Publishers Weekly’s 2025 Book Business Events Calendar
Our annual Google calendar, updated throughout the year and to which readers can subscribe, keeps track of the dates of dozens of book business events of interest. more...and more.
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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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