http://www.Pubmatch.org/ Latest news on Pubmatch.org en-en http://www.pubmatch.org/images/logo.jpg http://www.Pubmatch.org/ Pubmatch Latest News http://www.pubmatch.org/news/37/a-free-library-for-every-famil.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/37/a-free-library-for-every-famil.html By Publishing Perspectives By Chip Rossetti SHARJAH, UAE: While many countries would like to encourage a “culture of reading” in their citizens, perhaps no government has taken a more direct role in promoting reading than the United Arab Emirate of Sharjah, through its official initiative known as “Knowledge Without Borders.” Conceived under the auspices of the ruler of Sharjah, H.H. Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, the Knowledge Without Borders program has the ambitious goal of providing 42,000 Sharjah families with individual libraries of fifty books, including a disp... ]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/36/low-cost-option-for-u.s.-publi.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/36/low-cost-option-for-u.s.-publi.html By U.S. Commercial Service Low Cost Option for U.S. Publishers to Promote Titles at the Doha International Book Fair Interested in selling more titles to Middle Eastern markets? Times are tough, so the U.S. Commercial Service's Publishing Team is providing cost-effective, convenient ways for publishers to test new markets without a cons... ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/33/publishing-in-the-uae.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/33/publishing-in-the-uae.html By Publishers Weekly A new publishing hub in the Arab world is set to shine by Teri Tan -- Publishers Weekly, 9/21/2009 Ask anyone about the United Arab Emirates, and the answer usually revolves around its iconic saillike Burj Al-Arab tower or its financial center, Dubai, the Middle East's most modern metropolis, famed for megaprojects and billion-dollar deals. Abu Dhabi, 120 kilometers southwest of Dubai, tends to be an afterthought, despite its status as the capital city of the UAE. It's high time for perceptions to change. There is ample evidence pointing to the rise of Abu Dhabi as the region's cultural center, and much of its progress in literature, publishing and reading is attributed to one organization: the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH). From the professionally run Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF), which it jointly organizes with Frankfurter Buchmesse,... ]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/34/bologna-reinstates-fourth-day-.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/34/bologna-reinstates-fourth-day-.html By Publishers Weekly By Nicholas Clee, BookBrunch -- Publishers Weekly, 9/21/2009 7:59:00 AM The Bologna Children's Book Fair has yielded to protests and reinstated the fourth day of the event. The 2010 fair will now take place from Tuesday to Friday March 23-26. A group of U.K. publishers petitioned Bologna after they had learned that the 2010 fair had been scheduled to take place over three days rather than the usual four. Gloria Bailey, manager of international book fairs at the Publishers Association, met Bologna Director Roberta Chinni at the recent Beijing Book Fair, and learned that the fair had also received complains about the curtailment from publishers in France, Switzerland and Australia. Chinni agreed to take up the matter with her colleagues. Bologna is to issue a press release and to update its Web site shortly. The 2010 prices will not be increased, and the early bir... ]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/32/childrens-publishing-in-the.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/32/childrens-publishing-in-the.html By Publishers Weekly This article originally appeared in PW's Children's Bookshelf. Sign up now! By Diane Roback -- Publishers Weekly, 9/17/2009 1:30:00 PM     ]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/29/beijing-book-fair.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/29/beijing-book-fair.html By publishingperspectives.com Bonus Material: Stats, Video and Images from the BIBF By Edward Nawotka The keynote speech of the Beijing International Publishing Forum (discussed in our lead article) was delivered by Wu Shulin, vice-minister for the General Administration for Press and Publications (GAPP). He cited numerous figures — as documented by Emma House, the UK Publishing Association’s International Director — which give a picture of the current state of Chinese publishing. House writes on The Bookseller blog, “Statistics in China show that in 2008 ex... ]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/30/china-offers-ample-opportuniti.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/30/china-offers-ample-opportuniti.html By publishingperspectives.com By Xing Daiqi BEIJING: The slogan of this week’s 16th Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) is “To see what the world is reading.” But with China’s position as the engine of the global economy reinforced under the present financial crisis, the world is increasingly curious about what China is reading. Still, in spite of the economic downturn, more than half of the 1,500 exhibits at the BIBF are international and some 56 countries are represented. As part o... ]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/31/russia-will-be-market-focus-at.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/31/russia-will-be-market-focus-at.html By Publishers Weekly Russian Federal Agency and Russkiy Mir Fund to award British publishers grants for translation of Russian literature into English By Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 9/2/2009 1:35:00 PM Russia will be the market focus and guest of honor at the 2011 London Book Fair. The decision was based on Russian publishing’s rapid growth in the past two decades and on the success of the &l... ]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/28/how-cons-challenge-the-s.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/28/how-cons-challenge-the-s.html By Publishingperspectives.com By Lance Fensterman My friend and blogger Heidi McDonald describes San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) as the Nerd Prom, and I cannot imagine a more apt description.  SDCC started in a hotel basement as a modest gathering of comic lovers some forty years ago and has grown into the epicenter of the entire pop culture world or, at the very least, a 125,000 person representative sample of that world.  As a historian, my SDCC knowledge is spotty at best (was it actually a hotel basement?) but as the organizer of the trade event BookExpo America (BEA) and upstart pop culture events New York Comic Con (NYCC), the New York Anime Fest (NYAF) and the soon t... ]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/26/why-publishing-cannot-be-saved.