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International publishing news & opinion • Read our daily coverage of the book industry and subscribe Publishingonline at Perspectives publishingperspectives.com • Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 • 1 NEWS & UPDATES FROM THE FAIR Lutz Seiler Wins 2014 German Book Prize

he German Bookseller and language with a hint of magic to and its worldliness.” TPublishers Association an- describe the summer of 1989 on “Writing and reading are in- nounced on Monday night the the island of Hiddensee—a ‘gate- timate endeavours, and authors 2014 winner of the German way to evanescence.’ The island are not known for seeking out the Book Prize: Lutz Seiler for his was a gathering place for eccen- spotlight in the same way that ac- debut novel, Kruso (published by trics, mavericks, freedom seek- tors do. When we award a prize of Suhrkamp). Seiler will receive this nature, we begin to take this 25,000 euros. GDR. One can read this compel- into consideration,” said Heinrich Jury members for the Ger- lingers, individualsRobinsonade looking involving to flee the Riethmüller, head of the Börsen- man Book Prize 2014 include: eponymous Kruso and the young verein des Deutschen Buchhan- Jens Bisky (Süddeutsche Zeitung), dishwasher Edgar as an eloquent dels, at the award ceremony. Katrin Hillgruber (independent tale of both a personal and his- “The novel selection process is a critic), Frithjof Klepp (Buchhan- toric shipwreck—and as a poet’s way of staging literature, but this dlung ocelot, Berlin), Susanne coming of age novel. The text de- is the only way to generate the Link (Buchhandlung Stephanus, velops its own unique sense of ur- kind of public attention that lit- Trier), Manfred Papst (NZZ am gency and, if nothing else, serves erature needs in order to make a Sonntag), Wiebke Porombka (in- as a requiem for the refugees who big enough impression alongside dependent critic) and Annemarie lost their lives while attempting Stoltenberg (NDR Kultur). to escape across the Baltic Sea. events.” • The following is the state- film, For music foreign and rights major inquiries, cultural ment from this year’s jury: “Lutz with its thoroughly distinct poet- contact Dr. Petra Hardt, Suhrkamp Seiler employs lyrical, sensual icLutz language, Seiler’s firstits sensual novel impresses intensity Verlag: [email protected].

Richard Charkin Q&A with Richard Charkin, Executive Director Executive Director, Bloomsbury of Bloomsbury and Future IPA President

Richard Charkin will deliver the keynote at today’s International Rights Directors Meeting and speak at the CONTEC conference.

By Hannah Johnson industry. It is important that we Be more open to experimenta- never forget that our common in- tion? Invest in new technology? PP: You will become Presi- terests are so much greater than RC: Yes. Yes. Yes. PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES dent of the International Publish- our differences. PP: At this year’s Rights Di- ers Association in January 2015. PP: As the publishing indus- rectors Meeting, you are speak- Contact us in Frankfurt: Hall 8.0, Room 48 try creates more digital content, ing about “The Future of Rights Phone: +49 (0)69 7575 71045 are looking forward to addressing protecting copyright becomes a in a Globalized World.” What im- inAre this there new specific role? issues that you bigger challenge. Should the pub- pact do you think it will have on Editor-in-Chief: Edward Nawotka Richard Charkin: Continu- lishing industry focus on building the business as more publishers Deputy Publisher: Hannah Johnson Managing Editor: Andrew Wilkins ing to support the excellent work more secure systems for content look to market and sell their own Business Development: Erin Cox done by IPA in ensuring protec- delivery and consumption? Pros- books abroad? tion of copyright, freedom of ecuting copyright violators? Edu- RC: I think publishers mar- Contributors: Juergen Boos expression, and promotion of lit- cating consumers on the impor- keting globally can only be a good Carlo Carrenho eracy and reading. The challenges tance of copyright protection? Or thing. The more the better. Mean- Adam Critchley for publishing in all sectors and something else? while the digital world opens up Kevin DiCamillo Vinutha Mallya in all regions have neither been RC: I don’t know what is the new opportunities for commerce Randy Petway more pressing nor more full of best way to protect digital con- in rights. • opportunity. tent from piracy, but I do know Photography: Johannes Minkus PP: When you became Vice that we must, as an industry, be Petra Hörnig President of the IPA in 2013, you forward- and outward-looking said that the IPA needs authors to and not be seen to be protection- Hear Richard Charkin speak at Distribution: support publishers “if we are to ist or Luddite. CONTEC on a panel called “Where Frank Hörnig continue to invest securely for the PP: Publishers are under Would You Place Your Bet?” today Connect with us online: future.” How can we work toward constant pressure to react faster at 10:45 in Hall 4.0, Room Europa. publishingperspectives.com that goal? to changing technology, consum- He will also deliver the key- Facebook.com/pubperspectives Twitter @pubperspectives RC: Since then there have er preferences, current events, note speech at the Rights Direc- been a number of author initia- and global trends. Does that mean tor’s meeting today at 14:10 in 72 Spring Street, 11th Floor tives in support of their and our we should publish books faster? Hall 4.2, Room Dimension. New York, NY 10012, USA

