Mr. Song Bo in front of the Blue Lion entry way.

The second part of our team’s trip to Hangzhou, China was to meet with the Bee Copyright Trading Agency to discuss another cooperation opportunity in which this agency will represent (non-exclusively) some of our trade titles in the area and try to sell them to local university and educational publishers in the area. We have high hopes for our relationships with this agency and will be working closely with them to help get our client’s copyrights sold throughout the Hangzhou area.

Ms. Kait Neese with Ms. Fu Fu from the Bee Copyright Agency.

As this was our team’s first trip to Hangzhou, China we found it to be overall quite beneficial and rewarding. We have setup the beginning of two new wonderful relationships with local publishers and rights agencies and we will continue to work with our Hangzhou partners on behalf of our authors and clients.

El espacio de BIBF en la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires 2013 / The BIBF space at the International Book Fair of Buenos Aires 2013

One of the newest members to our team, Mr. Joel Broitmen, attended the Buenos Aires book fair on behalf of the BSBRA team. As on of the most recent fairs we are returning from the follow ups from this show are still very much a work in progress but the good news is we have some amazing work in progress deals to relay and keep you posted on!

Recorriendo el Pabellón Amarillo de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires 2013 / Touring Yellow Pavillion of the International Fair of the Book of Buenos Aires 2013

Here is a summary of the types of deals we have in play that we will be continuously following up with on behalf of our authors and clients in the months to come:

Aquí observamos el corredor principal de la la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires 2013 / Here we see the main corridor of the International Fair of the Book of Buenos Aires 2013

One publisher, previously dedicated to comic book publications only, is now interested in expanding their operations to include literature from English markets for Spanish translations. They are interested in the acquisition of books from the science fiction, horror, children’s books and fantasy genres.

Las editoriales más importantes se presentan en esta feria y se realizan stand de gran envergadura / Major publishers are presented in this fair and are major booth

Another publisher we met with is reviewing our titles now for the comics, manga, crafts and crochet genres. Definitely a wide array of genres requested buy hey that’s no problem with us!

Recorriendo el pabellón verde de la Feria, el cual es uno de los más grandes / Touring the Green Pavilion at the fair, which is one of the largest

Furthermore we met with a publisher wishing to acquire the copyrights for children’s books with French tie-ins to help build the French culture for kids in Latin America.

Last but not least we are thrilled to report we had 4 new publishers sign up with the Best Selling Books Rights Agency to rep their titles in Asia with a exclusive focus on Mainland China. Our Agency is growing and we are getting our name out there.

Our goal is to become the number one non-traditional, new age foreign rights agency in the world and we don’t think we are too far off from this goal! Decide. Commit. Succeed.

Best Wishes,
BSBRA Rights Team
www.bestsellingbooksrightsagency.com

The London Book Fair was “sold out”. It continues to grow and it is a great place to meet buyers from around the world.
I am extremely pleased that we had over sixty meetings at the show. That’s 10 meetings a day x our two people x three days. We had meetings pretty much every half hour and they were extremely fruitful for our authors and publishers!
This picture shows our Managing Director of China, Mr. Song Bo, meeting with a very large University Press in China about buying our rights and co-publishing opportunities.

As you may know, we are the Western Sales Agency for the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) and this year we worked with them even more closely to bring our partners and clients to the upcoming show at the end of August.

As you can see, there is a big upswell in London for authors and selfpublishing. Notice that Kobo is a major sponsor. We hope they hold their own against Amazon. (Amazon has developed quite a reputation issue and their lock on the market(s) was the subject of much discussion in the media during the show.

Here is an Indian company that is going to become a major player in “ebooks for education” in India. (Yes, our authors will be selling their books on their platform! Contracts are moving back and forth as we speak).

One of the businesses that we are watching very closely is that of Bargain Books and Remainders.. this is a very interesting marketing method to sell more books, especially internationally.

We are also very interested in English Language books. We are now creating bundles of “reading leveled” books from our authors as supplements to various English teaching opportunities we find. Thank goodness English is the main language that people want to learn!

Here is a company from India that has great distribution as well. We are in talks with them too. India is an up and coming market for us.. and another billion people isn’t a bad market to target!

This next picture is of the Rights Tables in London. These too were sold out. I am continuously amazed at how much Rights business takes place in London. This is a very large second floor of the hall and it is full!

Here are a couple of photos of the one of the two halls.. quite large!

Here is another of our clients that has their own booth. GFS is an Israeli company with a US branch and they have a great business offering. (If you ever wish a booth at a show, please let us know. A booth like this is about $5000+ (darned pounds and euros).

Education is a big market. We are working to get our authors’ into these kinds of rights and distribution mechanisms.

Picture and Children’s books are always big here.

Korea is our next main target after China. We will be at the Seoul Book Fair and we have ebook,POD book already established in Korea.

The London Book Fair is a time to meet friends and associates. Here, I am having a nice lunch with the VP of one of the major Chinese import companies.

As you may remember, I recently returned from the Bangkok Book Fair (View Show Report). These two Thai women are promoting a book of achievement and overcoming adversity written by a Thai woman. Notice it says, 1.4 MM books sold. We see the Thailand market growing nicely along with Malaysia and Indonesia.

