4 AUGUST 2016 A new conference is being launched in November, programmed by The Publishers Association with event management by The London Book Fair (LBF), to address the issues around inclusivity and diversity in publishing. The Publishers Association has worked with diversity organisations and other engaged parties across the publishing industry on the preliminary…
4 August 2016 The BPIF, Oxford Brookes University and The Publishers Association are delighted to announce the shortlist for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2016. The awards promote and acknowledge innovative book design and expert craftsmanship. A panel of 5 judges, selected from the areas of design, publishing, production and retail gathered for…
The Booksellers Association and the Publishers Association are holding a parliamentary reception in the House of Commons to highlight the contribution made by the book and publishing industries to the economy and society. The evening will culminate in the presentation of the inaugural Parliamentary Book Awards, three new awards celebrating the best work of fiction…
22 November 2016 Political heavyweights Ken Clarke, Alan Johnson and Margaret Hodge join broadcaster Jeremy Paxman and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on the shortlists for the inaugural Parliamentary Book Awards, the only book awards for parliamentarians, voted for by parliamentarians. Launched by the Booksellers Association and the Publishers Association, the awards aim to…
An independent survey released today by the Publishers Association, shows that 63% of primary and secondary teachers in English schools could be making more use of textbooks, while one in five don’t use them at all. This is despite the fact that the survey also showed that more than 90% of teachers say they believe…
Parliamentarians’ Political Books of the Year Unveiled London. 6 December 2016: Alan Johnson, Margaret Hodge, Melvyn Bragg and John Bew have been announced as the winners of the inaugural Parliamentary Book Awards, as voted for by MPs and members of the House of Lords. Alan Johnson won Best Memoir by a Parliamentarian for his…
By Niels Peter Thomas, Chief Book Strategist, Springer Nature Monday 23 January 2017. Commercial publishers handle the majority of all published academic books. And while we continue to work like companies, while we are part of the interplay between supply and demand, at the same time we view ourselves as part of the academic community,…
Ben Denne, Editorial Director, Humanities, Media & Arts Books, Taylor & Francis I am currently the Editorial director for Humanities, Media and Arts Books at Taylor & Francis. I manage a team of commissioning editors who are signing books across all of the subjects within these fields. The breadth of the subjects and markets my…
By Sarah Stanton, Shakespeare Publisher, Cambridge University Press When people ask me what my job is, and I reply that I publish the Shakespeare list at Cambridge University Press, they often look puzzled, ‘Don’t we know all the plays already?’ or ‘What is there new to say about Shakespeare?’ Sometimes people assume that the only…
By Brendan George, Publisher and Global Head of Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan What makes someone want to be an academic publisher? Is it possible for academic publishing to be a vocation? Or is always ‘just a job’ or at best a career? There is no single answer to this question; different editors have different motivations, no doubt. But…
By Max Porter, Author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers It is hard not to feel conflicted about publishing. Feeling conflicted is healthy. In this current global crisis some thoughts of futility are inevitable. What’s the point of publishing books now? What does any of this mean, these novels, these picture books, these text…
Judge Pierre Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, has been a major architect of the Fair Use doctrine in the United States, most recently as the author of the Google Books decisions. Intellectual property lawyer and former General Counsel for the US Copyright Office Jon Baumgarten has litigated precedent…
The shortlist for The London Book Fair International Excellence Awards 2017 has been announced, with France leading the way with four nominations and China, USA, South Africa and Canada not far behind with three each. The awards, which are held in partnership with the UK Publishers Association (PA) and sponsored by Hytex, celebrate excellence…
The winners of The London Book Fair International Excellence Awards, in association with The Publishers Association and sponsored by Hytex, have been announced at a prestigious awards ceremony held tonight, on the first day of LBF. The Bookstore of the Year Award, sponsored by Gardners, went to Paris-based Shakespeare and Company for “the way it…
Four outstanding book adaptations from the past two years have been honoured at a special ceremony tonight at Soho House for the inaugural Creativity Across Media: Entertainment & Originality Awards (CAMEO). Deliberated by a cross-section of creative industry professionals including digital film makers, literary editors and theatre programmers, the judging panel chose 45 Years,…
The Charles Clark Memorial Lecture is the annual Copyright Keynote Lecture at The London Book Fair, Olympia. This year it took place at 16.00–17.30 on Wednesday 15th March 2017. The lecture addressed the compromise between exclusive rights and reasonable “fair uses” in the digital age, by two experts on the Fair Use doctrine. Judge Pierre…
26 April 2017 Figures released today by the Publishers Association shows that 2016 was a record breaking year for the publishing industry with sales of books and journals reaching £4.8bn, their highest ever level. The increase in sales of 7% on the previous year is the largest growth in a decade, when in 2007 digital…
More people are listening to audiobooks than ever before, according to new figures released today. The research from Nielsen’s UK Books & Consumers survey shows that in 2016 5.5million people bought or listened to an audiobook (on CD/tape/downloaded/streamed), an increase of 3% on two years previously. The number buying/listening via downloading/streaming was 12% higher in…