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SedSed utut perspiciatisperspiciatis undeunde omnisomnis isteiste In this column, each day of Rebels of Publishing chael K. Norris and Rory O’Neill, will perform live on stage. The natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam,readers eaque all ipsa over quae theab illo inventore veritatis the Book Fair, I will highlight 12:15 pm, CONTEC, Hall 4.0, Europa Marketing Director for the Euro- winner will be announced at the et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut some of the Business Club events In a Pecha Kucha-style pre- pean Telecommunication Opera- end of the session. fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem that I am most interested in. 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EtEt extremes to solve the problems 2:10 pm, International Rights isn’t always the case. Sometimes harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis Wake-up Call: Stop Calling it facing our industry today. Directors Meeting, Hall 4.2, it is simply a creative mind. Ken praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, Content! Dimension Suritte, Founder and CEO of WA- similique sunt in culpa qui offi cia deserunt mollitiamollitia animi,animi, idid estest laborumlaborum etetfuture dolorumdolorum fuga.asset.fuga. EtEt harumharum quidemquidem rerumrerum facilisfacilis estest etet 10:15 am, CONTEC, Hall 4.0, Europa Big Data’s Crystal Ball: Industry Richard Charkin, Executive TERisLIFE and Marga Kleinen- expedita distinctio. 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He currently Ideas Competition Presentation holds four principle engage- give predictions for the future of and Winner Announced Customer 3.0 ments: Music Director of MDR publishing.sity, will share his findings and 3:25 pm, CONTEC, Hall 4.0, Europa 4.30 pm, CONTEC, Hall 4.0, Europa Leipzig Radio Symphony Orches- As part of the “Hug the Alien” Launched in Japan, Rakuten tra, Chief Conductor of Gstaad Getting Beyond the Book: start-up program we launched has emerged as one of the world’s Find out more – Download our new white paper Festival Orchestra, Founder and Creating a New Digital Reading this year, The Digital Publish- fastest growing and successful e- http://www.schilling.dk/web/guest/where-would-you-place-your-bet-download Music Director of New York- Experience with Innovative ing Creative Ideas Competition commerce platforms. This inter- based Absolute Ensemble, and Mobile Technology (#dpc14) brings the best interna- view with Adrian Diaconu, Man- Founding Conductor of Baltic Sea 2:00 pm, CONTEC, Hall 4.0, Europa tional innovations in publishing aging Director, Rakuten Europe What does it mean for your business? – Book an inspirational meeting Youth Philharmonic (BYP). In this Porter Anderson, Associate together in an exciting Lightning and Kobo Europe, Luxembourg wake-up call, he is going to talk Editor of FutureBook, sits down Round of presentations. From a will highlight ways to empower http://www.schilling.dk/web/guest/whitepaper-inspiration-meeting Read more about how “content” has become with publishing research and longlist of 15 submissions (from the individuals who keep us in a bad word. communications consultant Mi- business—our customers. •

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10:00-10:30 Translation Nation Will Evans (Publisher, Deep Vellum), Michael Wise 10:00-10:30 Mission Transition Chris Fischbach (Publisher, Coffee House Press), (Co-Founder, New Vessel Press) Mark Dressler 10:30-11:00 Entering Asian Markets 10:30-11:00 How Karma and Cooperation Nancy Baumann (President, Bookarma) Eric Yang (President, Asia Pacific Publishers Boost Self-Publishing Successfully! Association), Linden Lin (Publisher, Linking Publishing), Trasvin Jittidecharak (Publisher, 11:00-11:30 Fight for Copyright: How Robert Levine (Author), Olav Stokkmo (Chief Silkworm Books) Publishing Can Show Support Executive, IFRRO) 11:00-11:30 The Digital Pulse in Educational Kjell Eldor (Digital Publishing Manager, Blackwell 11:30-12:00 Enter the Chinese Publishing China National Publications Import and Export Publishing Learning UK), Matthias Ick (Managing Director, Market with CNPIEC (Group) Corporation Macmillan Digital Education)

12:00-12:30 CNPeReading – Digital Gateway China National Publications Import and Export 11:30-12:00 Insights for Better Sales in a Bill Kennedy (Director, Avicenna), Claudia Kaiser (VP, to China (Group) Corporation Challenging Gulf Frankfurt Book Fair)

12:30-13:00 Discovering & Developing Talent Philippa Donovan (Founder, Smart Quill Editorial), 12:00-12:30 Foreign Rights: What’s Hot in Ola Gotkowska (Rights, Nosy Crow) in a Connected World Sophie Lambert (Literary Agent, Conville & Walsh) Eastern Europe & Far East

13:00-13:30 Reach Your Next 100M Customers Dan McFarland (CEO, Page Foundry) Amy 12:30-13:00 Finland’s Undiscovered Authors Tiia Stranden (Head of Literature Programme, FILI) – Partner with the News Carr (Development Editor, Chicago Tribune), 13:00-13:30 One of Our Own: Book Exec to Ananth Padmanabhan (SVP, Sales, Penguin Random HarperCollins, Kristen McLean (CEO, Bookigee) Bestselling Author House India) 13:30-14:00 Publishing Automation: Create 30 Chandi Perera (CEO, Typefi Systems) 13:30-14:00 Meet the Author: Dmitry Formats with 1 Click Dmitry Glukhovsky (Author) Glukhovsky 14:00-14:30 Consumer Insight & Global Louisa Livingston (Head of Consumer Insight, 14:00-14:30 Global Publishing: A Bird’s Eye Edward Nawotka (Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Research: Predictive Analysis Hachette UK), David Nygren (Director, Market View Perspectives) Insights, Global Research, Wiley) 14:30-15:00 Princeton University Press: Peter Dougherty (Director, Princeton University 14:30-15:00 The Big Debate: Mobile Phone Andreas von Lepel (CTO/Leitung App Entwicklung Extending the Global Reach Press) Reading iOS & Android, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger), Andrew Rushton (Assistant Publisher, NordSüd Verlag) 15:00-15:30 The Effect of Piracy Protection in Imke Reimers (Assistant Professor of Economics, Book Publishing Northeastern University), Devon Weston (Senior 15:00-15:30 How to Successfully Publish Apps Bastei Lübbe Across the World Manager, Business Development, Digimarc) 15:30-16:00 Author: How Do You Best Care 15:30-16:00 How Grove Atlantic Gets its Morgan Entrekin (President and Publisher, Rita Merienne (Author), Yvonne Heitz (Author) For Your Aged Loved Ones? Groove Grove/Atlantic Books)

16:00-16:30 Beautiful Books: The Importance James Jones (Senior Designer, Penguin Random of Good Design House UK)

16:30-17:00 Digital Content for the Next Andreas von Lepel (CTO, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger), Generation Andrew Rushton (Asst. Publisher, NordSüd Verlag) Saturday, 11 October 2014 Time Title Speakers

