The new edition of Readmagine, the event focused on digital innovation in the publishing and reading field, will be held from the 16th to the 18th of November in Madrid,.. | Continue reading
A publishing industry that is increasingly focused abroad, less concentrated on new releases and bestsellers and more on catalogue and long tail titles, capable of meeting an evolving demand for.. | Continue reading
Reading promotion after the pandemic, the audio-books phenomenon and accessibility in digital publishing are the three key topics of the Aldus Up programme of professional events at the Frankfurt Book.. | Continue reading
Is Amazon the most powerful organisation book publishing has ever known in its history? John B. Thompson, author of the book “Book Wars. The Digital Revolution in Publishing” (Polity, 2021),.. | Continue reading
Collecting reliable and comprehensive statistics on the book and publishing sector is pivotal, and yet rather arduous for manifold reasons. On the one hand, a consistent collection of reliable data.. | Continue reading
The Covid – 19 pandemic has triggered, or in some cases accelerated, a transformation of cultural and reading habits, as emerges from the research published in the white paper published.. | Continue reading
With a view to promoting the translation of Italian authors into foreign languages, the Centre for Books and Reading (Cepell), an independent institute of Italy’s Ministry of Culture, has issued.. | Continue reading
The impact of 2020 pandemic on the European publishing industry called for public measures to support the recovery, as illustrated in the white paper published by the Centre for the.. | Continue reading
Europe is not united yet when it comes to statistics on the book world: from reading habits to translations data, each country performs surveys independently, making it difficult to carry.. | Continue reading
Towards a unified methodology – An overview of existing surveys on reading habits in Europe Reading is the key topic of a large number of different surveys throughout Europe. But.. | Continue reading
Towards a unified methodology – An overview of existing surveys on translation flows and buying and selling rights in Europe Translations are essential to promote the diversity and pluralism of.. | Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes and new challenges to our world. Faced with this unprecedented situation, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2021 has forged ahead to redesign and reinvent its rich programme of events. Many new features have.. | Continue reading
Halfway through 2020, the Federation of European Publishers took stock of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the book sector in Europe. Back then, many countries had just experienced.. | Continue reading
The opportunities for the book sector under the new Creative Europe programme 2021-2027 were illustrated by the European Commission during a conference organised on 29 January in the framework of.. | Continue reading
Then status of the European market for comic books and the degree of digitisation of the sector were the main topics of a conference organised on 29 January in the.. | Continue reading
2020 continues to shock – in March no one would have predicted this, or even imagined it. Ending 2020 +0.3% up on cover price value in trade channels, with 1.430.. | Continue reading
The new digital format adopted this year by the conference by the Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri School for Booksellers did nothing to affect the quality of the contributions and debate that.. | Continue reading
In 2020, the pandemic had a disruptive effect on the book fairs landscape and raised questions on their future after the emergency. Shall book fairs evolve quickly? Shall they introduce.. | Continue reading
By 2025, any publisher selling their e-books in Europe and all the actors of the e-publishing supply chain will need to respect the European Accessibility Act. In the occasion of.. | Continue reading
During the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the German Federal Government Commissioner for Matters relating to Persons with Disabilities organizes the European Inclusion Summit, an important.. | Continue reading
A professional digital program addressed to publishers, booksellers, literary agents and literary translators in Greece and Germany conducted within the framework of the 17th Thessaloniki International Book Fair and organised.. | Continue reading
In 2020, taking into consideration the data related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 17th TBF will focus on an entirely digital program extending over eleven days (November 19-29). It.. | Continue reading
Due to the pandemic, the 90th edition of Lisbon Bookfair has been postponed to late August, early September. It seemed the most appropriate timing as the weather is still mild.. | Continue reading
At the Virtual 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair, the International Publishers Association (IPA) partnered with LitCam and Aldus Up to organise a session called ‘Reading Matters!’. Held on 15 October, the.. | Continue reading
