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This publication is available at the following booths: Turning Browsers into Buyers (and at 35 hotels across Manhattan) The Worldview from IDPF 2010 Booth #4429 Booth #2541 By Edward Nawotka Conversations about during these contentious times tend to begin and end with the “digital ques- Stores in NYC tion.” And, while in previous years at BEA there was growing angst that digi- Booth #3705 tal publishing was a sinkhole threaten- ing to swallow the industry, confidence is growing as publishers, distributors and marketers are finding solutions Booth #2265 to the key questions of how to attract readers, and how to convert them from Booth #2341 browsers into buyers. Audience at the IDPF Digital Conference (Photo: Ben Papaleo) Sometimes, the solutions are so simple as to seem almost elemen- IDPF Digital Book world conference “browsers to buyers” over the past 12 tary: “What we believe is that you use that took place yesterday. months. Citing his company’s work with While romance is also seen as Booth #3776, readers to find readers, and content to Millsandboon.co.uk—the UK e-book something of an exception, since it is 3777, 3877 sell content,” said Tyler Ruse, senior director of solution consulting for subsidiary of Harlequin—Ruse noted a clearly defined market with raven- that with something as simple as imple- ous readers, much the same can be Booth #3673 LibreDigital, an e-book conversion and promotion company based in Austin, menting “book previews” into the site, said for the manga market, particularly (continued on page 3) Booth #3870 Texas, during a morning session at the they have seen a 16% conversion from in a country

Booth #3340 Global Market Forum: Who Will Buy Spain’s New E-? 3341 By Emily Williams As the Spanish publishers get Booth #4340 ready to unveil their digital platform, Libranda, later this week, BEA con- Booth #3673 vened a panel to discuss the Spanish book market in the US and the poten- tial for new Spanish e-books to reach Booth #3822, readers here. Ediciona’s Arantxa Mel- 3823, 3928, lado, moderated a lively debate between 3931, 4031 Booth #4140, Patricia Arancibia, Spanish book buyer 4141 for Barnes & Noble, and Planeta CEO Subscribe to Jesús Badenes, with Larry Bennett from Publishing Perspectives Baker & Taylor playing the distributor’s part of peacemaker. Spain’s new Libranda platform is designed to work as a distributor, selling e-books exclusively through booksellers rather than direct to con- Booth #3466 sumers, a model Badenes says they will Sign up for our FREE daily email at extend country by country to the rest of the Spanish- (continued on page 13) www.publishingperspectives.com PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 2 BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2010 PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 3 BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2010 Shanda Brings Chinese-style E-publishing to the US Big Ideas from “ Happens Everywhere”: IDFP Conference cont’d like Japan. said Michael Tamblyn, executive vice this translates into a company able to (continued from page 1) By Wenguang Huang tabase of three million user-generated Paul Saffo Speaking at president for content, sales and mer- cater to a genuinely global book buying Shanda Literature Ltd (SDL), one titles. In all, some 930,000 writers have the same IDPF session on the “Global chandizing for Kobo—the Canadian market—something that the large con- Futurist and Stanford University of China’s largest online publishers contributed to Shanda’s sites. For titles Digital Book Community,” Daihei e-bookseller. On the face of it, it’s an glomerate publishers, many of whom professor Paul Saffo will be lecturing at of reader-generated literary works, is that attract the most number of read- Shiohama, head of international busi- obvious statement, but Tamblyn was continue to struggle with relinquish- the newly re-christened Yale Publish- planning to set up a US subsidiary in ers, Shanda works to publish them as ness for Voyager, the leading Japanese quick to point out that this doesn’t just ing legacy models for new ones, must ing Course later this summer. As a San Francisco and launch or acquire an traditional books and then adapt them e-book retailer, pointed out that the mean devices, but geography as well. acknowledge is the way forward. long-time industry observer, he notes English-language literary website that for other types of media, such as films, e-book market in Japan was valued at Taking just a single day of sales for If digital does anything, it pools four things publishers can do now to specifically targets mainstream Ameri- cartoons or games. some $600 million per year­—double Kobo e-books, Tamblyn said the com- readers from around the world into one improve their prospects in an increas- can writers and readers. Acknowledging the differences in that of the United States. “A full 80% of pany had delivered e-books to readers giant community. The important point ingly digital future. Hongli Zhou, SDL’s chief copyright culture as well as the publishing envi- sales were to phone users and the in more than 170 countries, including of this isn’t so much that “readers are officer (CCO), told Publishing Perspec- ronment between China and the US, e-books bought primarily by women one title to Vanuatu. everywhere,” but that publishers, book- Learn from Earlier Disruptive tives the US expansion is part of the Zhou notes that Shanda’s US subsidiary in their 20s,” he noted, acknowledg- “The company was built from the sellers, and digital service providers the Technologies: company’s global development strategy. will be managed by Chinese executives ing that “Japan is uniquely ahead of ground up to respect foreign rights,” world over are on equal footing and “We want to test our unique business and technical staff who are well versed “Look at the period of television, the world in this regard and manga is he said, and accordingly they now do have an opportunity to take advantage model in the US which is a mature and in the Shanda operations, and will hire from about 1951 to 1964. ,” says Saffo. uniquely suited to reading on mobile business with 200 countries, including of the vast global marketplace. “You’ll find that something as simple important market for digital publishing Shanda COO Hongli Zhou (third on the left) and CEO Hou Xiaoqiang (second on the right) local editors, managers, engineers and phones.” A key component of Voyager’s work with key retailers, such as Borders Rather than a sinkhole, digital and a leader in the global publishing sales people who are experts on the US as the introduction of remote control strategy has been to think of every in the United States. Kobo offers books publishing is proving to be a portal industry,” said Zhou. “We hope to cre- “We’ll provide a valuable channel for literary Web sites in China. Writers market. forced TV producers to completely screen, from computers to those on in six locally denominated currencies transporting publishing into a brave ate an open and culturally-appropriate American readers to access the best can register with Shanda and post Citing the American National re-imagine the way they told stories in video cameras, as a potential place for and, contrary to the perception that new world. literary platform that features diverse Chinese contemporary fictions in Chi- their work on any of the six sites they Basketball Association’s success making programs. Suddenly, they had to find people to read. e-booksellers can be mavericks who literary styles and values, and appeals na and at the same time enable Chinese choose. Readers accessing the sites can inroads into China, Zhou is confident a way to hook viewers. History doesn’t “Reading happens everywhere,” flaunt convention, they collect tax. All to a cross section of the American writers to enter the Western market.” At read the first half of a book for free and that the Shanda’s commercial model repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.” public.” the moment, SDL is working with US then pay a small charge for the rest of will work well in the US. “All good SDL also intends to bring English consultants to conduct further market a book. The company splits the profits things will eventually be accepted, no Dont’ Lay Off theW rong People translations of popular Chinese fiction research. with the author. matter where they are,” he said. Publishers, like many industries, stick to the convention of “last in, first out.” “Hit Like a Fist”: CEOs on the Digital Age to Western readers through its US site. At present, SDL operates six Collectively, Shanda claims a da- “But these young people are the one’s By Karen Holt ously and have them priced that way.” about digital piracy, alluding to how EVENT: Zhou will discuss the Shanda business model at a session entitled “Bringing Literature Online and Comparing Experiences between who know the Internet and digital Power agent Esther Newberg He predicted e-books will hurt sales the music industry was rocked by il- China and the US,” on Wednesday, May 26 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm, in Room 1E02. technology better than anyone, making spiced up Tuesday morning’s blandly of their low-priced competitor, the pa- legal downloads. While musicians have them indispensable,” says Saffo. “I don’t titled event, “CEO Panel: The Value of perback. Newberg’s more dire forecast: responded to the drop in royalties by think the big publishers have fired their a Book,” repeatedly shooting pointed “The ’s going to go bye-bye.” making money performing, that may Exclusive Discount for BookExpo America! CEOs fast enough.” comments and questions at the rest of CEO David not be an option for authors. “I’m not Content Meets Technology in Frankfurt the panel, which included executives Shanks disagreed, maintaining that sure as many people will show up to Tools of Change for Publishing By Hannah Johnson product demos and presentations, Hot from three major publishing compa- beach goers will still want to pack a pa- watch me read as show up to watch perback instead of exposing their $300 Beyonce perform,” he said. Tuesday, 5 October 2010 It’s fair to say that digitization and Spots showcase the companies and in- nies. e-reading device to the sand and surf. By the end, the panelists had technology represent an rapidly grow- novations that help publishers capital- She began by challenging publish- For his part, Turow seemed more provided few answers but raised many ing part of publishing books. ize on growing digital opportunities. ers to explain why they’re not paying concerned with what e-books would questions: Does the future belong to Japanese publishers have formed Six different Hot Spots will each higher royalties on e-books. She was do to the higher-ticket format. “It’s enhanced digital editions or beautifully an Electronic Book Publishers Associa- have a different thematic focus based not satisfied when panelists answered lamentable that the book crafted ? Which will be hurt tion of Japan, and American publishers on issues surrounding digital content by pointing out that each publisher has * more by digital competition—hard- reported a 252% increase in e-books production, management and deliv- its own policy. 