Imagine the book tour of the future. Travel has gotten to be expensive and difficult. Security at airports makes flying unpleasant and cutbacks at airlines make food even worse than that. Here in the future, even if an author did want to…

Since 2005, Sarah Weinman’s idiosyncratic voice has reverberated through Galley Cat, the self-proclaimed “first word on the book publishing industry.” Last Wednesday, Weinman announced that she was leaving the galley to editor Ron Hogan in order to pursue other interests: In other…

Unless you’re George W. Bush, it’s pretty much impossible these days to ignore warnings about the progress of global warming, the imminent demise of the polar bears, and the impact of population increases on the earth’s finite resources. But have you ever…

The May 14th edition of BusinessWeek reports that “Bertelsmann is making a bundle off Old Media in former Soviet bloc countries.” Optimism about the printed word is pretty rare these days. In fast-modernizing Ukraine, though, Bertelsmann is enjoying dot-com-like expansion for its…

The International Geneva Book and Press Fair opens to the public today and will run until May 6th at the Palexpo Exhibition Centre. In its 21st year, the 2007 event will host approximately 500 international exhibitors with a spotlight on Russia; an…

The International Kuala Lumpur Book Fair is ongoing until May 10th in Malaysia. The theme of the 2007 event — the 26th year of the fair — is “Book Empowers.” Entrance to the event, which takes place at the Putra World Trade…

As almost anyone connected in the publishing industry will tell you, a lot of books are produced every year. No one agrees precisely on numbers, but they don’t argue about the fact that it’s scads. Scads and scads of books. It makes…

Orion Publishing — one of Britain’s biggest publishing houses — seems to be in the press a great deal lately. This is probably due, at least in part, to the London Book Fair which kicks off at Earls Court next week. Firstly,…

I rather enjoyed Stephen Page’s recent comments in The Guardian about what role publishers fill in the changing world of books. Page is the publisher and CEO of Faber & Faber, an independent house in the UK, and president of the Publishers…