This time last week, when I asked someone at one of the bigger publishers whether they had called off their London Book Fair party yet, I could feel the baffled response down the telephone line—“as if”. A week is a long time during pandemics (we are learning), but for Reed Exhibitions, the organiser of the fair, it must have felt like much longer. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-06 04:53:02 UTC ]
“You think you’ve known someone for a long time,” a character in one of Jenny Bhatt’s short stories says of her Indian colleague shortly after he’s shot dead by a white man in a bar. “Maybe he never really took to us. Never really became one of us.” Turn by turn, each of his white […] The post... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2020-10-13 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Back in March, I was watching Twitter like it was a countdown, waiting like so many others for the inevitable to happen and for the London Book Fair to be cancelled. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-23 20:10:46 UTC ]
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Fans of “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell” have waited a long time for Clarke’s second novel. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-08 16:23:45 UTC ]
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The London Book Fair was planned to be the platform for Thames & Hudson to reveal its revamped branding, after discussions aroun its key series led to a period of visual reflection Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-26 11:14:16 UTC ]
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The year after I graduated from college, my parents got divorced. I took it rather badly. (Picture me crumpled on the floor of a Barnes & Noble, sobbing.) I’d been holding things together for a very long time, and then, with little warning, I couldn’t anymore. So I sought the assistance of a... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-19 08:48:35 UTC ]
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For a long time, I felt like I had been failed by publishing. After a diagnosis of Aspergers Syndrome - now Autism Spectrum Disorder (or ASD) in 2015 - I set out to learn more about my new ‘label’, and what it meant to me. Recommendations included looking to TV, because characters such as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 22:34:00 UTC ]
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Two associations of American and Canadian agents are the latest organisations to hit out at the London Book Fair over its refund policy following this year's cancelled event. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-30 21:17:31 UTC ]
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Revenue at Reed Exhibitions, whose businesses include BookExpo, fell to £201 million, from £684 million in the first six months of 2019, and the group had an adjusted operating loss of £117 million compared to a profit of £231 million a year ago. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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RELX, parent of Reed Exhibitions and Elsevier, recorded a 10% revenue drop in the six months to end June 2020, to £3,501m (from £3,888m), with adjusted operating profit falling 24% to £939m (£1,240m). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-23 02:26:48 UTC ]
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On Tuesday, Bloomberg Media launched Bloomberg Green, a new quarterly print magazine focused on climate change solutions. The latest offshoot of the "Bloomberg Green" brand, which first debuted in January, the print edition complements an existing web vertical and daily newsletter of the same... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-06-09 21:09:53 UTC ]
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From Quiz to Chernobyl, the one-off television series is the perfect antidote to the relentlessness of multi-season shows. But do they ultimately leave us wanting more?Broadcast across three nights as lockdown kept us glued to our sofas, ITV’s Quiz was the first new drama in a long time that... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-06-02 14:27:30 UTC ]
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It’s a long-standing joke in lockdown now – among those of us quarantined, self-isolating, or lucky enough to keep working from home – that we don’t know which day it is. Or even which week. And did I shower this morning, or was it yesterday? Our immediate surroundings have been so similar for... Continue reading at British Council global
[ British Council global | 2020-05-15 14:46:20 UTC ]
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Looking back and charting changes in a business as multi-faceted and all-encompassing as children’s books is a tricky business. Given that the peak titles from the past last a very long time while most titles fade away fairly fast and the least successful disappear surprisingly completely it is... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-29 19:37:34 UTC ]
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London Book Fair organiser Reed Exhibitions has faced criticism after offering just 60% of fees back to some participating publishers and agents following this year's cancelled event. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-14 00:06:03 UTC ]
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RELX, whose Reed Exhibitions business organises the London Book Fair and BookExpo, has published a trading statement revealing exhibitions are being "impacted significantly" by the coronavirus outbreak, making the group's outlook for the year as a whole "highly uncertain". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-08 07:29:50 UTC ]
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You might have found works in this Rights Roundup at London Book Fair—had COVID-19 not intervened: From Finland, USA, Spain, France, Sweden, and Italy. The post Rights Roundup: Books That Were To Be Presented at London Book Fair 2020 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-03-20 15:15:08 UTC ]
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Acknowledging that Reed Exhibitions is disappointed about Penguin Random House's decision to withdraw from BookExpo and BookCon, which was set for May 27-31 at New York City's Javits Center, event manager Jenny Martin said Reed is hoping to find new dates for the event. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
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London Book Fair director Jacks Thomas submitted her resignation in September, and planned to announce her departure at the 2020 fair, which was canceled because of coronavirus. The post Jacks Thomas Leaves Reed and London Book Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-03-17 15:13:03 UTC ]
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London Book Fair director Jacks Thomas is stepping down after seven years with Reed Exhibitions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-16 23:02:11 UTC ]
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The London Book Fair was due to recognise the work of translators yet again, and before its postponement had anointed Katy Derbyshire its second Translator of the Fair. She reveals the highs and lows of the job Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-13 12:01:15 UTC ]
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