399 covers or ? And how will TOC “At some point, we’re going to sales for the first quarter of 2010. Spain, ery. The Hot Spots will be strategically authors make money in a world where Germany and France have created positioned throughout the Frankfurt have to go public and say who’s giving “The paper- Conference Euros digital piracy makes copyright irrel- national e-book distribution platforms fairgrounds and facilitate effective Mentoring Up: what. And some of you are going to back’s going to evant or new books are sold at remain- that integrate with booksellers’ Web communication and business develop- “Take your newest hires with the look bad,” Newberg said. Later, when der prices? FRANKFURT sites, and familiarity with social media ment between publishers and Hot Spot best skills and pair with an executive panelist Bob Miller, group publisher of go bye-bye.” Galassi, falling back on traditional is fast becoming a required skill. exhibitors. and given the task of tutoring him Workman Publishing, said publishers values, came as close as anyone to And behind all of this innovation • Devices - Hall 8.0 or her to use the new digital tools, need to be ready to take advantage of a Discount anyone to having the last word on the co-organized by: coming out of publishing houses are • Mobile - Hall 6.0 whatever they may be. Then, test the changing market, Newberg comment- Code: - Esther Newberg, true value of the book: “It’s an enhance- technology companies that enable pub- • Information Management - Hall 4.2 executive and the resulting grade then ed, “That would be a first.” She went BEATOC10 literary agent, ment to civilization,” he said. “It’s worth lishers to produce and manage content • Publishing Services - Hall 4.0 goes into the employee file of­—not the on to say that because of the industry’s something.” and across multiple formats, integrate other • Literature & Special Interest - Hall executive—but of the new hire.” failure to anticipate the effects of digital International Creative types of media, and create consumer 3.1 publishing, “This hit us like a fist.” Even Management products. • Education - Hall 4.2 Innovate from the Outside: before the verbal zingers, Newberg, This year, the Frankfurt Book Fair For more information or to Rather than rewarding existing wearing a summery pink dress, made a Subscribe Now! is…that you guys gave up its market will introduce a new exhibition plat- become an exhibitor at Frankfurt Hot employees with perks like their own striking visual contrast to the rest of the prominence,” he said. 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With Internet Fair booth (#2341) at BEA. and form partnerships instead, which Turow, novelist and president of the panelist Oren Teicher CEO of the access, LCD displays and a stage for is cheap, efficient and introduces new Authors Guild, had a barbed question American Booksellers Association, who ideas. “It works for the tech industry for his fellow panelists. “Why did you said the industry needs to be focused and it will work for publishing too,” he publishers ever agree to let e-books on making sure great content is avail- says. be available at the same time as the able, in whatever format readers want. For more information about the hardcover?” Several times during the discussion, he *plus 19% Value Added Tax. BookExpo America discount is valid Yale Publishing Course, visit publish- Moderator Jonathan Galassi, talked about the need for booksellers to from 25 May – 7 June 2010. To register for TOC Frankfurt, visit ing-course.yale.edu. president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, get involved in selling e-books. www.tocfrankfurt.com and enter discount code when prompted. - Interviewed by Edward Nawotka agreed, saying, “It was a mistake to ever let put out e-books simultane- Turow also expressed concern PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 5 BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2010 Idlewild Books Mines Rich International Niche

By Lewis Manalo sands of people around us spent their The Book Fair When Idlewild Books opened days working, not all of had the time, her doors two years ago, the idea was energy or inclination to plan for a trip. simple: Instead of organizing books by As a result, people were coming in and Save the dates! genre, this shop would be organized by asking for things that were not or were place. Guide books, novels and nonfic- only tangentially related to our niche. tion would all be shelved together So, in the last two years, from that under the location that they were set or great initial idea, we’ve been evolving Photo: Kirk Bradley Peterkin 15 – 20 March 2011 our product mix to meet the needs of described. With the closing of nearly all Idlewild Books is located at 12 West 19th St., between Fifth and Sixth of the city’s travel bookstores over the the market. years, Idlewild Books would become We started with the “Destina- Avenues. We’ll be open our regular hours during BEA: • NETWORK with Arab and the place you had to visit before you left tion Pack,” a packaged set of books Monday to Friday 11:30 to 8pm, Saturday and Sunday 12:00 to 7pm. on a trip. If you were headed for Brazil, for a particular destination that you international publishers you’d find yourTime Out Rio de Janeiro, could give to someone who you knew (forcing us to hire more staff because some German). your book on Samba, and your Jorge was planning a trip. We stocked nothing gets done with the phone When people think of travel they • MEET digital publishing pioneers Amado novel all on one shelf. more gift books, provided they fit out constantly ringing with inquiries). The think of a lot of different things that A little bit of press brought cus- international theme, and found that it latest addition to our store has been translate into a lot of different needs. • BUY and SELL rights tomers trickling through our doors, produced a few surprising , a dramatically expanded selection of is nothing if not an interna- and a little more press got people call- Russian Criminal Tattoos III foreign language books. Once again, tional city and a destination on its own. • EXPAND your horizons ing us from across the country. Being among them. And with the popular- with the void left by the 2009 closing And as an international bookshop in organized by place also made us more ity of Rizzoli’s re-issues of Sasek’s This of ’s venerable Librai- New York, we need to be able to bring than just a store with guidebooks, but Is series of country and city picture rie Francaise, the French language the world to our customers. At Idlewild also a great shop to find world fiction books, our children’s section grew as bookshop at Rockefeller Center, and Books, we’re just trying to keep up with The most professional book fair in the region. in translation. With these parallel inter- well. the 2007 closing of Macondo Books, what our shoppers want. ests we were on our way to building a As a natural outgrowth of our hav- the Spanish language bookshop on Lewis Manalo is the Book Buyer, strong base of customers. ing become a destination for travelers, 14th Street, we’ve been getting more Idlewild Books in New York City Come visit us at our stand 4429 | Hall 3A at the Book Expo America But we were in a neighborhood we also began offering French, Spanish, and more requests for foreign language populated more by businesses than and Italian language courses, which titles. By the end of June we expect Sign up for our FREE daily email edition at resident, and while the tens of thou- have proven overwhelmingly popular about a third of our fiction selection to www.publishingperspectives.com be in French, Spanish, and Italian (and Join us for a session on ‘Business Opportunities for English Language Publishers in the Middle East/The Gulf Region’. Sloane Crosley on Publicity (and Unicorns v. Mexican Wrestlers) Wednesday, 26 May from 3.30-4.30 pm on June 15. She spoke with Edward talented or far mare famous and usu- ment. These essays are darker, but also Nawotka. ally both. In a way, it’s been good for funnier and deeper and more personal. Room 1E02, Javits Convention Centre, New York PP: How do you find a balance them. I have kind of an odd name and I allowed myself to dig in much more between working in publishing and I actually think people start picking up so there is less of a “dancing monkey” writing your own books? my pitch calls because they knew me aspect. And I’m no Fields medalist, but SC: The assumption is that every- a little. My day job is all about making I think there are six less essays in this one who works in editorial in publish- other people’s lives easier and being book…and are stories in New York, ing wants to write a book, but not so kind to others. My natural inclination Anchorage, Lisbon. Most are both www.adbookfair.com much in publicity. But if you look at is not to be the nicest anything on the funny and sad. Vintage publicity—a little department planet. I have other qualities of course, PP: If you were writing a pitch let- that is an enigma wrapped in a puzzle but it’s good to have a job that just ter for Sloane Crosley, what would have that is wrapped in Bertelsmann—there exacerbates that one. suggested I ask in this interview? are lots of people who have worked PP: Your first book was published SC: Hmmm…Questions I Would here and published. Paul Yoon [Once as a paperback original. Have paper- Have Asked Myself… the Shore], Martin Wilson [What They back originals have gained acceptance What do you find funny? Is there Always Tell Us] Jen Marshall, Ethan in the marketplace? a topic you have not yet covered that Rutherford…The one thing we all have SC: As time goes on, paperback you look forward to covering? In what in common other than having worked originals face less and less discrimi- direction is American humor going? here is that none of us has written “the nation with the media. When I first What’s the first real book (no pic- big adult novel.” Maybe that’s where the started at Vintage it was really hard tures) you remember loving? Why is question of balance comes in. For writ- because it was seen as catty-corner to nonfiction writing better than fiction Sloane Crosley is the deputy ing essays, which is what I do, I think being self published. The stigma has writing and why are vowels better than director of publicity for Vintage Books you need a day job. You need a daily been lifted and I think that has a lot consonants? Which would you rather Platinum Sponsor and has been called “New York’s engagement with the world. I just hap- to do with the programs at houses like have living in your house: Unicorn or favorite book publicist.” She’s also the pen to live in a world where I promote Vintage/Anchor, Picador, Perennial, Mexican Wrestler? author of the bestselling essay collec- books. Black Cat, to name a few. PP: So, Unicorn or Mexican tion I Was Told There’d Be Cake, which PP: Your first book was a best- PP: You’re known as a humorist, Wrestler? she is developing as a series for HBO, seller. Do you ever feel that the writers but the new book is darker than the SC: I guess it depends on which and the forthcoming How Did You Get you’re working with feel in competition first. What’s different now.? one you intend on playing leapfrog This Number, which is being published with you? SC: I’m 31-years-old and there’s with. by Riverhead and will arrive in stores SC: No. They’re either far more definitely a “Hey, I hit my 30s” ele- PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 6 BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2010 PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 7 BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2010

