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Gaiman to Give Digital Minds Keynote
Author Neil Gaiman will give a keynote speech at the London Book Fair's fifth Digital Minds Conference set for Sunday April 14.
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Sara Lloyd to Chair 2013 LBF Digital Minds Conference
Pan Macmillan director of digital and communications Sara Lloyd will chair the London Book Fair's fifth Digital Minds Conference on Sunday April 14, 2013.
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London Book Fair Announces IPA Education Conference
The International Publishers Association and the London Book Fair (LBF) announced the program for the first IPA International Education Conference, a one day event that will run alongside LBF on April 17, 2013. The result of a new partnership, the first program will include a keynote address from Andreas Schleicher, and talks from World Bank’s Michael Trucano, Reed Elsevier’s Y.S. Chi.
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Korea Selected as London Book Fair 2014 Market Focus
The London Book Fair and The Korean Publishers Association have announced Korea as the Market Focus of The London Book Fair 2014.
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Burtenshaw Leaving the London Book Fair
Alistair Burtenshaw is stepping down from his position as director of books and publishing at Reed Exhibitions, a job which includes the post of director of the London Book Fair.
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Kobo to Open 100 E-Reader Stores Inside WHSmith Shops
E-book retailer Kobo announced an agreement with U.K. retailer WHSmith at the London Book Fair to open branded Kobo shops within 100 WHSmith High Street retail stores in 2012.
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London Book Fair 2012: The DoJ, '50 Shades of Grey' and J.K. Rowling
"The DoJ, 50 Shades of Grey and J.K. Rowling," is what one foreign rights associate said when asked about the popular topics at this year's London Book Fair.
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London Book Fair Show Daily: April 18, 2012
Read the entire London Book Fair Show Daily for April, 18 2012
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London Book Fair 2012: Amazon Woos Authors On Busy Show Floor
Attendance figures for the 2012 London Book Fair won’t be released for weeks, but judging from the fairly strong traffic in the main hall, it seems likely this year’s attendance will top the 24,802 who came to last year’s event.
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London Book Fair 2012: Ingram Signs Foyles, Taylor & Francis
Ingram has reached an agreement with independent U.K. bookseller Foyles under which Ingram will provide the bookseller with its title data to allow Foyles to populate www.foyles.co.uk.
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London Book Fair 2012: Crown Nabs Book by OkCupid Co-founder in Rumored 7 Fig Deal
In what looks to be one of the biggest dollar figure deals coming out of the London Book Fair so far, Amanda Cook at Crown took North American rights, for a rumored seven figures, to a nonfiction title called Dataclysm by Christian Rudder, one of the founders of the dating Web site OkCupid.com.
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London Book Fair 2012: RH Reinvests In 'Tools' Authors
Before one of its biggest acquisitions from last year's London Book Fair is even tested in the market, Random House has signed the same authors to a major new deal.
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London Book Fair Show Daily: April 17, 2012
Read the complete April 17 London Book Fair Show Daily
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London Book Fair 2012: CEO Panel Questions Sustainability of the Book Business
Is the publishing industry’s business model sustainable? That was the question for the London Book Fair’s 2012 CEO panel, chaired by Association of American Publishers president Tom Allen.
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London Book Fair 2012: Perseus Brings Argo Navis to the UK
Argo Navis, the digital distribution platform Perseus unveiled in 2011 for agented authors who want to work with their representation to self-publish titles, has launched in the U.K.
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London Book Fair 2012: Stalled Guillermo del Toro Middle Grade Series Re-emerges
A middle grade series by Guillermo del Toro, which was initially shopped a few years ago before being shelved, is back on track.
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London Book Fair 2012: Open Road Launches International Program with Mondadori
Open Road Integrated Media has teamed with Italian publishing giant Mondadori to digitize, distribute and market English-language e-book versions of titles from Mondadori's catalogue. Mondadori is Open Road’s first foreign publishing partner.
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London Book Fair 2012: Foundry Splits One Story into Two Books, Two Deals
In a bit of creative deal-making, agents Peter McGuigan and Stephen Barbara, at Foundry Literary + Media, closed two deals—for an adult novel and a YA novel—for a debut thriller that was initially submitted as a standalone novel.
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London Book Fair 2012: Big Authors Return, Another Swedish Trilogy, Buzzy Debuts
New books from William Vollmann, Erik Larson, Caleb Carr and Zadie Smith pop, while a crop of new authors draws buzz at the LBF 2012.
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