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Trade ShowsAudio Forum Returns to BolognaBookPlus in 2024
The Audio Forum at BolognaBookPlus will return next year on April 2 with a roster of industry speakers, and crime novelist Tom Benjamin has been named BolognaBookPlus 2025 author ambassador.
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News
Dutch Publisher’s AI Translation Plan Sparks Industry Concern
The recently announced plan from Veen Bosch & Keuning, the major Dutch publisher bought by Simon & Schuster in May, to use artificial intelligence for English-language translations has prompted pushback from industry organizations.
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Trade Shows
Shanghai Children’s Book Fair Wraps Up Its 11th Edition
Despite recent challenges, the Chinese children’s book market, comprised of 370 million children and young adults, remains a big draw for publishers, making CCBF an important stop for companies looking to increase their sales in the country.
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Sharjah Book Fair
How Copyright Clearance Center’s Michael Healy Advocates for 'Responsible AI'
In a rapidly evolving publishing landscape, the executive director of the CCC is taking the lead on addressing one of the industry’s most pressing concerns: the use of copyrighted material in artificial intelligence systems.
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A Book Demands That It Be Like a Beloved: PW Talks with Elina Harutyunyan
The literary agent with Armenia’s First Literary Agency describes the challenges facing the Armenian publishing industry and the necessity to be “persistent, patient, and flexible” in pursuing book deals from a small country.
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How to Help Rebuild Libraries in Conflict Zones
Alison Tweed, CEO of U.K.–based charity Book Aid International, describes the destruction of libraries in Lebanon, Ukraine, and Iraq and advises on how the book business can help to rebuild them.
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Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker Prize for 'Orbital'
The English novelist has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her latest, which follows six crew members on a space station as they orbit Earth over the course of a nine-month mission.
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EIBF Unveils RISE Bookselling Study on Global Reading and Book-Buying Trends
Tora Åsling, policy officer at the European and International Booksellers Federation, discusses the recently published RISE Bookselling Study on Consumer Behavior, which revealed book-buying trends, reading habits, and customer needs in 19 markets across the world.
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Sharjah Book Fair
Sharjah International Book Fair 2024: 11th Sharjah International Library Conference
The 11th Sharjah International Library Conference takes place on November 9-10, the first weekend of this year’s Sharjah International Book Fair. The SILC brings together 250 librarians annually from the MENA region and beyond to learn and share the latest trends and issues within global librarianship.
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Sharjah Book Fair
Sharjah International Book Fair 2024: Sharjah Spotlit at Book Fair and Events Around the World
The 43rd Sharjah International Book Fair opened on November 6 and will run through November 17. But the SIBF is only one event in which the Emirate of Sharjah, through the Sharjah Book Authority, has been showcased around the world.
- How Copyright Clearance Center’s Michael Healy Advocates for ‘Responsible AI‘
- Sharjah International Book Fair 2024: Sharjah Shines Around the World
- Sharjah International Book Fair 2024: 11th Sharjah International Library Conference
- Sharjah International Book Fair 2024: Q&A with Yasmina Jraissati of the Raya Agency
