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  • ALA 2025: Program Picks

    Presidents’ programs, unmissable panels, and essential through lines bind the education sessions at the American Library Associations’s 2025 Annual Convention

  • ALA 2025: Librarians Converge on the Cradle of Liberty

    Not far from the Liberty Bell, librarians prepare to assemble for ALA’s Annual Conference, which will bring upward of 10,000 library professionals to the Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center June 26–30.

  • The First ‘TCAF on Ice’ Was a Beauty

    The 2025 Toronto Comic Arts Festival mounted its biggest weekend since before the pandemic, overcoming logistical and geopolitical uncertainty to draw an estimated 28,000 attendees June 6–8 to the former home of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

  • U.S. Book Show 2025: AI Looms Large Across Publishing Sectors

    From copyright and marketing to audiobooks and literary translation, the incursion of artificial intelligence was a hot topic among industry leaders at this year’s U.S. Book Show, held at the New York Academy of Medicine on June 3.

  • Bay Area Book Festival Draws Book Lovers to Berkeley

    The 11th annual Bay Area Book Festival took place May 31–June 1 in downtown Berkeley, Calif., and featured 275 speakers and 120 exhibitors.

  • IBPA’s PubU 2025 Confronts Challenges Facing Industry

    Over the weekend, the 325 attendees of the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Publishing University conference in St. Paul, Minn., discussed how to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing industry impacted by the current political climate and recent technological advances.

  • BISG Wants to Revolutionize the Book Business Supply Chain

    Creating an industrywide system that can make better use of digital communications while preparing publishing for the challenges and opportunities of AI will require new approaches and renewed commitments, speakers at BISG's annual meeting stressed.

  • Politicians Assert U.S. Constitution Mandates Protecting Creativity

    At an April 8 summit on AI, Vermont senator Peter Welch and former Virginia representative Bob Goodlatte, among others, stressed that copyright protections should not be dismantled to accelerate AI development.

  • Publishers, Nonprofits Raise Funds to Back Freedom to Read, Free Speech

    As challenges to free expression show no signs of abating, Penguin Random House and the National Coalition Against Censorship have announced separate fundraising initiatives to counter the threat.

  • TLA 2025: A Library Renaissance Roundup

    Presentations from household-name authors and professional panels for light-bulb moments are on the schedule in Dallas.

  • TLA 2025: Librarians Saddle Up for Dallas

    The biggest library show in Texas hightails it to Big D, with a theme of ‘Library Renaissance: The Quest for Renewal’

  • 2025 SI MoCCA Fest Mixes Celebration with Politics

    The environment at this year’s bustling Society of Illustrators’ Museum of Comics and Cartoon Arts Festival felt celebratory and welcoming in spite of the looming shadow of increasingly fraught global politics.

  • PEN America's World Voices Festival, Literary Awards to Return

    The free expression organization’s tentpole spring events were canceled last year after a number of authors withdrew in protest of PEN’s response to the war in Gaza.

  • Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Welcoming the Guest of Honor, Estonia

    The Baltic republic is serving as Guest of Honor at the 2025 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, marking its first time in this prominent role at the world’s largest children’s publishing event.

  • Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Expanding the Book Fair Tent

    The Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which kicked off this morning and runs through Thursday, once again brings the book world to Italy as it continues to grow beyond its traditional remit focused on children’s books.

  • Ghostwriting Conference Returns to New York City This Fall

    Gotham Ghostwriters, in partnership with the Association of Ghostwriters, has announced that its second annual Gathering of the Ghosts conference will return to New York City with a two-day program November 10–11.

  • WI2025: A Historic Winter Institute Kicks Off in Denver

    Winter Institute 2025 officially kicked off Monday morning in Denver with close to 1,000 booksellers expected to attend. This year, for the first time, the American Booksellers Association hosted a pre-conference meeting exclusively for BIPOC booksellers.

  • London Book Fair 2025: Programming Highlights for Thursday, March 13

    Thursday’s top sessions include multiple discussions on encouraging the next generation of publishers, deep dives into AI and sustainability, and more.

  • London Book Fair 2025: Programming Highlights for Wednesday, March 12

    Wednesday’s top sessions include conversations on the process of bringing books to screen, the current state of literature in Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, and more.

  • London Book Fair 2025: Programming Highlights for Tuesday, March 11

    Tuesday’s top sessions include a keynote address on current business models and future prospects in academic and professional publishing, a conversation between Hachette’s David Shelley and Barnes & Noble’s James Daunt, and more.

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