuff is highly regulated, and best avoided if
you can.
8. Manuscripts. Dont forget the books you publish might
well include personal data. The GDPR includes an
academic, artistic and literary expression derogation but
local laws will vary. UK rules will likely stay as isbut the
ICO has always been clear they are not a blanket
exemption. Like all personal data they certainly need to be
kept secure.
9. Outside the EEA (European Economic Area). The
GDPR continues existing controls on personal data being
transferred out of the EEA, but also reinforces the
jurisdictional reach of the law. The need to comply with the
GDPR may be triggered by activities within the EU, but
also for organisations established elsewhere when they
offer goods and services to people in the EU or monitor
their behaviour here.
10. Er, thats NOT it. The GDPR has plenty of moving
parts and many other aspects to consider, from the range of
rights that individuals will have (the right to be forgotten
etc.) to the need to ensure that your efforts include any
third party processors working for you.
But its already time to make a first step on the
compliance journey whatever further questions you may
have. And the answer may not be 42.
Duncan Calow is partner at DLA Piper UK LLP. For more information
on the GDPR see https://www.dlapiper.com/en/uk/focus/data-protection.
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Spain is back on track

After almost a decade of decline in print book
sales amounting to a roughly 40% aggregated
sales drop, the Spanish book market is showing
signs of a resurgence, writes Javier Celaya,
posting sales increases now for three years in a
row. In 2016, the Spanish publishing industry
posted a gain of 2.8%, compared to 2.7% in
2015, and 0.06% in 2014. And though modest,
this small growth triennium indicates that Spain
is finally recovering from the huge financial crisis
that eroded more than 700 million euros in print
sales over a seven-year period (2008-2015). Javier Celaya
Whats driving the markets turnaround?
The main growth drivers are academic and educational
content, as well as digital sales.
In addition to a print rebound, the Spanish publishing market
has experienced an impressive growth in digital sales in recent
years. According to the third edition of The 2017 Spanish
Markets Digital Evolution Report (compiled by Dosdoce.com
in collaboration with Bookwire, the leading ebook and
audiobook distribution platform in the region) Latin America
and Spain are showing ongoing digital growth. Most
independent and midsize publishers experienced an average
digital growth between 40% and 50% in 2016,
whereas the major Big Five publishers in the
region have seen digital sales flatten.
Whats driving digital growth for indie
publishers? Not unlike with physical
bookstores, independent and midsize
publishers sales behaviour in the digital
marketplace is different from that of a major
big five publisher. More and more
independent publishers are strongly pushing
the digital distribution of their books, and
more Spanish and Latin American publishers
are converting their print books into ePubs
not only to meet demand in their local markets, but to be
able to more easily export their titles worldwide.
In the last two years, more than 200 Spanish and Latin
American midsize and independent publishing houses have
decided to increase their ebook catalogues, resulting in
more than 20,000 new digital titles in the market.
Digital market booms in the US
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in distributing foreign print books in the US, mostly due to the

