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London Book Fair 2023: Talk of AI and Other Tech Fills the Halls
ChatGPT and AI were perhaps the hottest topics at this year's fair, with panelists and other attendees debating the pluses and minuses of the new technologies.
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London Book Fair 2023: Gardners Expands Its Reach In U.S.
The Little Group, parent company of Gardners Books and All Media Supply, has further expanded its reach into the United States by setting up a subsidiary company, Gardners U.S.
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London Book Fair 2023: Book Trade Charity Gears Up for an Important Year
Book Trade Charity gears up to meet its fundraising goal of £185,000 for 2023 in order to sustain its mission of providing support to book trade colleagues and their families in managing utility bills, groceries, transport, medical costs, funeral costs, counselling, household items, relocation or housing needs, training and development.
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London Book Fair 2023: Nielsen BookScan Expands in South America
Nearly two decades after launching in Spain and six years since expanding into Mexico, Nielsen BookScan is moving into the South American market, starting with Colombia.
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London Book Fair 2023: Africa's Publishing Potential
There is growing interest and opportunity in Africa's publishing industry for both print and digital books.
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London Book Fair 2023: LBF Honors Excellence in Publishing, Bookselling
The winners of the 2023 London Book Fair International Excellence Awards have been announced.
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London Book Fair 2023: Sustainability in Publishing, from Conversation to Action
The challenges and values specific to book publishing lend particular difficulty to change and innovation, writes Ashley Gordon—but the book business still must do its part to save the planet.
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London Book Fair 2023: LBF Trailblazers Forge Ahead
The annual London Book Fair Trailblazers awards celebrate industry professionals aged 30 or under who are demonstrating “creativity, dedication, and innovation” in their roles within the publishing industry. This year’s six winners were announced on March 27, chosen from a shortlist of 15 young publishing professionals.
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London Book Fair 2023: A Bumper Year for Publishing Anniversaries
This year, there are many publishing companies celebrating significant birthdays. We spoke to three to uncover some major milestones in their pasts.
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London Book Fair 2023: Klaus Flugge Honored for Lifetime Achievement
Klaus Flugge will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the London Book Fair. The award recognizes “an individual who has made a truly significant mark in the sphere of global publishing.”
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London Book Fair 2023: Wednesday's Author of the Day, Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves OBE is a British mystery crime writer. She wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn series, all three of which have been adapted into TV shows. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Raven Black, the first novel in the Jimmy Perez series. She appeared as Author of the Day at the LBF.
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London Book Fair 2023: Literary Tapas: 'The Riveter' Offers a Taste of Spain
After being the Guest of Honor at Frankfurt this past fall, Spain, along with its literatures and cultures, is back in the spotlight this week in London.
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London Book Fair 2023: Q&A: Illustrator of the Fair, Dapo Adeola
Dapo Adeola is a British-Nigerian illustrator. He co-created and illustrated the Waterstones children's book of 2020 Look Up!, which explored space science. Adeola is best known for creating graphics that challenge race and gender stereotypes. He appeared as Illustrator of the London Book Fair in 2023.
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London Book Fair 2023: Brian Murray, the Ukrainian First Lady, and a Shocking Arrest Start the Show
On Day One in London, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray said the publisher may still try to buy Simon & Schuster, Ukrainian first lady Olena Zolenska addressed the fair over video, and the floor was aflutter over the arrest of the foreign rights manager at French publisher Éditions La Fabrique on his way to the show.
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London Book Fair 2023: The 'Ongoing Agony' of Brexit for U.K. Indie Publishers
Not one of the publishers contacted for this report had a single positive thing to say about the impact of Brexit.
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London Book Fair 2023: The Selfies Book Awards Shortlists
The 2023 Selfies Book Awards, set up by BookBrunch in 2018 to recognize great indie publishing, will be announced in Author HQ at 4.45 p.m. GMT today.
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London Book Fair 2023: An Italian Literary Agent in London
Mauro Spagnol, an Italian agent with 18 years of experience, founded Books-Everywhere, a literary agency with the aim to promote European publishers in the international market.
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London Book Fair 2023: AI’ll Be Back
Duncan Calow predicts that as the development of AI increases in capacity, so will laws, regulations, and directives formed as a protective shield against the machine.
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