It’s the Chinese New Year celebrations this weekend, so let’s start in that part of the world. Stats body OpenBook hosted its annual Reading X Conference in Beijing earlier this ... Read more
Publishers respond critically to cOAlition S proposals A group of publishers from seven countries, including the university presses at Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, and Edinburgh, has sent an open letter, ‘An ... Read more
The London Book Fair (LBF), the UK’s biggest gathering of international publishers and agents, has announced that entries are NOW OPEN for its ever-popular writing competition, The Write Stuff, which ... Read more
It has been a sad start to the year with the death of Knopf editor-in-chief and president of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sonny Mehta, who died in New York on ... Read more
Publishing great and LBF Lifetime Achievement winner from 2011, Sonny Mehta, died on 30 December 2019. Author Kazuo Ishiguro said, when Mehta won the Award, “I know I am only ... Read more
The London Book Fair celebrates UK young talent in publishing The longlist for the 2020 Trailblazer Awards has been unveiled today, celebrating 31 publishing professionals under the age of 30 ... Read more
Oxford set to confirm US read-and-publish deal Oxford University Press has agreed in principle its first Read and Publish deal outside Europe. The deal with the Iowa State University Library ... Read more
The importance of copyright is being flagged up on both sides of the Atlantic, regardless of who is in power or what stage the impeachment process has reached (these words ... Read more
Insight. Knowledge. Networking No.1 bestselling author LJ Ross to headline a new-look and enhanced LBF Writers’ Summit taking place during The London Book Fair An unbeatable programme of events and ... Read more
James Daunt provided good value when he delivered the opening address at the Bookseller’s Futurebook conference this week. The Waterstones MD and Boring & Noble CEO – I’m sorry, that ... Read more
