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Ensuring a More Literate Future for All
Diversity, inclusion, and community engagement all play critical roles in nurturing new readers and writers
Curtain falls on 2020 London Book Fair
“London Book Fair will be back next year in March for the show’s fiftieth anniversary.”
Pathbreakers, Pioneers, and Trailblazers
PublisHer marks its first birthday in London at the British Library with a March 9th summit of women who have generated positive change in world publishing.
Bologna Moves To May; London Stays Put
On Tuesday, London Book Fair organizers announced that the mid-March show would go on as scheduled. “They are keeping calm and carrying on,” Andrew Albanese says.
Are Publishers Ready for the New Readers?
At STM Week in London, technologists working in publishing consider what it takes to make content ready for computer readers.
American Library Association Faces Up to Fiscal Dilemma
American Library Association members are absorbing distressing news about the organization’s fiscal well-being.
Spanish Books on Show in Guadalajara
At FIL, the rivalry between Planeta and Penguin Random House Groupo Editorial, the two dominant publishers in the Spanish-language market, was on full display
Audible “Permanently Restrained” in Captions Case
Audible has agreed not to include the copyrighted works of the seven plaintiff publishers in its “Captions” program without express permission.
What Proposed White House Executive Order on Open Access Gets Wrong
Publishers and their advocates make the case that the OA EO would throw the research ecosystem into chaos.