10:00-10:30 Trends in Global Self-Publishing Edward Nawotka (Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives) Thursday, 9 October 2014 10:30-11:00 Self-Publishing Process: Step-By- Alison Baverstock (Associate Professor of Publishing, Time Title Speakers Step Best Practices Kingston University) 11:00-12:00 From Start to Success: Learn to Julia Coblentz (Senior Marketing Manager, NOOK) 10:00-10:30 Small Shops: Big Books Bruce McPherson (Publisher, McPherson & Co), Erika Self-Publish with NOOK Press Goldman (Publisher, Bellevue Literary Press) 12:00-12:30 Marketing for Self-Published Lynn Isenberg (Author), Joanna Penn (Author), 10:30-11:00 New Publishing Models to John Bond (Head of Publishing Strategy, Whitefox), Authors Victoria Sutherland (Publisher, Foreword Reviews), Promote Established Publishing Julia Kingsford (Founder, Kingsford Campbell) moderated by Alison Baverstock Values 12:30-13:00 Authoright: Every Author Needs Gareth Howard (CEO and Co-Founder, Authoright), 11:00-11:30 Publishing Educational Material Anna Rimba Phoa (Managing Director, Mentari an A-Team Hayley Radford (Director of Marketing and Co- in Indonesia Books), in conversation with Claudia Kaiser (VP, Founder, Authoright) Frankfurt Book Fair) 13:00-13:30 Mini-Ignite! Session on Self- Authorbuddies.com, Upspringer, Reedsy, moderated 11:30-12:00 Thrilling Bestseller Rights as a Jussi Keinonen (Director, I Remes), Dr. Ari Hiltunen Publishing Start-ups by Edward Nawotka Business Investment (Director, Mind Control Ltd) 13:30-14:30 Self-Publishing Success with Kobo Camille Mofidi (European Manager, Kobo Writing 12:00-12:30 Big Data: Mining the Equity Michael Tamblyn (President & Chief Content Officer, Writing Life Life) Hiding In Your List Kobo) 14:30-15:00 Author Success Stories Kit Berry (Author), Dmitry Glukhovsky (Author), Orna 12:30-13:00 Betting on the Future of Books: John Ingram (Chairman and CEO, Ingram Content Ross (Founder, Alliance of Independent Authors), Ingram’s Next Chapter Group) moderated by Alison Baverstock

13:00-13:30 Kids Publishing: Nuances of the Zoe Walton (Publisher – Children’s and Young Adult 15:00-15:30 Translation and Foreign Rights for Matthias Matting (Journalist and Author), Book Case Australian Market Books, Random House Australia) Self-Publishers Literary Agency, moderated by Alison Baverstock

13:30-14:00 Organizing Publishing Structures Philip Kisray (VP International Development, Wiley) 15:30-16:00 A Roadmap, The ABCs Of Bringing Robin Cutler (Senior Manager, Independent Authors, Around the Consumer Books to Market Ingram Content Group)

14:00-14:30 Children’s Books and Book Barbara Marcus (President and Publisher, Children’s 16:00-17:00 Drinks and networking reception Markets: What’s Hot Division, Random House) The program on Saturday, 11 October is tailored for self-publishers and indie authors. 14:30-15:00 Storytelling & Memory: A Finnish Selja Ahava (Author), Markus Nummis (Author) Literary Discussion

15:00-15:30 The Effect of Piracy Protection in Imke Reimers, (Assistant Professor of Economics, Book Publishing Northeastern University) Devon Weston (Senior Manager, Business Development, Digimarc) Innovation Partner: 15:30-16:00 Publishing Tools for Real People Michael Kowalski (CEO, Contentment), John Pettigrew (CEO, Cambridge Publishing Solutions)

16:00-16:30 German-Language Literature in Katharina Bielenberg (MacLehose Press), Charlotte the Anglophone World Ryland (new books in german), Daniel Slager (Milkweed Editions), Riky Stock (German Book Office NY), Bernd Zabel (Goethe-Institut)

16:30-17:00 Sourcing the Crowd: Publishing Philip Jones (Editor, The Bookseller), Dan Kieran Unbound (CEO, Unbound), Isobel Frankish (Managing Editor, Unbound)

6 • Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 • Publishing Perspectives FROM THE EDITOR

DAILY EDITORIAL: When Publishing Begins to Look Like a Bad Relationship

By Edward Nawotka, to no say in the matter—in pub- publishers leveraging the tradi- Editor-in-Chief lishing, it’s the authors. They are tional industry for distribution the ones dependent on these two and services and traditional pub- ften, in relationships, there to get along and maintain a happy lishers cherry-picking bestsellers Ocomes a time when partners household. Yet, the longer the and borrowing from the indepen- go their separate ways. It’s not al- dent publishing business model. ways a lack of love that kills the done to those who deserve it the The question is whether ei- relationship, but sometimes it’s a least.fight continues, the more harm is ther of these relationships, which focus on one’s own interests and, Or take self-publishing vs. are based on thinning founda- more often, there is also a lack of traditional publishing. For years tions of mutual self-interest, can respect for the other’s position. now, there has been nothing but survive. And if they don’t, who Unfortunately, all too often these a war of words between the two. might be impacted the most? Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives days, publishing is starting to Self-publishers have accused tra- Is it readers, those who will look like a bad relationship. ditional publishers of being ar- be given a choice between mil- Take the headline-grabbing rogant gatekeepers—the person lions of low-cost titles feeding the story of 2014 in the United States: at the party everyone wanted to popular culture on one end, and a periment, to take the time to look Amazon vs. Hachette. dance with but who remained thinning list of pricey, profession- inside themselves, meet new For starters, we really only aloof. On the other side, tradi- ally vetted titles—ones that ide- people—be they writers or read- know what they are telling their tional publishing has been look- ally, are intended to advance the - friends in the media, but we do ing at self-publishers, or rather, literary culture—on the other? ally want. not really know what is hap- independent publishers, as, well, Or is it the writers or pub- ers—andMaybe find after out a time what they they will re pening behind closed doors. We lishers or booksellers themselves, would be naïve not to think that whom no one wanted to dance. the ones who crave stability and each other. What they really want the wallflowerNow, the one at the who party was with so reliability in order to get their isfind to thatbe together.what they That really making want isit going on for years and has only aloof has shown their vulnerable day-to-day jobs done? work is better than being apart. nowsome gone kind public. of conflict But as has is often been - Maybe in some cases go- That there’s respect—and even the case in bad relationships,, the come brassy, even vulgar, in their ing separate ways would be bet- love—where it counts the most. ones who are really getting hurt side and the wallflower has be ter. Maybe it would allow each Right now, all we know is in all this are those that have little an uneasy relationship, with self- to grow in their own way, to ex- confidence. Today, they, too, are in that the fighting has got to stop. •

