Strong Moscow Book Fair Still Offers Mixed Signals

Strong Moscow Book Fair Still Offers Mixed Signals Title production hit 56,000 copies for the first six months of 2012, though overall sales are lower, according to news out of this year's Moscow International Book Fair.

Ether for Authors: Can You Sell Ebooks on the Half Shell? In Ether for Authors, Porter Anderson looks at the Oyster ebook subscription service, at a CONTEC session ahead in Frankfurt, at book marketing, and more.

Ready for Frankfurt? Join Today's Twitter Chat on Authors in Frankfurt Join us TODAY at 10 a.m. ET / 2 p.m. GMT for a live Twitter chat about authors in Frankfurt. Our hashtag is #fbfauthors. For more information, see Hannah Johnson's Authors' Guide to the Frankfurt Book Fair.

More News from PP: Scotsman Composes Novel Simultaneously in Two Languages Scotsman Angus Peter Campbell reflects on the "zig-zag" composition of his new novel which was written — and will be published —simultaneously in English and Gaelic. Yves Bonnefoy Wins $150,000 Guadalajara Book Fair Prize Following a controversial choice last year, FIL comes back with an august winner for it's $150k prize for literature: French poet, essayist and critic Yves Bonnefoy.

From the Archives: Notes from the Underground: Indie Publishing in Putin’s Russia After 70 years of totalitarianism, Ad Marginem publisher Alexander Ivanov saw that Russians were hungry for new ideas and even though the country was faced with economic and social problems.