BEA BOOK REVIEWS ADULT FICTION AND MEMOIR working on? I’m developing a couple pilots and Secrets Revealed! The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex have a few small parts in some upcom- SUNSET PARK by Paul Auster 61 HOURS by Lee Child ing movies. Kristen Schaal and Rich proach to the material, even the most then it just might work. KR: You’ll be making an appear- * With a plot that cident, Miles can’t shake * When a bus full whatever it is, it might at experienced of lovers will pick up a KR: You’ve written before, both Blomquist ance at this year’s BEA conference. encompasses war in the the guilt he feels over of seniors spins out of some point have a nega- few pointers—if they’re able to stop your stand-up act and as a contribu- She’s best known for her role Any idea what you’ll be doing there? Middle East, economic his possible complicity control, the obvious re- tive Platonic effect. And quivering with laughter long enough. tor to a number of television shows. as stalker-fan Mel on HBO’s cult hit Most likely two monologues. One recession and the perils and the suspicions of his course is to reach out for then there’s grandmo- Recently, Schaal shared with Kirkus the How does writing a book compare to Flight of the Conchords. He’s an award- regular and one vaginal. of the publishing in- stepmother, so he aban- Reacher (Gone Tomor- therly Janet Salter. Sweet, winning writer for The Daily Show with steamy details behind her Sexy Book of writing in other formats? dustry, a contemporary dons his studies, cutting row, 2009, etc.). smart, elegant and pound Jon Stewart. Together, real-life couple Sexy Sex life. Writing a book is such a massive vitality distinguishes the all ties with his family. On its way to Mt. for pound as brave as Kristen Schaal and Rich Blomquist KR:What prompted you to write undertaking, it’s hard not to get buried latest from the veteran A chance romance with Rushmore, a bus carry- Reacher, she’s a retired have penned the most hysterical book a book about sex? by it. Other projects are more immedi- author. a much younger girl ing a load of elderly tour- librarian, from Oxford’s about sex ever written, The Sexy Book Nothing in this world is funnier to ate. I would choose performing over In many respects returns him to New York, ists, plus a ringer, loses to Bodleian, no less. She’s of Sexy Sex. Whether guiding the me than sex. [The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex writing because it’s less stressful, but at this novel bears the the- where he finds shelter in a patch of ice. Reacher’s also a witness to a grisly uninitiated through the mechanics of is] a combination of entries the end of the day the writing is what matic imprint of Auster an abandoned building the ringer. Some 30 murder. Desperate to cuddling, slash fiction or even futuristic and erotic short stories dedicated to I’m most proud of. (Invisible, 2009, etc.)— that has become some- years younger than the keep her alive, the Bolton robosexting, or whipping up histori- steaming, dripping, pulsating sex. KR: This book is meant hu- chance, coincidence and thing of an artist’s colony. average age of his fellow PD has begun to think it cal recreations of the discovery of the KR: You co-authored this with morously, but would you say that “the imponderables of The plot unfolds from passengers, he’s among might not be able to. An- female orgasm by Flora Stanley (“It was Rich Blomquist, your boyfriend. it includes helpful information for fate, the strangeness of life, the what-ifs various perspectives, amid insecurities them by happenstance, a kind of hitch- drew Peterson, the department’s deputy as if Jesus had crawled inside of me… What was that collaboration like? readers? and might-have-beens.” Yet the literary both economic and psychological, as hiker. Reacher—that inveterate nomad, chief, wants to ask Reacher for help. and was polishing me with pleasure The only challenge of working We attempted to cover the entire gamesmanship of his metafictional details from the mid-1940s film The indefatigable Rambo and Galahad for And when his reluctant boss asks why, prayers”), The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex is with Rich is keeping my hands on the sex spectrum. I’m confident that even narratives is less evident here, as the Best Years of Our Life provide cinematic all seasons—finds himself once more in he says, “I think he’s the sort of guy titillating primer on all matters coital. keyboard and off his gorgeous body. the most experienced sex addict will critical challenges of these times leave counterpoint. Though one character the midst of an authentic mess. Banged who sees things five seconds before the Yet, despite the duo’s humorous ap- We learned that as mutual comedy learn something new. both the characters and the author with muses that “the dark time will soon up and inoperable, the bus has come rest of the world.” Well, he’s right about snobs, if we can make each other laugh KR: Any new projects that you’re more at stake. The plot pivots around be over, and all will be forgiven,” the to rest in Bolton, S.D., a town buried that, of course, but even Reacher will be Miles Heller, son of an independent novel’s tragic foreshadowing doesn’t in snow and heaps of trouble. There’s shaken by some of what he sees before A) Clifford Irving, The Autobiography publisher and a well-known actress promise a happily-ever-after ending. the biker gang living on its outskirts, exiting Bolton en route to Nowhere, his of Howard Hughes who divorced early in his childhood. Sure to please Auster fans and making crystal meth. There’s a repel- country of choice. After his stepbrother suffers a fatal ac- likely to attract new readers as well. lent figure named Plato, a racketeer- In his 14th outing, implausible, Hoaxes, Cons and Lies: A Quiz B) Magdalen King-Hall, aka Cleone ing lowlife, whose philosophy is kill irresistible Reacher remains just about Knox, The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion everything on the theory that if it lives, the best butt-kicker in thriller-lit. By Adam Langer Match these questions with an HITCH-22: A MEMOIR by Christopher Hitchens If I could blame any particular C) Asa Earl Carter, aka Forrest Carter, place or event for giving me the idea to The Education of Little Tree * Hitchens student magazine (“Ink- answer on the right: THE ISLAND by Elin Hilderbrand write a novel about con artists scam- (Thomas Jefferson: Au- stained pamphleteer! Very D) Blade Markham, Blade by Blade, ming the publishing industry, it would thor of America, 2009, heaven!”); his ’60s years * Queen of the Bill Bishop, killed himself featured in Adam Langer’s The Thieves have to be BookExpo America. It was at etc.) offers an engross- at Balliol College, Oxford, summer novel—how years ago, to Tucker- 1) This “hardened voice of experience, steely and honest” hid her prep-school past of Manhattan the Javits Center in New York City that ing account of his lives where he protested the could she not be, with nuck for the month of and claimed to be a onetime foster child who grew up in rough-and-tumble South I was first introduced to young, soon- as a British Navy brat, Vietnam War, debated at all her stories set on an July, in the hopes that Central L.A. E) Margaret B. Jones, Love and Conse- to-be-infamous author James Frey. At a socialist activist and the Oxford Union and island—Hilderbrand de- the three of them can quences the Staples Center in Los Angeles I 2) Supposedly “born on a Navajo reservation” and “raised by alcoholic parents,” a leading essayist and lost his virginity; and livers a beguiling ninth break through to Chess. met another possibly quite-soon-to- this author of erotica actually had no known Native American ancestry. F) Orson Welles, writer/director of F intellectual of our time. his subsequent life as a (The Castaways, 2009, Hunky Barrett Lee is their be-infamous author of a memoir more for Fake Now in his early young journalist work- etc.), featuring romance caretaker, coming from 3) It was “disturbing to encounter a 20-year-old who knows this much about life’s preposterous than anything James Frey 60s, the author grew ing for both mainstream and mystery on isolated Nantucket twice a day to seamy side.” Perhaps this was because the real author was actually twice his/her G) Norma Khouri, aka Norma Bagain, ever wrote. And at ’s McCor- up a bookish, self-con- and “agitational” papers Tuckernuck Island. bring groceries and take alter ego’s age. Forbidden Love mick Place, I learned that if I wanted fident, lower-middle- in London. Writing at The Tate family has away laundry (idyllic to succeed as an author, I’d have to 4) An “18th-century adolescent poet-forger…reviled by his contemporaries,” this H) Jed Roth, Blood Is Thicker Than class boy in the British length about friendships had a house on Tucker- Tuckernuck is remote— become a bit of a con artist myself. scribe passed his work off as that of a 15th-century priest before ending his life at Nothing provinces. He has few with Ted Hughes, James nuck (just off the coast no phone, no hot water, Throughout the industry’s history, the age of 17. memories of his father, Fenton, Martin Amis and of swanky Nantucket) no ferry) as he’s also it has been plagued, or graced, by hus- I) Daniel Lewis James, aka Danny San- “The Commander,” a taciturn career Ian McEwan, he seems always to have for generations. It inspiring renewed lust in tlers, grifters, hoaxers, and writers and 5) This serial exaggerator was lauded for his debut, which “create(d) striking ac- tiago, Famous All Over Town Navy man, but recalls with warmth another fascinating encounter—a visit has been empty for Tate, who has had a crush booksellers on the make. The prevarica- cruals of verisimilitude and plausible human portraits…” and affection his mother, Yvonne, who with his near-blind literary hero Jorge years, but now Birdie wants to spend on him since she was a kid. The author J) Ern Malley, The Darkening Ecliptic tors and crooks who populate the liter- shaped his childhood. Bright, pretty Luis Borges, a melancholy lunch with a quiet mother-daughter week there jumps among the four women—Tate 6) Arguably the greatest hoax in Australian literary history, the work of this fake ary world in my new novel, The Thieves K) Kaavya Viswanathan, How Opal and unhappily married, she yearned for Chester Kallman shortly after his part- with Chess before Chess’s wedding to and her blossoming relationship with poet inspired a Booker-prize winning “Nabokovian masterpiece.” of Manhattan (due July from Spiegel Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a life of smart friends and witty