I was interviewed for this Hong Kong Trader article about Asian publishers in advance of the Hong Kong Book Fair. Many small publishers use print-on-demand technology to make books available in small quantities, but I'm not keen on it because sales are rarely very high, and such books are only sold through the giant online booksellers, not in bookshops on [...]
In the run-up to the 2011 Hong Kong Book Fair, which opens this week, Blacksmith Books is featured in a Hong Kong Trader story about publishing in Asia. Hong Kong has always been viewed by the publishing world as a place to print books rather than to have them published. That's changing due to shifting global focus on Asia. At [...]
The Hong Kong Book Fair -- the week-long book sales event that drew 800,000 people last year -- is on again as of today in Wan Chai's Convention Centre. We're taking a break this year and not manning a stand, but some of our titles can be found at Booth 1A01-26, in Hall 1. This includes the new Chinese edition [...]