Notes: Future!Publish Program at Leipzig; Canada’s Greystone Sends 15 to London

As the spring trade-show season heats up, Leipzig announces a second year of the Future! Publish Young Talent Days and a Vancouver-based independent publisher is sending a big contingent to London Book Fair in April. The post Notes: Future!Publish Program at Leipzig; Canada’s Greystone Sends 15 to London appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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