conver- ner W.H. Auden’s death—lurking in the Michael Morgan. Then the unthinkable Barrett, India and her relationship with & Grau) are just the latest players in a 7) In a work that “bravely defies Islamic fundamentalism and repudiates her a Life sation—which Christopher would later next paragraph or footnote. Hitchens happens—perfect Chess (beautiful, Lula Simpson, a painter at the Academy long, infamous tradition. If you don’t homeland,” this alleged con artist passed herself off as a witness to an honor kill- lead—and often admonished, “The one also details the many controversies in rich, well-bred food editor of Glamor- where India is a curator, Birdie, who is believe me, here’s a little quiz to jog ing in Jordan L) James Frey, A Million Little Pieces unforgivable sin is to be boring.” She which he has engaged since moving ous Home) dumps the equally perfect surprised by the recent kindnesses of your memory—all the quoted passages committed suicide, apologizing in a to the United States in the early ’80s, Michael. She quits her job, leaves her ex-husband Grant, and finally Chess, 8) This “hack” was “celebrated for a memoir about growing up on the mean streets M) William Francis Mannix, Memoirs are from Kirkus Reviews. The first three note for leaving a mess (“Oh Mummy, including his defense of free expression New York apartment for Birdie’s home who in her journal is uncoiling the of New York City,” though his street cred was “limited to copping an attitude and of Li Hung Chang respondents to answer all ten questions so like you,” writes Hitchens). She in the Salman Rushdie affair and his in New Canaan, and all without expla- sordid, sad circumstances of her break inserting ‘yo’ at the end of every sentence.” correctly, and submit those answers N) JT LeRoy, aka Laura Albert, The never mentioned her Jewish ancestry, support of the Iraq War. Once deemed nation. Then the unraveling contin- with normal life and Michael’s death. along with contact info to thehoax- Heart is Deceitful, Above All Things which the author learned about later. a prodigious drinker, Hitchens notes ues: Michael dies in a rock-climbing Hilderbrand’s portrait of the 9) The “episodic memories of growing up Mexican-American in the Los Angeles [email protected] will win a In this frank, often wickedly funny that he now imbibes his Scotch whiskey accident, leaving Chess not quite a upper-crust Tate clan through the years barrio” was actually the work of this Kansas-born graduate of Andover and Yale O) Nasdijj, aka Timothy Patrick Barrus, spanking new galley of The Thieves of account, Hitchens traces his evolution carefully and produces more than 1,000 widow, but devastated, guilty, unreach- is so deliciously addictive that it will be who claimed that he used a pseudonym because he had been blacklisted by the The Blood Runs Like a River Through Manhattan. Thanks for playing. as a fiercely independent thinker and words per day. able in the shell of herself. Birdie invites the “It” beach book of the summer. House Un-American Activities Committee. My Dreams P.S. There are more answers than enemy of people who are convinced of Revealing and riveting. There’s lit- her younger daughter Tate (a pretty, questions, so respond carefully. 10) A classic memoir of a “Cherokee boyhood of the 1930s remembered in gener- P) Thomas Rowley, aka Thomas Chat- their absolute certainty. He describes tle about his brother, his two marriages naïve computer genius) and her own ous, loving detail” was actually the work of this reputed white supremacist. his budding socialist days at board- or his children, but other memoirs may bohemian sister India, whose hus- terton, “Elinoure and Juga” ing school, where he helped create a follow. band, world-renowned sculptor (* denotes a Kirkus starred review) PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 8 BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2010 BEA BOOK REVIEWS KIRKUS DISCOVERIES

Light Fading: Reflections on the Imperiled Everglades Still Looking: A Single Man’s Journey by Joel M. Curzon by Larry Durstin The hidden—and per- overdevelopment that Lonely, single men Scott, an eternal student MEETMEET CROWNCROWN AUTHORSAUTHORS haps doomed—beauty of increasingly deprives the search for love in the with a yen for tall, domi- an American Eden shines Everglades of the water it 1980s in this hilarious neering women; Frank, forth in this magnificent needs (and thus threatens battle narrative from the a newly celibate ladies’ coffee-table of with extinction the habitats war between the sexes. man who now considers photographs. and creatures he photo- Ronald Reagan has sex a “holocaust”; and the ATAT BEABEA Worried that the graphs.) But the book’s just been elected presi- permanently lovelorn Bert, dominant perception of educational and polemical dent, John Lennon has just whose idea of a smooth the Florida Everglades is of impulses never elbow aside been shot and 35-year- come-on is to surprise his a flat, monotonous swamp, its aesthetics. Curzon has old Ray Powell has just inamorata by removing his the author—a lawyer, an extraordinary ability to been dumped by fickle clothes and draping a towel photographer and amateur natural- capture color and ambient light, from hippie goddess Lana in over his face. When all else ist—sets out to reveal the area’s visual the subtly chiaroscuroed pink plumage a definitive finale to the fails, the Zen bromides riches. Curzon succeeds marvelously of a roseate spoonbill to the molten- sexual golden age of the he gleans from Kung Fu by turning an artist’s eye, aided by a silver carapace of an alligator swim- countercultural ’70s. Seeking a fresh reruns—“Male and female are like coal superb photographic technique, on ming in the sunshine to the bright, flat start, he moves from the college-town and flame”—guide his steps. Durstin Condoleezza Rice varied landscapes, flora and wildlife. He patches of primary pigments that make Shangri-la of Crystal City to nearby writes in a wonderfully observant prose gives us stirring vistas: sunsets framed a coral snake look a bit like a Mondrian Toledo, Ohio, to teach high school and that’s sardonic and sympathetic, with a by blood-red storm clouds; expanses painting. Many of his images—the find another woman. Alas, Ray, who perfect ear for the cultural obsessions will be at the of mist-shrouded marsh and spindly dusky vortexes of a coiled rattlesnake, prides himself on his male feminism, is of the early Reagan era. He frames Ray’s pines, as delicately lined and shaded the brilliant emerald eye staring from at sea in a new sexual ethos that values story as a mythic “journey” that affords Book and Author as a Chinese watercolor; lush groves of a cormorant’s lurid orange face—are as assertiveness and earning power over the author a sly parody of the Men’s giant cypress trees that vault into the fascinating for their inventive composi- sensitivity. He finds nothing but cyni- Movement. As they respond to a chaos air like living cathedrals. But he also tions as for their documentary value. cism and tawdry hookups in the circle of mixed messages in a profoundly con- Breakfast from paints fascinating miniatures: a single By giving us a visceral sense of the trea- of hell that is the Toledo singles’ scene, fused age, his characters’ delusions— dewdrop on a cypress needle, a tiny sures that could be lost, each of these and the few women he connects with— and their fumbling, convoluted pickup white crab spider lying in wait on a pictures is worth a thousand words and such as Judy, a 17-year-old student maneuvers—are as poignant as they are 8-9:30 on Thursday lavender petal, a close-up of a panther more of environmentalist pleading. with whom he strikes up an awkward uproarious. lewdly licking its chops. Curzon’s spare A radiant panorama of the Ever- romance—prove resoundingly inap- A wickedly funny send-up of the (ticketed event) text sketches in the region’s ecology glades that’s both a feast for the eyes propriate. Tragically, he gets plenty sexual revolution and its discontents. morning. and natural history and decries the and a prod to the conscience. of advice from his bachelor buddies: the seven The Chatfield Story: Civil War Letters and Diaries of Private by Sean Patrick Little Edward L. Chatfield of the 113th Illinois Volunteers A rollicking science- to regroup, save each other by Terry M. McCarty, with Margaret Ann Chatfield McCarty fiction story about mutant and save themselves. Little The McCartys lay of the Civil War, follow- teens forced to battle the is a deft writer, seamlessly bare an improbable story ing Chatfield through paramilitary army that cre- blending fast-paced action of war, fortitude and sur- the Western Theater— Extraordinary, Ordinary People ated them. with engaging dialogue vival during a little-known Cairo, Memphis, Oxford, Coming October 12, 2010 Posey, Andy, Holly, and complementary chapter of the American Holly Springs, Chickasaw John, Kenny, Indigo and descriptions in this, his Civil War. Bayou, Arkansas Post, Sarah were taken from second book. He does The Chatfield Story DeSoto Point, Vicksburg, their families when they not ask readers to jump is a remarkable personal Corinth and other key Wednesday 5/26: were seven years old and haphazardly into a sea biography that sheds light battlegrounds. Well- And look for kept at the Home where of pseudoscience bent to on the inner workings of known in Colorado, the 11:00 am: Sean Manning – The Things That Need Doing they were tested, operated the needs of his plot, but one lone Union private, Chatfield story has now 1:00 pm: Allison Winn Scotch – The One That I Want on, observed and changed. bases his science fiction but also illuminates the come into the zeitgeist more Crown Now, a decade older and in concepts that will feel psyche of an entire gen- through the impeccable on the brink of legal adulthood, they slightly familiar and wholeheartedly be- eration. Authors McCarty efforts of the authors, authors signing are ready to head into the real world to lievable, like genetic mutation. The plot meticulously annotate each letter and who have painstakingly researched and Thursday 5/27: live as normally as they can. However, of The Seven stems organically from the diary entry while providing back- documented not only one man’s life, 11:00 am: Patti LuPone – Patti LuPone: A Memoir the group sponsoring the great experi- characters, and no scene feels forced to- ground narrative before and after, so but also the coming-of-age of a nation at the Random ment has other ideas. When they try gether for the sake of explanation. Also, the reader has the fullest possible un- during its darkest hour. Chatfield’s 2:00 pm: David Lipsky – Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself to escape, the teenagers are confronted the author doesn’t ignore consequences. derstanding of the history, events and letters and diary punctuate a lively and House booth 3:00 pm: John Verdon – Think of a Number by an army of soldiers from all over the The characters take full responsibility the subject in question. Fortified with dynamic telling of history that is as world who have one objective—final for killing and stop to grapple with the wartime maps, topographical charts much an American story as it is a per- analysis and subsequent termination moral question of whether it’s alright and generous appendices, readers are sonal memoir. But the real value of this of the test subjects. A few of the kids to kill when battling for your life, or if fully armed and ready to take on this work is that it teaches U.S. history in an also have to contend with the sudden any death is too great a loss. As such, The Crown Publishing Group formidable lesson in human endurance, accessible, engrossing way. It delivers CrownPublishing.com maturation of their powers—one of the book works well on multiple fronts, grit and determination. The book is the an entertaining, educational and wholly them turns into a bird, another can run and will appeal to young readers and rare intimate biography that is histori- enjoyable excursion through our shared so fast that her pants catch on fire and adults alike. cally compelling and dramatically sat- past and one remarkable life. another grows powerful muscles that A discussion of morality disguised isfying. The story begins with Edward’s Easy to read, faultlessly researched can withstand bullets. Their powers are as a terrific sci-fi action story. birth in Middlefield Township, Ohio, in and masterfully written. a help and a hindrance as they struggle 1842 and ends 24 years later at the close PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 10 BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2010 PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 11 BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2010

