Image via Wikipedia LBF: Change needed, but publishing still vital The Bookseller Profile m.d. Andrew Franklin has dismissed self-publishing as irrelevant in a heated debate on the relevance of publishers. The discussion, held at yesterday’s London Book Fair, was between Franklin, Bloomsbury’s executive director Richard Charkin, the author Cory Doctorow, and technophile James Bridle. Related…
The London Book Fair 2011
The London Book Fair 2011 officially kicks off next Monday, April 11th and runs through to the 13th at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. Last year’s event was badly hit by the curtailing of flights over the UK and Europe due to the Icelandic volcano eruption and the number of trade visitors was dramatically down on previous…
London Book Fair: More Content Over Form & Contentment Over Frustration
The final day of the London Book Fair takes place tomorrow and there is no doubt how low-key the event has been so far. The flight restrictions on overseas attendees due to the Icelandic volcano plumes has underlined that while this event is an international fixture on the publishing calendar, the general British press has…
First Day of London Book Fair
The London Book Fair opened in earnest today and it was noticeably quieter than it has been for several years. About one out of every five of the eighty events planned across today had to be cancelled due to absent guests unable to reach London due to the weekend’s severe flight restrictions. Ironically, it now…
London Book Fair 2010: Monday Schedule Beats The Ash!
The official start to the London Book Fair 2010 today gets under way in the next few hours. With a UK flight ban still in force until 7pm this evening, this is now a case of it is as it is for the Fair’s organizers and this year’s event is going to have a much more national…
London Book Fair: Latest on Disruption
Sunday has brought a clearer picture as to how much this year’s London Book Fair will be disrupted by the current flight ban in many parts of England and Western Europe. Many parts of England over the past two days have been bathe in unusually warm sunshine for April and it is this mild weather…
London Book Fair 2010: Update Saturday AM
There was mixed news this evening for attendees of next week’s London Book Fair. NATS, The National Air traffic service, which controls British airspace, lifted some restrictions on airspace in Scotland, and that may also extend to northern parts of England tomorrow. Closure of UK airspace has now been extended to 1pm Saturday, but already…
Did The Mayans Know About The London Book Fair 2010?
Maybe the Mayans had it right all along. There were a few things you could have thought of to disrupt this year’s London Book Fair. Chief among the possibilities might have been dreadful weather conditions or perhaps wholescale transport strikes in the UK. A massive plume of volcanic ash 10 kilometers up in the sky…
London Book Fair 2009 – Final Day – Boris in Book vs Playstation Wars
Our report headline is about as exciting as it got. Plenty of deep discussion in huddled corners of trade stands and some agreements reached, but it was a quieter London Book Fair than previous years. The emphasis was on quality of content and discussion rather than the amount of trade stands or footfalls. In the…
London Book Fair 2009 – Ebook Discussion, Tuesday, April 21st
Torin Douglas, BBC media correspondent hosted a discussion this morning at the London Book Fair in Earls Court on ebooks with contributions from Gail Rebuck, CEO Random House, Tim Hely-Hutchinson, CEO Hachette Livre UK, Victoria Barnsley, CEO HarperCollins UK and John Makinson, CEO Penguin Group. Getting these publishing CEO luminaries together did not achieve wholesale…