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London Book Fair 2014: Meeting Publishers’ Digital Needs
The proliferation of digital devices in the classroom and the reinvention of education from traditional models to new, more interactive and individualized means of learning will change education publishing faster and farther than other segments, says executive director Bill McCoy of IDPF.
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London Book Fair 2014: Publishers and Internet Standards
Recently, experts working on ORCID and ISNI, both ISO-standard identifiers, spoke with one of the founders of schema.org to facilitate their use as embedded persona references, particularly through extensions such as BibExtend.
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London Book Fair 2014: Big Data: Should Publishers Even Care?
Like many people across the business world, publishers have a skeptical view of so-called Big Data, seeing it as “the next big hype.”
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London Book Fair 2014: Open Source for an Open Publishing Ecosystem: Readium.org Turns One
Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the formation of the Readium Foundation (Readium.org), an independent nonprofit launched in March 2013 with the objective of developing commercial-grade open source publishing technology software.
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London Book Fair 2014: Fast-Flowing Streams
Everyone knows that publishing is changing more than at any time since Gutenberg. But is it? I’ve always believed e-books are much less of a disruption than was supposed.
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London Book Fair 2014: The Center of It All
For years, we’ve spoken and written about digital publishing, sometimes as if it was a separate part of the business.
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London Briefcase 2014: The Books to Look For at the London Book Fair
Jimmy Carter makes a call to action for the world’s women, Keith Richards gets colorful, Anne Rice revives Lestat, Richard Ford brings back Frank Bascombe, and Larry Summers dishes on the world economy, and more.
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Int'l Book Industry Excellence Awards 2014 Shortlist
The most nominated countries included the USA, India, China and Korea
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Rogers Wins LBF Acheivement Award
Literary agent Deborah Rogers has been named the winner of the London Book Fair's 11th annual Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing.
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'PW,' 'BookBrunch' Plan London Show Dailies
PW and the U.K.’s BookBrunch are once again teaming up to produce three print Show Dailies for the London Book Fair as well as a supplement focused on the fair’s digital events.
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London Book Fair Moving to Olympia in 2015
After much talk about the London Book Fair's impending departure from its longstanding location at the Earls Court convention center, the event's operator, Reed Exhibitions, has announced that the fair will move to the ECO venue in the Olympia neighborhood in 2015.
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LBF Unveils New Academic Area for 2014 Show
The London Book Fair has announced it will be featruing a new section in its academic and scholarly zone in 2014 called The Faculty@LBF.
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London Book Fair's Return to ExCel Raises Industry Concerns
Concern is mounting among the publishing community, in London and elsewhere, over a possible relocation of the London Book Fair to the ExCel Exhibition Centre in Docklands, the far east of the capital.
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London Book Fair 2013: Defining the New Role for Literary Agents
The specific question at a late day panel on the Tuesday of the London Book Fair was not about whether literary agents matter, but about their future.
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London Book Fair 2013: Young Debut Authors Fetch Big Advances
It was all about young, debut authors at this year’s London Book Fair. Some of the most talked-about books were by writers whose own back stories were as talked about as the books they sold.
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The London Book Fair Show Daily Day 3: April 17, 2013
Keep up with all the day 3 goings-on at the 2013 London Book Fair with the complete PW Show Daily.
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London Book Fair 2013: New Swedish Agency Touts Local Thriller
In a buy before the London Book Fair officially got underway, Laura Tisdel at Little, Brown bought world English rights, in conjunction with Ed Wood at Sphere in the U.K., to Chain of Events, a Swedish thriller that’s being shopped by a new agency.
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London Book Fair 2013: New Agency, Resolution, Makes Appearance
Jeffrey Berg’s new agency is still young, but it’s looking to the future and, to that end, had a presence at this year’s London Book Fair.
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London Book Fair 2013: Self-Publishing Surges in Digital Zone
From its beginnings in 2009 as a sleepy corridor of Earls Court, the London Book Fair’s Digital Zone is quickly becoming the pounding heartbeat of the fair, driven largely by the rise of self-publishing.
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