Chile’s Santiago International Book Fair will be online and free again this year
Virtual means reaching new audiences hitherto disenfranchised by the old...
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Category: Book Fairs
From Pandemic Panic to Pandemic Accommodation – global book fairs adjust to the New New Normal as Sharjah becomes world’s largest book fair
Sharjah this month eclipsed the mighty Buchmesse as the world’s largest book fair, taking the...
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Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair postponed. Will now run with Bologna. But is either event realistic right now?
With London, Bologna and now Shanghai all lining up for the spring it could be a very exciting...
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As Al Qasimi’s Sharjah prepares to take publishing’s centre stage, private visitors outnumbered trade at hybrid Frankfurt 2021 for first time
The torch for the future of the global publishing industry will be carried not by Frankfurt, and...
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Frankfurt puts a brave face on the Pandemic Edition, but the low turnout does not augur well for LBF and Bologna as Covid-19 resurges
Against such a background we should look at Frankfurt this week, with its 15 publishers in a...
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Lithuania’s Vilnius Int. Book Fair returns in Feb ‘22
“People who never cared about books have started to read.” It’s still early days, and things...
Read MoreSaudi Arabia publishing’s “very exciting time” as CUP returns to SA and IPA President Al Qasimi talks of the Arab Renaissance
“It is a very exciting time for the kingdom and the literary and publishing sector. The theme for this year’s event, “New Destination, New Chapter”, reflects Saudi Arabia’s ambitions to elevate the...
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Riyadh International Book Fair hosts Saudi Arabia’s first ever Publishers Conference today
Having clocked 1 million visitors in 2019, the Riyadh fair was cancelled by the Pandemic in 2020,...
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Philippines Manila International Book Fair completes its 2nd online incarnation today
For now the Philippines book market is depressed by the Pandemic and it seems neither domestic nor...
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Spain’s Madrid Book Fair takes an 80% visitor hit but only drops 10% in book sales amid the Pandemic
Maybe the event organisers need to look at what they were doing right this year to see such...
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Jordan’s 20th Amman International Book Fair underway
This year the fair is part of the nation’s centenary celebrations as Jordan marks one hundred...
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Buchmesse Guest of Honour Canada unlikely to attend in-person as for the second year Frankfurt plays dice with the publishing industry
The growing evidence, one and a half years into the Pandemic, is that publishers prosper just fine...
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