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not so encumbered, and thanks to digital distribution, Spanish
publishers are discovering that with ebooks, they are not limited
to their local markets, but can benefit from international sales.
Each year, more Spanish and Latin American publishers are
working to distribute their ebooks to Spanish readers in the US
and with some 55 million Spanish speakers, the US market offers
a significant opportunity.
As a result, Latin American publishers such as Rey Naranjo
in Colombia, Amanuta in Chile, Malatetra and CIDCLI in
Mexico, among many others, have seen how their ebooks
are selling in previously hard-to-reach foreign markets.
According to the Bookwire Report, 61% of independent
Latin America-based publishers digital sales were made in
the Latin American continent, whereas 39% occurred in
markets beyond that region: 25% in the USA, 8% in Spain,
5% in Europe and 1% in the rest of the world.
The new subscription culture?
Although unit sales in online stores such as Amazon, Apple
or Kobo continue to be the dominant business model,
library and subscription channels are becoming more and
more relevant in the Spanish markets.
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During 2016, profits from subscription platforms, especially
in Mexico, the US and Germany, became increasingly relevant
for Spanish publishers, surpassing 5% of total digital revenue,
when in 2015 it represented only 1%.
The recent arrival of leading entertainment and cultural
content platforms, like Netflix, HBO, Spotify and Storytel,
among others, is transforming the cultural habits of the
mainstream population and even altering avid readers
behaviour. So the fall in print book sales in the Spanish
market is not just due to the financial crisis. More and more
commentators believe that the new subscription culture will
radically transform the consumers cultural habits in Spain
and Latin America over the next decade.
If the Spanish publishing sector is to recover the 700
million euro turnover lost in the last decade, book industry
professionals will have to accept that the main channels of
growth may not involve the sale of print books, but rather
the sale of digital content in new consumption modelssuch
as subscription services, fragmented content or library
e-lending among others.
Javier Celaya is a member of the executive board of the Digital Economy
Association of Spain, and CEO and founder of Dosdoce.com, an online
portal that analyses the impact of new technologies in the publishing sector.
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Working together, not in isolation
For the international publishers, its a
fascinating timea global copyright debate is
heating up, freedom to publish is under
increasing threat, and while the global
economy shows signs of stabilising,
challenges loom. Andrew Richard Albanese
recently caught up with International
Publishers Association (IPA) president
Michiel Kolman, senior vice president of
global academic relations at Elsevier, to get
his take on an exciting, if tumultuous time
for global publishing. Michiel Kolman at the Moscow
Book Fair earlier this year
AA: As publishers gather in Frankfurt, the global economy
shows signs ofimprovement, and print and digital seem to
be finding a balance on the trade side. Whats your takeon
the state of publishing business in 2017? Anysectors you see
as particularly challengededucation, perhaps?
MK: Broadly speaking thats right, print sales are on the up freedom to publish. In the copyright arena, we are seeing a
again, ebook sales have stabilised and digital audio is
surging. But educational publishing is a cause for concern in
many countries, because it is such a politically charged area
of the business that faces threats on various fronts. A
number of governments have made grabs to take control of
their countries educational publishing business, and impose
single-book polices or other measures that upset the market
balance. This has happened in Poland, Hungary, Georgia
and elsewhere. Were firmly against state monopolies or any
policy that undoes the principle of competitive publishing.
AA: The next IPA Congress is set for India. What are you the content that it invests in and produces.
expecting from IPAs visit there?
MK: India is a world-publishing powerhouse, with an
enormous industry and a rich literary tradition. Books are
published in 21 local languages in India, although India is
the worlds largest English-language market, and English is
still the predominant language of higher education. We
organise the International Publishers Congress every two
years in cooperation with the IPA member in the host
country, in this case the Federation of Indian Publishers
(FIP). So, location plays a huge role in the content, and the
FIPs members will have unique access to the hundreds of
international delegates who will attend. Indian publishers
will also be well represented among the delegates and
speakers, and the Congress will give Indian publishing a
huge shop window to showcase innovations, and increase
the visibility and success of their businesses.
AA: In April, you gave your first speech in China as IPA
Presidentnotable for a couple of reasons, including the
initial controversy over Chinas admission to IPA in 2015.
Is that controversy in the past?
MK: Its no secret that when the IPA General Assembly voted antipathy to experts presents an opportunity for publishers to
to admit the Publishers Association of China (PAC), some
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members had reservations. Last year, after a
period of introspection, we revised the
organisations statutes and committee
guidelines, to address concerns that had been
raised, and what we see today is that working
together is more productive than isolation. A
good example of this was the recent censorship
furore around Cambridge University Press in
China. Having the PAC as a member meant we
had a go-to partner in that process, a qualified,
knowledgeable source. The fact is, the greater,
more inclusive, and more diverse the
membership of IPA, the better we are able to
fight on our members behalf.
AA: As you begin your second year leading the IPA, what
issues are at the top of your list?
MK: The two cornerstones of the IPA are copyright and
global trend where governments are undertaking copyright
reviews to introduce or broaden educational exceptions to
copyright. This fair-use based movement is being driven
by technology companies, whose interests lie in weakening
copyright, so they can generate income from other peoples
creativity unchecked. Currently the IPA is engaged in
exchanges with the governments of Canada, South Africa,
Singapore and Australia, among others, to ensure
legislators around the world understand that the creation
and dissemination of first-rate educational materials
requires proper protection for the publishing sector, and
As for the freedom to publish, it is under constant threat
around the world, with daily reports of writers and publishers
under pressure. It is our duty to challenge censorship, and we
will continue to raise the alarm and spotlight regimes that are
hostile to the free circulation of written ideas.
An emerging priority for the IPA this year, meanwhile, is
communicating the role publishers should have in delivering
on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goalsin
particular, on goal number four: quality education. We feel
that publishers have been unwittingly excluded from that
conversation thus far, and we want to change that.
AA: The political landscape is a prominent theme again at
this years Fair. Whats your takefor example, with the rise of
fake news, and a US president who calls the media scum and
liars? Does that make IPAs work defending free speech harder?
MK: Peoples confidence in the news they consume is falling,
and disparagement of the independent media certainly does
nothing to help that. But where news media focus on short-
term impact, publishers focus on quality. And the emergence
of phenomena such as fake news, alternative facts and
rise higher as stewards of truth and reliable information.
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Cherchez les Franais
Lenny Picker looks at the crime and mystery fiction scene in France
Many mystery readers in the US automatically
consider their beloved genre as an Anglo-
American creation, tracing the genres roots back
to Edgar Allan Poes The Murders in the Rue
Morgue. But consider this: an investigator
perfectly describes a fight solely by a close study
of the footprints left behind by its participants.
Or this: a drug-taking, misanthropic private
detective with a gift for observation and logical
deduction, knowledgeable about the chemical
and forensic science of the period, who was a
master of disguise, and whose amazing cases
were narrated by his friend and confidant, a doctor.
Even the most devoted reader could be excused for
believing that those examples derive from the ne plus ultra
of detective fictionArthur Conan Doyles immortal
Sherlock Holmes, who debuted in 1887. But the first comes
from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, the creator of The Three
Musketeers, whose series hero DArtagnan impressed King
Louis XVI by recreating a duel based on the duellists
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footprints, and those of their horses in 1847s
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne.
And that Holmes-like figure? It is Maximilien
Heller, who actually debuted in 1871 in Henry
Cauvins The Killing Needle, over a decade
before the appearance of Holmes in Doyles A
Study in Scarlet.
Cauvin was first published in English in 2014
by John Pugmires Locked Room International, a
small publishing house at the forefront of making
quality French mysteries available to an English-
speaking audience, featuring Pugmires own
translations. Even Gaston Leroux, best known for The
Phantom of the Opera, wrote whodunits, including the all-
time locked-room classic, 1907s The Mystery of the Yellow
Room, the first in a series of seven featuring reporter
Joseph Rouletabille.
Locked Room International has also given English readers
15 books from the ingenious imagination of Paul Halter, a
modern master of the impossible
crime puzzle, who carries on the
Golden Age legacy of John Dickson
Carr, most recently, in July 2017s
The Madmans Room, in which the
decision to unseal a supposedly-cursed
room leads to multiple murders whose
explanations apparently require
suspending the laws of science. Halter
and Dumasare both represented in
The Realm of the Impossible (August
2017), an anthology which Halter
co-edited with Brian Skupin.
In addition to Cauvin and Halter, Pugmire has published the
first English translations of Jean-Paul Toroks The Riddle of
Monte Verita, an ingenious locked-room murder mystery
published in 2012, and two works by the undeservedly-
obscure 1930s writer Noel Vindry: The House That Kills,
published in 2015 (in which there are witnesses to no less than
three impossible murders), and 2016s The Howling Beast, a
bravura piece of armchair detection. A
third Vindry, Double Alibi, is
scheduled for publication in 2018.
Locked Room International is not
the only publishing home for French
authors who integrate the fantastic
into their mysteries. French
historian, archaeologist and author
Frdrique Audoin-Rouzeau (who
uses the pen name Fred Vargas and
has drawn comparisons with John
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Dickson Carr) has written nine such novels. They
include 2013s The Ghost Riders of Ordebec
(Penguin), which is one of the best recent
examples of a rational sleuth confronting the
seemingly supernatural. Random House UK has
published her second series, The Three
Evangelists, most recently in September,
publishing The Accordionist. The works feature
an eccentric Commissaire, Jean-Baptiste
Adamsberg, and his equally odd colleagues in
the Serious Crime Squad, which include a
narcoleptic, a walking encyclopedia and a
naturalist. Vargas has the distinction of winning three
International Dagger Awards from the
Crime Writers Association, for three
consecutive novels.
For Thomas Harris fans, the current
French mystery-writing scene also
includes the twisted brilliance of
Bernard Minier, whose novels feature
the Lecter-like Julian Hirtmann, the
nemesis of Commandant Martin
Servaz. Minotaur has published the
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Weeklys Top 10 Mysteries of 2016. The fourth,
Night, which promises a final showdown
between the enemies, will appear in 2018.
Quercus Presss MacLehose Press imprint will
offer an alternative to Vargas take on a group of
oddball French investigators in next Aprils The
Awkward Squad, by Sophie Hnaff, in which Anne
Capestan is assigned to a new unit comprised of
misfits, troublemakers and problem cases, who
are expected to solve cold cases. And in November,
the imprint will publish Prix Goncourt winner
Pierre Lemaitres Three Days and a Life, in which an adult
deals with the repercussions of a crime he committed as a
child. Meanwhile, Arab Jazz, by documentary filmmaker
Karim Misk, published in March 2016, won the English PEN
Award, and demonstrates the versatility of the genre with its
exploration of present-day multicultural tensions in France
through the lens of a whodunit.
An exploration of society of a
different sort is on display in Laurent
Binets The Seventh Function of
Languagepublished this past August
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Binert,
another Prix Goncourt winner,
transformed the death of the French
founder of semiotics, philosopher
Roland Barthes, whod lunched with
Francois Mitterand right before his
fatal encounter with a motor van, into
a murder mystery. Publishers Weeklys
starred review called it a loving inquiry
into 20th-century intellectual history that seamlessly folds
historical moments into a brilliant illustration of the
possibilities left to the modern novel.
The roman a clef concept is taken literally in the title of
Delphine de Vigans Based on a True Story, out this spring
from Bloomsbury. Its a meta-fictional thriller in which a
bestselling authors life is imperilled by a manipulative woman.
And readers who want their protagonists walking down
French mean streets, rather than the countrys picturesque
countryside, will find their tastes for noir met by The King of
Fools, the fifth classic thriller by Frderic Dard, published in
May by Pushkin Presss Vertigo imprint. While Dard is still
largely unknown in the US, his books
have sold more than 300 million
copies in France.
Thanks to publishing houses of
all sizes, theres never been a better
time for English readers to indulge
their appetites for French fictional
murder and mayhem, and enough
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Diversity in action
The time for talking is over, now the real work b
publishing industry is activating change
After much hand-wringing
and many panel discussions,
it seems enough has been said
on the subject of diversity. A
We Are Quarto consensus has been reached.
No longer a box to be ticked,
being representative from
submissions to staff, and
authors to attitudes, is a
moral obligation that makes
business sense. In the UK,
there has been a wave of new Wei Ming Kam
inclusive imprints, company
initiatives, anthologies and prizes: a signal that changeboth
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according to Ruth Bennett, editorial director of Stripes
Publishing. Everyone is aware that we need to address the
lack of diversity in the industry. At Stripes, we wanted to play
an active role, not just show an acknowledgement, and it was
important to do something that meant concrete change.
The Little Tiger Group imprint released a YA anthology called
A Change Is Gonna Come in August, featuring short stories
from BAME writers. Its the start, says Lauren Ace, brand
director for the group, of a top-down change, with diversity as a
lasting commitment. We are hiring a commissioning editor,
ideally from a BAME background, who will work across our
whole company to ensure we are representative.
Other publishers are taking stock to ensure their output is
organically and authentically diverse. Hachettes Changing
the Storya diversity programme including paid internships,
mentoring schemes and structural improvements across the
boardlaunched towards the end of last year, and continues to
evolve. New, diverse networks include an in-house group
for BAME staff members called Thrive, which recently held a
welcome picnic for all members of staff, and another for
women to discuss gender balance, and maternity and
paternity leave. Penguin Random House (PRH) UK,
meanwhile, is launching an Inclusion Trackerto reflect UK
society by 2025, by evaluating the diversity of all new staff
members and authors. Data will be measured and published
on the PRH website every year for complete transparency.

