Publishing News [Global]

The 15th Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF 2024) marked a new chapter in its ongoing journey of fostering creativity and knowledge to 157,381 visitors throughout the 12 days, amassing more than 1,000 hours of enriching content.…

The IPA International Publishers Congress, in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 3 -6 December 2024,under the theme Turning Pages: Publishing and the Future Society, will be addressed by Oleksandra Matviichuk, the chair of the Center for Civil…

The 11th edition of the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) is scheduled to take place from November 15-17, 2024 at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre. According to the Foreign Ministry, China will…

Beat Technology has partnered with EDRK, the Tallinn-based digital content aggregator, publisher, distributor for Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. The cooperation will see Beat design, build and power services across a range of EDRK’s…

HH Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, has announced winners of its 18th edition of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award following a meeting of its Board of Trustees organized by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC),…

United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and international research publisher Taylor & Francis have announced a new three-year transformative agreement. Researchers at UAEU can now choose open access (OA) in over 2,500 journals, boosting…

Gareth Rapley, Director of The London Book Fair (LBF), is stepping away from the role and moving to a new position of Portfolio Director within RX (Reed Exhibitions). He will be replaced by Adam Ridgway, who will move into the role with…

Leading historians and writers in a breadth of fields, from early modern Atlantic World political and cultural studies, postcolonial modern Africa, and money and consumption in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe, historians Nicole…

At a buzzing ceremony at Grosvenor House London for The British Book Awards 2024, G. T. Karber’s innovative murder mystery puzzle book Murdle was announced as the Overall Book of the Year. Judged by a panel including television and radio…

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) is preparing to give full voice to its cosmopolitan spirit by engaging directly with the international book community in advance of next year’s 61° iteration of the fair, April 8-11,2024 in…