During this year’s Sharjah International Book Fair Publishers Conference, rights professionals will win two new awards.
London’s 2021 FutureBook Conference: Live and Streaming on November 19
This year’s FutureBook conference event in London will seat 350 delegates in live session at 155 Bishopsgate, while others view a live stream.
Ahead of the Booker Shortlist: Canongate’s Jamie Byng
‘Lazy publishing,’ says Canongate’s Jamie Byng, ‘is just a disservice to what books can be.’ The publisher talks Man Booker, reading, and ‘Letters Live.’
Context in Publishing: Perspectives on the ‘Wall of Content’
Has book production outpaced readership and what can publishers do about it? Porter Anderson’s opening editorial for Publishing Perspectives explores this.
World Book Night Comes to the USA in 2012
UK charity World Book Night to launch in the US in 2012 and give away 1 million books around the country.
Should Publishers Open Bookshops? London’s Book Industry Conference, Day 1
By Roger Tagholm LONDON: Curatorship and discoverability -– these were the buzz terms at the UK’s Book Industry Conference (BIC) which opened on Monday in King’s Cross, London. Speakers representing independent shops on both sides of the Atlantic emphasized how good bricks and mortar bookshops are at “curating” a vibrant stock perfectly tailored to their community, while both said that …