True change, not trend

Diversity, however, is not a buzzword. The Little Tiger Group
was keen to avoid the trap of being opportunistic, as Ace
Lindpendance crative explains. Nikesh Shukla, one of our anthology contributors
and editor of The Good Immigrant, said: I dont want to be a
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trend, and diversity is so hot right now! I believe this is a

period we need to move through and eventually it will become
part of the normal publishing landscape.
Shuklas concern is one that is shared by Wei Ming Kam
(co-founder of networking community BAME in Publishing, a
monthly gathering of professionals from minority backgrounds),
who recently co-founded Pride in Publishing, a similar model,
but for the LGBTQ community. I worry that publishers see it
as a trend, as they did in the early 2000s with writers like
Zadie Smith, she says. Our identities are not a trend, and
I really want that idea to be let go of. I want them to see
commercial successes as a sign of the talent that they
should be investing in and actively looking for.
Kam believes the industry must act fast. Demographics are
changing, which means audiences are changing and forcing
publishers to realise how many readers theyve ignored, she
says. She backs this up with the help of recent surveys. Ethnic
minorities are projected to be the majority in the USA by 20551.
Here in the UK, the population isgoing to be30% BAME by
20502, and there are similar projected increases across Europe.
The percentage of young people who feel comfortable enough to
openly identify as queer is increasing. And lets not forget that a
large part of the population is disabledalmostone in five here in
the UK3. That is a massive number of markets that cultural
media, not just publishing, could be tapping into, not just for
readers, but for writers and employees. If change continues to be
slow, publishing will find that its been left behind.

