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London Book Fair Gets Its Third New Director in Four Years
RX, which owns the London Book Fair, has announced that Adam Ridgway, previously commercial director at RX, will take over as fair director. He replaces Gareth Rapley, who was in the position for two years.
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London Book Fair 2024: Empowering Women and the Working Class
Two panels at the London Book Fair on Thursday emphasized the ongoing challenge of giving opportunities to women and working-class people to write, publish, and advance themselves in the publishing and creative industries.
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London Book Fair 2024: The State of Audiobooks, From AI to Ads
Panelists from Audible, Bookwire, Penguin Random House, Spotify, and Storytel discussed the state of audiobooks, noting that sales continue to boom and there are new opportunities arising from advancing technology and business models.
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London Book Fair 2024: Program Highlights for Thursday
You made it! Welcome to Day Three of the London Book Fair. There are still plenty of panels on the docket for today at this year's Seminar Program. Here are our recommendations.
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London Book Fair 2024: Many Faces, Old and New
Fairgoers feel positive that this year's fair is, if not the biggest, then easily one of the biggest fairs since Covid, and definitely the most exciting—and shared a couple of contenders for the semi-mythical title of "book of the show."
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London Book Fair 2024: How Will AI Change Life for Literary Translators?
They can generate (iterative) images. They can generate (iterative) text. But how will large language models change translation—especially for literary translators? A panel at the London Book Fair suggested some possible outcomes.
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London Book Fair 2024: Rise of English-Language Sales Threatens European Publishers
Several key European markets are seeing rapid growth in English-language book sales, threatening to cannibalize sales of translated editions published in their native markets, as the TikTok generation is increasingly happy to read in English.
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London Book Fair 2024: Trust, Innovation, and the Freedom to Publish
On the first morning of the London Book Fair, the heads of the International Publishing Association, the Federation of European Publishers, the Association of American Publishers, and the African Publishers Network gathered to discuss, and debate, the biggest issues facing the publishing industry today.
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London Book Fair 2024: Program Highlights for Wednesday
Welcome to Day Two of the London Book Fair. If you still need to decide between the more than 150 panels and discussions available on tap for this year's Seminar Program, we've got some suggestions.
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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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