With a turnover of 3.037 billion euros, the book market closed in positive territory in 2019, up by 2.8% on the previous year, consolidating the 2018 result (+3.0%). The figure.. | Continue reading
How is the book market doing after the pandemic and the weeks when bookstores closed during the lock-down? How is going the recovery in sales with respect to the losses.. | Continue reading
A guide presenting most of the addresses and reference details of professionals in the publishing sector, for both Italian and foreign operators concerned with the import/export of books and publishing.. | Continue reading
Aldus Up, the European network for the relaunch of trade fairs and the exchange of translation rights in Europe, made its debut in Frankfurt Book Fair digital programme with four.. | Continue reading
The book sector felt very strongly the impact of the Covid-19 crisis. The Federation of European Publishers activated its network of members right at the beginning of the crisis to.. | Continue reading
They have had to change their plans: delay, disrupt, experiment. And they have done so while continuing to engage with each other through the ALDUS network. Because in the scenario.. | Continue reading
Discover all the professional events in collaboration with Aldus Up featured by the Frankfurt Book Fair digital programme, and a special initiative on Eu book markets. October 13th, h.12.30 –13.30.. | Continue reading
Six young companies are now officially in the running to be crowned “Startup of the Year” as part of the CONTENTshift accelerator organised by the Börsenvereinsgruppe (German Publishers and Booksellers.. | Continue reading
Six young companies are now officially in the running to be crowned “Startup of the Year” as part of the CONTENTshift accelerator organised by the Börsenvereinsgruppe (German Publishers and Booksellers.. | Continue reading
With a view to promoting Italian language and culture throughout the world, Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has issued a call for grants destined to allocating in.. | Continue reading
The new digital platform that internationalizes Italian book publishing, newitalianbooks.it, will be presented internationally on July 2nd at 11.30 am (Rome time). The initiative has been promoted by the Italian.. | Continue reading
The new portal to promote Italian publishing worldwide The new digital platform that internationalizes Italian book publishing, newitalianbooks.it, will be presented internationally on July 2nd at 11.30 am (Rome time)... | Continue reading
Just a few months into 2020, the world has been shaken and the publishing sector and content industry in a broad sense are changing. The Covid-19 pandemic hastens the challenges.. | Continue reading
Just a few months into 2020, the world has been shaken and the publishing sector and content industry in a broad sense are changing. The Covid-19 pandemic hastens the challenges.. | Continue reading
Bologna Children’s Book Fair continues on sharing the best of its expertise and know-how with the international children’s book community. From 4 to 7 May, the BCBF Online Special Edition brings.. | Continue reading
The variety and dynamism of European book fairs have been at the heart of the ALDUS brochure since its first edition in 2016. With the 2020 edition, ALDUS continues to.. | Continue reading
On 6 February 2020, the Federation of European Publishers organised an Aldus session on “Are audiobooks transforming the publishing landscape?”, as part of its Winter Meeting in Brussels. FEP President.. | Continue reading
On 26 March, FEP organised the final conference of the ASAP project (Anticipatory Skills for Adapting the Publishing sector). The project aims to deliver flexible training programmes that, according to EQF/ECVET standards.. | Continue reading
Among the various requirements of the specifications for the creation of accessible digital content (WCAG and EPUB Accessibility Guidelines), the alternative description of images is probably the most difficult for.. | Continue reading
INTRODUCTION Artificial Intelligence in publishing or ´to do with books´, respectively, has become a widely discussed topic recently. One reason for this is in the number of new applications for.. | Continue reading
Fondazione LIA – Libri Italiani Accessibili is the winner of the 2020 edition of the ABC International Excellence Award for accessible publishing, in the “Initiative” category, dedicated to projects that.. | Continue reading
On 23 and 24 September, the Federation of European Publishers, in cooperation with the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, organised an Aldus event “Young Publishing Professionals in Brussels”, a.. | Continue reading
The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) represents 29 national associations of publishers from the European Union and the European Economic Area Member States. The present survey is based on reports.. | Continue reading
On 29 October 2019, the Federation of European Publishers, in cooperation with Boek.be – the book industry association of Flanders – organised an Aldus event “Aldus Focus on Book Fairs”,.. | Continue reading