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Thessaloniki Book Fair Puts Focus on Rights, Sharjah
More than 30 professionals from 22 countries are participating in the second Dialogue Rights Center at the Thessaloniki Book Fair this May 16-18. The fair, which showcases Greek publishing, is featuring Sharjah as the guest of honor.
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Bologna 2024: Experts Wrestle with AI's Transformative Potential
The Bologna Children's Book Fair hosted several discussions focusing on the impact of AI on the publishing industry, ranging from those advocating for regulation of AI to others addressing how it can be harnessed to foster creativity and efficiency.
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Bologna 2024: Program Highlights
Next month’s Bologna Book Fair, the world’s largest rights fair devoted to children’s books, offers an extensive lineup of programming throughout the fair’s four days. Here are some of the highlights.
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Bologna 2024: Embracing More of the World
The Bologna Children’s Book Fair expands its global reach while remaining focused on its flagship program.
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A Coach for Publishers: PW Talks with Amy Beisel
With more than two decades of experience working in scholarly publishing, Amy Beisel has carved out a niche as a coach for publishers and their employees, helping them achieve their goals and undertake positive changes.
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Guadalajara Book Fair Attracts More Americans
The annual Spanish-language fair attracted 857,000 attendees from around the world.
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Shanghai Children’s Book Fair Gets Back on Track
The Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair kicked off on November 17 as the Chinese children's book market looks to put an end to slowing sales.
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Shanghai Children’s Fair Gearing Up for Its 10th Edition
Officials expect 45,000 attendees at the fair, including a large number of international publishers; the fair will run November 17–19.
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Guadalajara International Book Fair 2023: Mexico’s Multilingual Literature
In Mexico, where there are 68 Indigenous languages but only 5.4% of the population speaks any of them, publishing books in such tongues as Seria and Zapotec pose challenges for publishers.
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Guadalajara International Book Fair 2023: Serving Spanish Readers of the Future
The cofounder of the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival says the event focuses on reaching a large but underserved audience.
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Guadalajara International Book Fair 2023: Scouting Great Spanish-Language Books
The founding editor of Words Without Borders discusses some of the most exciting work being published in Spanish today.
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Guadalajara International Book Fair 2023: One Language, Many Cultures
As demand for Spanish-language books grows, publishers are finding diversity in Latin American markets.
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Guadalajara International Book Fair 2023: Found in Translation: PW Talks with HarperVia’s Juan Milà
Juan Milà is editorial director of HarperVia, an imprint at the HarperOne Group in the U.S., dedicated to publishing international voices. We spoke with Milà about the latest literary trends in the U.S., and around the world.
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Guadalajara International Book Fair 2023: ¡Vamos Guadalajara!
The most important book fair covering the Spanish language takes place November 25–December 3 in Mexico.
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Frankfurt, Sharjah Book Fairs Impacted by Israel-Hamas War
With the director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, which starts on October 18, saying the fair is in "complete solidarity" with Israel following attacks by Hamas, the Sharjah Book Authority and other Arab book organizations have pulled out of this year's fair.
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The Toronto International Festival of Authors, in Photos
The Toronto International Festival of Authors returned to the Toronto Harbourfront Center September 21–October 1. The festival offered more than 200 events, with a wide range of local and international authors. Here are some highlights, in photos.
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Programming Announced for PW's New AI Conference
The full schedule for Artificial Intelligence: Revolution and Opportunity in Trade Publishing, an online conference to be hosted by Publishers Weekly on September 27, has been announced.
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Publishing’s Blind Spots Miss Significant Sales
Publishing is unaccustomed to including sales from channels and platforms like Wattpad, Webtoon, and Storytel, but needs to do so to get an accurate assessment of how the industry is evolving, argues Austrian publishing consultant Ruediger Wischenbart.
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European Publishers See Audiobooks, AI as Inevitabilities
Speakers at the Readmagine publishing conference discussed the various ways the global audiobook market will continue to grow and offered up some thoughts on AI and publishing.
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Beijing International Book Fair Wraps Up First In-Person Show in Four Years
The 2023 edition of the Beijing International Book Fair, held June 15-18, was the first in-person fair since August 2019, held at a new time of year in a different convention center.