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(01) The London Book Fair 2015 kicks off with its Guest of Honour, venerable cookbook author and television star Mary Berry CBE, who turned up at Olympia for the official opening of the fair and to welcome its international delegates at the Opening Ceremony. (02) Meanwhile, radio DJ and television presenter Chris Evans, whose third volume of memoirs, Call the Midlife! (Orion), is due out later this year, opens The Club at The Ivy at LBF. (03) Fairgoers find their bearings at the
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fair’s new home, exploring publishers’ stands in the Olympia Conference Centre in west London. (04) The White Rabbit from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland makes an appearance at Pan Macmillan’s stand, as the publisher commemorates the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s tale by launching a new dedicated website,
www.aliceinwonderland150.com. (05) Aspiring authors get an overview of the publishing industry in a seminar held at the fair’s Author HQ area.
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thebookseller.com 08 TUESDAY 04.2014 NEWS US confidence sets LBF agenda BY THE BOOKSELLER NEWS TEAM
A buoyant US market will set the agenda at the 2014 London Book Fair, with a strong Stateside presence driving a wave of deals. US agents have said that the
country’s successful handling of the transition to digital has been key in boosting spirits across the Atlantic. Recent statistics from the Association of American Publishers showed that e-book sales growth had slowed: adult trade e-books brought in $1.3bn in revenue in 2013, up 3.8% year on year, compared to a year-on-year rise of 38.5% in 2012. Robert Gottlieb, chairman of
New York-based Trident Media Group, said: “I’ll be in London with five agents, and we’re feeling bullish about the work we can do here, with some big deals on the cards. The market in the US remains very strong and there’s no question that the strength of digital is working on a lot of levels for publishers— whether it’s monetising backlist titles or keeping down overheads. In the UK, there’s a way to go, but I think it will catch up.” Andrew Wylie of The Wylie
Agency agreed, saying: “Things have moved faster in the US . . . things are clearer”. He added that he expected having the advantage of a more developed market would underpin a buoyant fair. “I’ve just
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Blackwell’s unveiled a new “multi- million-pound” digital learning service for students at the London Book Fair yesterday (8th April). The platform, called Blackwell
come back from a trip around Europe and I was pleased to see that people were fairly optimistic,” he said. Several UK agents and publishers said they were expecting a strong influence from the US at this year’s fair. “It seems there are many more American publishers coming this year, which is a good sign,” Ed Victor Ltd agent Sophie Hicks said. Toby Mundy, publisher at
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Sceptre has signed a further two novels on the eve of the fair from author David Mitchell, together with a sequel to The Reason I Jump, a translation by Mitchell and his wife of the memoir of autistic teen Naoki Higashida. Publishing director Carole Welch bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown. The sequel will be published in 2015, while the first of the novels will be out in 2018. US rights to the three books were acquired for Random House by vice-president and executive editor David Ebershoff.
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Since acquiring SBS Worldwide last year, DSV, the world’s sixth largest logistics company, has greatly strengthened its expertise in the publishing supply chain. Former SBS chairman Steve Walker and members of his team have joined DSV to continue the ground breaking developments that SBS was well known for in enhancing distribution centres and supply chains for both publishers and printers. The introduction of slip-sheets is the latest innovative move that will help publishers reduce supply chain costs and cut carbon emissions. One publisher which is currently trialling the slip-sheets is Harper Collins UK. Slip-sheets take up significantly less room than traditional pallets, allowing up to 15% more books to be stacked into the sea freight container. If all goes well in the trials, Harper Collins will transition its Glasgow operation over to slip-sheets by 1 June 2014. Mike Levaggi says: “This is a real opportunity to get the best of both worlds – the improved space utilisation of loose loading with the reduced handling and speed of palletised deliveries. This is a great example of collaboration between supplier and customer resulting in a true win-win. ” This innovative idea is just one of many that DSV/SBS has introduced to publishers’ supply chains.
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Atlantic Books, added: “There’s a strong contingent of Americans coming, and generally there is a bit more confidence.” Hannah Westland, publisher
Learning, has been in development for nine months by the UK bookseller’s new digital team, based at the “Silicon Roundabout” in east London. Blackwell Learning will sell
at Serpent’s Tail, said there was also a strong American theme to submissions. “Lots of American stuff is coming in. I think I’ve seen five American short-story collections in the past week—perhaps it’s the George Saunders effect?”
e-books and print books from all the major academic publishers, track detailed consumer insight data, and link with UK universities’ virtual learning environments, as well as supporting student bursary schemes. Matthew Cashmore, digital
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director for Blackwell’s, said that the company had consulted students and publishers before designing the device-agnostic service, which Cashmore claimed had made it “more user-friendly and user-focused, managed from the ground up” compared to Blackwell Learning’s competitors. Blackwell Learning will have a
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“significant” launch at institutions in June with a “huge marketing campaign” following in September, when students begin their first academic terms of the school year. When asked why the company had decided to take a digital direction, Cashmore said: “Blackwell’s has been operating as a bookseller for 135 years and the board of Blackwell’s feels very
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strongly that it has another 135 years ahead of it. It has always had to change throughout its history, and this is another example of that.” Cashmore also said that the
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company has several exclusive deals in place to provide universities and their departments with academic e-books, although he did not identify specific institutions. Cashmore did not reveal the exact level of funding that had gone into the platform either, but he said it had been a “multi-million pound” investment by the company. He said the platform was “ the first” digital product coming from the 17-strong Silicon Roundabout team, “but it is by no means the last”.
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Duchess of Cornwall to visit LBF today
The Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker-Bowles will make a surprise visit to LBF today (9th April), meeting agents, authors, publishers and representatives of various literacy charities. The Duchess is a keen supporter of literacy causes and is the patron of the National Literacy Trust and BookTrust. Meanwhile, it has been announced that the Duchess will contribute to a new children’s book about the First World War (see page three).
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