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Quarto Debuts Quarto Innovation, Arab-Language Joint venture
Quarto Innovation will look to develop new businesses opportunities, while Kalimat Quarto will republish Quarto English-language titles in Arabic for the Middle East marketplace.
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London Book Fair 2016: Translators Champion Books in Underrepresented Languages
In a panel called "Translating from the Margins,” literary translators shed light on the advantages of bringing books written in underrepresented languages into English.
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London Book Fair 2016: Librarians Respond to Hachette CEO's IPA Speech
The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) is pushing back against Hachette CEO Arnaud Nourry's suggestion that proposed "vast exceptions to copyright law for libraries," would devastate European publishers.
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London Book Fair 2016: Meet the Woman Who Could Revolutionize Indian Publishing
Chiki Sarkar, the former publisher of Penguin Random House India, is launching Juggernaut Books this month.
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London Book Fair 2016: LBF Opens with Wind at Publishers' Backs
After years of sales declines in the U.K., the London Book Fair opened Tuesday with U.K. sales on the rise.
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London Digital 2016: Connecting the Digital Dots
With more publisher consolidation through mergers and acquisitions, changes in ownership and management structures, focus on digital platforms together with the advent of social media tools, and continuous disruption in content consumption, the global publishing industry is witnessing fast-paced shifts.
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London Digital 2016: MPS on Rights and Permissions
Ever-changing technology and consumer demand for instant content access have tremendous implications on rights and permissions.
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London Digital 2016: Digital and E-learning Solutions from Cenveo Publisher Services
Technology by itself does not produce compelling digital and e-learning solutions.
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London Digital 2016: What’s Ahead for Digital Publishing?
What is going on with e-books? The decline in trade e-book sales in the U.S. is certainly one of the big questions hanging over the publishing industry as publishers gather for the 2016 London Book Fair.
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London Digital 2016: Take Note: Virtual Reality Is Growing Up Fast
In October, the New York Times launched its first immersive virtual reality (VR) application, creating an engaging new kind of journalism that suddenly, jarringly, placed viewers alongside the children displaced by Syria’s civil war.
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London Digital 2016: Getting Seen on the Web
Publishers looking to make their content more visible on Web pages can try following a number of best practices that have risen up in recent years. These practices include the following:
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London Digital 2016: Publishing Is a Digital Business
Some 25,000 attendees from more than 120 countries are expected at the 2016 London Book Fair (April 12–14), and while this year’s fair will be underscored by the 400th birthday of William Shakespeare, the focus on the show floor will firmly be on the future.
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London Digital 2016: Embracing Change
Just before the start of the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair, Publishing Technology promoted chief technology officer David Montgomery to CEO.
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London Digital 2016: The Markets to Open 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair
Last year the Frankfurt Book Fair and Publishing Perspectives launched a new conference, the Markets: Global Publishing Summit.
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London Book Fair 2016: Rebuck, Pullman Celebrate the Staying Power of Books
In their keynotes, Penguin Random House U.K. publisher and bestselling author Philip Pullman stressed that while technology is changing, publishing's mission, storytelling, is not.
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London Book Fair 2016: Hachette CEO Presses Chinese Publishers, Blasts EU Copyright Proposals
Hachette CEO Arnaud Nourry said defeating the European Commission's copyright proposals should be the IPA's "number one" goal.
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A Note from IPA President Richard Charkin
International Publishers Association president Richard Charkin encourages publishers to attend the International Publishers Congress.
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London Briefcase 2016: What U.S. Agencies Will be Selling at the London Book Fair
Hot properties include titles from Lisa Scottoline and Iris Johanson, a story collection inspired by Edward Hopper, a return to Twin Peaks via its co-creator Mark Frost, Tom Wolfe’s newest, and more.
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LBF, Working with Bologna, Moves to March for 2017
The London Book Fair will move to March for 2017. LBF, which in recent years has been scheduled in April, made the switch in order to avoid overlapping with Bologna, which also usually happens in April.
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PubMatch, LBF Team Up
The London Book Fair has teamed up with PubMatch to launch Global Rights 365@LBF: An exclusive offering from The London Book Fair, facilitating year-round rights business for LBF participants.