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 – 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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Coronavirus causes cancellation of Romania’s Bucharest Bookfest and Moldova’s Chisinau event
The 15th Bucharest Bookfest in Romania and the Chisinau Bookfest in Moldova due to have taken...
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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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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,...
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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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Romania’s 9th Timișoara Bookfest set for March 12-15. Can regional publishing events survive the Coronavirus international book fair cull?
With major book events cancelled or postponed as far apart as Taiwan, Italy and France, the 2020...
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ParisManga joins Paris Book Fair as Coronavirus cancellations. More exhibitors pull from LBF. London Book Fair, it’s time to the right thing
The Paris Book Fair wasn’t the only casualty of the Coronavirus over the weekend. The Paris...
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Paris Book Fair now officially cancelled. LBF as good as cancelled. And dozens more global book fairs on the danger list over the next 6 weeks
Per TNPS coverage over the weekend, a government decree barring public meetings of more than 5,000...
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Taiwan’s international book fair the first major publishing casualty of the coronavirus
The Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), Taiwan’s largest annual literary event, which...
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