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Somebody please tell me the path to survival for the illustrated book business

August 6, 2012 by Jess 26 Comments

My eye was caught at the end of last week by a story in The Bookseller that acknowledged that ebooks just haven’t worked for illustrated books. It appears that the publishers of illustrated books they spoke to for the piece think that situation is temporary. The Managing Director of Thames & Hudson, Jamie Camplin, is […]

Filed Under: eBooks, New Models, Vertical Tagged With: advanceImages, Aerbook Maker, Blio, Bowker, Codex, Dorling Kindersley, F+W Media, fotolibra, iPad, Jamie Camplin, John Duhigg, Kindle Fire, Osprey, Peter Hildick-Smith, Ron Martinez, Thames & Hudson, The Bookseller, Wiley

Learned (or figured out) at BEA 2012

June 11, 2012 by Jess 34 Comments

BookExpo America, trade publishing’s industry-wide gathering, just completed what must be considered another successful year at Javits Center last week. Attendance was pretty much what it had been last year and the lines for autographs on the convention floor certainly gave off the feeling of enthusiasm and excitement that publishers want to see. Convention roundups […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Licensing and Rights, Publishers Launch Conferences, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Abrams, Aerbook Maker, Avalon, BIC, Bill Newlin, BISG, BookExpo America, BookScan, Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, Crown, Doubleday, Fabbri, Firebrand, Fran Toolan, Joe Friedman, John Locke, Jonathan Nowell, Karina Luke, Laura Hazard Owen, Martha Moran, Martin Levin, Marvello Vena, Michael Cader, New American Library, Penguin, Perseus, RCS Libri, RCS Media, Rizzoli, Ron Martinez, Times Mirror Publishing

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