Money talks
A notably progressive move came in July, when Little, Brown
launched a new diverse imprint called Dialogue Books, with
Sharmaine Lovegrove as publisher. It aims to publish four to six
titles in its first full year, fiction and non-fiction, in areas under-
represented or not covered by the mainstream publishing
industry. Little, Brown CEO Charlie King said that the list was
a response both to a moral imperative and to a commercial
imperativea truth not universally acknowledged.
If more proof were needed that being representative nurtures a
healthy bottom line, Angie Thomass The Hate U Give (Walker),
inspired by Black Lives Matter, debuted at number one in the
New York Times Young Adult bestseller chart in February, has
remained on top since, and has also been a bestseller in the UK;
while The Good Immigrant (Unbound) convinced any remaining
sceptics of diversitys commercial value. Publishers need to wake
up to the fact that it is a commercial opportunity, insists Ace.
Missing a huge swathe of the population means people are
disenfranchised from reading. Were constantly worried about
selling books, but this is a really obvious way to convert huge
parts of the population to read books.
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Supply and demand
The demand is there, but according to many,
the supply is the problem. Again, the team at
Stripes is being proactive. From September,
we are open to submissions for middle grade
or young adult fiction from BAME writers,
says Bennett. Very few publishers accept
submissions directly, mainly due to workload,
but we want to remove the normal barriers in
publishing and actively search in other
sectors to find new and exciting writers.
Stripes is not alone in attempting to seek out Clare Bogen
new talent. Faber held its inaugural Faber Andlyn BAME or
FAB Prize earlier this year to unearth emerging childrens
illustrators and writers from minority backgrounds, providing
prize money and mentoring for the winners. Davinia Andrew-
Lynch at Andlyn said: What has really stood out is the range
of stories and artwork submitted. Its proof that fantastic
writing and illustration shouldnt separate us; commonalities
can be found whilst teaching us something new.Fellow judge
Leah Thaxton, Faber childrens publisher, added: We will run
this prize again because it makes sense for us in every way,
including commercially.PRH is also continuing its WriteNow
scheme to discover 12 new writers from underrepresented
communities; it drew more than 2,000 applications last year.
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Tom Weldon, CEO of PRH UK, said of this
years initiative: With WriteNow were going
out into local communities to find, nurture
and, I hope, publish talented new voices from
communities that we know are not well
represented in books and publishing today.
Ascent of agile indies
Making marginalised voices mainstream is on
the agenda for ambitious small presses, who say
no niche is too small. This year has seen the
launch of two significant indies intent on
amplifying lesser-heard voices. Feminist publisher Silver Press
hit the scene in May thanks to Joanna Biggs, Sarah Shin and
Alice Spawls, and is set to release a poetry and essay collection
by civil rights activist and poet Audre Lorde called Your Silence
Will Not Protect You later this year. Where more established
corporates weigh up what they perceive as risks, agile start-ups
are eager to test new ground. Also aiming to champion voices
outside the mainstream is 3 of Cups, which is dubbed a micro
publisher. Its a collaborative structure, like Silver Press, made
up of eight women from different areas of publishing.
We have a duty as an industry to represent all spheres of
society, says editorial and communications director Lizzie
Huxley-Jones. I heard about a young adult author whose
submission was turned down on the basis that the
publishing house already had a book with a black
protagonist. It got me so angry. We want these voices
because traditional publishing is not providing it.
Hopefully 3 of Cups is a small way of correcting it.
According to the companys editorial director Clare Bogen,
the beauty of being a small press is its flexibility. Were not
commercially driven or subjected to the same constraints as
bigger publishers, she argues. Since she announced the launch
of 3 of Cups and the crowdfunding of its first anthology On
Anxiety, she has been heartened by the community feel among
indies. What weve noticed is that other small presses that
champion diversity have been so supportive and enthusiastic.
Theyve not seen us as competition. She continues: Its very
important that our writers are not involved in anything racist,
homophonic, transphobic, and we ask them to sign a waiver to
commit to this.
Cautious optimism
While most of the publishing industry is united in acknowledging
that more needs to be done, the outlook is positive. Like many,
Wei Ming Kam is eager to see what happens next. I am certainly
hopeful, she says. Real change will become embedded in
publishing when an effort is made by those in power to change
historical institutional bias, and to bring that mentality to every
part of the business, not just in one or two departments.I think
its too early to tell if the changes that are happening now will
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In the age of freesometimes fakenews

Christopher Kenneally talked to Angela Mills Wade about what the new
European directive on copyright means for news publishers
Journalists and pundits have plenty to keep measure is meant to provide a legal wrapper
them busy in 2017. In Europe alone, there are around what is made available [online] by the
Brexit, the rise of populism and nationalism, as publisher, Mills Wade explained. They are
well as immigration issues to cover. The rise of neighbouring rights because they sit alongside
so-called fake news, and growing scepticism the underlying rights of the authors.
about professional journalism and intellectual Broadcasters, music and film producers
property rights only make matters worse. already benefit from a neighbouring right at
The European Publishers Council (EPC) is a the European level, so this is to bring press
lobbying group composed of executives from publishers in line with other producers of
leading European media organisations. Based content, she noted.
in Brussels, Belgium, home of the European Under the European Commission proposal
Commission and numerous European Union Angela Mills Wade published in September 2016, press publishers
government bodies including the European would gain additional control over any re-use
Parliament, the EPC reviews the impact of Like writing of content, including for terms and conditions
proposed European legislation on news and publishing of the re-use. For example, a news organisation
publishing, newspapers and journalism, and could require a web aggregator to obtain a
then expresses its collective opinion to books, news licence before re-publishing content in an
legislators, politicians and opinion leaders. reporting online news digest.
Such a task is hardly either a simple or You might read in some articles that this is
straightforward one in 2017and certainly not requires a tax and that it is going to make platforms
for the EU, nor the press as an institution. As significant and search engines pay for the re-use of
EPC executive director, Angela Mills Wade content, Mills Wade said. Theres nothing in
must take on the notoriously elaborate, even outlays of the proposal that mandates how any licence
labyrinthine EU on the side of the media resources, often agreement would be established and who pays
business. In a recent interview with me for or how much is paid. Its really about giving
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)s podcast long before any clarity in the market to the standing of
series Beyond the Book, she provided a publication. publishers, she insisted. Its been all too easy
shorthand recipe for sausage-making at the for aggregators or other companies to help
European Parliament. Angela Mills themselves to publishers content and reuse it
Getting your voice heard and influencing Wade without permission.
the course of legislation is no mean feat As they consider the copyright directive,
because its so multifaceted, Mills Wade explained. Mills Wade also urged European Parliament members to
Nevertheless, she considers the 751-member European acknowledge a need for transparency when users
Parliament a very open organisation. So normally speaking, copyrighted content is made available in online platforms such
its not difficult to meet the members who are taking decisions as Facebook. You do need the empowering of rights holders to
about your future through pieces of legislation. But on very deal with the changes that have taken place in the ecosystem, as
controversial issues like copyright reform, she noted, its very well as making sure that users are not disadvantaged in their
crowded, so there are many, many people seeking the time and own legitimate interests, Mills Wade said.
attention of the members. In her advocacy for the new neighbouring right for
Currently under review in Brussels is a European directive publishers, Mills Wade points out that quality journalism is
on copyright that aims to achieve a well-functioning potentially at risk. Like writing and publishing books, she said,
marketplace for copyright and the equitable sharing of the news reporting requires significant outlays of resources, often
value generated by the new forms of online content. The new long before any publication.
directive would replace one in force since 2001. If publishers who are employing professionally-trained
journalists cant afford to fund everything from foreign war-torn
Neighbouring right reporting to very local correspondence, it matters a lot, said Mills
Among the proposed measures is for a new related right that, Wade. Professional companies, employing professional
says the legislation, would put news publishers in a better journalists who have rights, but also responsibilitiesthats what
negotiating position when they contract with online services makes a difference when youre calling governments to account.
using and enabling access to their content and thus to better Christopher Kenneally is director, business development, at Copyright
fight piracy. Also called a neighbouring right, the new Clearance Center, and host of CCCs podcast series Beyond the Book.

