Hola Digital Publishing!
When a non-Anglophone publisher looks for guidance one what awaits him or her in the future marketplace, there is a justifiable tendency to look with some skepticism on the experience in the...
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New Fair, New Models
Each year I come to the Fair (this is my tenth) I feel not that I have returned, but that I never left. Day One of the Fair is in fact Day Six of last years Fair, or Day Eleven of Frankfurt 2008. But...
View ArticleThe eBook Strategies of Major Publishers
While there was little dramatically new to be learned from The eBook Strategies of Major Publishers, this panel was extremely rich in data, which so many of us are anxious to have, and disclosed a...
View ArticleAround the World in 80 Aggregators, or, The Digital Night and Day
Although the programming is at the heart of what our blog is reporting on, news and insight can be found throughout the Fair, in all the Halls, and even in the bars, restaurants and Tweet-Ups. Last...
View ArticleGrowing the Brazilian book market, one reader a time.
I was lucky enough this morning to be able to interview Carlo Carrenho of PublishNews after he had finished moderating an excellent Frankfurt Hot Spot panel discussion on digital publishing in Brazil....
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Walter Benjamin’s Aura
Perhaps the most compelling talk at Frankfurt so far this year was one in which the speaker was delighted to note that Frankfurter School philosopher Walter Benjamin makes an appearance. Or at least,...
View ArticleGo Mobile, Young Man
As this blog’s readers now well know, one dimension of the Frankfurt SPARKS initiative is the Hot Spots. These are themed sections of the main show floor, focused on digital and other emerging...
View ArticleHot Spots, Part Two: Democratizing and Customizing
“Hacking Education” is a buzzphrase around internet-based businesses and the nice thing for publishers in that it focuses on disintermediating existing educational institutions rather than publishers!...
View ArticleConvergences, Real and Imagined: A Conclusion
Last year I concluded my contribution to the Frankfurt Book Fair’s website with an opinion piece on what I thought the Fair signified—a perhaps hubristic attempt to issue a personal, idiosyncratic,...
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Publisher, know thyself
While Amazon does not in fact have a monopoly on book retailing, whether physical or digital, it does appear to have a monopoly on our imaginations when it comes to discussing the future of publishing....
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