n.b. - February 27, 2004
IRELAND
Killarney set for EBF/IBF annual conference
Booksellers and publishers from Ireland, Holland, Slovenia, Uganda and Brazil will be among those to speak at the annual European Booksellers Federation/International Booksellers
Federation conference. The conference will take place in Killarney, Ireland from 6th to 8th May, and is open to all trade professionals. The theme is how to be small and successful, with particular focus on booksellers in emerging markets. More details can be had at www.ebf-eu.org.
FRANCE
Publishers protest Perben law on sex offenders
French publishers are up in arms over an amendment to a new law that will ban publication of books or any works by criminals convicted of sex and other personal offences. The law, passed by parliament this month and now before the Constitutional Council, is aimed to crack down on crime. The amendment to the Perben law, named after justice minister Dominique Perben, follows an outcry over the publication in 2002 of Should You Regret It? by child murderer Patrick Henry.
US Pearson forms Wharton School Publishing
Pearson Education has teamed up with the business school Wharton, part of University of Pennsylvania, to form Wharton School Publishing, a global business imprint. It will focus on applicable knowledge across books, audiobooks, e-documents, CD-ROMs and videos. The first two titles are The Power of Impossible Thinking by Jerry Wind and Colin Crook; and The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by C K Prahalad.
Killarney set for EBF/IBF annual conference
Booksellers and publishers from Ireland, Holland, Slovenia, Uganda and Brazil will be among those to speak at the annual European Booksellers Federation/International Booksellers
FRANCE
Publishers protest Perben law on sex offenders
French publishers are up in arms over an amendment to a new law that will ban publication of books or any works by criminals convicted of sex and other personal offences. The law, passed by parliament this month and now before the Constitutional Council, is aimed to crack down on crime. The amendment to the Perben law, named after justice minister Dominique Perben, follows an outcry over the publication in 2002 of Should You Regret It? by child murderer Patrick Henry.
US Pearson forms Wharton School Publishing
Pearson Education has teamed up with the business school Wharton, part of University of Pennsylvania, to form Wharton School Publishing, a global business imprint. It will focus on applicable knowledge across books, audiobooks, e-documents, CD-ROMs and videos. The first two titles are The Power of Impossible Thinking by Jerry Wind and Colin Crook; and The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by C K Prahalad.
In addition, make sure to read these articles:
- This Month from Knowledge@Wharton.
- A model for fighting AIDS: when government talks about sex, people listen.
- Gianfranco Zaccai of Design Continuum Embarks on Global Speaking Tour; Audiences Gather at...
- Makeover Magic
- The Sevant
- Scalability: Are you fast enough?
- The Foundry
- N.M. schools bring parents to nutrition educ. classes
- The Servant. (Book Review).
- Mind Games
- USDA to Revise Food Pyramid
- Accounting, auditing, and financial reporting. (From the Library).
- Akg Acoustics Finds Success Through Low-end Expansion
- The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
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The professional audio industry has undergone a sea change in the past decade, with the base of the industry's metaphorical triangle growing exponentially as project ......
C.K. Prahalad This book is the result of a body of work concerned with the strategic alignment of business and social concerns. The central premise ......
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