Category: Book Fairs
Thailand’s Bangkok International Book Fair is live online despite real-life cancellation
International book fairs fall broadly into two groups: industry-facing and public-facing, although...
Read More
3 of the Big 5 vote with their feet as New York fights for survival. BEA shrugs its shoulders
Not here to regurgitate the horrific scenes unfolding in New York, on course to surpass Italy as...
Read More
Book Expo America postponed – but only until July. What planet are they on?
As news came in this evening (GMT) that Book Expo America had postponed the May event it seemed...
Read More
UK’s Hay Festival cancelled as coronavirus tears up the publishing industry calendar. Book Expo America looks the other way
The only surprise with the announcement that the Hay Festival in the UK has been cancelled is that...
Read More
Argentina’s Buenos Aires Int. Book Fair postponed. PRH sets the ball rolling for USA’s Book Expo America cancellation
The announcement that Penguin Random House has pulled out of book Expo America will surprise...
Read More
Italy’s Turin Book Fair opts for postponement rather than cancellation
No dates selected yet, but the Turin Book Fair, having of course to forget its planned May event,...
Read More
IPA cancels Lillehammer World Congress in May. BEA says the show will go on as New York closes down
There could hardly be a starker contrast. The International Publishers Association cancels the...
Read More
Hungary’s Budapest International Book Fair postponed. Sweden’s Umeå Littfest cancelled
The Budapest International Book Fair in Hungary and the Umeå LittFest in Sweden are among the...
Read More
Madrid and Tunis book fairs postponed. New York BISG postponed. Book Expo America looks the other way
Europe’s biggest book fair has been pushed back from summer until October as the coronavirus...
Read More
Colombia’s Bogota International Book Fair the first major Latin America casualty of the coronavirus
While Argentina’s Buenos Aries International Book Fair is still, for now, on schedule,...
Read More
Bologna cancelled as WHO declares a pandemic. Europe locked out of the US. Sports and concerts closed. BEA shrugs its shoulders
We saw it happen with the London Book Fair, so we really shouldn’t be surprised that Book...
Read More
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...
Read More