CEO Amandeep Kochar of Baker & Taylor, with operations on four continents, shares his worldview at NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute.
Waterstones’ New Children’s Laureate on ‘Reading Rights’
Frank Cottrell-Boyce says his tenure as the Waterstones Children’s Laureate ‘will have happiness at its heart, but will be about urgency.’
German Printing Association: New Warnings About Paper Prices
Alarms raised in many parts of the publishing value change–and from many markets–tell of a deepening crisis.
Italy’s 39th ‘Mauri School’ on January 28: ‘The New Future’
‘Il Nuovo Futoro’–the New Future–is the title of this year’s Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri program in bookselling and publishing.
Venice’s 38th Mauri School 2021: ‘The State of the Book’
The trials of 2020 and outlook for 2021 drive discussions of discoverability, digital, and direct-to-consumer relations in Venice’s forum.
UK Book Industry: Society of Authors’ Hardship Fund Renews Appeal for Donations
The UK’s authors’ union opens a new push for grassroots funding of small emergency grants needed by authors in the pandemic.
Coronavirus Update: BISG’s Annual Meeting ‘Repositions’ Online
The Book Industry Study Group–focused on supply chain in the United States–is reformatting its annual meeting to a series of digital events held over weeks.
A Retail Reality Check: Our Bookstores and What’s ‘Essential’
The publishing industry looks for the way forward–in a world in which what’s truly essential simply may not include physical bookselling for a time.
IBPA Announces James Daunt as Keynote Speaker at April Conference
Even as Seattle loses another Barnes & Noble store, the Independent Book Publishers Association prepares for a conference appearance by James Daunt.
US Book Industry Study Group Announces James Daunt Keynote
The annual meeting of BISG in April will hear Barnes & Noble and Waterstones’ James Daunt in a keynote address around supply chain issues.