These next two pictures are of the CEPIEC booth. They are perhaps the largest importer of STM and Education into China. We are proud to work with them and when we see them at the various book shows, we maintain and grow our relationships.

One trend we are watching very closely is that the Chinese are now starting to write their technical books in English for export.

After the show, we visited one of the book stores on Kensington High Street… Bob likes military history.

The British book stores are very focused on creating new ways to bring people into their stores. This is a cookbook launch party with wine and food held at the store we visited.

We loved the way these books are presented. We are working on setting up small stores like this around the world to sell our authors’ children’s books. Stay tuned!

Conclusion:
With over sixty successful meetings and lots of relationship building, we can say the London Book Fair was an unqualified success. Individual reports will be coming out shortly.
Next, is Book Expo America (BEA) in New York! See you there!
Best always,
Robert Fletcher – Group President

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Here is Robert Fletcher accepting a signed copy of his book from the Chairman of the Board.  PODG has purchased the Spanish rights to this book.

1 Robert Fletcher and CEO of Times Media Corporation – Anhui Province

Pictures, pictures, pictures!  We very much enjoyed showing our friends from Anhui the beauty of South Florida.

We have just returned from the Taiwan and Delhi Book Fairs.  We have bookstores now carrying our books and we have POD partnerships in both countries for selling our authors’ work.  Our business task is to “keep showing up”.   Here are some pictures and notes about the trip.

We have an entire shelf at this bookstore to sell our books. We believe this will continue to expand.  The store is a ‘new concept’ store. It is the lower floor of a children’s educational school. The parents hang out down below, drink coffee and tea, and buy things while waiting on their kids to finish classes.

Here is Kait Neese at a bookstore in Taiwan that we are working with.  This company also purchases the Disney and Marvel brands for Taiwan.

This is our signing ceremony with their CEO.

This next picture is the opening ceremony of the American Booth Collective in Taiwan.  We all cut the ribbon to open the show.  The silver haired gentleman in the middle is our ambassador to Taiwan.

The Taiwan show is quote robust and energetic!

It was a double birthday at our booth!

That is Bob Song, our Beijing partner and the head of international sales for the American Psychological Society.

Street food is always fun. We are at a night market in Taiwan.

Moving on to Delhi now….

Many of you know that Penguin bought Author Solutions.. their new brand is going to be called Partridge.

We continue to be very interested in the Education markets in Asia.

As many of you know, Rockstand is selling our books on their mobile phone platform in India. We had a great meeting with them and they have a rockin’ booth!

As many of you know, we also assist the Beijing Book Fair to sell booths. This is Hersh and MC in India, two of our top employees!

And of course, we are always looking to sell rights and books with the largest companies at the show.

Once again, we thank you for your patronage and look forward to our mutual success!

Robert Fletcher – CEO
Publish On Demand Global (PODG)
January/February 2013
Taiwan and Delhi

Executive Summary:  Our POD books are being loaded by the number one bookstore in Korea, Kyobo.  We have partnered with the top POD printer in Korea for fulfilling POD orders throughout the region.  In China we have expanded our relationships with the Anhui Publishing Group and their ebook platform TimeEbo will be carrying our ebooks in the next quarter.  Business continues to grow for PODG in Asia.  Below you will find updates and pictures from my current trip to Korea and China.  Next week we go to Taiwan and India.

Our Chinese VP and Partner, Mr. Song Bo on a recent trip to the park that overlooks the Forbidden City.

Mr. Song Bo and the rights director from Anhui Fine Arts Publishing House evaluating books together.

Anhui Fine Arts Publishing has the exclusive rights to the photographs from every item in the Forbidden City. They are partnering with PODG for ebook and postcard selling in the West.

This is a five book set that is incredibly large and expensive in book form.
Here is Robert Fletcher and his “bodyguards” from Anhui, Harriett and Monica.  On my first visit to Anhui they were worried that I would get kidnapped, smile.  We call Monica my ‘bodyguard’ as she is wearing heels in this picture!

If you are a reader of this blog, by now you know that food is a big part of business in Asia.  And while I have eaten fish from their on-premise tanks, this is the first time that they have brought us the fish in a net to confirm!

Voila!  (As a true foodie, I think the food in China is the best in the world, and I use Boca Raton as my reference point).

Eating in Korea is unique, wonderful, and quite different than China.  I call this picture, “death by 1000 dishes”.

We are very proud to announce that our books are being printed POD in Korea by KSI now.  Mr. Kim is an incredible partner to work with.  The south Koreans are truly amazingly wonderful people and partners.  We are also excited about the fact that our authors that live in Korea are going to have a very nice platform to work with for signings and presentations.

And we conclude this post with a picture showing how nicely Publish On Demand Global is received in China.  This picture is taken at CEPIEC, a $1BB company under the Ministry of Education.

Once again, a big thanks to our authors and partners who make all this possible. We work for you!

Sincerely,
Robert Fletcher – CEO
Beijing, China, January 27^th, 2013