Updates on 2021 Book Fairs

With the international book trade in a very fluid state owing to Covid 19, and with book fairs around the world being postponed, rescheduled and/or moving into a hybrid online/offline model, we thought it would be helpful to collect together all the stories we have run recently giving the latest news on what’s happening, where in 2021.

• LBF to confirm 2021 plans in mid-April

  News - Publishing

  London Book Fair chief: 'given the continuing uncertainty around international travel, we are currently planning for all scenarios'
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• BBPlus unveils training event

  News - Publishing

  Belinda Rasmussen, md at Macmillan Children's Books, chairs
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• Trailblazers: here is the class of 2021

  News

  Five book industry talents under the age of 30
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• Frankfurt confirms plans for hybrid fair

  News - Publishing

  Halls 3, 4, 6 and the Forum will stage exhibits and events
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• Frankfurt International Translators programme 2021 opens for entries

  News - International

  Participants will attend seminars and other events during book fair week
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• Borsenverein calls for CONTENTshift entries

  News - International

  Programme for innovative start-ups
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• Registration opens for US Book Show

  News - International

  Publisher's Weekly online show is set for late May: 'Publishers and agents have inundated PW with requests for more information, wanting to exhibit and to attend'
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• The BookBrunch Report: The future of book fairs

  News - Publishing

  In the first in a new series of in-depth reports on publishing and bookselling, Julie Vuong investigates book fairs in the face of the pandemic and asks: Will the show go...
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• IPG unveils International Publishing Forum

  News - Publishing

  March event 'aims to fill a gap in publishers’ opportunities for new business development following the cancellation of book fairs and much-reduced international travel,'...
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• Reed pulls plug on BookExpo 2021

  News - International

  Largest US trade fair becomes latest casualty of pandemic; meanwhile Reed faces job cuts in UK as revenue collapses
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