Lagardere Publishing has joined Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Macmillan and others in announcing that none of its divisions from around the world will attend the Frankfurt Book Fair this year: “After carefully reflecting on the situation and also taking into consideration the health and safety of our employees and partners, we’ve decided that Hachette Livre…
Book Fairs
Big Publishers Including HarperCollins Are Ready to Skip Frankfurt
Following Wednesday’s announcement that the Frankfurt Book Fair plans to proceed in limited form this October, at least some large publishing divisions have announced they will not attend. HarperCollins was the first to declare that it will not send employees from any of its divisions worldwide. “HarperCollins will not be taking a stand or sending…
Briefs
The National Book Festival will not be held at the Washington Convention Center this year. Instead, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced, they will organize a virtual festival, with online events the weekend of September 25–27. The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize was given to Juno Dawson’s Meat Market (Quercus Children’s). McNally Jackson owner Sarah McNally…
With or Without You, Frankfurt Will Convene An Actual, Smaller Book Fair
The supervisory board of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association has decided to convene some form of the Frankfurt Book Fair this October, following approval from the Hessian government. As previously indicated, they plan to use a smaller portion of the actual fairgrounds, with some activities throughout the city and other virtual events online. The…
Frankfurt Promises to Share Their New Vision Soon
Frankfurt Book Fair director Juergen Boos spoke with Ed Nawotka in an hour-long video conversation, to discuss a broad range of plans in formation for this year’s event. The big takeaway, as indicated in a previous statement, is that Frankfurt will not keep the community in suspense about their plans for long: Boos reaffirmed that…
People, Etc.
Dana Li has joined Catapult/Counterpoint as designer. She was previously at Penguin Children’s. Deirdre Bair, 84, who won the 1981 National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography, died on Friday in her home in New Haven, CT of heart failure. Awards The UK Women’s Prize announced its shortlist. (As a reminder, they postponed naming the…