Industry Events
UK printers have warned of rising paper prices, but say they are experiencing a welcome return of business from domestic publishers thanks to "rapid" advances in digital printing technology and current exchange rates. Speaking at the Future Book conference hosted by Canon at its Oce R&D centre in Poing, Munich, last week, Andy Vosper, deputy…
The word most frequently used to describe this year's fall regional bookseller trade shows was 'energetic.'
ReedPOP has announced its plans for BookCon 2017, the fourth edition of its annual consumer book event, to be held on June 3 and 4 at the Javits Center in New York.
San Francisco’s Books in Browsers conference is produced by the University of California Davis and Frankfurt Book Fair, and this year will embrace a more visual context. “Storytelling has moved beyond books,” says Peter Brantley, who annually directs this highly specialized gathering.
NEW YORK — October 20, 2016 — The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2016 BISG Industry Awards, presented at its 2016 Annual Meeting of Members on September 30, in New York City. The BISG Award for Excellence recognizes an individual’s outstanding work on behalf of BISG over…
The top 52 companies in the global book business generate approximately 60 billion euros in value each year, according to the latest report of the top global publishers compiled by Ruediger Wischenbart, the Vienna-based publishing consultant. (PW published the list of the largest publishers in August). “You now see that publishing is a global business…
FRANKFURT — October 18, 2016 — Superimposing cultural and political viewpoints, revealing their differences and the things they have in common and, above all, organising the creative reinterpretation at the points of crossover – these are the most important tasks of the Frankfurter Buchmesse. Nowhere else in the world do so many different ideas intersect…
Speaking at the Book Industry Study Group’s (BISG) annual meeting held September 30, in New York, newly appointed executive (as of Oct. 3) director Brian O’Leary previewed the organization’s forthcoming strategic plan. In a 15-minute talk, O’Leary, a longtime consultant and BISG board member, praised the plan he is now tasked with implementing as the…
Why book publishing needs more and better-structured educational content.
The 2016 Hong Kong book fair, the most important event in the city’s literary calendar, opened its doors on Wednesday to familiar long queues and hordes of special security personnel on watch for potential stampedes. Inside, it was business as usual: a large convention hall divided into genres, with one large area just for religious…