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US Copyright Office in limbo?
A year after US Librarian of Congress Carla
Hayden removed Maria Pallante from her
post as Register of Copyrights, she has yet to
appoint a permanent replacementand if
some members of the US Congress have their
way, she never will, writes Andrew Albanese.
In April of this year, the US House of
Representatives passed the Register of
Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act
(H.R. 1695), which, if enacted, would block
Hayden from appointing the next Register
of Copyrights and instead transfer the Carla Hayden
authority to appoint the leader of the
Copyright Office from the Librarian of Congress to the
President, with Senate confirmation.
Supporters of the bill, including the Association of
American Publishers (which, in a twist, is now headed by
Maria Pallante), say the move is needed to help modernise
the US Copyright Office. Critics, however, say the law does
nothing to aid the modernisation effortit simply gives the
president more power over the Copyright Office, at the
behest of the entertainment industries, and over the strong
objections of library, tech and public advocacy groups.
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The bill came roughly six months after
Hayden ousted Maria Pallante from her post
as Register of Copyrights last October, a move
that outraged many in the entertainment
industry, who viewed Pallante as an ally, as well
as some members of Congress, who had been
working closely with Pallante on a review of
the nations copyright laws. Currently, former
deputy Karyn Temple Claggett is leading the
Copyright Office on an interim basis.
While the bill was rushed through the House
in April, it now appears stalled in the Senate,
where there has been no action since it was
introduced, in May. And sources say that while Hayden would
like to move forward with a permanent appointment, she is
holding off to avoid a battle with legislators.
But that doesnt mean the US Copyright Office is not
functioning, or that Hayden is not moving ahead with
modernisation efforts. During the recent appropriations process,
Congressional leaders reported that they were encouraged by
the collaborative work between the United States Copyright
Office (USCO) and the Library of Congresss Office of the Chief
Information Officers Office on modernisation efforts.
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Academic publishing: The sharing culture
Academic publishing and the wider
research community is no stranger to
adapting to and harnessing technological
changes, writes Steven Inchcoombe. Sir
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide
Web to enable scientists to share
information digitally. Academic Publishers
were then the first branch of publishing to
fully embrace the benefits of digital
content creation and distribution. Springer
Nature has digitised more than seven
million articles and more than 240,000 Steven Inchcoombe
books over the last decade so that they can
be held in perpetuity and accessed for the advancement
of science around the globe.
Despite Sir Tims intentions, probably we, as an industry,
have been too slow to acknowledge and embrace the
opportunities digital presents to researchers, not just in
how they access content but in how they can use the
content they have access to.
This is where Springer Natures focus and investment
has been over the past years as, in taking responsibility for
accepting and publishing an authors research, our
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primary duty is to make that research as
widely discoverable, accessible,
understandable, usable, reusable and
shareable as possible. For too long
sharing has been a difficult word in
academic publishing. Publishers encouraged
authors to share their articles, but these
were often in sub-optimal ways, with
readers unable to access the content they
needed. This led researchers to sharing
articles in dark ways which could not be
tracked by publishers, meaning that
publishers could not measure and report on
their usage to authors or the institutional libraries that
were ultimately paying for access to this content.
Significant investment
It could be argued that such reticence was understandable
given the need to protect and sustain the significant
investment publishers make in their authors and their
manuscriptsfrom pre-submission in helping them unlock
ideas, finding the right journal for their research, and
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providing early editorial guidance so that The more digital advance and developments in open
the work submitted is the best it possibly science as initially evidenced by the launch
can be, through rigorous quality assurance [sharing of of BioMed Central as the first
processes, including peer review, to ensure research] the commercially viable open access publisher
the published research stands up to the in 2000, and more recently by the rapid
highest level of scrutiny, to publication of better, providing expansion of Springer Natures OA
the research itself, and the maintenance and it is done in ways choices. With more and more funders
development of their access platforms. stipulating the need to publish open access
But at Springer Nature we try to think that enable us to as a requirement to receive their funding,
differently. Fundamentally we believe we fulfil our it is beholden on publishers to ensure this
work at the behest of our authors and as the is possible and Springer Nature has been
ability to share their work, access works of responsibilities to the fastest and most effective in delivering
others in their field and beyond, and know our authors and on this need.
where and how their work is being used is I am delighted that Springer Nature has
now critical to the life of a researcher, it to institutional risen to this challenge and today offers the
needs to be critical to us as well. No longer libraries. most open access options to authors of
does our work stop at publication; it is research articles, and more of them utilise
where the next phase of our responsibility begins. this than with any other publisher. Approximately 27% of
all research published by us is now published under an
Open access open access model.Amazingly, wherethe corresponding
With this belief now embedded across the company, we (main) author is from the UK, approaching 80% of articles
have focused on two main areas to aid our authors in we will publish this year will have been published Gold
this regard. The first area is providing more ways to OA. This means the research is immediately openly
publish open access. In recent years options to speed up accessible to all who wish to read it, making the transition
the dissemination of research have increased, driven by to OA happening reality.

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Sharing research Our primary In addition to enabling content sharing by

However, we dont believe this is sufficient. authors and subscribers, SharedIt facilitates
As mentioned earlier, research needs to be as duty is to make... the sharing of research to these wider
discoverable, accessible, understandable, research as widely communities by enabling more than 200 key
usable, reusable and as shareable as possible. media outlets and blogs to link to free-to-
SharedIt was developed with exactly this discoverable, read versions of research articles. This media
purpose in mind and underlines our accessible, list has been significantly expanded to
commitment to enabling new research coincide with the expansion of the initiative
findings to be read by those who support understandable, across the Springer Nature portfolio. Many
and enable research, by those who help these usable, reusable on this media list are aimed at the public,
findings to be applied for the benefit of all, including the BBC, the Economist, WIRED
as well as by the interested wider public. and shareable as and the New York Times, and the list also
SharedIt allows authors to post links to possible. includes many leading science bloggers.
view-only, full-text subscription research So when people ask whether we as a
articles anywhereincluding on social media platforms, publisher are scared about the amount of sharing going on,
author websites, scholarly collaboration networks, in our response is simply the more the better providing it is
institutional repositories, even via email, allowing done in ways that enable us to fulfil our responsibilities to
researchers to share their own and others research with our authors and to institutional libraries. We are not
colleagues and general audiences. SharedIt was rolled out publishing groundbreaking research to see it unused. We
to all of the Springer Nature-owned journals and more want to advance discovery by allowing the up-to-date
than 1,000 additional co-owned and partner-owned scientific record to be accessed, shared, used and re-used,
journals in October 2016, and now covers more than 2,300 and allow authors and librarians to track usage across an
journals. Im proud that in the first half of 2017 it has increasingly fragmented collection of platforms, and we will
facilitated three million article shares, so its clearly valued continue developing new ways to enable this to happen.
by the research community. Steven Inchcoombe is chief publishing officer, Springer Nature.

