Our New Spring Magazine Is Out: Publishing in Times of Crisis

As the coronavirus spreads, international publishing has choices. It can focus on its own obstacles and setbacks. Or it can ask how to put its best creativity into the hands of a world that needs it.

Editorial: ‘What Could Possibly Go Wrong?’

When we started working on our Spring Magazine, we planned to release it during the London Book Fair. And now, as we launch it, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair has had to cancel, as LBF did.

Between the loss of the UK’s major trade show with its 20,000 attendees and Italy’s world-leading 30,000-person industry summit for young people’s literature and illustration, the international publishing industry already has suffered a couple of body blows from the outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19.

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And as we make our daily updates here at Publishing Perspectives, we’re seeing conferences, festivals, and book fairs go the same way. An industry that always has conducted its business with a special fondness for personal contact is resorting to phone calls and virtual conferencing—for all the right reasons.

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