By Judith Rosen | May 14, 2021
In January, Publishers Weekly announced the launch of an online book fair to fill the void left by the abrupt closure, late last year, of BookExpo. It was not clear then what form the event would take in the midst of a pandemic, but one thing was certain: the industry in the U.S. couldn’t go another year without a central place to promote its fall titles. And PW CEO and publisher Cevin Bryerman was convinced that the magazine could bring its leadership, brand, and marketing reach to set the stage for a new virtual fair.
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As news weeks go in international publishing, this is a big one. There are reports of longtime Hachette Livre CEO Arnaud Nourry’s ouster in Paris. And with Bertelsmann’s announcement in Germany of financial gains in the pandemic year 2020 has also come more cautionary signals about regulators’ examinations of Penguin Random House’s plan to acquire Simon & Schuster.