Germany’s Bookwire and Brazil’s Fênix Editorial join EDRLab (France)
Fênix Editorial (“both a publishing house and a technology company”) joins Bookwire...
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Category: Germany
Germany’s Frankfurt Book Fair under pressure as exodus gains momentum. GoH Canada seeks postponement. The Buchmesse is dead – Long live the Buchmesse redux
It’s not looking good for the Frankfurt Book Fair. While the Buchmesse has committed to going...
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Mapping the New Normal: As HarperCollins, Macmillan and Bonnier lead the Exodus, it’s time for the Frankfurt Book Fair to rethink its focus
The ink was barely dry on the Buchmesse statement announcing a hybrid in-person and virtual event...
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Sweden’s Gothenburg Book Fair plays safe with a 100% digital event as Frankfurt adopts a hybrid model many see as too high a risk
The month’s difference between the September Gothenburg Book Fair and the October Frankfurt Book...
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Publishers call the shots on Sweden’s Gothenburg Book Fair cancellation, adding to pressure on Frankfurt Buchmesse to deliver a game plan sooner than June
With the news today via Boktugg that Norstedts is out of the Gothenburg Book Fair, with other...
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Bookstore re-openings promise to be tortuous as these examples from Germany and USA show
In various parts of the world lockdown is slowly being eased, and as a low-risk business,...
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As the Bologna Children’s Book Fair prepares to go online, Frankfurt’s future is in question. The Buchmesse is dead. Long live the Buchmesse!
It all seemed so unlikely back as February began, with the coronavirus crisis still seemingly a...
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After the LBF and BEA fiascos, publishers demand better from book fair organisers. Gothenburg is first to feel the heat. Will Frankfurt be next?
With the Nordics’ biggest literary event, the Gothenburg Book Festival, scheduled for late...
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Bologna and BEA face inevitable cancellation. Frankfurt 2020 is on the at-risk list. Thailand’s Bangkok IBF moves online. Global publishing faces a watershed moment as digital takes centre-stage
Belgium’s Brussels Book Fair has traditionally been one of the least-noticed of the European...
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Amazon Ads now available to KDP authors in 6 countries
When Amazon first launched on-site advertising for authors it was limited to those in the US....
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The TNPS Week In Review: December 15-21
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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VAT on ebooks drops from 19% to 7% in Germany. UK continues to look the other way
Börsenblatt reports that from yesterday, December 18, the VAT rate for digital books fell from 19%...
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