02/06/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), which just concluded its February 1-6 run, brought together representatives from more than 60 countries on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
12/19/2011 @ 07:00PM
Looking for Solutions
"Crisis or Opportunity? School Libraries in the 21st Century”: that was the question for panelists and the audience at an event hosted by the Canadian Book and Periodical Council and Ontario Library Association earlier this month, and the answer heard around the room pretty clearly was crisis. But there were also a lot of voices offering ideas of how to address the problems.
12/01/2011 @ 12:00AM
A total of 291 exhibitors from 20 countries congregated under one roof at Moscow’s Central House of Artists Thursday to kick off the 13th Non/Fiction Fair. The five-day event is set to hold around 300 programs and welcome 10,000 visitors per day.
11/17/2011 @ 12:00AM
Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi and Ahmed Al Amri, two of the driving forces behind the Sharjah International Book Fair, have been very pleased with the reaction to the innovations at this year’s fair and at the overall participation.
11/16/2011 @ 12:00AM
The Sharjah International Book Fair, which is celebrating its 30th year this week, held its first professional program, announced new translation grants, and saw the number of participating publishers increase by 100 to 884, helping to lead to good activity in the rights center.
11/04/2011 @ 12:00AM
In his keynote speech at PubWest's annual conference Barnes & Noble CEO Len Riggio said he remains optimistic about the future of bookselling and publishing, seeing the growth of digital as generating more content as well as more readers.
09/22/2011 @ 12:00AM
Reed Exhibitions, whose trade fairs include BookExpo America and the London Book Fair, has signed on as an affiliate partner to PubMatch, the book-publishing and rights database founded earlier in 2011 by Publishers Weekly and Combined Book Exhibit. The addition of Reed Exhibitions adds the capability for conference attendees and exhibitors at BEA and LBF to obtain real-time rights information in several different languages.
09/20/2011 @ 12:00AM
If the idea at last year's Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance trade show was getting booksellers established in social networking sites, this year the focus was on the classic community-building strengths of inddies, highlighting what stores have been doing in their communities to help break the stranglehold of big-box chains and online mega-retailers.
09/12/2011 @ 12:00AM
For the first year, TOC Frankfurt, the technology conference held by the Frankfurt Book Fair and O'Reilly Media, will feature a track on the supply chain.
09/02/2011 @ 12:00AM
Publishers at the Beijing International Book Fair, including Bloomsbury and De Agostini, are selling more and more titles in the Chinese market.
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