Romania’s Timișoara Bookfest the latest publishing casualty of the Coronavirus. Bucharest Bookfest now on at at-risk list
TNPS opened this month with a list of at-risk publishing events that could be cancelled due to the...
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Author: Mark Williams
PRH nails Bologna’s coffin lid shut as Italy enters lockdown. Hay Festival to go on as UK govt. dithers
2020 promised to be a spectacular year for global publishing events. By mid-February TNPS had...
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Bologna and BEA face inevitable cancellation. Frankfurt 2020 is on the at-risk list. Thailand’s Bangkok IBF moves online. Global publishing faces a watershed moment as digital takes centre-stage
Belgium’s Brussels Book Fair has traditionally been one of the least-noticed of the European...
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Oman’s Muscat International Book Fair pulls a crowd of “only” 706,000 as Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh IBF and Iran’s Tehran IBF cancelled amid Coronavirus fears
Having attracted a crowd of over 1 million for two years running, the latest Muscat International...
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UAE’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair cancelled. Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh IBF and Iran’s Tehran IBF now cancellations waiting to happen
The United Arab Emirates had already take the decision to close its nursery schools, but has now...
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