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/26/why-publishing-cannot-be-saved.html By PublishingPerspectives.com Editorial by Richard Eoin Nash The book business is a tiny industry perched atop a massive hobby. But rather than celebrate and serve the hobbyists, we expect them to shell out ever more money for the books we keep throwing at them (a half million English-language books in 2008 in the U.S.). Cutting back might work for individual companies, but not for an industry — s/he who truly believe that the best thing for our customers is less choice shouldn’t let the door hit them on the way out of this industry, indeed this culture. We’ve built a massive supply chain system for connecting writers and readers because it suits us, but it clearly doesn’t suit most writers or readers. The ones getting their advances cut right now are a small minority of writers (working in any language today); we  should not weep for them, most were overpaid anyway. Instead of using the ever-increasing array of... ]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/18/the-pa-in-partnership-with-th.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/18/the-pa-in-partnership-with-th.html By The Publishers Association of the U.K. The PA, in partnership with the Association of American Publishers and Kitab (the organisers of the Abu Dhabi Book Fair and the IPA Copyright Symposium 2010, Abu Dhabi 28th Feb-1st March 2010) will be hosting an “Anti-Piracy Breakfast” during the Frankfurt Book Fair on Friday 16th October, 8.30am – 10am in Symmetrie Room 2, Hall 8.1. This anti-piracy event will be held in memory of Akash Chittranshi, the PA's counsel in India who sadly passed away in October 2009. The breakfas... ]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/16/app-boom-hits-publishing.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/16/app-boom-hits-publishing.html By Publishers Weekly Will hand-held devices change how we think about books? by Craig Morgan Teicher -- Publishers Weekly, 7/6/2009    Want to bring along a library of great books wherever you go, from current bestsellers to the classics? To quote Apple's ubiquitous iPhone slogan, “There's an app for that.” Without question, the proliferation of smartphones is rapidly changing the way we think about mobile computing—and in the coming months and years, they may very well change the way we think about books. Since Apple launched its App Store in June 2008, the market for apps—those little programs you download to your smart phone (iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, etc.) to make them do things other than make and receive calls—is booming. Just a year from its launch, Apple now offers more than 50,000 apps in its store, ranging from arcade games to GPS technology that can direct you to the nearest hoagie. And, of course, apps let you read books on you... ]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/17/iraqi-egyptian-publishers-ent.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/17/iraqi-egyptian-publishers-ent.html By Publishingperspectives.com By Chip Rossetti ABU DHABI: KITAB, the joint venture of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage and the Frankfurt Book Fair, recently held the first of two five-day CEO-level training programs it has organized this year for publishers from the Arab world. Nineteen publishers from eight Arab countries attended a series of workshops in Abu Dhabi from June 14 to 18, all with the aim of increasing the level of professionalism in the Arabic book publishing industry. A second session for the CEOs will be held this December 6 to 10, with sessions for mid-management publishing professionals from September 27 to October 1 and November 8 to 12. The training is a series of wo... ]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/1/bea-panel-going-digital.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/1/bea-panel-going-digital.html By Shelfawareness Shelf-Awareness.com    "Newspapers mistakenly believed that what they sell is content," said Andrew Savikas, v-p of digital initiatives, O'Reilly Media, at the BEA panel called Going Digital: An Industry Discussion on Selling E-Content. Instead, newspapers "sell your attention; they pay for it with their editors and writers." This statement, in many ways, framed the panel's discussion about content, what form it may take and how it's delivered. "[The newspapers] don't own your attention, and unless they get it back, they can't win you with content."   It's no longer about just hardcover versus paperback, but also being able to explain to customers about the pros and cons of the Kindle or other e-readers, said Jenn Northington, events and marketing manager at the King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, Utah. King's English recently ra... ]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/2/cape-town-book-fair-attracts-c.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/2/cape-town-book-fair-attracts-c.html By Publishingperspectives Publishingperspectives.com   Cape Town Book Fair Attracts Crowds, Questions Role   By Edward Nawotka   SOUTH AFRICA: “Sustainability of the Fair is a challenge, if you measure it against what it intends to be as a trade event, then we have significant challenges ahead of us,”  said Vanessa Badroodien, director of the Cape Town Book Fair, which has been running... ]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/3/kotobarabias-arabic-e-books.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/3/kotobarabias-arabic-e-books.html By PublishingPerspectives Publishingperspectives.com Kotobarabia’s Arabic E-Books Extend Borders By Chip Rossetti   CAIRO: Most of the difficulties faced by Arabic-language book publishing stem from two basic problems: government censorship and very limited distribution. But with e-books, Ramy Habeeb, founder of the Egypt-based publisher Kotobarabia, has managed to bypass both seemingly intractable problems. As the first e-publisher devoted exclusively to Arabic-lan... ]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pubmatch.org/news/4/140-character-confab-listenin.html http://www.pubmatch.org/news/4/140-character-confab-listenin.html By Publishers Weekly Publishersweekly.com 140 Character Confab: Listening To and Learning About Twitter By Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 6/19/2009 8:09:00 AM There were two book panels at the recent 140 Characters Conference, a two-day convention held in New York focused on the pervasive influence of Twitter on seemingly everything, but it became clear that the specific content of those 2 panels—indeed all of the panels at event—was a secondary consideration. The 140 Characters confere... ]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700