per month. currently selling via libreka!, several To draw attention to its strategy, UK publishers are expected to come on New Ground created a contest last board shortly. year in which the winning author was German Publishing Technology Spotlight libreka! currently negotiates terms awarded a €10,000 prize and a publish- on the basis of an agency model. For trailers. Readers can also comment on By Siobhan O’Leary ing contract with Droemer-Knaur. The Tripwolf lished guides, but a premium version Featuring innovative digital publishing trendsetters from Germany more information, contact Ronald and rate each title and share the Biblet print version of the winning comic, From top US sunset spots to the (available for $4.99 / €3.99) provides Schild at [email protected]. Comicstars.de via email and on various social net- Winternacht (Winter Night) will hit summer holidays of Silvio Berlusconi, unlimited access to the professional (i.e. for hotel bookings and Kayak.com for Information Service department of the book2look Self-publishing may be gaining works, including Facebook and Twitter. shelves on September 10th and, in Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Il, any published travel guide) content. Both flight searches. MVB noted that with the continual in- Widgets can give us the weather traction, but having a contract with a The company also offers a the meantime, it is being sold online number of unique travel itineraries apps feature an integrated “augmented Companies can also reach the troduction of new devices and growing forecast, tell uswhat time it is, or even traditional publisher is still an alluring “Bookshelf Widget,” which features chapter by chapter. Soon New Ground can be created from traditional travel reality” function and an iPad app is also 1.5 million digital nomads who visit acceptance of e-reading on the conti- help us plan dinner. And, of course, prospect for many aspiring authors. the Biblets of new releases and can be will also start including unique codes guides and user-generated content. in the works. the site every month by purchasing nent, libreka! is witnessing exponential there are widgets that allow us to pre- Comicstars.de is a Web 2.0 market- embedded into any website. Naturally, in some printed books, which can used Based in Vienna, Tripwolf is a preferred listings in the travel guides. view, share and buy books. place for digital comics that combines since the ultimate goal is obviously to to access the e-book, iPhone, iPad, and mobile social travel guide that does just Preferred listing packages offer a German technology company the best of both worlds. The company sell more books, publishers also define other versions of the book for free. that—it pairs travel advice from profes- range of options, from translations of book2look (www.book2look.com) is a links to various online book retailers Though New Ground does not sional travel writers and published business descriptions to search engine social media marketing tool that allows so that customers can purchase a given currently have any international guidebooks with reviews, blogs, photos, optimization for a company listing, as publishers to create widgets (book2look partners, it does foresee an expansion and maps from a worldwide commu- well as premium design and targeted calls them Biblets) and embed them into other European markets and the nity of over 50,000 travelers. Members ad placement on competitors’ profile just about anywhere — from web- US. The first step, according to CEO can gather information on 400,000 pages. sites to press announcements to book libreka! growth in sales. behind it, New Ground Publishing, Steve Jones, is to build partnerships destinations in five languages (English, databases. book2look’s German clients with established comic and manga German, French, Spanish and Italian) Starting in June, US and other Some 1,300 German-language include dtv, , Springer and was founded in 2008 as a joint venture title in two clicks. publishers that are also willing to follow to create free, customized 10 to 20-page foreign publishers will be able sell their publishers have already made their in- Suhrkamp, among others, and the site between German publisher Droemer- book2look also offers a variety of the “digital first” directive and publish .pdf travel guides. e-books on Germany’s online book copyright titles available in the libreka! is now available in English (as well as Knaur and IT service provider Gorilla other widgets, apps and services for books that have been tried and tested Tripwolf currently has two pub- To add to its range of professional search database and e-book distribu- database, with 400 of them offering Dutch and Korean). Concept. New Ground embraces a clients, including EPUB conversion, by the community. lishing partners—MairDumont, Eu- content, Tripwolf is actively pursuing tion platform libreka! (www.libreka.de). their e-books for sale on the platform. The book2look Biblet is unique “digital first” strategy, offering artists which is done on who pay a per-title Comic and manga publishers can rope’s biggest publisher of travel guides similar licensing agreements with US Launched by the German Publishers Implementation of the technical in that it not only allows publishers to the opportunity to upload and sell fee that varies depending on how many contact Steve Jones at jones@comic- with its flagship Marco Polo series, and publishers. The company already has and Booksellers Association, libreka! solutions necessary for importing the use a simple PDF file to create a digital their content online while providing titles they are converting, and whether stars.de to learn more about making UK publisher Footprint, which pub- a number of partners in the English- currently has over 130,000 titles avail- metadata of foreign titles will be com- reading sample of any length that is traditional print publishers a low-risk they are new releases or backlist. their titles available on Comicstars.de, lishes the Footprint Handbooks series. speaking world. North American ad able for full text browsing and 25,000 pleted in June, said Vogelbacher, “and easy on the eye and visually mimics the opportunity to spot new artistic talent. For more information about pric- to advertise on the site or to inquire A free version of the Tripwolf iPhone sales, for example, are handled by the titles for sale as e-books, making it one then it will be possible to sell e-books turning of an actual page. It also offers In less than a year, over 1,100 comics ing and the features of the Biblet, con- about New Ground’s digital distribu- app (which has been downloaded more Travel Ad Network (TAN) in New of the largest e-book sales channels in from anywhere abroad in Germany the ability to incorporate audio files, and manga were uploaded to the site, tact Ralph Moellers at ralph.moellers@ tion consulting services and custom- than 120,000 times) does not include York. HotelsCombined.com, Hotels. Europe. over the libreka! platform.” links, multimedia animations and video which now receives about 60,000 hits terzio.de. ized software solutions. access to content from these pub- com and Booking.com are its partners Michael Vogelbacher, head of the While there are no US publishers Abu Dhabi Offers Mid-East Opportunities; Partners with NYU for Publisher Training By Edward Nawotka Abu Dhabi Distribution (ADD), a new in the Middle East.” Topics under The Abu Dhabi International Book private company to facilitate book discussion will include, “What titles are Fair (ADIBF) is a unique opportu- distribution to the GCC countries, the appropriate for the MENA market?”, nity for US and global publishers to Maghreb and the Levant, as well as “What books sell?” and “How do books engage with the fast growing Middle servicing Arab communities outside reach readers?” The panelists are Seth Eastern and Arabic-speaking publish- the region. Russo, VP International Sales, Simon & ing community, which has been long What’s more the ADIBF has been Schuster; Emile Khoudry, CEO of CIEL overlooked on the world stage. Since active in further educating publishing distribution, Beirut and Bill Kennedy, partnering with the Frankfurt Book professionals from Egypt to Iraq to Director of Avicenna Partnership Ltd, Fair in 2007, the ADIBF has gone a Lebanon and began holding a series Oxford UK. of educational training sessions last long way to help establish a more pro- remains far behind in terms of overall year. As of this week, the ADIBF has fessional outlook in the region. From readers and buying power. 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NY Times bestselling author shows In Choosing to SEE, Mary Beth Chapman, wife of Inspired by his #2 Billboard hit, New blockbuster series from looking to enter the region. are being addressed, in particular with Here at BEA you can learn more his readers how to become the best recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman, shows how Grammy Award-winning artist NY Times bestselling author The size of the Arabic-speaking the news in March that the Abu Dhabi “you” there is by Friday. she wrestles with God even as she has allowed him and bestselling author TobyMac Beverly Lewis—the top name in market, some 300 million in all, is about the ADIBF and the market at a to write her story. Hear fi rsthand about the loss of delivers another life-challenging Amish fi ction for almost 15 years. Authority for Culture and Heritage Have a New You by Friday roughly the same size as that of Eu- seminar entitled. “Business opportuni- p her daughter, the struggle to heal, and the unexpected book for his 2.3 million readers. (ADACH), the organization respon- by Dr. Kevin Leman The Thorn by Beverly Lewis rope and the United States, though it ties for English language publishers path God has placed her on. sible for hosting the ADIBF, launched 978-0-8007-1933-3; Hardcover; $17.99 City on Our Knees by TobyMac THE ROSE TRILOGY #1 pChoosing to See by Mary Beth Chapman with Ellen Vaughn 978-0-7642-0865-2; Hardcover; $19.99 978-0-7642-0574-3; Trade Paper; $14.99 978-0-8007-1991-3; Hardcover; $21.99 Hardcover and Large Print editions EVENT: The event takes place today, Wednesday, May 26, in Room 1E02 from 3.30-4.30pm. More infor- also available. mation about the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair and affiliated programs can be had at their stand To order call 1-800-877-2665 — In Canada, contact David C. Cook Distribution 1-800-263-2664. 