On March 5 and 6 2024, the Mainz Reading Seminar took place at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz to talk about what the title suggests – reading promotion, reading competence, reading research... | Continue reading
On 5 and 6 March, the Mainz Rearing seminar organised by Aldus Up was held at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The event brough together Aldus Up project partners and several experts.. | Continue reading
The Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) is the world’s leading professional event for children’s publishing and content. The 61st edition of BCBF will take place from 8 to 11 April.. | Continue reading
Eighteen months from the time when the European Accessibility Act will unfold its effects on the digital content and book supply chain, the APACE project is born: the network coordinated.. | Continue reading
The Future of Books: Internationalization, Artificial Intelligence, and Green Sustainability (Not Forgetting Solidarity) The Aldus Up Program at Più libri più liberi 2023 The future of books is increasingly international,.. | Continue reading
European publishing, especially that of smaller countries, needs support to break into foreign marketsand a huge imbalance persists between titles bought and sold, compared to the English-language market. At the.. | Continue reading
We are back from the Frankfurt Book Fair after a series of events that marked one year of progress for Tales of EUkraine. The Tales of EUkraine consortium touched base.. | Continue reading
In our mission to make data about book reading habits more comparable across Europe, the Aldus Up Working Group on Reading introduces an updated guideline document for the EuRopean Item.. | Continue reading
The Frankfurt Book Fair celebrates its 75th anniversary with a rich calendar of events inside and outside the fairground. In this special edition, ALDUS UP is present with a dedicated.. | Continue reading
Wouldn’t a tool capable of helping publishers understand readers’ habits and passions be the innovation that the book sector always dreamed of? Telling publishers what readers would want to.. | Continue reading
This piece is part of a series of articles summarising the key topics discussed at the workshop “Book publishing in the age of platforms” held on 29 November 2022 hosted.. | Continue reading
This piece is part of a series of articles summarising the key topics discussed at the workshop “Book publishing in the age of platforms” held on 29 November 2022 hosted.. | Continue reading
This piece is part of a series of articles summarising the key topics discussed at the workshop “Book publishing in the age of platforms” held on 29 November 2022 hosted.. | Continue reading
By Simona de Rosa, PhD (Member of the Board of Directors at the DEN Institute) Over the last decades, the adoption of digital technology led to the transformation of.. | Continue reading
Tales of EUkraine Logo The idea behind Tales of EUkraine is quite simple: to support the Ukrainian population and the Ukrainian publishing sector by publishing bilingual editions of Ukrainian children’s.. | Continue reading
This year, on August 31st and September 1st, 2023, the Portuguese Publishers and Booksellers Association (APEL) is organizing in Lisbon the first edition of Book 2.0 #The Future of Reading, which will.. | Continue reading
BotTalk is one of the winner of the 2021 edition of ContentShift, the accelerator for startups launched by Börsenverein and dedicated to fostering innovation in the content industry. Aldus Up takes.. | Continue reading
Alongside the well-renowned conference of Readmagine by FGSR, on June 9th Fondazione LIA organized the third edition of the Accessibility Camp in Madrid. Organized in the framework of Aldus UP and thanks to the collaboration of Libranda and Germán.. | Continue reading
There were than 10 million comic book readers in Italy in 2022: up 17.2 percent over the previous year, representing 23 percent of the population aged 15 to 74. It’s.. | Continue reading
Who owns the copyright on a book written by artificial intelligence? Above all: is there a copyright on such materials? And how should the rights holders of the millions of.. | Continue reading
Can we save the planet before dinner? It was around this question, inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer’s homonymous novel, that the meeting on environmental sustainability organised by the Salone Internazionale.. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence has been making the headlines, especially since the brilliant release of ChatGPT3 a few months ago. Beyond the technical prowess, it’s the arrival of generative artificial intelligence and.. | Continue reading
In the program of this year´s Bologna Children´s Book Fair (BCBF 2023) topics around the use of artificial intelligence were covered by an expectably high number of events. An interesting.. | Continue reading