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- Brazil’s Widbook Rebels volves a set of challenges that arewill entirely be efficient different for readersfrom those in A young Brazilian digital writing and reading platform makes of making it effective for writers. a splash in India, the UK, the Philippines, and Pakistan. We chose to accept this dual chal- lenge and worked constantly to improve the text-creation tools By Carlo Carrenho er can interact with his reader and everything else encompassed weighed heavily in the decision. by the writer’s universe, in ad- n June 2012 three young en- We were convinced these chang- dition to the functionalities for Itrepreneurs from Campinas, es needed to go far beyond the readers. We are convinced that a Brazil got together to launch Wid- mere act of the purchase, which is writer will only choose a writing book, an online social platform - platform if it also features a great designed to allow people to write, ally by the major portals of con- environment in which his readers read, and share stories in e-book handledtent distribution. efficiently Someone yet imperson would can sample and “taste” the book. format. Today the global platform have to be available to establish a PP: You are speaking at the has 200,000 users in 100 coun- writing platform that could em- session called “Rebels of Publish- tries and 30,000 e-books in de- brace both writers and readers ing.” Do you consider yourself a velopment. from the very beginning of the rebel? One of those young entrepre- creative process. that most of the other users were JB: Anytime someone steps neurs is Joseph Bregeiro, a former PP: Why was your platform logging in from India, the UK, the off the beaten track, they will Fnac employee who is speaking released internationally before a Philippines, and Pakistan. The be seen as somewhat rebel- today in a CONTEC session smart- Brazilian launch? lack of professional local plat- lious. We understand that and, ly called “Rebels of Publishing,” JB: First, Widbook is a global forms linking writers and read- as such, we accept the label. But along with John Pettigrew, CEO platform, and English is the lan- ers in these countries is the main it is very clear to all our partners and Founder, Cambridge Publish- guage that enables the connec- that we will all coexist to reach ing Solutions, from 12:15-12:30, tion between writers and readers there. a single objective: to reveal new Hall 4.0, Europa. worldwide. We also had to test reasonPP: for Widbook’s our significant users growth are authors while transforming the PP: What led you to abandon the traction of the concept simul- made up of both writers and experience of writing and reading the security of a job at Fnac and taneously in several countries, so readers. Could you describe the books. We are prepared to uncov- risk everything on Widbook? we decided to focus initially on challenge of reaching both of er new paths, and we are open to Joseph Bregeiro: The pros- the United States and Brazil. After these audiences? connecting with the entire book pect of changing the way a writ- JB: Building a platform that market. •

these two countries, we verified A “Critical Moment” for E-Book Subscription Services

Amazon Unlimited might not be publishers’ best What’s more, the catalogue is He notes that in many coun- expanding. “We’ll soon be offer- tries—notably Italy, Spain, and option, argues 24symbols co-founder, Justo Hidalgo. ing around 200,000 titles in Span- Latin America—the 24symbols ish, Italian, German, French, and contract is far more attractive English. Some 25,000 in Spanish; than what Amazon is offering. By Edward Nawotka launch in underserved markets. in English, we have 60-70,000; “Today is a critical moment “Our competitive advantage— 20,000 in Italian; and in Germa- for publishers. Since 2010, our ou might not remember back aside from our four years of expe- ny—which we’re still working ‘friends from Seattle’ have caused Ythat far, but e-book subscrip- rience, analytics and technology on—we’ll have 40-50,000 soon.” many complaints. If publishers tion services have been around development—is that we can of- Of course, the big question sign an exclusive agreement with for years. Madrid-based company fer the service in places where it is whether or not subscription Amazon now, they will be com- 24symbols was, arguably, there services like 24symbols can con- because there is no Amazon or no tinue to compete, especially now creditis difficult cards,” to accesssays Hidalgo. books, either that Amazon has gotten into the plaining for another five years. If thatfirst. left They nearly launched half inof 2010, Spain’s in The company recently game. “Subscriptions services they openhave theiranother minds opportunity. to finding youththe midst unemployed of a financial and recessionthe pub- launched the service in Guate- have attracted the big guys, but Oyster,the best Scribd service, or they [24symbols] may find lishing industry in free fall. mala in partnership with mobile we are, at the moment, in the in- may not be able to offer as many Now, four years later, they are phone provider, Tigo, under the novation cycle when things look things as Amazon short-term, but still here, and co-founder Justo Smartbooks brand; earlier this undifferentiated. This will evolve you’ve seen what happened with Hidalgo is busy hustling his small year, Russia’s Beeline mobile over time. We believe we have the the short term.” • team around the globe to work on phone partnered with 24symbols best technology in terms of cloud new partnerships and launches, to launch Beeline Books. A launch reading right now, but of course trying to outpace Amazon Unlim- in Colombia is next, with France Amazon can catch up very quick- Justo Hidalgo is participating in ited, Scribd, Oyster, Bookmate, and Germany coming thereafter. ly. Of course, we have a four-year today’s CONTEC conference, serv- and other competitors. “By the end of the year, we should head start in analytics, and we ing as a judge and speaker for The key to this business, it be in eight countries, at least, ten have evolved our tools and will the “Hug the Alien” program from seems—as with Bookmate—is to if we’re lucky,” says Hidalgo. continue to evolve them.” 15:25-16:05 in Hall 4.0 Europa.

