Different ways of designing a book cover for different audiences The iconic Gallimard "blanche" in France vs. the more visual and sales-y cover for English-speaking markets #books #publishing #design

Fascinating panel on how publishers could use data to find new readers opportunities across borders with Ansa Khan Khattak of Sceptre Books , Junko Takekawa of Japan Foundation 国際交流基金 , Will Forrester of English PEN , & Laurence Laluayaux of RCW #LBF24

Authenticity is key and “discovery is the name of the game” - great panel on the how’s and why’s of social media for book promotion With lisasharkey of HarperCollins , creator Ain Chiara (she/her) , and Jojo Schlattner of Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 #LBF24 #booktok #bookstagram

My Easter weekend reading spot in Panzano in Chianti and an appropriate place to savour Bill Buford's fantastic book "Heat" (Vintage Books), partially set just up the road

Italian innovators visit Station F for SMAU '24 Fantastic panel on digitalisation w/ Fabio Lancellotti (Aster) Demetrio Migliorati (Banco Mediolanum) David Fayon  #réseauxsociaux #MadeinFrance (La Poste Groupe) Silvia Campioni (Lactalis) Marco Caposciutti (Trenitalia) SMAU STATION F

What makes someone a "reader", is it an identity or an activity, and what counts as "reading" in the digital age? A really cool piece on shifting reading habits by Kathi Inman Berens & Rachel Chase Noorda theconversation.com/gen-zers-and-m…

I'm not sure it's fair to write-off all of BookTok based on one (very) cringe & (hilariously) lazy post but I do agree that BookTok would benefit from widening its reading horizons spiked-online.com/2024/09/07/boo… #booktok #books #publishing

One of my favourite photographers and one of my favourite art book publishers 🩶

This article has me completely shaken

A lighter moment at Frankfurt FrankfurterBuchmesse when Hachette Book Group & Hachette UK CEO joked with the audience about the 🇺🇸🇬🇧 expressions that don’t cross the pond well - from the US: “playing on JV”, from the UK: “teaching granny to suck eggs” #publishing #FrankfurtBookFair

Wonderful Umberto Eco story shared at Frankfurt FrankfurterBuchmesse: when asked by a teenager how to handle a challenging book Eco said “if a book feels too difficult, put it under your pillow and the ideas will enter your mind as you sleep.” #umbertoeco #italianliterature #reading

Frankfurt FrankfurterBuchmesse has been such an amazing showcase of Italian publishing and it’s exciting to discover other Italian literary festivals where we can meet Italian editors, writers, and translators 🤩 Taobuk Festival BookCity Milano @piulibri24 pordenonelegge.it

No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference lithub.com/no-human-is-an… via Literary Hub

The shade in the headline made me laugh, but the topic is serious for publishers. #publishers have a risky dependency on a small number of marketing & sales channels whose owners keep taking larger slices of the cake. #books #TikTok

Fantastic first panel discussion at #Culttech 2024 on reimagining cities with culture with Michael Lynch of NEOM, Gerfried Stocker of Ars Electronica and Lucia Ronchetti of La Biennale di Venezia CultTech Accelerator

My agency is making free e-commerce micro sites for book reviewers & influencers Add any #books you want, personalize the pages, and let followers shop your recs with a link Creators keep control, data, and get 5x more per sale than with Amazon Let us know what you think

‘Family’ is actually a story about friendship, or friends as our chosen family. I couldn’t recommend it more. Set in Rome and with a little cast of lovable misfits, it’s part of a wonderful collection of translated Ginzburg works from Daunt Books

When an author has 500M followers, the path to publishing looks very different I hope he'll reach millions of people who have stopped reading for fun. But I also wonder what this trend shows about access, merit, and artistic value in publishing today. #books #authors #Media

Finished Mishima’s Life for Sale. A nihilist offers his life, keeps surviving absurd tasks his shady clients give him and starts wanting to live. Also had no idea Playboy serialised such iconic authors: Atwood, #Kerouac, Gordimer, Le Guin, #Murakami 🤯 Penguin Classics #books

Any authors who can help? Below is a 2-min survey on how book marketing has worked for you in the past. form.typeform.com/to/QIv3P23d We're trying to show publishers that things need to change. #Author #Authors #authorlife #writer #books