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Man Booker winner 'exciting, brilliantly written'

25 October 2004

This week's Man Booker Prize winner has continued the honourable tradition of overturning expectations of who would win, even though David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas was the hottest favourite ever according to the bookmakers' odds. Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty was the first gay novel to win the Prize.  Read more

Google Print targets books

18 October 2004

Google’s recent launch of its Google Print project at the Frankfurt Book FairWorld's largest trade fair for books; held annually mid-October at Frankfurt Trade Fair, Germany; First three days exclusively for trade visitors; general public can attend last two. will transform the way books are used in the Internet age. Going far beyond Amazon’s Search Inside the Book facility, this ambitious scheme may bring books to Internet prominence but it also raises a host of concerns for publishers and authors.  Read more

Self-publishing booms

11 October 2004

As the Frankfurt Book FairWorld's largest trade fair for books; held annually mid-October at Frankfurt Trade Fair, Germany; First three days exclusively for trade visitors; general public can attend last two. draws to a close, it seems a good time to look at what other routes to publication exist for writers who feel excluded from the international publishing circus's focus on bestsellers. Self-publishing has become an increasingly viable option, although it requires energy and the ability to get out there and market your book.  Read more

The business of Frankfurt

4 October 2004

This weekend publishing people all over the world are packing their bags for the 2004 Frankfurt Book FairWorld's largest trade fair for books; held annually mid-October at Frankfurt Trade Fair, Germany; First three days exclusively for trade visitors; general public can attend last two., which starts on Wednesday. The largest annual gathering of the book world, the Fair is expected to have 6,648 exhibitors this year. The biggest international contingent will be the Brits, with just under 900 exhibitors, followed by the USA with 750.  Read more