4429, Hall 3A. PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 12 BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2010 PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 13 Whatever Happened to US Spanish-language Publishing? E-book Distribution in Spain speaking There was agreement among all (continued from page 1) world through three panelists, however, that new tech- By Emily Williams have put down roots in the Spanish- than creating a list customized for US collaborations with regional retailers as nology in the form of e-books and print With Spain as the Global Market language market, operating under a Spanish readers. “I think, because we’re soon as things are up and running in on demand will allow Spanish books Focus this year, we thought it worth- hard-won realism, continue to find here and we work here in the US, and Spain. to reach readers in the US to a greater while to look at the existing market their readers. Atria editor Johanna we have our sales team all over the Up until now, sales of Spanish e- extent than ever before. Badenes sees e- for Spanish-language books in the US. Castillo nurtures a small collection of country, we have a better sense of what books in the US have been so low that books opening doors to niche markets The Hispanic book buying market is Spanish-language originals under the could work and what people want, and publishers haven’t spent much effort that had not been worth the economic estimated at about $1 billion, of which broader international list. Santillana we can do much more publicity and in establishing a market here. Bad- investment required to serve them 30-35% of those sales are in Spanish USA, under trade book director Silvia marketing. In terms of logistics we have enes sees this lack of a Spanish e-book before. Arancibia agreed that e-books language books. Matute, publishes some Spanish-lan- much more flexibility. Our books are market in the US as fundamentally a would allow Spanish readers in the US But less than a decade ago guage originals and does a creative job made here, so we don’t have to ship problem of demand, citing statistics access to a wider variety of books than Spanish-language readers in the US of funneling imports from their large them from Spain.” that show that consumers in Spain they’d ever had before, stating a belief The Bilingual Strategy were looked upon as next big untapped Spanish parent house into whichever read more books than in all of Latin that the assumptions about the kinds of market, a rare bright spot of growth in points of sale are likely to put them Another homegrown imprint America combined, which he extended books that would work for the Spanish the otherwise saturated book market. in front of readers­—whether that’s a bucking the trend is Penguin’s Celebra, to include Latin American immigrants market here has turned into a self-ful- The headline of a Publisher’s Weekly bookshop, big box store, or bodega. founded in 2008. Under publisher in the US. filling prophecy that limited what was article in September 2000 trumpeted And in February 2009, the same month Raymond Garcia, Celebra publishes Arancibia, by contrast, believes the made available to readers. “Spanish-Language Publishing in U.S. that brought bad news for Críticas and about 12 titles a year, all originals, Spanish book buying market in the US Larry Bennett took the opportu- Nears Critical Mass”, and the industry Rayo, ’s 15-year-old featuring Hispanic celebrities in sports, still has untapped potential, and that nity to talk up Baker & Taylor’s Blio responded with a number of initia- imprint Vintage Español signed a joint TV, music, politics and business. All the lack of demand for e-books up to e-book platform, with its potential tives geared to this promising market, venture agreement with corporate of the titles are published in English Spanish-language media market and, now is a result of the lack of interesting for both straight text and enhanced including Rayo, a Spanish-language cousin Random House Mondadori that and almost all are originally written as the audience evolves, online. “I think content, combined with the failure of content, and presented print-on-de- imprint at HarperCollins, and Críti- boosted their annual output from 15 in English. Where a celebrity author as the market grows, the opportunities publishers and bookstores to adequate- mand (POD) as another technological cas, a Journal publication in titles to 55. has strong appeal for Spanish readers, will come in new media.” The internet ly promote Spanish titles and connect solution to a lot of the current prob- English dedicated to helping librarians who tend to be mostly first generation is of course key to the next stage of with readers. lems caused by moving physical stock and book buyers navigate Spanish-lan- immigrants, the book is translated and book publishing, though the digital When Badenes pointed out that around the world. Baker & Taylor, he guage offerings from publishers, both published in Spanish as well, explains revolution driving so much conversa- e-books are still just a small part of the said, has done a number of studies that launched in 2001. Garcia. “Selling Spanish-language tion across the US industry is still at its overall book market in the US, let alone indicate POD would fulfill demand Then came the financial crash at books is a viable market,” says Garcia, barest beginnings in Spanish. ”We’re in other countries like France or the for Spanish books in the US more ef- the end of 2008, followed by major “but we’re seeing that second and third just starting to launch our first ,” UK where publishers have already cre- ficiently and cost-effectively in almost layoffs and downsizing at a number of generation Hispanics do have higher says de Pablos, “so I don’t have any data ated the same kind of digital platform all cases than the traditional system large New York publishers. By February levels of education and buying power, yet. My guess is it’ll be a small part that will soon be launched in Spain, of shipping imports across the ocean 2009, Críticas had ceased publication and they’re more likely to shop in larger of our sales, but will gradually grow Arancibia countered that there is still from Spain or trucking them over from and the head of Rayo was a casualty national accounts, which is why we alongside the economic and cultural very little available in those countries in Mexico, not least because POD books of a HarperCollins restructuring that see about 75% of books purchased by level of Hispanics.” the way of the new titles and bestsellers are listed as always in stock, which in saw the end of a whole division and the Hispanics are in English. That’s also Agent Andrea Montejo is equally that are of greatest interest to consum- turn makes them more appealing to elimination of a number of high-placed what drives Celebra’s strategy to pub- positive, though with a few reserva- ers. “Creating a platform is not the booksellers and generates sales. editorial posts. This at a time when the lish about 30% of its books in Spanish, tions: “I think there is opportunity same as creating a market,” she said. Census Bureau projects the Hispanic it’s mirroring the opportunities in the there, it just needs to be done with population in the US will triple by 2050 marketplace.” the right expectations, and it needs to make up 29% of the population. So Making sure the entire list is avail- to be nurtured, so it can grow.” When what happened? Did US publishers fail able in English also ensures Celebra it comes to recognizing promising Kirkus Reviews to find the Spanish readers, or were authors can reach into every corner of books, Montejo sees a need for more they never there to begin with? the US. “It’s important for the imprint, diversity within the New York publish- “I think it’s a question of the especially when publishing Hispanics ing establishment. “There’s sort of a Going Strong at 77 expectations of the large publishers,” in English, to preserve its mainstream parallel world in the Spanish-language says Andrea Montejo, a former Rayo Newly promoted director Jaime de appeal so that it doesn’t get pigeon- community that the English-language Founded in 1933, Kirkus provides critical, unbiased editor who left to found Indent Literary Pablos attributes the imprint’s success holed into just highly populated His- community isn’t always aware of, and assessments of books and brings attention through Agency in 2007. In the hype surround- in no small part to his predecessor panic areas. And then for those authors there are still very few Spanish-speak- starred reviews to books of unusual merit. ing the Spanish-language market there Milena Alberti, who carefully crunched who resonate in Spanish, we have our ers or Latinos inside the publishing was often a conflation of the potential the numbers to make sure their spend- targeted approach for Spanish-language community. I think there’s not enough number of Spanish-language readers ing on books did not exceed likely media in helping to push that forward.” knowledge in that sense.” Once the with the general Hispanic population sales. (The consensus among all the Future Prospects books are published, more agility is SPECIAL SHOW OFFER in the US—the­ majority of whom do editors we spoke with was that a best- The fact that an imprint like needed to make sure they reach their (for new subscribers only) not read Spanish. “You hear 40 million seller in the Spanish-language market Celebra publishes in English in order audience, which because of cultural Get Kirkus free for three months: Latinos in the US and everybody was translates to about 40-50,000 copies in to reach second and third genera- differences might not know to look in Call 800-316-9361 and mention promo code SHO10. expecting those numbers to be reflected sales, and that anything over 20,000 is tion Hispanic readers begs the ques- the typical places like Barnes & Noble in a huge way in terms of sales, and I a major hit.) The joint venture has al- tion of whether the Spanish-language or Amazon.com. “The final point of think that was a mistake,” Montejo says. lowed Vintage to mine Random House book market has a long term future sale,” Montejo notes, is perhaps most EDITORIAL CONSIDERATION: “There was a lot of trial and error. It all Mondadori’s rich backlist for titles or whether it will assimilate itself