8 • Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 • Publishing Perspectives CONTEC CONFERENCE 2014 Meet the “New Library” in the Netherlands

An interview with Marga Kleinenberg of the which seem especially popular loud. And, if the spirit moves you, New Library in Almere, Netherlands with readers over the age of 60 go ahead and sing, “We have a piano, too,” she notes. this non-traditional librarian). Libraries may be in a period By Kevin DiCamillo involved in events, promotion, (“whichExpanding I find on surprising,” her vision says for of transition, to put it most mildly, marketing, and management. But the New Library, Kleinenberg but the New Library seems com- ’m not your ‘typical’ librari- these are important roles for a says, “I think that a library should fortable embracing change, even “Ian,” says Marga Kleinenberg, new library.” All the social media offer more than just books and in- when nobody is sure where all of librarian and team manager of outlets are utilized, and the build- formation. You have to offer vari- this change is leading. communication, events, and mar- ing boasts 150 new computers. ous services. Of course, books, “People are still reading a lot keting at De Nieuwe Bibliotheek As for the struggle to keep magazines, and newspapers are - (literally, “the New Library”) in up the ever-increasing number of all connected to that. But we also ers,” Kleinenberg says. In this one Almere, Netherlands. Any library e-books and e-originals, Kleinen- offer movies, activities—each respect,of genre the fiction, New especially Library is thrill very that allows smoking—including berg says that this is indeed most month has a different theme, much like the old. • smoking of cannabis (albeit only - and we then show our patrons in the “garden area”)—is certain- ble to keep pace” with the amount ly not your typical library. ofdifficult, new titles “as itproduced is almost seemingly impossi that theme. We have a theater Kleinenberg is here at CON- daily. what people can find here within Marga Kleinenberg will speak TEC to help other librarians re- And make no mistake: the have classes if they want to learn today, from 13:25-14:05, as part imagine their own spaces. “We Dutch are reading electronically. somethingif they want about to watch that theme; a film; we of the CONTEC conference in the are new not only in name and “Reading on iPhones and iPads have good coffee, and if they want Business Club on the panel “Why in building, but in content,” says is very popular in the Nether- to have a cigarette, we have a gar- Innovation Isn’t (Necessarily) Syn- Kleinenberg. “We look to do what lands,” Kleinenberg remarked. den where they can smoke.” You onymous with Digital” with entre- libraries always did and have nev- The New Library lends e-readers, can also talk in this library. Out preneur Ken Surritte. er done in a new way.” The private, but government- subsidized library was originally built in 1985 and then complete- ly re-built in March 2010. Yet, even with a new building and its “space for people to congregate I think that and share,” which Kleinenberg a library should has helped create, the problems that face libraries everywhere offer more than still persist: “Our subsidies have just books and been cut, and banks are lending less and less money for libraries.” information Still, Kleinenberg is proud to announce that “a new branch—a very small one—opened just this year,” bringing the total number in their library system to four, in a city of less than 200,000 people. As for the survival of librar- ies in the future, Kleinenberg seems not only positive, but even optimistic. For example: what to do with librarians themselves? Kleinenberg believes that “the new role of the librarian is to stay one step ahead of your pa- trons, and you can only do that by knowing your patron very well.” How does one do this? Kleinen- berg relies on surveys as well as more informal feedback from as many customers as possible. “We don’t passively wait for questions to come from patrons—we go to them.” She adds, “My position in the Marga Kleinenberg library isn’t traditional; I’m more Librarian, De Nieuwe Bibliotheek

Publishing Perspectives • Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 • 9 CONTEC CONFERENCE 2014 The Democracy of Reading on Phones

By Randy Petway consequence to publishers is the fact that the rise of reading on n 2008, The New Yorker pub- phones expands the reach of pub- Ilished an article by Dana lishers to a pool of customers in a Goodyear that discussed the wider diversity of ages, socioeco- nomic status, and technological age—keitai shosetsu or mobile capability. phonefirst literary novels. genre These of thenovels, cellular the The opportunities that arise from being able to tap into an written in 2003 by a writer who audience of 4.5 billion mobile us- calledfirst of himself which, Yoshi, Deep are Love, written was ers around the world couldn’t be entirely via text message and sent clearer than this week in Frank- via SMS or email to readers or furt, with Samsung, a global lead- through mobile services such as er in mobile technology, having Maho i-Land, which claims to get signed on as the Innovation Part- 3.5 billion hits a month. ner for the Book Fair. In the press At the time of that article’s release announcing the partner- publication, the idea of full-length ship, Younghee Lee, Executive books being written and read Vice President of Global Mar- on mobile phones seemed com- keting, Mobile Communications pletely out of the ordinary. Yet, Business at Samsung Electronics, the audience for these mobile said: “The digital evolution of the phone novels—teenage girls— publishing industry is giving con- was one that publishers coveted, sumers new and exciting ways to and the idea demanded atten- consume content while also offer- tion. Of course, some seven years ing publishers innovative meth- later, reading on mobile phones ods to deliver enhanced content is on a meteoric rise with sites through mobile technology.” like Wattpad, Scribd, Oyster, and Reading on phones opens smartphone apps from the major up a number of opportunities for e-book platforms such as Amazon publishers to connect to any type Kindle, Nook, and Apple iBooks, of reader on a device to which giving readers access to hundreds they feel personally connected. of thousands of books right in Whether publishers create their their back pockets. own platform for reaching read- A Pew Internet Project Re- Randy Petway search Study from the beginning innovative ways of telling stories, EVP, Strategy and of this year states that 90% of reviveers on theirthe backlist phones, through find new book and Business Development, American adults have mobile discovery, or create new bundling Publishing Technology phones, 58% have smartphones, or pricing models for this audi- with 29% saying that their mobile ence, mobile reading on handheld phone is something they cannot devices is a gain for publishers. Mobile content offers publishers access to live without. In addition to being Publishing Technology will a larger pool of potential readers, writes a device vital to their connectiv- launch its Mobile Book Reading ity through phone calls and email, Habits survey today at the Frank- Randy Petway of Publishing Technology. consumers use smartphones to furt Book Fair. Visit the Publish- ing Technology website to view deposit checks into their bank the full results: www.publishing- accounts.take pictures, As mobile watch films,app devel even- technology.com/blog. • opers create functionality that makes these day-to-day activities even simpler, our dependence on phones continue to rise. With so much of our lives Michael Cairns will present these lived on our phones and the in- findings and more at CONTEC, creased ease with which consum- Frankfurt Book Fair, 11:30 on 7 ers can download and read books October 2014. on handheld devices, it makes Randy Petway will also chair sense that consumers prefer the a publishing panel discussion, “The convenience of these devices in- Great Debate: How much money stead of purchasing and carrying is in mobile?” at 14:30 on 8 Octo- separate tablets, e-readers, or ber 2014, Publishing Perspectives even print books. Of particular stage, Hall 8.0, B170.

