It’s an international incident and a fantastic book launch all rolled into one! Here’s the latest on the Dubai Book Fair book-banning brouhaha. (For the backstory see MobyLives, here.) Margaret… Read more »
The first Dubai Literary Festival begins next week but it looks as though most of its star cast won’t be attending. The organisers had good reason to be proud: Margaret… 6 / Read more »
Well, the thing we knew would come at last, has come at last: After a flood of major publishers such as Random House Canada and Penguin Canada pulled out, and… Read more »
It started as a festival to celebrate a unique town in Wales that seemed to consist entirely of secondhand bookstores. Now, the Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival has grown into a wildly… Read more »
Despite the fact that publishers big and small are pulling out of the event (see yesterday’s MobyLives report), a representative of Reed Exhibitons says that BookExpo Canada is still going… Read more »
“It’s looking increasingly unlikely that BookExpo Canada will be happening this year,” according to Scott McDonald in this report from Quill & Quire, Canada’s leading publishing industry trade magazine. McDonald… Read more »
British people are very grumpy about a lot of things. It’s part of our charm. One thing we’re especially worked up about is the 2012 London Olympics: surveys keep showing… Read more »
“The literature and culture of the tense Korean peninsula will be the main focus of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest such event,” organizers announced yesterday. As an… Read more »
While most reports on the recent BookExpo America convention have painted a gloomy portrait of the book industry, Amazonia author James Marcus describes a decidedly more upbeat scene in his… Read more »
This year’s tenth annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair—which took place Saturday in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park—was the most successful ever, “thanks to shared enemies like the Bush Administration and… Read more »