out important of all—“getting to the actual Molly Brown came together with the economy going that show promise for the US, then of existence. On this there is strong readers and letting them know the [email protected] bust, and that part of the business that repackage and publish them in editions agreement among those working to books are out there. I remember some 646-654-7277 was an innovation was just not seen as designed specifically for the US market. reach Spanish readers and it is, perhaps books we would publish and we would Asked what advantage this gives Vin- a priority.” surprisingly, entirely optimistic. get tons and tons of calls from readers ADVERTISING INFORMATION: Hardy Survivors tage Español over imports from other Jaime de Pablos at Vintage Español asking, where can I buy the book? It’s Kirkus Media, LLC Beth Kallman Werner big Spanish publishers, de Pablos points is testing out the Christian book chan- While there was a certain scal- such a huge disconnect. There’s still 6411 Burleson Road [email protected] ing back of the exuberance of the brief out that other houses tend to stick to nels and hopes to find new opportuni- work to be done.” Austin, TX 78744 570-686-1214 boom era, however, publishers who their international bestsellers rather ties to promote books in the thriving PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 14 BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2010 Campfire: Affordable Indian Graphic Novels Come to America About Us This special print edition was co- By Edward Nawotka to the acceptance of graphic novels in produced by Publishing Perspectives Campfire Books, an Indian graphic , and the acknowledgement of and Kirkus Reviews to offer the latest novel publisher, aims to break into their literary value in schools and col- publishing news and book reviews for the US book market starting this June leges. At BEA last year, I was pleasantly BookExpo America 2010. when Steerforth Press begins distribu- surprised by the number of teachers tion of Campfire’s lines illustrated clas- and librarians who expressed an enthu- A PDF version is available online. The Book Fair sics, mythological stories, biographies siastic interest in our titles. They were Subscribe to our daily email edition at and original works. Among the first pleased to see us producing the kinds publishingperspectives.com. titles available will be Call of the Wild, of graphic novels that would excite Save the dates! Robinson Crusoe, and Harry Houdini. their students, whilst developing their Publishing Perspectives: “Campfire titles are 72 to 98 page language ability and visual literacy. We Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief perfect bound full color graphic nov- feel that, more than in any other coun- Erin Cox, Business Development Dir. 15 – 20 March 2011 els,” explains Chip Fleischer, publisher try, the US will give us the opportunity Hannah Johnson, Deputy Publisher of Steerforth, which is also handling to successfully sell our books, not only Australian, New Zealand and South through retail outlets, but also into the African distribution. education sector.” Kirkus Reviews: • NETWORK with Arab and The books are competitively price For his part, Fleischer is so excited Jerome Kramer, Acting Publisher between $9.99 and $11.99, a price point about the prospects for the books, he’s Molly Brown, Special Projects Editor international publishers that is achievable because much of the cleared his own company’s publish- Perry Crowe, Discoveries Editor spiritual. It has an extremely long his- content creation, as well as all the print- ing calendar for the year to focus on Elaine Szewczyk, Fiction Editor • MEET digital publishing pioneers tory, and Indian mythology is a source ing, is done in India. the first Campfire list of 16 titles; in all Eric Liebetrau, Nonfiction Editor of intrigue and inspiration for those “Certainly, one of the main com- Steerforth expects to make 70 Campfire Vicky Smith, Childrens Editor • BUY and SELL rights around the world.” petitive advantages of working from titles available by the end of 2011. Beth Werner, Sales Despite being halfway around • EXPAND your horizons India, and the most obvious one, is “With some titles that come from the world, the US is a key market cost,” says Campfire editorial director abroad you can look at the drawings Photography: for Campfire, notes Dodd. “In many Andy Dodd. “However, I feel there is a and see they look like they come from Ben Papaleo respects, the US is ahead of other coun- lot more to be gained from being here. Asia or the spellings are British, but tries around the world in their appre- The most professional book fair in the region. Indian culture is something which these are all look right and are localized We’d like to thank BookExpo America ciation of the graphic novel medium. intrigues people from all over the for the US market,” says Fleischer. “We for putting on a great show this year! This is particularly true with regard world. 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Shale will crackle with actual electrical current our visions of the future…they’re kind been confusing. and three “tension“ birds made out of before its 2012 Archives,” and “SAA Forever, Collec- be the best selling as your head involuntarily snaps back of like horoscopes, but tailored specifi- You have been rods that didn‘t books. She texts release. Get on the tions For Never.” The best thing to do is young adult fiction toward the parting sky. You’ll scream cally for book people. We hope you find waking up at 6 seem to take any you back six ques- waiting list now. to allow it to spiral book for at least wildly as your whitened eyes extract peace-loving and neutral forecasts that a.m. in a sweaty, recognizable shape. tion marks. Just Helpful tip: As a reader, you may feel out of control until six weeks. You the sun’s energy in a concentrated are broadly accurate. Remember: You manic state. You Helpful tip: Avoid know that you did like you don’t know enough about cur- one group prevails. don’t even need a beam of nature-perverting fire. You are are predictable. pace around the the bearded intern. the right thing and rent literature, or culture for that mat- Helpful tip: After plot. Your industry experiencing great confidence in your Authors: house dumping energy shots into your Don’t let him follow you out to lunch she will figure it out. Helpful tip: The ter. Just use the following buzz words to the infighting connections will clinch Justin Beiber work—perhaps too much so. Be careful You are working coffee and then decide to approve all because then it’ll become a “thing.” customer is not always right. You are. be able to kick-start any book-related stops, their sights as the lead for the movie. Gotta start with your energy levels, Critics. Helpful on something books that start Booksellers: So you’re sitting Readers: You will fall in love with conversation: Darkly, Organic, Prating, will turn toward working on that screen adaptation by tip: Here are some pre-fab, catch-all, huge this month. with the letter X. X near some booth on a chair that you’ve so many new authors this month! You Foreshadowing, Philistine, Xexy, Man- Reference and this weekend! Shale 2: Sparkle Blood one liners that you can use to fill out You wrote down is a good letter. It’s usurped, on your phone dealing with have the leopard shifter fever and can’t date, Hummus. other upstairs offices. Create a new will be a natural sequel, but don’t be those reviews: “What it amounts to, is the protagonist’s a great letter. Sexy. some pseudo crisis, and suddenly wait to buy Wild Librarians: Oh snap, Librarians. threat to deviate attention. Mention disappointed if it goes straight to DVD. an entitled WASP name/title of the Xexy. Snorting you have an amazing idea that nearly Fire by Christine Even though you didn’t start the war, the laziness of Systems Librarians and Helpful tip: We are bored with Shale droning on about book, but then you your Xanax seems knocks you onto your haunches. You Feehan. Your Face- you are certainly a part of it now! You gesture a slicing movement towards already. first world white crossed it out. This is a mistake. You like the perfect hurriedly search the Internet to see if book friends (that know what war I’m talking about. It’s your throat. Critics: Goodness, Critics, you people problems,” were right to name the titular character escape at noon but it already exists in some form. You see haven’t invited you the one between the Special Collec- Michaelanne and Angela Petrella are feisty this month! You are feel- “Clumsy, un- Shale. It’s the perfect combination of don’t do it. You are that your search does not yield results, to join their book tions people in the basement and the serve as prognosticators-in-chief for the ing the power of your own brilliance holy prating from androgynous and famous sounding. mostly doing it because of the X thing but instead asks you, “Did you mean club because they Archivists in sub-basement 2. They San Francisco Panorama, published rushing through your veins with every a state-school edu- There will be Team Shale shirts, Shale from earlier. You will end up signing bird farm?” It is not what you had are backstabbing are warring over turf more fervently by McSweeney’s. They are available for new book you devour. Your fingertips cated philistine,” or costumes for Halloween, and Shale on to your (continued on next page) in mind but pursue the enticing link sea beasts) seemed to really enjoy it! than ever. The library must consolidate private consultations. further. An hour goes by and your as- Also, we heard from a reliable source the two factions as they have taken to Stephenie Meyer Tells All! (Okay, not true, but this is an Teenage Thumb Tribes: Why Cell Phone Fiction is Part of Publishing’s Future interview with an author from Arizona who writes about teen age vampires and is also really, really cool.) By Jacob Lewis of cell-phone fiction rightly see them- Twitter. Teens rely on each other. They When I was seventeen, after selves as the peers of the writers they want to share what they’re reading, and reading Portnoy’s Complaint, I sent an admire, and they follow that author they want to tell the author what they adoring note to Philip Roth. It was a and their work as if they were friends. think about what they’re reading. They revelatory book for me, and I wanted The storyline is beside the point. It’s expect and they demand a response. to tell him how drawn I was to it. He the community, the technology, and As a reading and writing commu- never responded. the belief that something powerful will nity, Figment will offer a place for teens I met Philip Roth a while back, emerge. to engage with peers, with authors, and when I was the managing editor at The The Internet is as much about with content. They can read a serial- New Yorker, but I didn’t have the guts community as it is about distribution ized novel by a friend down the block to say anything, even though the fact and commerce. Japanese publishers or a short story by their favorite author had been nagging me for a very long understand the power of online and anytime, anywhere—on their computer time. By then—I worked at