Centered around its two-day Digital Publishing Forum conference event, the newly focused Digital Zone at Beijing International Book Fair includes presentations from Amazon Web Services, Springer Nature, Microsoft, and Wiley.
Frankfurter Buchmesse Expands Its Citywide ‘BookFest’ in October
At Frankfurter Buchmesse’s new Frankfurt Pavilion by day and in city venues by night, an expanded BookFest program focuses on bringing more authors to the fair and to the public this October.
New York Rights Fair To Colocate at Javits Center With BookExpo in 2019
After testing the preferences of 2018 attendees in surveys, BookExpo and the New York Rights Fair have announced that while the two events will continue to be independently produced, they’ll both be together at the Javits Center in 2019.
A Reconstituted, Renamed Jerusalem International Book Forum Announces May Dates
Under its new name, the Jerusalem International Book Forum takes place May 12 to 15, 2019 and plans to shift away from its previous exhibition format and towards more events and networking.
IBPA Board Votes Against a Collective Exhibit at BookExpo 2019: ‘The Best Decision for Now’
Evaluating the ‘reimagined’ BookExpo 2018, the IBPA board–for 34 years a BookExpo exhibitor–votes to forgo a cooperative booth in 2019, as in 2018: ‘There is little reason for a publisher not part of the traditional eco-system to exhibit on the trade show floor.’
BookExpo and BookCon Announce Preliminary 2018 Attendance Figures
Preliminary numbers released by organizers of this year’s BookExpo and BookCon show a ‘reimagined’ focus on booksellers that may actually have drawn fewer booksellers and retailers than last year.
Frankfurter Buchmesse Wildcard Winners: Reisedepeschen Verlag and UNSILO
Citing a record 457 submissions, Frankfurter Buchmesse–coming up October 10 to 14 this year–awards free exhibitor stands to a Danish artificial intelligence platform and a community publisher with bloggers.
BookExpo and New York Rights Fair Extend Their Partnership, Polling Attendees
With many hoping that BookExpo and its rights center–the New York Rights Fair–can get together under one roof, attendees are being surveyed, organizers say, to assess feedback and plan for the future.
Riggio Rallies Booksellers at BookExpo: ‘Open More Stores Than We Close’
‘There can never be too many bookstores in America,’ Barnes & Noble chief Len Riggio tells an appreciative crowd at the bookseller-oriented 2018 BookExpo in New York.
At BookExpo, a Look at Copyright Issues: ‘It’s the Author Who Suffers’
‘Good public policy,’ the Association of American Publishers says at BookExpo, includes “good copyright policy.’ And the Authors Guild is producing a new, major survey of authors’ earnings.