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  What Statistical Publishing Research Do You Need Most?

  559 readersBy Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief At Publishing Perspectives we’re constantly working to improve our services to publishers, authors, agents and others involved in the book business. Statistical research and data is something everyone needs. While you can get approximate sales figures from Nielsen, market data from the BISG, and a host of other slices of the business,

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  Can Crowdsourcing Help Publishers Pick Books to Translate?

  570 readersTranslations into English have been bottlenecked due to the limited number of editors who read foreign languages. By Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief Today’s feature story looks inside the “crowdsourced editorial” process of UK publisher And Other Stories. The company enlists reading groups to help them decide which books to translate and publish. In the piece, writer Amanda DeMarco notes

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  Survival Tips for the Frankfurt Book Fair

  1856 readersBy Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief Visitors at the Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair starts in a little more than ten days, so are you prepared? Of course not. You really can’t totally prepare for Frankfurt, you just have to give in to the experience. Well, over the years we’ve shared some of our own hard won

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  Is Fanfiction a Legitimate Genre?

  859 readersCopyright infringement? Or something altogether unique? By Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief Today’s feature story asks: “What can trade publishers learn from fanfiction?” Fifty Shades of Grey started off as Twilight fanfiction, using the characters of Edward and Bella as a template and then added sex. Now that the books have sold over 12 million copies through their “legitimate” publisher, Vintage

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  360-Degree Perspective, 365 Days a Year

  1662 readersBy Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-chief I’m delighted that this is Publishing Perspectives’ third year publishing show dailies at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Looking back on the past three years, you can see just how much has changed in publishing, and how much remains the same. Some of the topics that made headlines years ago—e-books, e-readers, territoriality, rights—are

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  Which Tools or Services Do You Rely On to Create E-books?

  1030 readersWhich tools or services do you rely on and recommend to create, publish and distribute e-books? By Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief Today’s feature story looks at Booktype, an open source tool offered by Berlin-based nonprofit developer Sourcefabric. It is one of but dozens of viable solutions available to authors and publishers. With the ongoing proliferation of platforms —

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  SURVEY: Do Publishers Have an Obligation to Challenge Convention?

  950 readersBy Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief Today’s feature story is an editorial from Neal Maillet, Editorial Director, Berrett-Koehler Publishers discussing why he chooses to publish books by whistleblowers. In the piece, he argues: I can’t think of a better test for one’s publishing backbone. We publish plenty of books we know will sell well from the first read. You could

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  SURVEY: How Much of Your Book Consumption is Digital?

  609 readersBy Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief E-readers at the Tokyo Book Fair 2011 Routinely in these pages you’ll read survey results from around the world about the increasing consumption of digital books. As today’s feature story looks at the evolution of publishing from print to digital formats, we’d like to get a sense from you, our readers, what percentage

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  What Childhood Books Do You Still Cherish as an Adult?

  902 readersBooks that hit us at a tender, impressionable age can stay with us forever. What are yours? By Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief In today’s feature children’s story author and editor Steve Cole looks back on his lifelong passion for Dr. Who. He is so committed to the books and storyline that he ended up working as series editor

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  Publishing Perspectives at BEA – Get in Touch

  1358 readersBy Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief BookExpo America next week from June 5-7. We’ll be there with our team of editors and reporters to meet with the top professionals from the United States and around the world. If you’d like to meet with one of our team, please contact: Edward Nawotka for general international, trade, STM, education and digital publishing