The New were writing, sharing, and reading mobile communities and have sold or their mobile phone. They can write Yorker for twelve years and at Conde novels on their cell phones. millions of copies of books that are a haiku or a 90,000 word novel while Nast Portfolio for another two—I fully In Japan, the Internet and its com- free online. American publishers and riding the bus to school. They can pick understood the distance we maintained munities have long existed on mobile authors are just beginning to under- and chose, share and exclaim, write and between writers and editors and our phones. An entire generation has stand the power of their participation review. I’m sure that the young people consumers. You could see it in the grown up using cell phones to commu- in social media, though their efforts who use Figment will think of ways formatted rejection letters and the dis- nicate, shop, watch television and mov- have been tepid. Setting up a fan page of telling stories that nobody has ever missiveness with which we sent callers ies, read books, and create content in and a web site and waiting for people to considered before. The fictive possibili- to the ‘readers services line.’ ways that Americans have only begun join doesn’t mean you’re participating. ties of the Internet are limitless. I now run a mobile publish- to explore. Japanese teens type so much Think of the associative quality of some At Figment, our stories will begin ing company for reading and writing on their phones that they are called brands: Coke has over 5.5 million fans with our users. Our users bring stories young-adult fiction called Figment, oyayubizoku, “the thumb tribe.” on Facebook; Random House has just to us. And publishers will want to bring which will launch this summer. Fig- In America, 75% of teens have a over 3,000. stories to them. The world of literature ment is a user-generated community cell phone, an equal number use social Put that in the context of the col- becomes a community, enabled by for teens. It’s a creative space for where networking sites and, most impres- lective power of teens, who have long technology and emboldened by partici- teens can read great content, write sively, more than a third of them send been underserved by the traditional pation of every member. unfiltered stories, and share them on over 3,000 texts per month. 100 times review apparatus, and the success of The Internet has been wondrously the web and mobile phones. We aim to a day. 10 times an hour. This is our young-adult fiction, which is huge. destructive to the traditional media’s connect an active amateur community thumb tribe. Teens, through whatever means were business models. But we in traditional with the professional one, and insure One aspect of the Japanese model available, created a viral network to publishing never really tried to get everyone gets a response. that is particularly compelling is the share what along with the Internet. We produced The idea for Figment comes from intimate relationship created between they like long content much as we always had. We a New Yorker article, written by my for- writer and reader. Delivered to a cell before we all were imperious to our audience and mer colleague and now partner in the phone, a story may be psychologically discovered dismissive of the shifting boundaries. business, Dana Goodyear. She wrote on par with a private email or text mes- the distribu- We didn’t realize that in the future, about a phenomenon that exemplified sage. There is an immediacy implicit in tive power of everyone’s letters will be answered. techno-phile Japan: adolescent girls the distribution mechanism alone. Fans Facebook and

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Interviw with Mitali genocide of the indigenous people by in Bangladesh and had Perkins the military. I wanted to shine a light to flee in 1947. He was In Bamboo People, Mitali Perkins on that area of the world. Hindu, and Muslims takes readers to war-torn Burma (not How did you choose this struc- took over the land. We “Myanmar” as she explains in her au- ture? started from scratch in thor’s note), dividing the novel into two It started as a picture book with Calcutta. He was very halves narrated by teens on opposing Megan Tingley at Little, Brown. She poor, and he’d been very sides of the conflict. Throughout, it fol- really helped me with this book. I wrote rich. He died of unfor- lows the stories of 15-year-old Chiko, Tu Reh’s side of the book first. Megan giveness and bitterness. a Burmese boy who is kidnapped and felt it was too one-sided, dealing with Years later, I went to the forced into the military, and 16-year- the issue of anger and lack of forgive- farm; the guy was terri- old Tu Reh, a Karenni boy living in a ness. My own family history has some fied because he thought refugee camp who discovers a seriously of this in it. Megan said, “You have to I was going to take legal wounded Chiko in enemy uniform in show the other side of the story.” That action. But I wanted to his path. Here, Perkins tells Kirkus how was a decade ago. offer some gifts. I said, she came to write the book. Tu Reh’s half begins when he “We’ve been blessed in finds Chiko. When Tu Reh’s father our lives, we want you This is not a part of the world says, “I’m going to stay like the to be blessed in your that’s often explored in literature. bamboo, Tu Reh. I want to be used for life.” We had tea. Seven What drew you to it? many purposes,” he suggests that we generations of my family I lived in Thailand for three years, always have choices. lived in that house. They about ten years ago. We visited the Each decision that we make leads gave me fruit from the refugee camps along the Burma-Thai either to a world of destruction or a trees that my grandfa- border. Ever since we came back, I’ve world of healing. The choices you make ther had planted. That kept close tabs on friends working as a teenager do have an impact. idea was in my mind: in the refugee camps and along the You said that your own family “What would have hap- border. Life has gotten harder for them history shares something in common pened if my grandfather since we were there. It’s an attempt at with Tu Reh’s situation. had forgiven them?” My grandfather had a juice farm

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BookDaily, a division of the school Lothario Carrie they already a love of reading— ing” to Jessie and growing world of self-publishing, from challenged me,” he said. “I liked that.” ArcaMax Publishing based in Newport, drives a wedge know and love, but finds it has some- uncannily anticipat- manuscript preparation to marketing In one breakout session, Jason Va., uses a syndicated-news model to between Carrie and this book can stand thing to offer. So ing her needs. At the their books. Panels included book Kuykendall, senior business devel- send direct e-mails, offering samples her best friend. At alone. Yes, the sex, does her newfound end, Jessie leaves it buyers, booksellers, print-on-demand opment manager with Kindle Self- of books directly to subscribers. home with her father and two younger drugs and drinking will titillate, but dad, his bratty daughter and his crew of for another needy soul to find. Here’s houses, upstarts, established industry Publishing, presented Amazon’s “digital And FiledBy in Nashville is a social- sisters, Carrie mourns her dead mother, Carrie’s sharp observations of her peers friends, including a sushi chef and his hoping the next entry in this new series leaders and authors. text platform,” which allows authors networking website for authors to post a declared feminist with a passion for and human relationships give the book wife and an appealingly gap-toothed lives up to the standard set here. (au- “We are providing information so to upload text to Amazon’s website, set their profiles and link to others. fashion. Whether she faces the wrath smart, sassy intellectual power. (Fiction. boy. Rue takes a predictable arc—trou- thor’s note, scriptural guide) (Fiction. that authors can make informed deci- a price and immediately make their And while technology continues of the most popular girl in school or 14 & up) bled girl is rescued by her reformed, 12 & up) sions,” said Mark Dressler, programmer publication available for purchase via to play a larger role in self-publishing, Sign up for our FREE daily email edition at of convention events for BEA. “These Amazon’s Kindle. The program also many authors still praise decidedly old- www.publishingperspectives.com SPACEHEADS A SICK DAY FOR AMOS MCGEE by Jon Scieszka and Francesco Sedita by Philip C. Stead Illustrated by Shane Prigmore Illustrated by Erin E. Stead P.S. 858 fifth mitigate the Amos yellows and grader Michael total weirdstorm, McGee, reds leaven K. had hoped Agent Umber of an elderly the palette’s for a normal the Anti-Alien zookeeper, mild first day in his Agency is hot on enjoys a melan- new school, but the trail. With clockwork choly. Erin what he gets is this series kick- life (one E. Stead’s crazy-weird. off, Scieszka and teaspoonful beautifully He’s paired with Sedita have just of sugar for wrought two other new written the book oatmeal, woodblock students, Bob (literally) on two for tea prints and (who talks like how to integrate and the pencil a commercial) new media number work cre- and Jennifer into a “tradi- five bus to ate almost (who sounds tional” book for work) until painfully like a wrestling children. The the sniffles expressive announcer), who story’s websites force him to characters. seem to know are all functional stay in bed Wrinkles him and who (not to mention and miss and think he can do funny) and ex- his daily visits with animal friends. crinkles describe the elephant’s sagging anything. They tend the narra- Fragile, gangly Amos, in striped mass and the rhino’s girth, as well as and their loqua- tive. Prigmore’s pajamas and ill-fitting zoo uniform, their keen sensitivity. Owl’s furrowed cious hamster, black-and-white appears as crushingly vulnerable as a brow communicates deep concern even Major Fluffy, illustrations are child. Children will immediately like as the group heads to Amos’s home to even say that they are aliens sent to a perfect match; in fact, artwork and and understand him, as they too take check on him. This gentle, ultimately Earth to recruit SPHDZ. They are sure text have rarely worked so well together comfort in reassuring routines—and warm story acknowledges the care and Michael K can help them recruit 3.14 in this format. Hysterical, sneakily would certainly love playing chess with reciprocity behind all good friendships: million kids—if not, the Earth will be instructive fun. You will be SPHDZ! an elephant or running races with a Much like Amos’s watch, they must be turned off! While Michael K. is trying (Multi-platform science fiction. 7-12) tortoise! Muted greens, browns and wound regularly to remain true. (Pic- to figure out how to escape or at least blues dominate pages, while brighter ture book. 2-6) PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES & KIRKUS REVIEWS 22 BOOKEXPO AMERICA 2010 Highlights from the German Book Office Rights List

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