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The contribution of bookselling Britain

In my first year as president of the
Booksellers Association (BA), writes
Rosamund de la Hey, I was determined to
bring booksellers and publishers closer
together to better understand each others
businesses, to persuade the CEOs and senior
staff of the major publishers to get out of
London and experience life behind a till,
unpacking boxes, stacking shelves,
reconciling invoices (oh the glamour!) and
the myriad other things that make up a
booksellers working day. The challenge Rosamund de la Hey
thrown down at last years conference was,
Im pleased to say, taken up with enthusiasm by publishers,
and to date more than 40 senior publisher staff have visited
more than 20 bookshops from Edinburgh to East
Grinstead Sherborne to Bakewell.
In the past couple of years, Ive had the good fortune to
visit many wonderful bookshops in the US while attending
the American Booksellers Association Winter Institute,
from the Book Bar in Denver to Wild Rumpus in
Minneapolis. I may be biased, but I do believe that
Bookshop Tourism exists.
Book-lovers dont need to come to
bookshops to buy books. We have great
customer service, but so do our online
competitorsalbeit within a fairly dry
definition. And yes, there are people who
consciously want to support the high street,
but most of our customers come into our
bookshops and buy our books for one
reason only: they enjoy the experience.
At the Mainstreet Trading Company, back in
2012, we worked with nine other bookshops in
the Scottish Borders to create the Borders Book
Trail, which was aimed squarely at consumers
and was very well received by visitors to the area. Bookshops
are, I would say, already a leisure destination. Im sure there is
more we can all do locally and nationally, as a community of
bookshops, to put ourselves squarely on the tourist map.
It was travel that fostered my lifelong love of audio books
(born of many long car journeys home to Scotland), so Im
delighted to see their renaissance in the market. A few years
ago the conventional wisdom was that this train had left the
station. The days when the BBC Radio Collection titles were
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backlist perennials for booksellers had gone forever as the
world turned to downloads. And yet the long-format boxed
CD set is covetable, and people, lots of people, are buying
them. CD sales per title are on the increase and publishers
are well aware of the potential of audio and are doing some
great and innovative things with it. I would ask that
publishers dont write off CDs, but view them on the same
P&L as downloads, perhaps even sharing some of the set up
costs with marketing. More than one publisher has indicated
to me that working this way can support the economics of
CDsits a growing market and we booksellers would very
much like to re-join the party.
As in the US, some UK publishers are supporting new and
existing bookshops in creative ways. HarperCollins
launched their Indie Initiative Project this year with grants
for booksellers creating, among other things, pop-up
bookshops in rural communities, YA silent discos and
multilingual story-times. I urge other publishers to take up
the challenge and embrace this energy evident on the high
streetin many cases, against the odds.
A key part of this years BA Conference was the launch of
Bookselling Britain, a report by the CEBR (the Centre for
Economics and Business Research) commissioned by the BA,
detailing the economic contribution that British booksellers
make in the face of some formidable obstacles. The BA
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continues to lobby Westminster and Brussels for fairness in
the market, a fair deal for booksellers and against the unfair
competitive advantages that Amazon enjoys. This new
report provides us with hard economic evidence of the
contribution that Bookselling Britain makes to the whole
book industry, to society, to the economy and to the nation.
BA CEO, Tim Godfray, used the Parliamentary reception
that we held in July to get the message across to MPsand to
the pressabout the potential impact of rate rises. He
pointed out that if just half of the bookshops facing a 10%
or greater rate-rise were to go out of business as a result, 275
towns could find themselves without a bookshop. This
message struck a chord, and was repeated and discussed
through the national media. And, when news of Amazons
paltry tax returns were made public a few weeks later, the
same national media were vocal in their support of
bookshops. We continue to argue that in 2017 the business
rates system is no longer fit for purpose.
Our message at the Parliamentary reception was also very
much about what booksellers do to promote reading for
pleasureespecially among children. As Philp Pullman said,
booksellers are the lantern bearers of civilisation, and we
are grateful to him for shining a light on the cultural
contribution they make to their communities. 
Rosamund de la Hey is president of the Booksellers Association.
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Googlization author tackles Facebook
How best to describe the worlds budding
relationship with Facebook? To borrow
one of the companys infamous lines: Its
complicated.
In his forthcoming book, University of
Virginia Media Studies professor Siva
Vaidhyanathan, who took on Google in his
2010 book The Googlization of
Everything, has now turned his attention to
Facebook. The book is tentatively titled
Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Has
Disconnected Citizens and Undermined Siva Vaidhyanathan
Democracy, and is set to be published in the
US by Oxford University Press in September 2018.
Vaidhynathan is represented by Sam Stoloff, of the
Frances Goldin Literary Agency.
The rise of fake newsand Facebooks role in
disseminating ithas been a hot topic in recent weeks, as an
investigation seeks to uncover the extent to which Russia-
backed internet trolls meddled in the 2016 US election. But
Vaidhyanathan says his community of scholars has been
tracking how Facebook has been used for propaganda and
disinformation for years, both through manipulation of its
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frustrating is that all of these problems are
pretty much baked into the model of
Facebook. The world is taking notice now
because that model has been scaled up to
such a degree, with some two billion using it.
Vaidhyanathan hopes to offer some points of reference
for understanding how Facebooks rapid growth cuts
across our most valued institutions, much as he did for
Googlea tall order considering each companys
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Google is Google, and Facebook is Facebook, and
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The first Hindi bestseller lists

