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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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Politicians Assert U.S. Constitution Mandates Protecting Creativity
At an April 8 summit on AI, Vermont senator Peter Welch and former Virginia representative Bob Goodlatte, among others, stressed that copyright protections should not be dismantled to accelerate AI development.
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Publishers, Nonprofits Raise Funds to Back Freedom to Read, Free Speech
As challenges to free expression show no signs of abating, Penguin Random House and the National Coalition Against Censorship have announced separate fundraising initiatives to counter the threat.
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TLA 2025: A Library Renaissance Roundup
Presentations from household-name authors and professional panels for light-bulb moments are on the schedule in Dallas.
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TLA 2025: Librarians Saddle Up for Dallas
The biggest library show in Texas hightails it to Big D, with a theme of ‘Library Renaissance: The Quest for Renewal’
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2025 SI MoCCA Fest Mixes Celebration with Politics
The environment at this year’s bustling Society of Illustrators’ Museum of Comics and Cartoon Arts Festival felt celebratory and welcoming in spite of the looming shadow of increasingly fraught global politics.
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PEN America's World Voices Festival, Literary Awards to Return
The free expression organization’s tentpole spring events were canceled last year after a number of authors withdrew in protest of PEN’s response to the war in Gaza.
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Welcoming the Guest of Honor, Estonia
The Baltic republic is serving as Guest of Honor at the 2025 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, marking its first time in this prominent role at the world’s largest children’s publishing event.
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025: Expanding the Book Fair Tent
The Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which kicked off this morning and runs through Thursday, once again brings the book world to Italy as it continues to grow beyond its traditional remit focused on children’s books.
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Ghostwriting Conference Returns to New York City This Fall
Gotham Ghostwriters, in partnership with the Association of Ghostwriters, has announced that its second annual Gathering of the Ghosts conference will return to New York City with a two-day program November 10–11.
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WI2025: A Historic Winter Institute Kicks Off in Denver
Winter Institute 2025 officially kicked off Monday morning in Denver with close to 1,000 booksellers expected to attend. This year, for the first time, the American Booksellers Association hosted a pre-conference meeting exclusively for BIPOC booksellers.
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London Book Fair 2025: Programming Highlights for Thursday, March 13
Thursday’s top sessions include multiple discussions on encouraging the next generation of publishers, deep dives into AI and sustainability, and more.
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London Book Fair 2025: Programming Highlights for Wednesday, March 12
Wednesday’s top sessions include conversations on the process of bringing books to screen, the current state of literature in Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, and more.
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London Book Fair 2025: Programming Highlights for Tuesday, March 11
Tuesday’s top sessions include a keynote address on current business models and future prospects in academic and professional publishing, a conversation between Hachette’s David Shelley and Barnes & Noble’s James Daunt, and more.
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London Book Fair 2025: Stage Rights
Feel-good fiction and self-help nonfiction remain center stage going into the first major rights fair of the year.
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London Book Fair 2025 to Focus on AI, Developing Readers
The first major rights fair of the year has expanded its programming (and its meeting space) for its March 11–13 run.
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Final PubWest Conference Focuses on Finance, Fostering Best Practices
Publishers Association of the West held its final annual conference in New Orleans February 11–13 before it joins forces with the Independent Book Publishers Association this July.
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WI2025: Children’s Authors to Meet
The forecast for Denver includes a wintry mix of children’s and YA creators, with a flurry of picture books, middle grade reads, and teen novels.
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WI2025: Adult Authors to Meet
This year’s authors range from debut stars to award-winning industry regulars, writing books in a range of categories and all certain to fly off bookstore shelves.
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WI2025: Colorado Is Indie Bookstore Country
New bookstores are thriving in the Centennial State alongside beloved older stores.