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London Book Fair 2024: Big Crowds and Tech Talk as the Fair Kicks Off
A busy first day at Olympia London has found publishers abuzz with business, cautiously optimistic about AI, and dismayed over world events.
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London Book Fair 2024: S&S CEO Karp Touts 'Independence' in LBF Keynote
In the opening keynote session of this year's London Book Fair, Jonathan Karp, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, extolled the virtues of the company’s new status as "the largest independent publisher of adult and children’s trade books in the United States."
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U.K. Publishing Spotlight: How a U.K. Publicist Learned to Navigate the American Market...as an Author
Even after two decades in the book business, Georgina Moore, deputy managing director of Midas, confesses she had much to learn from her own experience publishing and publicizing her debut novel on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Reese's Book Club Comes to London—and Stays at the Sheraton
Just in time for the London Book Fair, Hello Sunshine has set up shop in the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane, a five-star Art Deco hotel just down the way from Buckingham Palace, where a new pop-up library and bookstore, Reese’s Book Club x Sheraton Lobby Library, has been installed.
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U.K. Publishing Spotlight: Lessons I’ve Learned Trying to Crack the U.S. Market
Ziggy Hanaor, the founder of U.K. children's publishing house Cicada Books, offers her top tips for breaking into the American market, including asking for publicity help, using a single ISBN, and getting books to market six months before publication.
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London Book Fair 2024: Program Highlights for Tuesday
Welcome to Day One of the London Book Fair. If you need to choose which of the more than 150 panels and discussions offered by this year's Seminar Program you'll be checking out today, look no further.
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Riding the 'Korean Wave': K-Books Find a Global Readership
The online rights database MatchWHALE, founded by Beatrice Lin, is set to add many more Korean titles to libraries and bookstores around the world.
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Research and the Real World: PW Talks with Camille Gamboa
Sage Policy Profiles, a new web-based tool from Sage and Overton, lets researchers uncover and understand the influence their evidence-based research may have on public policy by identifying citations of their work. Sage associate v-p of corporate communications Camille Gamboa hopes that the tool will help scholars "better recognize the real-world impact of research."
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London Book Fair 2024: Program Highlights
A selection of the more than 150 panels and discussions featured on tap in the fair’s Seminar Program, including sessions on AI, audiobooks, BookTok, DEI, and the Freedom to read and publish.
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London Book Fair 2024: The Rights Stuff
U.S. agents expect romantasy to be hot—and debut fiction not.
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London Book Fair 2024: Setting the Agenda
The London Book Fair embraces its new status as the first major publishing event of the year.
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London Book Fair 2024: Rights Center Central
At this year’s London Book Fair, U.S. agents will be talking up works by H.S. Cross, Laila Lalami, Casey McQuiston, Richard Price, Riley Sager, and others.
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London Book Fair Announces ‘Audio Alley,’ Charity Focus
The fair, to be held March 12–14, will have a dedicated space for audiobook exhibitors and discussions focused on AI, social media marketing, and translation. The National Literacy Trust and Book Aid International are its Charities of the Year.
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London Book Fair Announces 2024 Authors of the Day
The 2024 London Book Fair Author of the Day program will feature mystery writer Richard Osman, novelist Taylor Jenkins Reid, Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho, and illustrator Flavia Z. Drago.
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London Book Fair 2023: The U.S. Translates a Huge Range of Books
The sheer volume of publishers included in the Translation Database deflates the old adage that “U.S. publishers aren’t interested in the rest of the world”: From 2008 to 2022, more than 930 different publishers and imprints brought out at least one book in translation.
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London Book Fair 2023: U.K. Publishers Association Turns Focus to AI Regulation, Literacy
The Publishers Association exists to ensure that publishers across the U.K. can thrive. This year, AI regulation and literacy are among the key areas of focus for the organization.
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London Book Fair 2023: Book Aid International Gets Books to Those Who Need Them
Every year, Book Aid International provides more than one million new books to communities around the world and funds the purchase of thousands of locally published books.
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London Book Fair 2023: The Other Island: International and Irish Booksellers Convene in Cork
Nine non-Irish booksellers attended this year's Irish Book Trade Conference in Cork thanks to RISE Bookselling, a program coordinated by the European and International Booksellers Federation ”aimed at upscaling, reinforcing, and maximising the capacity and resilience of the European bookselling sector.”
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London Book Fair 2023: U.K. Bookstore Numbers Hit 10-Year High
At the start of 2023, independent bookshop numbers hit a 10-year high in the U.K., growing in number for the seventh consecutive year to 1,072 shops, up from 867 at their lowest point in 2016.
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