As Nielsens recent Indian Book Market Report shows, the
Indian book market is extremely diverse, writes Jo Henry.
While there are many publishers who print only in vernacular
languages, the local-language publishing industry is a largely
unorganised segment in India. Hindi is the largest vernacular-
language publishing segment, with more than 40% of the
population speaking Hindisome 480m consumers. However,
as one trade publisher said: The vernacular-language segment
is definitely growing, especially Hindi. But this segment is very
price sensitive.
In August 2017, in an attempt to understand more about the
Hindi-language market, Nielsen Book India launched a Hindi Left to right: Mr Tarun Gupta, Mr Sanjay Gupta and Mr Narendra Kohli
bestseller list measuring sales in three different categories: celebrating the launch of Nielsen BookScan-Dainik Jagrams new Hindi
Bestseller List
adult fiction, adult non-fiction and books in translation.
For the first ever Hindi Bestseller List, the April-June 2017 to be as useful as possible for the industry, the information
sales of relevant books (published in Hindi on or after 1 supplied by each bookstore included ISBN, quantity sold, net
January 2011) were included, with sales data collected from price sold at and the time/date of the sale. The ISBN is matched
80 bricks-and-mortar bookshops from 39 Hindi speaking to Nielsens bibliographic database to validate and identify the
towns across India on a monthly basis. In addition, all data book, and to ensure that the new bestseller lists provide the
already collected on Hindi book sales through the BookScan high-quality information commensurate with the information
system, including online retailers, was collated, with data already being produced via Nielsen BookScan India.
aggregated to produce robust quarterly bestseller lists. In order The initiative is supported by Dainik Jagran, the flagship
newspaper brand from Jagran Prakashan, one of Indias
Nielsen BookScan-Dainik Jagram: Hindi Bestseller Lists, leading media companies operating in a number of spheres
April-June 2017: Top five in order of sales including print, digital, radio, advertising and marketing. The
ADULT FICTION bestseller lists will be printed in the Dianik Jagran on a
TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER quarterly basis, and are part of Dainik Jagrans campaign:
Dilli Darbaar Vyas, Satya Hind Yugm Westland Hindi hain hum (We Are Hindi).
Banaras Talkies Vyas, Satya Hind Yugm
The first lists reveal a fascinating insight into just what
books the Hindi consumer is buying these days, with one
Musafir Cafe Dubey, Divya Prakash Hind Yugm Westland
publisherHind Yugm Westlanddominating the fiction
Namak Swadanusar Sachan, Nikhil Hind Yugm
bestseller list and Westland Ltd dominating the translation
Prem Kabootar Kaul, Manav Hind Yugm Westland book list, where the author Amish Tripathi held positions 2, 3,
4 and 5.
ADULT NON-FICTION
A ceremony was held on 24 August in New Delhi to unveil
TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER
the very first Hindi bestseller lists, with guests from all areas of
Main Mann Hoon Trivedi, Deep Aatman Innovations
the Indian book market attending, including the CEO of
Meri Kahaani Meri Trivedi, Deep Aatman Innovations Jagran Prakashan Group and editor-in-chief of Dainik Jagran,
Jubani Krishna
Sanjay Gupt, and the Senior Vice President of Jagran
Musafir Badra, Bashir Manjul Publishing Prakashan Group, Basant Rathore. Sanjay Gupt welcomed the
House
new initiative, saying: There is a popular belief that English is
Kahani Communisto Ki Deo, Sandeep Bloomsbury
overpowering Hindi in India. We wanted Hindi, and the
Kuchh Ishq Kiya Kuchh Mishra, Piyush Rajkamal Prakashan people and culture related to it, to get their due honour. Its
Kam Kiya
important to honour the literature in order to honour the
TRANSLATED BOOKS language itself. We joined hands with Nielsen in order to bring
TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER
a transparent and credible list based on international
methodology. The second Hindi bestseller lists will be
Devlok Devdutt Pattanaik, Devdutt Penguin Grp
Pattanaik Ke Sang published in November 2017.
The translation of books into regional languages is an
Meluha Ke Mritunjay Tripathi, Amish Westland Limited
important market that caters to a vast diversity of people in the
Vayuputrom Ki Shapath: Tripathi, Amish Westland Limited
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country. However, there are a few specialised categories like
books on defence and illustrated books that are generally
Ikshvaku Ke Vanshaj Tripathi, Amish Westland Limited
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The French connection
For the first time since 1989,
France is the 2017 Frankfurt
Book Fair Guest of Honour
and the timing could not be
more important. Amid
cultural, political and
business challenges, this
years Guest of Honour
programme will highlight
not only great books and
authors, but also a crucial
European partnership Fabrice Piault
between two countries
which, in light of the UKs 2016 decision to leave the
European Union, are playing an even greater role in
shaping the future of Europe. Ahead of this years Fair,
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)s Christopher
Kenneally sat down with Livres Hebdo editor-in-chief
Fabrice Piault to get his take on Frances turn in the world
publishing spotlight.
CK: Last year, the French book market was up overall by
about 4%but in the trade and retail sector, it was really
less than 1%. Still, I imagine that flat sales are considered a
positive result. Is that how you would see things right now?
FP: Last year was positive. There has been an increase in
sales, but this mainly comes from education books. From
the beginning of this year, sales are down. And I think its
related to the [French presidential] election, actually.
People have spent a lot of time watching TV, reading
newspapers, or on the internet. It was an election that has
really mobilised all people. Macrons victory was not
expected, actually, at the beginning. And that was good for
the press, good for the media, and not so good for books.
CK: Give us a sense whats happening in the French
marketany trends, or titles doing particularly well?
FP: Yes. Actually, if you look at the top of the bestseller list,
there is a book from Raphalle Giordano called Your Second
Life Starts When You Understand That You Have Only One.
This book has been on the bestseller list for, I think, something
like a year and a half, and its really a huge success. I think its
very symbolic of a new type of literature [for the French
market]: feel-good books and popular literature. France is
well known for its high-quality literature. But usually in
France, the bestsellers of popular literature came from the
United States, which is still the case. But there is a French
popular literature emerging, which started maybe about two
years ago. We always had a few writers doing this type of
literature, like Marc Levy, or Guillaume Musso a little more
recently, and Katherine Pancol or Anna Gavalda. But now we
have dozens. And if you looked at the bestseller list this
summer, most of the 20 bestsellers are coming from this type
of bookpopular literature.
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CK: One of the things one Digital is not

notices wandering through
Paris is the number of so strong in
bookstores that continue to
exist. Would you say the
France, actually.
culture of reading continues It has never
to be strong here?
FP: I think the culture of been so
reading remains strong, but important.
we are seeing, over the long
term, a decrease of the
Fabrice Piault
number of really big readers, readers who read more than 20
books a year. This number is going down. But at the same
time, there is an increase of the number of people reading
one or two books a year. That means its a bit more difficult
now for high-quality literature, but at the same time, it
opens new windows, new possibilities, new opportunities for
popular literature or the type of how-to-do books and so on.

