A little tired I am, I admit, and spent hours just, at first, pointlessly wandering around at the New York West Side (yes, where the wonderful Musical by Lenny Bernstein was set), to wind down from 4 days of most compact talking and looking, and listening, and interacting. Working for BookExpo America now since 2003, [...]

Invitation To attend a session at the London Book Fair to discuss international statistics and perspectives of publishing markets Monday, April 16, 2012, 10:00 to 11:00 am Thamse Room (Earls Court, level 1) Details: http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en/Sessions/504/Global-Publishing-Statistics-Trends-and-Developments In 2011, the International Publishers Association (IPA) launched an initiative to survey “Global Publishing Markets”, and contracted Rüdiger Wischenbart Content [...]

After a lengthy silence, while traveling a lot, and exploring how globalisation and digital, how emerging markets as well as these old main markets change radically, this blog is bound to be lively again. Check it out, tweet and facebook or LinkIn its exploits. In any case, stay tuned. Ruediger Wischenbart Tweet

The first debate of industry leaders, based on the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry, found an audience of over 150 publishing professionals at the first day of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010. Co-organized by Livres Hebdo, buchreport, Publishers Weekly and The Bookseller, and kicked off with some key findings of the Global Ranking that [...]

The Future Face of Media: Business Models for the Digital Era. Frankfurt, May 18, 2010. It was great fun and highly inspiring to moderate two panels with top media leaders on the “Future of news and news publishing” in Frankfurt organized by Mark Schiffhauer for the Maleki Group. The prestigious group of speakers at the [...]

Preparing for Frankfurt? Find a detailed analysis of the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry in a close up analysis In German here In English with focus on trade publishing here > go to October 2009 newsletter In English with a focus on professional / science / education and on globalizatioon here : A survey [...]

The Global Ranking portrays the industry’s top companies in a truly global perspective, highlights change and continuity, and the forces that drive it. The editors in chief of the leading professional trade magazines analyze how the economy and technology as well as globalization re-shape publishing today. Speakers: Fabrice Piault (Livres Hebdo), Nigel Roby (The Bookseller), [...]

Following the controversy around the Google Settlement and European publishers’ and author (and collecting) societies, one could assume to witness a battle between a bunch of European Jedi knights against that Dark Vader from Mountain View, California. From a more detached reader’s point of view, things are clearly more complex. While Google chose to digitize [...]

Following up on the very successful and fruitful debates at last year’s „On Translation“ conference at the Vienna book fair Buch Wien, we prepare for a next move with the “On Translation” conference and “Diversity Report” 2009 and want to encourage your participation and involvement. Presentations and debates will focus on reliable information sources and [...]

With the debate on the Google Settlement and its likely meaning for various groups (and countries) turning into a strange confrontation of hidden interests and pure ideology in some places, notably in Europe, I want to invite anybody interested in the matter to check out this site and the possibilities for a meaningful and differenciated [...]