Jun 6, 2023
The Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri
Booksellers School was founded in 1983 by Luciano Mauri in memory
of his father and his daughter, who died prematurely.
"In the course of almost thirty years of teaching activity it has trained new generations of booksellers and has become a laboratory for experimentation and discussion...
"In the course of almost thirty years of teaching activity it has trained new generations of booksellers and has become a laboratory for experimentation and discussion...
May 30, 2023
Ricky Cavallero was CEO
of the Spanish-language publisher Random House Mondadori for eight
years. In 1995 he joined Mondadori as Director of Marketing
Books; two years later he was appointed General Manager of the
Spanish subsidiary and launched the Alexandros trilogy by Valerio
Massimo Manfredi which became a huge...
May 22, 2023
Matteo Columbo is Margaret Atwood's publicist and personal magician at the Ponte alle Grazie publishing house in Italy. We met in Milan to discuss, among other things, the relationship between magic and publicity, the things that Margaret's handlers insist must be present in her hotel rooms; banana tricks, surprises,...
Apr 25, 2023
I saw Dan Fridd in
action promoting Edelweiss "the book industry's platform to market,
sell, discover, and order new titles" at the RISE Bookselling
Conference in Prague a few weeks ago and knew I had to have him on
the show.
Dan is Client "Success" Manager for
Edelweiss. We talk about the company, his career in...
Apr 18, 2023
Maria Hamrefors was appointed chairwoman of
the Swedish Booksellers Association in 2019 after a long career in
the book industry. Previous positions include CEO of
Akademibokhandeln, CEO of Bokus, CEO of Norstedts Publishing Group,
CEO of Thomson Corp in Sweden and director of Sweet & Maxwell Group
in the UK. She is the...