CK: Are people reading those books in print, in digital, or

a mixture of both?
The International
FP: Digital is not so strong in France, actually. It has never
been so important. Its not like in the United States or in the
UK. For literature, about maybe 4% or 5% of books are
Excellence Awards
read digitally, though in some categories, it can be much Born from a desire to showcase developments
more. For romance, for example, its much more. For
around the world, these prestigious awards
fantasy also, its 10%, 15% or even 20%. It can be much
more for these categories. celebrate new voices, innovative design, cutting
edge technology, and ground breaking initiatives.
CK: In a recent interview, Frankfurt Book Fair CEO
London is the perfect home for an event that
Juergen Boos told me the Guest of Honour programme this
year is about more than just books and authors, and that it recognises achievement in all corners of the
is also an opportunity to express Franco-German solidarity, globe, being as it is the global creative hub that
and support for the European project. What are your attracts talent from around the world.
expectations, and what do you hear about the expectations
among publishers?
FP: There is a political context this year related to the
election of Macron, as Macron is maybe the first important
political person and president who really defends Europe,
and is in favour of Europe. In many European countries,
politicians always like to say Europe is responsible for
18 Awards
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every bad thing in their countries. Now, in France, we have TRANSLATION
a president who wants to build something in Europe. So it TO DIVERSITY IN
is an opportunity to strengthen our links with Germany PUBLISHING
there is a sort of Franco-German axis, which is a little
centre of Europe now, especially as the UK is going out
with Brexit. Thats the context.
If you look at the publishing side, there are very ancient ENTER NOW AT:
and important links between the German and French
publishing industries. First, we share the same idea of how www.londonbookfair.co.uk/awards
you can sell books. We both have fixed price [laws for
books]. We both trust in the importance of booksellers and
independent booksellers. During the Frankfurt Book Fair,
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f Continued from page 37

there will probably be some discussions
about fixed price and about copyrights,
France is well are also what we call bandes dessines
[graphic novels] which represent one of the
author rights, etc. Especially in the digital known for its three most important [such markets] in the
world, and on the problems publishers face
with Google, with Amazon, and so on.
high-quality world beside the American and the Japanese
markets. So France has a lot to show, and
[France and Germany] often fight together literature But French publishers expect to show what they
in the European Union, and there is strong
cooperation between the two countries.
there is a French are doing now, and what they have changed
in the past years.
Thats important, I think. popular literature
There are also a lot of exchanges of rights.
emerging, CK: It sounds like the dynamism and the
German is the third most translated revolutionary tendencies of the last election
language in France after English and which started are being reflected in the French publishing
Japanese (because of Manga, mainly). Also, business. Do you think that were going to
Germany is among the [top five] countries
maybe about see some revolutionary changes in French
buying rights from France. I think French two years ago. publishing, in the same way that weve seen
publishers will want to develop their sales such changes on the political scene?
this year, which I think they will do. Many
Fabrice Piault FP: Well, its difficult to say. I think there are
authors are already going to Germany, and there are many many changes coming, with more young publishers, and new
meetings organised that will probably help to develop publishing houses. And yes, we see a lot of dynamism with
French literature in Germany. new trends. But in France, as everywhere in the world, the
In addition, I think its an opportunity for France to show book industry is not expanding a lot. Its a mature industry.
that its publishing industry has changed. I talked about the So we cant expect a revolution. But a renewal? Certainly.
development of French popular literature, but there is also a
Christopher Kenneally hosts the weekly Beyond the Book podcast series from
renewal of the human sciences. Childrens publishing is very,
Copyright Clearance Center. He can be reached at chrisk@copyright.com. To listen
very dynamic, and its well-known for its innovation. There to the unabridged version of this interview, visit www.BeyondTheBook.com.

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Publishing in an Unpredictable World:
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Budget cuts: US
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For US public libraries, 2017 has been the year of living
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eliminating federal funding for libraries in its initial budget
documents, writes Andrew Richard Albanese. But it appears
that neither the American publicnor Congresssupports the
presidents desire to gut library support. Following an intense,
grassroots campaign by library supporters, the House of
Representatives last month passed a package of FY2018
spending bills that includes full funding for libraries.
The $1.2 trillion FY2018 budget bill (H.R. 3354) passed on
16 September by a 211-198 margin, and included funding for the
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which Trump
proposed to eliminate entirely, and all programmes IMLS
administers through the Library Services and Technology Act
about $183.6 million, largely doled out as grants to states. In
addition, the House approved $27 million for the Department of
Educations Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) programme.
The crucial vote comes just three months after American
Library Association (ALA) officials told librarians at the ALAs
annual National Legislative Day that libraries were facing the
challenge of a lifetime.
ALA officials said librarians and their supporters made a
crucial difference by reaching out to lawmakers and expressing
library supportincluding an unprecedented advocacy effort
from the publishing community. More than 90 publishers
joined an organisation co-founded by Gale Cengage and the
ALA called the Corporate Committee for Library Investment.
In a letter to Congress, the publishers were united by the
common belief that Americas libraries are business-building,
job-creating, workforce-preparing engines of the US economy
in every corner of the country.
The budget battle is far from over, however, as the US Senate
will eventually take up a budget measure of its own. But
library funding enjoys strong support in the Senateand ALA
officials say libraries could even see a boost in the Senates
budget bill. The key, ALA officials stress, is remaining engaged,
continuing to reach out to lawmakers.

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BABY LOVE
a Ray Myers Mystery
Ronald Argo
HotDamn University Press
ISBN 9780996980210
In this dramatic and gripping
Library Journal 1st Place Mystery,
reporter Ray Myers discovers a desert
massacre, and babies missing. He ties
up with renegade smuggler Maggie
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Natalie Lovett
Lexies Village Publishing Pty Ltd
ISBN 9780992401559
You wont be able to put this book
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The Gummy Bear Book
Dan Golden
Knock Knock
ISBN 9781683490111
Satisfy your visual sweet tooth with
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bears captured behind the scenes in
their natural habitat. Featuring forty-
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The Gummy Bear Book is irresistibly
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Sense of Touch
Rozsa Gaston
Renaissance Editions
ISBN 9780984790623
A romance and an interesting novel
about a little-known French queen.
A striking story of heartache and
forbidden love, of women in the 15th
century French court, who fought
with passion and determination for
what they wanted.Historical Novel
Society
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linda@schulmanagency.com
www.schulmanagency.com
Chasing Nirvana
Ellyn Oaksmith
Emoticon Publishing
ISBN 9781549739347
A girl, a band & a dream. In 1993 a
young lesbian named Fran is about
to graduate from Aberdeen High in
Washington State. Her comfortably off
the radar life turns public when shes
nominated for prom queen. Fran &
four friends road trip to a California
concert, sneak backstage & ask
Foreign/Film rights available
October 2017
Nirvana to come home to play prom.
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