A million dollar deal struck at London Book Fair

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/deals/article/51623-big-deals---seismic--change-at-lbf-2012.html

"Big Deals, ‘Seismic’ Change at LBF 2012 - It’s a Wrap", by Andrew Albanese and Rachel Deahl, Publishers' Weekly, Apr 23, 2012:

Legendary literary agent Camen Balcells, meanwhile, struck A MILLION-DOLLAR DEAL with publisher Thinkingdom for Chinese rights to Gabriel García Márquez’s 100 Years of Solitude.... For complete coverage, including copies of our three Show Daily editions, visit PW’s London Book Fair landing page at www.publishersweekly.com/lbf

Comments

# 1.   

What?

Paper Republic's China Publishing Industry Newsletter reported this deal back in May 2011: see here.

The book was published quite a while ago in China and ranked Number 3 on OpenBook's list of Best-selling Fiction in China during March 2012.

Bruce Humes, April 23, 2012, 12:32p.m.

# 2.   

It's fairly standard practice for Chinese publishers to hold news of big publishing deals until a book fair, so that it can be sort of made to appear that the the deal had something to do with the fair, but that would be a pretty egregious holdover in this case…

Eric Abrahamsen, April 23, 2012, 2:44p.m.

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