Category: Book Fairs
Mapping the New Normal: As HarperCollins, Macmillan and Bonnier lead the Exodus, it’s time for the Frankfurt Book Fair to rethink its focus
The ink was barely dry on the Buchmesse statement announcing a hybrid in-person and virtual event...
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Sweden’s Gothenburg Book Fair plays safe with a 100% digital event as Frankfurt adopts a hybrid model many see as too high a risk
The month’s difference between the September Gothenburg Book Fair and the October Frankfurt Book...
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Mapping the New Normal: “The digital book will occupy a special place” at Venezuela’s Caracas International Book Fair in November
With the 16th Caracas International Book Fair (FILVEN) still six months away, hopes are that at...
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Mapping the new normal: Turin International Book Fair Online reaches 5 million. “The prototype of a new and successful model”
This will be brief, but to the point, The regular Turin (Tolino) International Book Fair could not...
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Mapping the New Normal – Bologna Children’s Book Fair doubles its audience by going online at last minute. Imagine what it could achieve if this were fully planned…
While not the first publishing event to be hit, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair was one of the...
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Georgia’s Tbilisi International Book Fair postponed until September. Substitute online event for May
Not one to let down its loyal followers, the Tbilisi International Book Fair in Georgia will this...
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Ghana’s 2020 International Book Fair cancelled rather than prolong uncertainty for publishers
Scheduled for August 27-30 this year, Ghana’s International Book Fair is now officially cancelled...
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Publishers call the shots on Sweden’s Gothenburg Book Fair cancellation, adding to pressure on Frankfurt Buchmesse to deliver a game plan sooner than June
With the news today via Boktugg that Norstedts is out of the Gothenburg Book Fair, with other...
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As the Bologna Children’s Book Fair prepares to go online, Frankfurt’s future is in question. The Buchmesse is dead. Long live the Buchmesse!
It all seemed so unlikely back as February began, with the coronavirus crisis still seemingly a...
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Peru’s Lima Int. Book Fair the latest coronavirus casualty to head online as global publishing discovers there’s more to digital than ebooks
The announcement this past week that the Lima International Book Fair would not be going ahead in...
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After the LBF and BEA fiascos, publishers demand better from book fair organisers. Gothenburg is first to feel the heat. Will Frankfurt be next?
With the Nordics’ biggest literary event, the Gothenburg Book Festival, scheduled for late...
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San Diego Comic Con cancelled as coronavirus tightens its grip on the publishing calendar
Scheduled for July 23-26, the 2020 San Diego Comic-Con has become the latest publishing event...
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