-
London Book Fair 2024: How Will AI Change Life for Literary Translators?
They can generate (iterative) images. They can generate (iterative) text. But how will large language models change translation—especially for literary translators? A panel at the London Book Fair suggested some possible outcomes.
-
London Book Fair 2024: Rise of English-Language Sales Threatens European Publishers
Several key European markets are seeing rapid growth in English-language book sales, threatening to cannibalize sales of translated editions published in their native markets, as the TikTok generation is increasingly happy to read in English.
-
London Book Fair 2024: Trust, Innovation, and the Freedom to Publish
On the first morning of the London Book Fair, the heads of the International Publishing Association, the Federation of European Publishers, the Association of American Publishers, and the African Publishers Network gathered to discuss, and debate, the biggest issues facing the publishing industry today.
-
London Book Fair 2024: Program Highlights for Wednesday
Welcome to Day Two of the London Book Fair. If you still need to decide between the more than 150 panels and discussions available on tap for this year's Seminar Program, we've got some suggestions.
-
Book Aid International to Donate Another 15,000 Books to PEN Ukraine’s Unbreakable Libraries Project
The U.K.-based nonprofit Book Aid International has partnered with PEN Ukraine, English PEN, and PEN International, one year after an initial meeting at the London Book Fair set the collaboration into motion. In addition to last year's 25,000-book shipment, 15,000 books will be donated this year to support war-affected libraries in Ukraine.
-
London Book Fair 2024: Big Crowds and Tech Talk as the Fair Kicks Off
A busy first day at Olympia London has found publishers abuzz with business, cautiously optimistic about AI, and dismayed over world events.
-
London Book Fair 2024: S&S CEO Karp Touts 'Independence' in LBF Keynote
In the opening keynote session of this year's London Book Fair, Jonathan Karp, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, extolled the virtues of the company’s new status as "the largest independent publisher of adult and children’s trade books in the United States."
-
U.K. Publishing Spotlight: How a U.K. Publicist Learned to Navigate the American Market...as an Author
Even after two decades in the book business, Georgina Moore, deputy managing director of Midas, confesses she had much to learn from her own experience publishing and publicizing her debut novel on both sides of the Atlantic.
-
Reese's Book Club Comes to London—and Stays at the Sheraton
Just in time for the London Book Fair, Hello Sunshine has set up shop in the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane, a five-star Art Deco hotel just down the way from Buckingham Palace, where a new pop-up library and bookstore, Reese’s Book Club x Sheraton Lobby Library, has been installed.
-
U.K. Publishing Spotlight: Lessons I’ve Learned Trying to Crack the U.S. Market
Ziggy Hanaor, the founder of U.K. children's publishing house Cicada Books, offers her top tips for breaking into the American market, including asking for publicity help, using a single ISBN, and getting books to market six months before publication.
-
London Book Fair 2024: Program Highlights for Tuesday
Welcome to Day One of the London Book Fair. If you need to choose which of the more than 150 panels and discussions offered by this year's Seminar Program you'll be checking out today, look no further.
-
Riding the 'Korean Wave': K-Books Find a Global Readership
The online rights database MatchWHALE, founded by Beatrice Lin, is set to add many more Korean titles to libraries and bookstores around the world.
-
Research and the Real World: PW Talks with Camille Gamboa
Sage Policy Profiles, a new web-based tool from Sage and Overton, lets researchers uncover and understand the influence their evidence-based research may have on public policy by identifying citations of their work. Sage associate v-p of corporate communications Camille Gamboa hopes that the tool will help scholars "better recognize the real-world impact of research."
-
London Book Fair 2024: Program Highlights
A selection of the more than 150 panels and discussions featured on tap in the fair’s Seminar Program, including sessions on AI, audiobooks, BookTok, DEI, and the Freedom to read and publish.
-
London Book Fair 2024: The Rights Stuff
U.S. agents expect romantasy to be hot—and debut fiction not.
-
London Book Fair 2024: Setting the Agenda
The London Book Fair embraces its new status as the first major publishing event of the year.
-
London Book Fair 2024: Rights Center Central
At this year’s London Book Fair, U.S. agents will be talking up works by H.S. Cross, Laila Lalami, Casey McQuiston, Richard Price, Riley Sager, and others.
-
London Book Fair Announces ‘Audio Alley,’ Charity Focus
The fair, to be held March 12–14, will have a dedicated space for audiobook exhibitors and discussions focused on AI, social media marketing, and translation. The National Literacy Trust and Book Aid International are its Charities of the Year.
-
London Book Fair Announces 2024 Authors of the Day
The 2024 London Book Fair Author of the Day program will feature mystery writer Richard Osman, novelist Taylor Jenkins Reid, Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho, and illustrator Flavia Z. Drago.
-
London Book Fair 2023: The U.S. Translates a Huge Range of Books
The sheer volume of publishers included in the Translation Database deflates the old adage that “U.S. publishers aren’t interested in the rest of the world”: From 2008 to 2022, more than 930 different publishers and imprints brought out at least one book in translation.
Browse archive by date:
