Industry Events

Booksellers and authors prepare to gather in Ohio’s Queen City for the 2024 ABA Winter Institute.

Our 2024 Google calendar, updated throughout the year and to which readers can subscribe, keeps track of the dates of dozens of book business events of interest.

The fair celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, hosting 478 exhibitors from 25 countries and territories, including 127 from overseas, and 42,733 visitors—making CCBF the biggest event dedicated to kids' books and content in Asia.

This year's Texas Book Festival ran on Veterans Day weekend, November 11 and 12, in Austin. The event was well attended, drawing tens of thousands of people for talks and panel discussions with more than 300 authors.

With several National Book Awards finalists planning to call for a ceasefire in Gaza at this year's ceremony, Zibby Media has withdrawn its sponsorship of the event over what CEO Zibby Owens called the "inappropriate conduct and collusion of its nominees."

The Texas Book Festival, running November 11 and 12 in Austin, will feature more Spanish-language programming, including a dozen Spanish-language authors among the more than 300 authors participating.

Following the departure of cofounder and coproducer Carolyn Greer, this year Liz Koch took the festival's helm solo, spearheading New York City's largest free literary celebration as it returned to its pre-pandemic size.

This year’s regional bookseller shows were upbeat and exciting gatherings, where both traditional and nontraditional booksellers networked, met authors, and discovered the hottest new releases.

The annual literary festival bridges readers in the U.S. and Mexico.

Almost 300 booksellers from the Midwest Indie Bookseller and Great Lakes Indie Bookseller associations gathered together at Heartland Fall Forum in Detroit last week to network, meet authors, and discover great books.