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Market Focus 2008

The Beijing International Book Fair

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The London Book Fair, 14-16 April 2008, Earls Court London

The London Book Fair is the global publishing community's leading spring forum for booksellers, publishers, librarians and book production services worldwide. Ideally timed to provide you with a concentrated 3-day trading and educational platform offering access to the world's books, real business contacts and shared knowledge.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown took part in a Q&A session at The London Book Fair on Monday 14th April with novelist Sebastian Faulks.

Attending the event to mark the National Year of Reading, the PM said that reading had been "a great passion of my life" and that "books are everything".

Click here to find out more and watch the interview

The 2008 Seminars

Over 3,000 industry professionals attended the seminars at this year's London Book Fair. There were three themed seminar streams that were programmed following the 2007 visitor and exhibitor research: Digitisation; Children's books & publishing; Film & TV. These ran alongside our regular Market Focus programme and the Booksellers Association Small Business Forum.

If you were unable to attend the seminars you can have a taster of what was on offer by listening to our three audio podcasts, click on the below links to listen to the seminars:

Harnessing the Power of Digital Marketing with David Kohn, Commercial Director, Borders, Ros Lawler, Digital Marketing and Publicity Manager, Random House Digital and David Swarbrick, Group Sales & Marketing Director, HarperCollins Publishers

How to get Children Enjoying Reading with Sharon KirkPatrick, Chair, Association of Senior Children’s and Education Librarians, Sally Rundell, Senior Director Literacy, Primary National Strategy and Michael Stark, Director for Improving Pupil Performance, Department for Children, Schools and Families

Book to Film Adaptations: The Author's Perspective with Tracy Chevalier, Author, Blake Morrison, Author and Julian Friedmann, Literary Agent, Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency

Visit our Podcast page to view and listen to the other seminars recorded

Presentations from the Publishing News sponsored digital series are now available to download and you can do this by visiting the Digital Seminars Page and clicking on the seminar you are interested in, then click the Download the Presentation button. If the presentation you are after isn't there or there are other seminars within the overall LBF Seminar Programme that you are interested in, please contact Vibeke Burke

Click on the buttons below to view the exhibitors that took part in each dedicated sector of the 2008 London Book Fair:

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