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The state of artificial intelligence: friend or foe?

Artificial intelligence has been making the headlines, especially since the brilliant release of ChatGPT3 a few months ago. Beyond the technical prowess, it’s the arrival of generative artificial intelligence and..

Julien Palier*
May 18, 2023

Events

2023, march 6-9

Aldus Up events at Bologna Children’s Book Fair 6-9 MARCH 2023

1964-2023: the Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) celebrates sixty years of scouting, research and continuous growth that have seen the creation of projects abroad, the launch of innovative initiatives and fruitful partnerships. Even..

7-11 December, La Nuvola, Rome

Aldus Up events at Più Libri Più Liberi 2022

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Fake news and hate speech on the web – what role do politics and the public play?

Two events at Più Libri Più Liberi to discuss the new challenges to freedom of expression The topic of freedom of expression was the focus of two events organised at..

Alessandra Rotondo
January 23, 2023
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Aldus Up events at Bologna Children’s Book Fair  6-9 MARCH 2023
2023, march 6-9

1964-2023: the Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) celebrates sixty years of scouting, research and continuous growth that have seen the creation of projects abroad, the launch of innovative initiatives and fruitful partnerships. Even..

Aldus Up events at Più Libri Più Liberi 2022
7-11 December, La Nuvola, Rome

Reading, considered from several perspectives, such as national and European surveys, new generations’ habits, social media and digital formats, is the main protagonist of the ALDUS UP programme at Più..

Aldus Up events at Vienna Book Fair 2022
23 - 27 November 2022

The Vienna Book Fair (Buch Wien) is the most important event in the Austrian book industry and offers hundreds of events, readings, discussions, and lectures by the brightest minds in..

Aldus Up events at Frankfurt Book Fair 2022
19 - 23 October 2022

It’s October and the Frankfurter Buchmesse welcome the publishing and media industry with a variety of activities. One of the focal points of the fair this year is underlined by..

READMAGINE 2021: DESIGNING A POSTPANDEMIC AGENDA FOR READING AND PUBLISHING FOR EUROPE
Digital Edition- 16st – 18th of November

The Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation (FGSR) and the International Publishing Distributors Association are organizing Readmagine, an event dedicated to innovation in reading and books, on November 16, 17 and 18..

Fondazione LIA’s Accessibility workshop at Readmagine 2021
16 november 2021

The new edition of Readmagine, the event focused on digital innovation in the publishing and reading field, will be held from the 16th to the 18th of November in Madrid,..

Aldus Up events at Frankfurt Book Fair 2021
20 - 24 October 2021

Reading promotion after the pandemic, the audio-books phenomenon and accessibility in digital publishing are the three key topics of the Aldus Up programme of professional events at the Frankfurt Book..

Aldus Up @ Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2021
online edition, 14-17 June 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes and new challenges to our world. Faced with this unprecedented situation, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2021 has forged ahead to redesign and reinvent its rich programme of events. Many new features have..

European Inclusion Summit
17 November 2020, from 9.00 to 16.45 CET

During the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the German Federal Government Commissioner for Matters relating to Persons with Disabilities organizes the European Inclusion Summit, an important..

Let’s Talk
9-18 November 2020 - part of the 17th Thessaloniki International Book Fair

    A professional digital program addressed to publishers, booksellers, literary agents and literary translators in Greece and Germany conducted within the framework of the 17th Thessaloniki International Book Fair and organised..

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The state of artificial intelligence: friend or foe?

Artificial intelligence has been making the headlines, especially since the brilliant release of ChatGPT3 a few months ago. Beyond the technical prowess, it’s the arrival of generative artificial intelligence and..

The main issue related to artificial intelligence is not primarily ChatGPT when it comes to children´s books …

In the program of this year´s Bologna Children´s Book Fair (BCBF 2023) topics around the use of artificial intelligence were covered by an expectably high number of events. An interesting..

In Italy, 14% of readers choose books from social media

Recommendations on social media are the second most important factor influencing the purchase of books, indicated as decisive by 14% of Italian readers. Only the discount, with 17% of mentions..

Encouraging reading, not just with books

Who is the reader today? What does it mean to read today? These are the questions that led the meeting Gli altri modi di leggere (The Other Ways of Reading),..

As readership grows among Italian kids, publishers seeks a way to make books more attractive

Prompted by parents and schools, reading in the 0-14 age group has grown decisively in Italy since the pandemic. But if we look at the data on the time spent..

Accessible fixed layout EPUBs: a new research project by Fondazione LIA

In occasion of 2023 Bologna Children’s Book Fair and in the framework of Aldus UP (co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU), Fondazione LIA organized the seminar Accessible illustrated books and..

Toys, publishing and licences: convergences to take into account

In anticipation of the 2023 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, CBF and BLTF/Kids in partnership with Licensing Magazine organized an interesting webinar that showed inspiring examples, facts and figures highlighting the..

The business case of Immer

ContentShift, the accelerator for startups launched by Börsenverein and dedicated to fostering innovation in the content industry, named Immer its ‘Startup of the Year’ during the 2022 edition of the Frankfurt Book..

Italy 2022: the trade publishing remains strong after the post-pandemia boom

Trade publishing in Italy in 2022 (print fiction and non-fiction books sold in physical bookshops, online and through major retail chains) sold €1.671 billion in sales at cover price, with..

European book publishing statistics 2021

The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) represents 29 national associations of publishers from the European Union and the European Economic Area Member States. The present survey is based onreports from..

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