South Korea’s Paju Bookcity is
unique in the world: home to some 200 publishing companies and 10,000
publishing professionals, mere miles from the North Korea border.
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In Publishing Perspectives' Ether
for Authors, Porter Anderson looks at media noise about Amazon, at authentic
criticism, and agents' experience of rejection.
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Latest Job Listing:
The Universities' Publishing
Consortium in St. Petersburg, Russia is "seeking web virtuosi with a
special interest in metadata management and the semantic web." Sound
like you? Click here to apply.
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More News from PP:
Writing
for Bloomberg.com, Virginia Postrel has a counterintuitive suggestion for
publishers, Barnes & Noble and tech-savvy retail entrepreneurs: embrace
showrooming.
A conceptual overview of how the
Internet works aimed at helping you understand, for example, what someone
means when they say our books live on the cloud.
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From the Archives:
A visit to the Seoul Book Fair
reveals publishers are still wary of ebooks and blame smart devices for the
decline in reading, even as Korean culture has become hip abroad.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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