When Publishing Begins to Look Like a Bad Relationship

Today's Feature Story: Q&A with Richard Charkin, Future IPA President Richard Charkin, CEO of Bloomsbury and future president of the International publishers association, on copyright, authors and international rights.

Discussion: When Publishing Begins to Look Like a Bad Relationship On the eve of the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair, Ed Nawotka wonders if publishers, booksellers, and authors need to closely examine their relationships with each other.

Literature: Lutz Seiler Wins 2014 German Book Prize 51-year-old poet Lutz Seiler has won the prestigious 2014 German Book Prize for his first novel, Kruso, which plays off the story of Robinson Crusoe.

Frankfurt 2014: Introducing Frankfurt’s New Business Club New this year at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Business Club offers exclusive networking opportunities, high-level discussions about book publishing and more. Here is a selection of events for Tuesday, October 7.

CONTEC Conference 2014: Brazil’s Widbook Rebels Widbook, a young Brazilian digital writing and reading platform, makes a splash in India, the UK, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Founder Joseph Bregeiro will speak at the Frankfurt Book Fair's CONTEC conference.

Frankfurt 2014: SESA: A New Publishing Collective from Southeast and South Asia Malaysian literary agent Linda Tan Lingard has formed an alliance of a half-dozen publishers to show off what the region’s writers have to offer at the Frankfurt Book Fair.