Paris Book Fair cancelled by govt. decree as UK’s PM dithers and LBF clings to hope
The French government has responded to the growing threat of a global Coronavirus pandemic by...
Read More
Author: Mark Williams
Exodus! As Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Penguin and Ingram pull out, the London Book Fair moves closer to inevitable postponement
It’s not hard to fathom why. The World Health Organisation has just raised the warning level...
Read More
Morocco’s Casablanca International Book Fair saw a half million visitors for third year in succession, yet still we’re told Arabs don’t read
It’s a central part of global publishing’s urban mythology. Arabs don’t read. Or rather, they do,...
Read More
Italy’s Cartoomics event in Milan the latest publishing casualty of the Coronavirus
The Italian comics calendar for October has become overcrowded as Milan’s Cartoomics event,...
Read More
In USA 80% of music revenue came from streaming as the market grew, with 2019 streaming alone bigger than total market revenue in 2017
It’s hard to remember now but there was a time, and not so very long ago, when music was a...
Read More