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Bologna warns over bogus directory listing

Publication Date: Thu, 05/01/2012 - 07:42

The Bologna Children's Book Fair has issued a warning over a directory listing that could lock publishers into a three-year contract at a "remarkable cost per annum".

The warning, sent via email this week to exhibitors at this year's upcoming Bologna fair, warns: "Directory entry forms sent by Expo Guide, and...

Bologna | Bookseller Staff | expo guide | International | publishers association
PA appoints new Head of Public Affairs

Publication Date: Tue, 06/12/2011 - 14:36

The Publishers Association has appointed a new head of public affairs, Gemma Hersh. Meanwhile Mike Richards, head of marketing and publicity at Egmont Press, has taken up the role of chairman of its Children's Book Group.

Hersh previously worked in the civil service, including at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, before...

Charlotte Williams | moves | People | publishers association
PA supports Penguin e-lending bar

Publication Date: Thu, 24/11/2011 - 15:30

The Publishers Association has spoken out in support of Penguin UK's move to withhold the supply of its new e-book releases to library suppliers, with a new round of talks set to begin between the PA, the Society of Chief Librarians and The Reading Agency in an attempt to resolve the issues surrounding digital lending.

Penguin UK...

Charlotte Williams | Fiona Marriott | Home | Penguin UK | publishers association | Richard Mollet | Society of Chief Librarians | The Reading Agency
BA/PA unveils shadowing scheme

Publication Date: Wed, 16/11/2011 - 08:52

A cross-industry shadowing scheme allowing publishers and booksellers to offer work placements to one another has officially launched today (16th November), with publishers Little, Brown, Penguin, Dorling Kindersley, Profile Books and Simon & Schuster on board.

The scheme was jointly created by the Publishers Association and the...

Booksellers Association | Home | Lisa Campbell | publishers association | Richard Mollet | Tim Godfray
UK to be focus country at Abu Dhabi fair

Publication Date: Thu, 03/11/2011 - 09:45

The UK will be the country focus at the 2012 Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which will run from 28th March to 2nd April next year at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.

The ADIBF will work with the Publishers Association and the British Council over the next five months to put together a professional and cultural programme...

2012 Abu Dhabi International Book Fair | British Council | Charlotte Williams | Jumaa Al Qubaisi | publishers association | Richard Mollet | Susie Nicklin
Copyright "drives growth", Mollet tells select committee

Publication Date: Tue, 01/11/2011 - 15:57

Publishers Association chief executive Richard Mollet has defended the fundamental value of copyright at a select committee evidence session into the Hargreaves Review.

Speaking at the Palace of Westminster this morning (1st November), Mollet told the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills committee, chaired by Labour MP Adrian...

Benedicte Page | Copyright | hargreaves | Home | publishers association | Richard Mollet
PA conference to study changing international markets

Publication Date: Thu, 27/10/2011 - 09:00

The Publishers Association's international conference will focus on issues such as export sales and the growth of the English language, with speakers to include Barnes and Noble vice-president of digital content Theresa Horner, Pan Macmillan India managing director Daniel Watts and Susie Nicklin, director of literature at the British...

Barnes & Nobel | British Council | Cambridge University Press | Charlotte Williams | Oxford University Press | publishers association | Random House Group
Amazon/TBD merger "could put bookshops out of business"

Publication Date: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 15:55

The Booksellers Association has said the Office of Fair Trading's decision to clear the merger between Amazon and The Book Depository will give Amazon more power to put its competitors out of business.

The OFT announced today its four-month-long investigation into the merger of the two internet companies and said the takeover...

amazon | Booksellers Association | Home | Lisa Campbell | publishers association | Richard Mollet | The Book Depository | Tim Godfray
PA welcomes Newzbin2 ruling

Publication Date: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 15:03

The Publishers Association applauded today's high court ruling requiring BT to block filesharing site Newzbin2, the first time a website has been blocked by an internet service provider in the UK under copyright law.

The ruling places responsibility directly on BT to both block the site and finance the implementation, with BT to...

Charlotte Williams | Copyright | publishers association | Richard Mollet
PA's Mollet to present on Hargreaves Review

Publication Date: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 09:28

Publishers Association chief executive Richard Mollet will be among the panel giving evidence to the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee next week on the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property.

So far, the Committee has only taken oral evidence from Professor Hargreaves and Professor Sir Robin Jacob, an IT lawyer. In...

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