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By Adam Critchley dor, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa transport those writers’ stories Rica, Panama, and Dominican Re- beyond the region they write delegation of independent public. about. A Central American publish- The idea for the anthology “Despite the unquestionable ers and short story writers are was to publish younger writers, quality of Central American po- visiting the Frankfurt Book Fair born after 1970, who may be - known within their own coun- age to transcend their countries’ tries but not across the region. borders,ets and fiction let alone writers, the region few man as a Centralfor the firstAmerican time thisIndependent year. The The three exceptions are Mauri- whole,” Juárez Polanco said. Publishersfive publishers Group form (GEICA), part of and the cio Orellana Suárez (El Salvador, The book, almost 300 pages they have collaborated on the co- 1965), Jessica Clark Cohen (Costa long, also contains a brief text by publication of Un espejo roto (A Rica, 1969), and Juan Dicent (Do- each author on what it means to Broken Mirror), an anthology of minican Republic, 1969). write from a Central American or 27 writers from six countries in “While the theme of the sto- Dominican perspective. • Central America and the Domini- can Republic, in an effort to show- was based on texts that portrayed case the region’s talents. theries everydaywas open, reality the final and selection the ‘big GEICA comprises Arcoiris themes’ of the region: migration, Ediciones from El Salvador, F&G poverty, violence, the contradic- of Guatemala, Guaymuras of Hon- tions between tradition and mo- duras, Nicaragua’s Anamá, and - Uruk Editores of Costa Rica. ing, and the relationship between The German-language edi- thedernity, countries isolation, and drugtheir people,” traffick tion of the anthology, Zwischen according to Carátula’s editor Süd und Nord: Neue Erzähler aus Juárez Polanco. Mittelamerika (Between North “The contributors are nar- and South: New Narrators from rating the present, but also the Central America), published in majority of them are cultural Zurich by Unionsverlag, is now promoters working in magazines, available. publishing houses, writing work- The title of the book, Ramírez shops and universities to break explains in its prologue, is a ref- down those frontiers between erence to the region’s common our countries that not only pre- history and identity that has been vent someone in Nicaragua from divided by national boundaries. reading the most recent writing “Central American coun- from Guatemala, but that also iso- tries appear to be different from late readers from other latitudes one another despite their geo- such as Mexico, South America, graphical proximity and their and Spain,” he said. common past that goes back to “More than local politicians, pre-Hispanic times. That history it [falls] to Central America’s writ- remained shared throughout co- ers to unite that broken mirror.” lonial times and even until inde- And it is these writers’ so- pendence in 1821, before the ca- cial responsibility that gives the tastrophe of separation that put anthology its vital importance, an end to the dream of a Federal according to Salvadoran writer Republic of Francisco Morazán, Vanessa Núñez Handal, one of the who was executed in 1842 for contributors to the anthology. wanting a united Central Ameri- “We are reconstructing the ca,” he writes. intellectual life of the region and “Since then, we are a broken the anthology is not only impor- mirror. Marginal and powerless, tant on a literary level, but also divided by mean prejudices. But socially and politically.” Pictured above: Vanessa Núñez Handal, writer from even though it’s a broken mirror, “It is also important because from El Salvador and contributor to the anthology. it is still a shared mirror.” it shows that there is a lot of The anthology, printed in very good quality and powerful Honduras and distributed across literature being produced that Publishers Óscar Castillo Rojas, Director of Uruk Editores the region, was launched at the talks about the violence and the in Costa Rica, and Salvadora Navas, Executive Director Costa Rica International Book poverty and which has not been Fair on August 25 and features published,” she said. of Anamá Ediciones in Nicaragua, will speak at today’s writers from Guatemala, El Salva- The anthology will also International Rights Directors Meeting.

12 • Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 • Publishing Perspectives RIGHTS DIRECTORS MEETING 2014

