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Debate: will publishing soon be irrelevant?

Following an LBF debate, Publishing Talk follows up the pros and cons and invites responses ...

Ebook territoriality still 'key' for UK publishers

Delegates to a panel session at LBF have been told that 'controlling world English-language rights is key to taking advantage of the global book economy for UK publishers.'

Big-money UK rights deals may signal renewed confidence in market

Literary agents in the UK have said that two major UK rights deals, each worth £500,000 (approximately A$811,800), could mark a 'return to confidence' in the rights market in the lead up to this...

Knopf editor to receive LBF Lifetime Achievement Award

Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief of Alfred A Knopf, will receive the eighth London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing this year.

Oz self-publishers to attend London Book Fair

A group of Australian self-publishers are calling for local authors to participate with them in this year's London Book Fair (LBF), which will take place between 11 and 13 April. The Austral...

LBF offers 2010 exhibitors discount on 2011

Following the disruption to this year's London Book Fair caused by the Icelandic volcano eruption, fair organisers have offered 2010 exhibitors a 30% discount on 2011 registration, and 2010 visitors w...

After 'ashed-out' LBF, publishers look to BEA and Frankfurt

Following the disrupted London Book Fair, publishers are now looking to Book Expo America in May and Frankfurt in October, with numbers at both events predicted to be up.

LBF: 'a very weird and quiet fair'

With the Bookseller reporting agent meetings are down 50%, the London Book Fair (LBF) this year is, in the words of Text Publishing's rights manager Anne Beilby, ‘definitely a weird fair'.  ...

Russia will be market focus country at LBF 2011

Russia will be the market focus and guest of honor at the 2011 London Book Fair. According to a report from Russia’s Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, there are more than 5700 pu...

Quote of the week

‘They see [the book] as the petrol in the car, while we see it as the wine in the bottle'--Victoria Barnsley, publisher and CEO of HarperCollins UK, speaking at LBF, on the difference between e-...
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