The London Book Fair has gone digital. The online event will be held from June 21- July 1, 2021. Here, Andy Ventris, Director, London Book Fair, briefs us about the fair in the new format. AABP: Brief us about the forthcoming digital…

Opines Atiya Zaidi, Publisher, Ratna Sagar, which is one of the largest and most renowned K-12 publishing houses in India today, which was founded by great visionary Dhanesh Jain in 1982, who was religiously involved in the advancing…

Bodour Al Qasimi (Kalimat Group, UAE) confirmed as President-elect of the IPA, with Karine Pansa (Girassol Brasil Edições, Brazil) confirmed as Vice President-elect at first ever virtual IPA General Assembly and Pranav Gupta (Prints…

The management team of the world’s premium children’s book fair today) announced a change to its dates for 2021 from April to June 14th – 17th. Commenting on the change Bologna Children’s Book Fair Director, Elena Pasoli explains, …

LBF shifts 2021 dates with the aim of bringing the publishing industry together in person for first time since the outbreak of Covid-19. Reed Exhibitions had announced that The London Book Fair will take place from 29 June to 1 July 2021,…

Guadalajara (Mexico) was named World Book Capital for the year 2022 by the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, on the recommendation of the World Book Capital Advisory Committee. The city was selected for its comprehensive plan for…

BOOKFEST digital with 1.5 million views on Facebook alone, Frankfurter Buchmesse 2020 – Special Edition reaches 200,000 people worldwide with various formats on buchmesse.de Overcoming borders, bringing people together, celebrating authors…

Pham Doan Trang, the Vietnamese author, journalist and co-founder of Liberal Publishing House, the 2020 IPA Prix Voltaire laureate, was arrested on 6 October. According to early reports from Vietnam Human Rights Defenders and Reuters, she…

The COVID-19 crisis is an unprecedented time, suspending large parts of human normalcy and disrupting global economies, including India’s. The Indian publishing industry has experienced difficult times with the advent of the pandemic. With…

Union Cabinet has approved the new National Education Policy, NEP  and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) would now be referred to as Ministry of Education. The announcement was made by Union Human Resource Development…