STM Powers E-Book Sales in Mexico

With scientific, technical, and medical e-book production up Mexican 200% in Mexico in 2012, STM publishers expect a further boost e-book production in sales as they await the economic growth trumpeted by the across all genres increased 59% in government’s recent raft of reforms. 2012 . . . e-book production in By Adam Critchley the STM segment -book sales in Mexico surged alone increased Eby 60% in 2012, with scien- by 200%. titles accounting for 90% of rev- enues,tific, technical a sector and likely medical to continue (STM) growing in the wake of reforms designed to invite investment and bolster the country’s economy. The reforms, spanning the energy and telecommunications price is $5.10, according to the sectors and shaking up the coun- country’s publishing chamber, Caniem. touted by the government as the Overall, Mexico’s market necessarytry’s fiscal framework,step to throw have openbeen comprises 222 publishers pro- Mexico’s economy to private in- ducing 143 million editions per vestment, while broadening the year with an average print run of contributor base and boosting 5,900. government revenues. As Setzer points out, how- One likely effect of the re- ever, of those 222 publishers, just forms is greater investment in 29 produce 80% of the books academic publishing as Mexico’s published in Mexico, across all energy and technology sectors genres, and the majority of those strive to develop the necessary - human resources to compete in tionals. And many of those, such a global market, and which could asare McGraw-Hill,affiliates of the are large long multina estab- Hugo Setzer prove a boon to STM publishers CEO, Manual Moderno lished in Mexico, producing their supplying the country’s universi- own Spanish-language transla- ties. tions, meaning smaller imprints “At a country level, above such as Manual Moderno, half of and beyond the publishing scene, 2012, according to Simba In- sales is impressive, and totaled whose catalog are books in trans- Mexico is on the cusp of economic formation’s 2013–2014 global $1.1 million in 2012, the volume lation, inevitably struggle in the growth due to the reforms, which - still only represents 0.2% of total scramble for rights. are expected to increase foreign ing report, and are undergoing book sales in Mexico. “Our books are mainly aimed investment into the country,” says ascientific slowdown and despite technical some publish high- Manual Moderno already at university students. Revenue Hugo Setzer, CEO of Mexico City– publishes half of its 400-strong from e-books is still quite low, but based STM publisher Manual But STM e-book sales tell a catalog as e-books, a format it we think it will grow. We have our Moderno. differentlights in the story, Asia-Pacific at least in region. Mexico. may seek to expand as printed own e-book outlet, as well as via Mexican e-book production book sales have declined, obey- Amazon and iTunes,” Setzer says. “Mexico’s Moment” across all genres increased 59% ing the wider trend observed by With e-books able to reach Setzer acknowledges that the in 2012 to 2,739 titles, 68% of Simba. more markets and eliminate university book market has stag- which were existing titles being printing and shipping costs, the nated in recent years, however. converted into the electronic for- Format as Formula format appears to be the win- Manual Moderno, in the in- mat, while e-book production in The spike in e-book sales ning formula, especially for such dustry for more than 50 years the STM segment alone increased far outpaces the performance of a niche genre as STM. • and publishing around 45 titles a by 200%. printed books in Mexico, with year in Mexico and Colombia, has Of the total e-book produc- sales totaling $777 million in seen sales of its printed books tion in Mexico, more than half 2012, or 140 million books, con- Hugo Setzer will give a talk en- drop over the last couple of years, come from the STM genre, while tinuing an upward trend that be- titled “Mexico’s Moment” at 15:45 echoing a wider trend in STM 90% of total sales in 2012 were e- gan in 2009 but remaining below during the International Rights publishing observed worldwide. books for training professionals, 2006 levels. Of the total books Director’s meeting today, held in Global STM sales increased a 58% increase over 2011 sales. sold, 92% were printed in Mexi- Hall 4.2, Dimension. by just 0.2% to $10.7 billion in But while the spike in e-book co, where the average book retail

Publishing Perspectives • Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 • 13 GLOBAL PUBLISHING SNAPSHOTS

Not English, But Urdu Publishing, is Flourishing in Pakistan

An interview with Najam Sethi, Chairman, Pakistan legal reprinting of children’s text- to Frankfurt and Delhi routinely Publishers and Booksellers Association and Secretary- books and much piracy of both but not to the BookExpo America. trade books and textbooks. But General, Lahore International Book Fair Trust (STM) textbooks are imported especially with children’s books inScientific, bulk quantities technical, (500–3,000). and medical andUrdu religious publishing literature. is flourishing, Tradi- Remainders and container busi- By Vinutha Mallya segment of domestic publishing, tional Urdu book publishing [also and the country’s government, PP: The trend of literary fes- everal Pakistani writers work- through its National Book Foun- PP: What role does the gov- tivalsnesses is are picking also flourishing. up in Pakistan. Sing in English—including dation, also publishes textbooks. ernmentincludes] playfiction in and Pakistan’s memoirs. text- Has this given a boost to trade Mohsin Hamid, Kamila Shamsie, Books are publishing in a num- book publishing segment? publishing? Mohammed Hanif, and Daniyal ber of languages including Urdu, NS: Urdu textbook publish- NS: Literary festivals are Mueenuddin—have won interna- English, Saraiki, Sindhi, Punjabi, ing . . . is big business. But an- English-speaking, gentry-dom- tional accolades in recent years. Pashto, Balochi, Persian, and other market has opened up fol- inated events with limited out- In addition, literary festivals and some minority languages spoken lowing injections of aid by foreign reach. The annual Lahore and book fairs are also raising the in the country. donors into the education sector. Karachi International Book Fairs Publishing Perspectives spoke This is for developing public li- are big public events where trade country. But Pakistan’s publish- to Najam Sethi, Chairman, Paki- braries, especially for children and educational books, local and ingbook industry, industry’s which profile serves in a na the- stan Publishers and Booksellers (in Urdu). But education is also imported, are sold. tion of some 180 million people, Association and Secretary-Gener- big business in the private sector, PP: What is the status of is hampered by the country’s low al, Lahore International Book Fair which is hungry for supplemen- bookshops in Pakistan? literacy rate (58%), high levels of Trust, for an overview of Paki- tary texts and reference books in NS: The big trade bookshops piracy, economic instability, and stan’s book industry. Urdu. are dead, with a couple of excep- political strife. PP: What is the current state PP: Is there demand for im- tions in Lahore and Islamabad. An estimated 2,000 titles are of publishing in Pakistan? ported books? Most are small, owner-operated produced annually in Pakistan Najam Sethi: There isn’t NS: English textbooks, trade, and carry trade books, textbooks, (based on ISBNs issued) from much English-language publish- and academic books are import- and stationery. Lots of second- around 2,000 book publishers. ing in Pakistan except for chil- ed, mainly from the UK, USA, and hand bookshops are dotted Textbooks make up the largest dren’s textbooks. There is some across the big cities. •

India. Pakistani importers flock SESA: A New Publishing Collective from Southeast and South Asia

