Publishers Weekly’s 2025 Book Business Events Calendar
Our annual Google calendar, updated throughout the year and to which readers can subscribe, keeps track of the dates of dozens of book business events of interest. more...and more. Sign up here!
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Can San Diego Comic-Con 2025 Escape Uncertain Times?
In a tumultuous world, people can still escape to Comic-Con. But in 2025, even this ultimate pop culture festival is going ahead under the shadow of economic uncertainty, immigration crackdowns, and tariffs.
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Who We Really Are Inside: PW Talks with Chip Kidd
The VP and art director at Knopf and three-time Eisner Award winner puckishly breaks the fourth wall with his second graphic novel, The Avengers in the Veracity Trap! (Abrams ComicArts, Aug.), illustrated by Michael Cho.
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BookCon Will Return in 2026
Five years after its discontinuation, BookCon has been revived by event organizer ReedPop. The consumer-facing show is set to return next April to its old home at New York City’s Javits Center.
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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
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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–July 1.
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‘TCAF on Ice’ Was a Return to Form
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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