... packed audience of small publishers, who are facing growing sales and distribution problems now that two operators have gone bankrupt. Few Paris fairs go by without an incident, diplomatic or otherwise. This year it was the absence of Nobel Prize-winner Gao ...

... bargained for when Footprint’s US distributor Publishers Group West (PGW), part of Advanced Marketing Services (AMS), went bankrupt at the start of 2007, owing the company “a substantial six-figure sum”. “It was a real lesson in humility,” says Riddle. ...

... Mori of the Tuttle Mori Agency in Tokyo had painted a gloomy picture of Japan, where more than 1,000 bookshops have gone bankrupt as a result of the Corpsing: Howard Hodgson, the millionaire funeral director and author of Six Feet Under (Book Guild), ...

... starkly different perspectives of his characters. William’s attitudes—blinkered and complacent, though not entirely morally bankrupt—jar against the fierce sufferings of Sugar, introduced into prostitution by her mother from childhood and well versed in ...

... independent.’ The book division was put together by acquisition, so it did not have that culture. “I think there was a very bankrupt culture here—l mean that fiscally and creatively. People were here because they’d ended up here; and that’s not usually the ...

... industry is about to give away, at below cost, several million copies of the bestselling book since the Bible in order to bankrupt the last surviving independent bookshops. Then I’m off for an extended vacation in the US, where, friends tell me, the t ...

... of how Bedell and her husband Charlie Leadbeater, with no savings and no knowledge of architecture,nearly made themselves bankrupt in an attempt to build their dream home. The book concerns the “ultimate fantasy” of creating your own made-to-measure living ...

... titles selling fewer copies each. Some of the book printers that CPI took over in the past few years may have been technically bankrupt, but the economies of scale achievable by a 500 m pan-European printing group, and investment in technology to “lock in ...

... fish, soya, tofu, sugar, breakfast cereals, meat and, I’m sorry to say, wine. Much of our food, she says, is nutritionally bankrupt. Not on the Label was a truly groundbreaking book, and this promises to pack just as big a punch. Harper Element, 2nd, h/b ...

... one senior publisher points out. “His difficulty when he took over at Hammicks was his inheritance: the chain was almost bankrupt and had some very poor sites.” “The ham-fisted use of discount has effectively killed backlist and placed power in the hands ...

... 30913 4 Leech, Mark. Prisons Handbook, The. 2003-2004. 23cm.700p. r.e. pbk £62.50 MLA P. (6.2003) 0 9544829 0 5 Moore, Chris. Bankrupt, the Conman, the Mafia and the Irish Connection, The. 18cm.256p.25i11. pbk £7.99 Gill & Macmillan (11.2003) 0 7171 3594 2 ...