Malaysian literary agent Linda Tan Lingard has formed an alliance of a guage barriers or vast distances. half-dozen publishers to show off what the region’s writers have to offer. This, of course, changes in the age of globalization and digitization, and in particular at a venue such By Kevin DiCamillo Linda Lingard, one of the or- they’d be better off becoming as the Frankfurt Book Fair, which ganizers of the SESA (Southeast agents for Malaysian illustrators exists to be a catalyst for the conomists, always terse, like Asia and South Asia) Collective, and writers, “and now we’ve ex- cross-fertilization of book ideas. Eacronyms, hence we have the has a few theories, but feels that panded to represent not so much But Lingard is eager to see this BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, Chi- now that these countries are real- individual authors, but publish- take place at home, too, where na), and MINTS (Malaysia, Indo- ly starting to work together, you’ll ers from the member-nations of she hopes to foment literary ex- nesia, Nigeria, Turkey, and South be hearing a lot more not only ASEAN”. changes across the region. “We Africa) and the PIGS (Portugal, about ASEAN but SESA, which is However, despite some early are, after all, each other’s most Italy, Greece, and Spain). In Asia, represented this year in Frank- successes, Lingard admits that “it important trading partners. We you have ASEAN (Association of furt by Anvil Publishing from the hasn’t been easy for us to sell at may need to shout a little louder South East Asian Nations), which Philippines, Buku Fixi of Malay- Frankfurt or Bologna.” One rea- about what we have here, it’s so began with Thailand, Malaysia, sia, Kalachuvadu Publications son: “Southeast Asia is still some- unique and diverse.” Singapore, the Philippines and In- and Zubaan Publishers from In- what alien to the West,” Still, the SESA may currently be a donesia in 1967 (the height of the dia, and Chibooks from Vietnam. region has a rich literary history, “loosely based alliance of six Vietnam war). Between that time Lingard is one of the co- as yet untapped, “which is one of companies,” but Lingard has high and the present, Vietnam, Laos, founders of the Yusof Gajah Lin- the reasons we at SESA started hopes. “We have great books, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Brunei gard Literary Agency. “We started asking, ‘Why do we have to keep we have ancient, fascinating cul- have all joined, making ASEAN out as a children’s book publisher, looking to the West when we have tures—we have everything real- an economic powerhouse of over and when we started coming to so much great writing in this re- ly,” she says, adding with a smile, 600 million people and an annual Frankfurt in 2009, we were al- gion?’” “aside from world peace.” • trade revenue of $800 billion. ways part of the Malaysian pavil- One of the reasons is likely So why haven’t we heard ion,” says Lingard, who is based in the lack of cross-cultural collabo- Visit the SESA (Southeast Asia & much about ASEAN (as opposed Kuala Lumpur. After meeting Yu- ration between the various cul- South Asia) Collective Stand at the to all of the above)? sof Gajah in 2009, the two agreed tures, either as a result of a lan- Frankfurt Book Fair in Hall 5, D33.

14 • Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 • Publishing Perspectives RIGHTS & LICENSING Love, Passion, and a Century of Selling Rights

As Curtis Brown celebrates its 100th anniversary, the firm’s CEO reflects on the changing role of the agent today.

By Edward Nawotka considering. That doesn’t always work out the way we like it to for urtis Brown Ltd. is the second our clients.” His feeling is that the Coldest literary agency in the publishing world used to be much USA—having hit its 100th anni- more nurturing to new authors. versary this year—and continues “It wasn’t unusual that the pub- to evolve. Albert Curtis Brown lisher would take on a book and founded the agency in 1914, and an author, supporting them until over the past century, the agency they established an audience. To- has handled more than 50,000 day, that is not always the case.” contracts for a wide variety of He points to a writer like bestsellers, including numerous Tony Hillerman, who had pub- legends—such as Ayn Rand. lished more than half a dozen Not to be confused with Cur- books before he had a bestseller. tis Brown UK in London, the New “In this environment he might not And, he points out, “Even as Lyons and Ginger Clark. Lyons we have gotten ourselves into a notes that there is nothing like people, of which 14 are agents; says Knowlton. position where the Big Five are Frankfurt in publishing. “It’s ex- someYork firm have today even employs been withsome the 28 haveAs gotten such, pastthe agents the first are book,” tak- less willing to build an author, hausting, but you’re never ex- company for generations—Mau- ing on this role of building au- looking for an immediate success, hausted because there is so much reen Walters is celebrating 50 thor careers themselves, doing there are many smaller publish- passion.” years at Curtis Brown and the everything from helping with ers willing to do that.” Lyons notes, “I absolutely late Emily Jacobson had spent 64 publicity and marketing, to tak- As for what Curtis Brown can feel that Frankfurt and book fairs years at the company. offer authors, it begins and ends, are essential, especially when you Timothy Knowlton runs the manuscript. “If you go back 20 or says Knowlton, with a question of have a list like ours, from huge 30ing years,on responsibility the most we for might the final do “love.” Love of the reading, of the bestelling books to debut au- while the service of working with would be helping the proposal be work, and of the relationships. thors. Things can be done online, authorsfirm today and andhandling observes rights thatre- better, not the sort of line editing “We have never insisted that but pitches have to be conveyed mains, at its core, much the same we would do today.” an agent here must—or must in person where you can express as it was a century ago, digital “This is not better or worse not— take on anything in particu- the passion.” technology has changed the core for authors and agents, but it is lar. We still have a love of writing And that, along with love, is of the publishing world. and reading. We’re a very small what the role of the agent comes “The advent of Bookscan is he says. “It is turning into more corporation. We don’t have the down to: passion for good writ- just one example,” he says. “Now, workmore for difficult the same and pay. demanding,” But that ing, for caring for authors, and any editor can pop onto Book- said, I am optimistic that we can that some of our competitors do.” at the end of the day, taking care scan and see how many books help our authors out this way and same bottom-line profit motive of business—much the same in an author has sold that they are improve their futures.” here is represented by Jonathan 2014 as it was in 1914. • As for Frankfurt, the firm

We still have a love of writing and reading. We’re a very small corporation. We don’t have the same bottom-

that some of our The Curtis Brown team celebrates its competitorsline profit motive do. 100th anniversary in New York City

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