Recommendations on social media are the second most important factor influencing the purchase of books, indicated as decisive by 14% of Italian readers. Only the discount, with 17% of mentions.. | Continue reading
Who is the reader today? What does it mean to read today? These are the questions that led the meeting Gli altri modi di leggere (The Other Ways of Reading),.. | Continue reading
Prompted by parents and schools, reading in the 0-14 age group has grown decisively in Italy since the pandemic. But if we look at the data on the time spent.. | Continue reading
In occasion of 2023 Bologna Children’s Book Fair and in the framework of Aldus UP (co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU), Fondazione LIA organized the seminar Accessible illustrated books and.. | Continue reading
In anticipation of the 2023 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, CBF and BLTF/Kids in partnership with Licensing Magazine organized an interesting webinar that showed inspiring examples, facts and figures highlighting the.. | Continue reading
ContentShift, the accelerator for startups launched by Börsenverein and dedicated to fostering innovation in the content industry, named Immer its ‘Startup of the Year’ during the 2022 edition of the Frankfurt Book.. | Continue reading
Trade publishing in Italy in 2022 (print fiction and non-fiction books sold in physical bookshops, online and through major retail chains) sold €1.671 billion in sales at cover price, with.. | 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 onreports from.. | 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 onreports from.. | Continue reading
1964-2023: the Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) celebrates sixty years of scouting, research and continuous growth that have seen the creation of projects abroad, the launch of innovative initiatives and fruitful partnerships. Even.. | Continue reading
lnsight into the future at the Vienna Book Fair: Wolfgang Kienreich, director of the Know-Center in Graz, explains howonline book recommendations could work in the future. Wolfgang Kienreich is involved.. | Continue reading
In October 1994, five years after inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Indeed, the technological evolution.. | Continue reading
Two events at Più Libri Più Liberi to discuss the new challenges to freedom of expression The topic of freedom of expression was the focus of two events organised at.. | Continue reading
Putting ERICS to the test: reading in Italy, Spain and Norway Aldus Up´s EuRopean Item Core Set for Reading Surveys, published on the K-HUB in June 2022, is now being.. | Continue reading
On November 2022 (9th – 11th) the 33rd International Publishers Congress took place in Jakarta, under the motto “Embracing the future. Reading matters”. For the first time ever, the IPA.. | Continue reading
It’s the theme of reading, framed from different perspectives, such as national and European surveys, the new generations’ habits, social media and digital formats, the main protagonist of the ALDUS.. | Continue reading
Policy review: Quentin Deschandelliers This piece is part of a series dedicated to the latest Young Publishing Professionals in Brussels event (YPPiB), taking place on 14th to 16th June 2022... | Continue reading
This piece is part of a series dedicated to the latest Young Publishing Professionals in Brussels event (YPPiB), taking place on 14th to 16th June 2022. Participants in the YPPiB.. | Continue reading
(Enrico Turrin and Gino Querini) This piece is part of a series dedicated to the latest Young Publishing Professionals in Brussels event (YPPiB), taking place on 14th to 16th June.. | Continue reading
The Vienna Book Fair (Buch Wien) is the most important event in the Austrian book industry and offers hundreds of events, readings, discussions, and lectures by the brightest minds in.. | Continue reading
With a market worth 3.429 billion euros (2021 data), publishing is the leading cultural industry in Italy and the fourth in Europe. More than 85,000 new titles are published per.. | Continue reading
With a market worth 3.429 billion euros (2021 data), publishing is the leading cultural industry in Italy and the fourth in Europe. More than 85,000 new titles are published per.. | Continue reading
It’s October and the Frankfurter Buchmesse welcome the publishing and media industry with a variety of activities. One of the focal points of the fair this year is underlined by.. | Continue reading
One of the focus of Readmagine event in 2022 has been the United Nation’s Sustainability Development Goals (SDG). The initiatives for the reduction of environmental impacts is one of the.. | Continue reading
The Spanish Publishers Association (FGEE: Federación de Gremios de Editores de España) has presented in Madrid a preview of the big figures of the Spanish book market during 2021. The.. | Continue reading