Category: USA
The Big 5 are out of Book Expo America but BEA says the show will go on as a New Yorker dies every 6 minutes from the coronavirus. BEA, end this obscene farce now
As the week ended Hachette joined Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Penguin...
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Industry News Round-Up 26 March 2020
A round-up of key industry news in these challenging times. Apologies if the linked reports for...
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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...
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PublishDrive the first US-based aggregator to offer ebooks, audiobook and POD distribution
This past week the indie-friendly aggregator PublishDrive became the first in the US to offer...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Finally! Reed Exhibitions cancels the London Book Fair as DC Comics cancels all March events in US. Book Expo America is on the at-risk list
The 2020 publishing industry calendar is being rewritten by the day as the Coronavirus crisis...
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Publishers Weekly’s BookLife extends submissions deadline for its US Selfies awards for self-publishers
Midnight February 29 was to have been the deadline for submissions to the first Selfies Awards for...
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